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The move comes a day after Republican U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler called for Raffensperger's resignation, claiming he ran the election poorly but citing no specific incidents of wrongdoing.

Nicaraguas National Assembly took a first vote Tuesday to approve a constitutional reform that would allow sentences of life in prison for some crimes.

Israel's parliament on Tuesday approved a U.S.brokered deal establishing formal relations with Bahrain, by a vote of 62 lawmakers in favour and 14 opposed.

Ukraine hopes to receive an invitation to Presidentelect Joe Biden's inauguration, a presidential adviser told Reuters, with Kyiv betting its attempts to stay neutral in last year's U.S. impeachment saga will pay dividends.

British health minister Matt Hancock suggested on Tuesday that the international community should look again at mink farming, alluding to a ban on the industry after a new coronavirus strain spread to humans from mink in Denmark.

Pakistan named Babar Azam as their new test captain on Tuesday, putting the batsman in charge of teams across all formats.

About 2,500 Ethiopians are known to have crossed the border into Sudan over the past two days as they flee fighting in their home country, an official in Sudan's eastern Kassala state said on Tuesday.

The head of Britain's COVID19 vaccine taskforce will step down at the end of the year and her departure is not related to criticism over a 670,000 pound ($881,000) public relations bill, the health minister said.

A "rolling review" of several potential vaccines is underway and, for now, Brussels is sticking by its forecast that one may be approved and available "early next year", one source said.

Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser, has approached him to concede, two sources told CNN. The first lady has privately said the time has come for him to accept the election loss.

Canada's government will soon announce aid for the countrys airline industry but the help will be contingent on carriers providing refunds to passengers whose flights were cancelled, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Sunday.

Joe Biden shored up the Democrats' blue wall, more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to rebuild the party's path back to the White House.

Making the resurgent coronavirus his immediate priority, U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden on Monday will announce a 12member task force to deal with the pandemic.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sacked his army chief, head of intelligence and foreign minister on Sunday, as the military continued a fiveday old offensive in the restive Tigray region with a new round of air strikes.

Chris Evans, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling, and Natalie Portman, among several other Hollywood personalities cheered Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' victory as the US President and Vice President, respectively, saying the long-awaited process of healing...

The Biden administration will support family-based immigration and preserve family unification as a core principle of the US' immigration system, which includes reducing the family visa backlog.