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Moscow, Nov 7: The United States has registered over 128,000 new coronavirus cases within the past 24 hours marking the largest daily increase since the start of the epidemic, US media reported. The country reports more than 100,000 new COVID-19 cases for the third day in a row, The Washington Post newspaper reported. The World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March

New York, Nov 7: Champagne bottles are going pop in the Joe Biden camp but they're keeping it low key for now. Three nights out from US election day, the flash and bang of a ritual announcement from news networks announcing a winner has not yet happened but top politicos in Washington are already hailing "president-elect Biden" and the electoral map tells a fairly simple story. It goes like this

Washington, Nov 6: US President Donald Trump launched a tirade of unsubstantiated claims that he had been cheated out of winning the US election, as vote counting across battleground states early Friday showed Democrat Joe Biden closing in on victory. Biden's momentum towards the White House built further with major media outlets reporting he had overtaken Trump by a razor-thin margin in the

Phoenix, Nov 6: Backers of President Donald Trump ramped up demonstrations on Thursday night against an election they believe was rigged or being stolen, in some cases bringing guns or clashing with counter-protesters as they rallied in battleground states. In Arizona, one of five US battleground states where votes were still being counted in the too-close-to-call race between Trump and Democratic

New Delhi, Nov 5: A group of miscreants vandalised a Hindu temple in Pakistan's Sindh province. The miscreants also tried to attack over 300 Hindu families but was stopped by Muslims from entering the century-old neighbourhood. The incident took place on Sunday in Sheetal Das compound, housing 300 Hindu and 30 Muslim families and as per the residents of the neighbourhood hundreds of men assembled

New York, Nov 5: Democratic nominee Joe Biden has won more votes than any other presidential candidate in the US history, shattering a record set by former President Barack Obama, according to a media report. As of November 4, Biden had got over 70.7 million votes, more than anyone who has ever run for president, the National Public Radio (NPR) reported. This count includes 300,000 more votes than

The undecided presidential election entered a new phase on Wednesday as former Vice President Joe Biden was declared the winner of the key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin, two key swing states that President Donald Trump won four years ago. The Trump campaign, whose path to victory was narrowing, said that it would seek a recount in Wisconsin and then announced that it had taken legal

Close contests in five key states mean the US presidential election may not be decided for days, or longer, even as President Donald Trump’s falsely claimed victory over Democrat Joe Biden with millions of ballots still to be counted. As of 6 am New York time Wednesday, Biden had 238 electoral votes while Trump had 213, leaving both shy of the 270 needed to secure immediate victories. In a middle

Washington, Nov 4: Democrat Party’s Ritchie Torres has made history by becoming the first openly gay Black man elected to the US Congress. Torres, 32, a New York City Council Member, won the election from New York's 15th Congressional District, defeating Republican Patrick Delices to become the next representative, New York Daily News reported. “Tonight, a new era begins for the South Bronx,”

New York, Nov 4: Nearly 69 per cent Muslim voters cast their ballot for Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden while 17 per cent supported President Donald Trump, according to a survey conducted by Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organisation in the US. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, released the results