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President Donald Trump is rebelling against Democrat Joe Bidens victory in the presidential election with denial, delay and outright misrepresentation.

Opposition candidate Maia Sandu, who favours closer ties with the European Union, held a narrow lead over proMoscow incumbent Igor Dodon in a presidential election runoff in Moldova on Sunday.

Joe Biden's scientific advisers will meet with vaccine makers in coming days as the presidential transition remains stalled because of President Donald Trump's refusal to acknowledge that he lost the election. That delayed handoff to the next administrati...

Taiwan hopes to continue its close cooperation with the United States, the island's de facto U.S. ambassador told Antony Blinken, a longtime confidant of Presidentelect Joe Biden, as Taiwan moves to shore up ties with the new administration.

Tropical Storm Iota is strengthening as it barrels toward Central America, with authorities urging communities to evacuate before it unleashes "lifethreatening" flooding across a region still recovering from Hurricane Eta's devastation.

With the coronavirus pandemic, the migrant workers in dormitories were the worst affected as many were placed in quarantine or under lockdown in an effort to control the spread.

President Donald Trump insisted on Friday he would never put the United States into a coronavirus lockdown but said "time will tell" if another administration takes office in January and does so, the closest he has come to acknowledging that Presidentelec...

Canadians have time to tamp down the surging second wave of COVID19 by Christmas if they act now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, as some provinces impose new health restrictions.

U.S. sanctions are preventing Iran from making advance payment to the global COVAX facility set up to provide COVID19 vaccines to poorer countries, the Iranian government said as the virus death toll kept climbing in the Middle East's hardesthit state.

Iran, battling a third wave of the coronavirus, is considering imposing a twoweek total lockdown in the capital, state media reported, as its death toll from the disease rose by 461 to 40,582 on Friday.

German prosecutors have charged 12 men with plotting wellfunded, armed attacks on mosques in which they planned to kill or injure as many Muslims as possible, authorities said on Friday.

French forces have killed Bah ag Moussa, a military leader of al Qaeda's North Africa wing, during an operation in northeastern Mali, Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Friday.

At least seven people died in North Carolina on Thursday as flash floods swept through parts of the state, authorities said, adding at least two people were missing.

Don Young, who was just re-elected to his 25th term and is the longest-serving member of Congress, said in March that COVID-19 concerns were “created primarily by hysteria.”

Ostensibly, Trump is exercising his right to complain that the count showing Democrat Joe Biden with a solid if close win was wrong. 'Rigged Election!' he tweeted in his latest broadside Thursday. But the president is not making much sense.

Measles surged to infect almost 870,000 people across the world in 2019, the worst figures in almost a quarter of a century as vaccination levels fell below critical levels, a report said on Thursday.