US breaks new record in daily COVID-19 cases

The US broke a new record in daily COVID-19 cases with more than 120,000 new infections, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The country saw 121,054 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, marking the second consecutive day of over 100,000 new infections nationwide. The US still leads the world with over 9.6 million cases and nearly

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Biden sees path to 270; Trump attacks election integrity

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden joined by Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at the The Queen theater Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is testing how far he can go in using the trappings of presidential power to

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Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed started a civil war.

According to Ethiopia Observer Debretsion Gebremichael, Tigray’s regional president said there are clashes on the southwestern part of Tigray along with the Amhara region border. Speaking on Tigray region’s television Thursday morning two days after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered military operations there in an escalation of a long-running feud, Debretsion said fighting continued along

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Sunak boosts 200 billion-pound job spending plan as England locks down

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak speaks at the House of Commons in London, Britain, October 22, 2020. UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Rishi Sunak further ramped up his 200 billion-pound economic rescue programme on Thursday as England went into a tough new coronavirus lockdown. Sunak extended the

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Turkey rescues 93 asylum seekers

Turkey has been key transit point for irregular migrants aiming to cross to Europe Turkish Coast Guard have rescued at least 93 asylum seekers off its Aegean coast, officials said Thursday. A total of 21 asylum seekers were rescued off the coast of Kabakum in Dikili district in Izmir province after the engine of their

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Ethiopia shuts down phone, internet services to Tigray region

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Michael Tewelde | AFP The Ethiopian government on Wednesday started restricting telephone and internet services to the troubled Tigray region, hours after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military response to an ambush on the military. Information access rights group Access Now indicated that the region had been closed to

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Tigray: Ethiopia PM claims army success against TPLF

Abiy Ahmed says rebel attack contained in the region with ‘more operations in the coming days’. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the army has succeeded in containing a rebel attack in the northern Tigray region after it was deployed to quell an uprising by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) that sparked fears of

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US elections 2020: Joe Biden says he’s ‘winning enough states’ to secure presidential victory

Biden should win key swing states Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, his campaign said (AFP/File photo) Joe Biden delivered a short statement on Wednesday afternoon saying that his campaign is all but sure it will secure enough electoral votes to win the presidential election, making the former vice president the fourth candidate to unseat an incumbent

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Ilhan Omar hits out at Trump for doing ‘literally what Somali dictators used to do’

President Donald Trump speaks as he receives a briefing on the 2020 hurricane season in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) By Mayank Aggarwal As Donald Trump attempted to claim victory early on Wednesday morning, long before the final results had been given, Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar hit

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‘We have already won’ – Trump says he’ll go to the Supreme Court to stop votes from being counted

Donald Trump attends a veterans event in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 23, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Tom Brenner U.S. President Donald Trump early Wednesday claimed he had won the election, saying he was going to the Supreme Court to demand that all vote-counting stop while calling the election a “fraud

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