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Global Covid-19 cases nearing 48mn: Johns Hopkins
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As of Thursday morning, the total caseload and death toll stood at 47,997,816 and 1,223,456, respectively, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.
US Election: ‘I will govern as an American president’, Biden stakes claim to White House
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At last count, Biden is at 264 and Trump at 214. The late-comer mail-in ballots are heavily favoured for Democrats which has resulted into a shift electoral votes trend.
US officially leaves Paris Climate Agreement
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The US President Donald Trump had announced in June 2017 that America would leave the Paris Agreement. He cited the reason for this disassociation to be the negative impact that the pact was likely to have on country’s economy.
Donald Trump alleges fraud
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"This is a fraud on the American public, this is an embarrassment to our country," Trump told his supporters at the White House on Wednesday.
14 arrested in connection to Vienna shootings
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In a statement, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said the 14 people linked to the 20-year-old Islamist gunman Kujtim Fejzulai, who had been freed from jail last December, were arrested in the Vienna area, St Polten town and Linz city.
Joe Biden declares 'we're gonna win'
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After Biden made the claim at a rally of his supporters in Delware shortly before 1 a.m. on Wednesday, Trump asserted that he will have a "big win".
Joe Biden addresses crowd Delaware
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Delaware, which has already projected Biden as a winner, has been his hometown since he moved there as a young boy from Scranton, Pennsylvania. The state went to former Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton in 2016.
It's going to be a long night amid nail biting contest
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Pennsylvania still needs to count upwards of 80 per cent of the total vote. It's going to be taking a while. So far, pollsters' forecasts of wide margins (corrected for 2016 flubs) are not showing up. Instead, what we see is a colour coding that's all too familiar.
Twitter restricts Donald Trump campaign official Mike Roman's tweet
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Twitter added a warning label on the tweet on Tuesday, saying that "some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.
With Joe Biden 118, Donald Trump 114 US heading towards nail biting finish
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President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden opened their tally with a predictable string of victories while key prizes including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania remain too early to call.
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