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Joe Biden after speaking during election night; and US President Donald Trump on election night at the White House, November 4, 2020. (AFP) US President Donald Trump all but conceded defeat to President-elect Joe Biden on Monday in a tweet where he asked officials to help with the transition to a new president after a federal agency […]

In this file photo former US Deputy Secretary of State Antony J Blinken gives a joint press conference following a meeting with Foreign Affairs member of the anti-Daesh coalition on June 2, 2015 in Paris. (AFP Photo)  U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named the key members of his foreign policy team, tapping trusted aide […]

MTropical Cyclone Gati, which made landfall in Somalia on Sunday, is the region’s strongest cyclone ever recorded. NOAA Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast System  Tropical Cyclone Gati, which made landfall in Somalia on Sunday, is the region’s strongest cyclone ever recorded. NOAA Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast System The strongest tropical cyclone ever measured in […]

Trials for promising COVID-19 vaccines have so far excluded women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. GETTY IMAGES Early results from two major COVID-19 vaccine trials have sparked hope that the worst of the pandemic may soon be over. But it’s still unclear if or when that relief would extend to pregnant people, who have been excluded […]

Staff at the mAbxience laboratory – chosen by AstraZeneca for its Latin American production of the COVID vaccine – working in the company’s plant in Garin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2020 [Juan Ignacio Roncoroni/EPA] British drugs group AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford say their jointly-developed vaccine against COVID-19 has shown “an average efficacy of […]

© Sputnik/Alexey Nikolskii; REUTERS/Tom Brenner Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied that his relationship with likely future US counterpart Joe Biden is off to a rocky start after he didn’t join many other world leaders in congratulating the former vice president. In comments to the Rossiya-1 news channel, Putin said that it would have been […]

U.S. President Donald Trump, center, drives a golf cart as he golfs at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Nov. 22, 2020. (AP Photo)  U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign on Sunday told a judge it was appealing a ruling issued on Saturday that denied its request to halt President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Pennsylvania. […]

 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has given forces in the northern Tigray region a three-day ultimatum to surrender before the military begins an offensive on the rebel-held regional capital of Mekelle. “We urge you to surrender peacefully within 72 hours, recognising that you are at the point of no return,” Abiy said in a Twitter […]

November 21, 2020 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan on Saturday announced its adoption of all child rights contained in the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) including the prohibition of child marriage. The ACRWC was adopted in 1990 and came into force in 1999. It sets out rights and defines principles for […]

The G20 Leaders’ group photo at the G20 Riyadh Summit. (Twitter: @g20org) G20 countries will distribute two billion doses of a vaccine against the coronavirus worldwide, Germany’s Angela Merkel announced on Saturday during the G20 Riyadh Summit. The 20 biggest economies in the world (G20) contributed to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic with over […]