Poland should shut down if daily cases cross 30,000, says top advisor
Poland should be shut down if the number of daily coronavirus cases in the country exceeds 30,000, the prime minister’s top COVID-19 advisor told Rzeczpospolita daily in an interview published on Tuesday. The government last week introduced further re…
Nepal to provide free COVID-19 tests and treatment as cases surge
Nepal will provide free COVID-19 tests and treatment, an aide to the prime minister said on Tuesday, as the total number of infections was set to cross the 200,000 mark. The move follows a Supreme Court order for free treatment last week after the Com…
Cancer in Nigeria: 'My wife would still be alive had she got treatment'
Suu Kyi party set to win Myanmar vote with little opposition
Voting was underway in Myanmar’s elections on Sunday, with the party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi heavily favored to retain power it had wrestled from the powerful military five years ago. More than 90 parties are competing for seats…
Hold the Schadenfreude for America
(Bloomberg Opinion) — An election that takes days toconclude? An incumbent who says he’s been cheated, and threatens not to leave? Armed vigilantes outside counting centers? The 2020 U.S. presidential election has been watched with bemusement in the r…
Nigel Farage loses £10,000 bet on Donald Trump winning the US election
Nigel Farage is set to lose £10,000 after he bet that Donald Trump would win the US election. The Brexit Party leader appears to have made the wager after Mr Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen put down $10,000 on a Joe Biden victory. The betting f…
Black leaders greet Biden win, pledge to push for equality
President-elect Joe Biden’s victory was celebrated by civil rights activists and Black leaders who warned that a tough road lies ahead to address America’s persistent inequalities and the racial division that Donald Trump fueled during his presidency. …
Analysis: Biden claims a mandate that will quickly be tested
Joe Biden’s bet on the 2020 race was a simple one: that a nation riven by deep partisanship was ready for a reset. Biden ultimately emerged victorious, a moment of both celebration and relief for his supporters. Biden carried some of the key battlegr…
How Biden navigated pandemic politics to win the White House
Joe Biden was fresh off winning the Michigan primary and effectively capturing the Democratic presidential nomination, a prize he’d sought for the better part of three decades. It was a theme Biden would return to repeatedly in the months ahead as mil…
AP PHOTOS: Coast to coast, Americans react to Biden victory
Jubilant crowds celebrated the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the nation’s next president and vice president Saturday, honking horns, cheering and dancing in the streets across the country. Supporters of President Donald Trump and Vice Pre…
Israeli protesters look for inspiration in in Biden victory
Several thousand Israelis on Saturday attended the weekly demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, with some participants expressing hope that Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. presidential race would bring changes in Israel …
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