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Asian shares pared their gains in choppy trade on Thursday as investors awaited further details on whether drugmakers can develop a coronavirus vaccine.

When the election was called in Alaska, Trump had received 56.9 per cent of the total votes counted and President-elect Joe Biden from the Democratic Party with 39.1 per cent. With this, Trump's tally of electoral college votes has increased to 217, as pe...

The mayor of a small town in Mexicos Gulf coast state of Veracruz was found murdered Wednesday, four months after her police chief was shown in a video accusing her of ordering officers to abduct people in order to kill them.

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and a main opposition leader promised on Wednesday to press ahead with talks to resolve a bitter standoff over the Oct. 31 election that has sparked clashes killing 85 people.

Germany, holder of the European Union's rotating presidency, has criticized China for the dismissal of several prodemocracy opposition lawmakers from the city assembly in Hong Kong.

U.S. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska won reelection, Edison Research and television networks projected on Wednesday, leaving control of the Senate to be determined in January by two runoff elections in Georgia.

Thousands of people took part in an annual farright march in Warsaw to mark Poland's Independence Day on Wednesday, defying a ban imposed by city hall due to coronavirus restrictions.

A newly unveiled nude female statue in London meant to honour feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft has been targeted by unknown critics who stuck black tape on its breasts and pubic area, draped it in COVID masks and dressed it in a Tshirt.

The Philippines has suspended its decision to scrap a twodecadeold Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States for a second time as the allies work on a longterm mutual defence arrangement, Manila's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

In Georgia, the latest tally puts Biden ahead of Trump by about 12,000 votes, 49.5% to 49.3%, with 99% of the expected ballots counted.

The city council in Richmond, Virginia, has renamed a stretch of four residential blocks that had been known as Confederate Avenue.

Refusing to concede a presidential election he lost, President Donald Trump sought falsely to take full credit for drugmaker Pfizer Inc.s announcement that its COVID19 vaccine may be 90% effective, wrongly asserted the vaccine news was delayed until afte...

Twenty years ago, in a different time and under far different circumstances than today, it took five weeks of Florida recounts and court battles before Republican George W. Bush prevailed over Democrat Al Gore by 537 votes.

In a small town south of Brussels, funeral director Stephane Geeurickx says almost all the dead he has buried in the last weeks died of COVID19, which was not the case when the pandemic first took hold.

On Aug. 21, a tanker called the Otoman docked at the Jose oil terminal on Venezuela's coast in the Caribbean to load 1.82 million barrels of heavy crude, according to the state oil company's internal documents.

A major fuel spill in the Russian Arctic this year was caused by violations during the construction and operation of a reservoir, not thawing of the permafrost, a preliminary investigation showed on Tuesday.