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Read More Parental consent required as tests offered to all pupils in the city over the age of 11 Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The army is being sent in to help carry out mass testing of children in secondary schools in Liverpool this week, with public health experts considering rolling…

Read More Joe Biden mounted two previous presidential bids in 1988 and 2008, never making it out of the Democratic primaries. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden has been a fixture in Democratic national politics since he won an upstart campaign to become a U.S. senator from Delaware in 1972. Biden represented the country at international…

Read More Tests will investigate whether virus evades antibodies from recovered patients and those in vaccine trials Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Scientists in the UK are working to secure samples of a mutant form of coronavirus that arose in Danish mink farms and spread into humans, prompting ministers to ban…

Read MoreThe US National Hurricane Center warns of “significant, life-threatening” flooding in Cuba.The US National Hurricane Center warns of “significant, life-threatening” flooding in Cuba.

Read More Luis Arce takes power after landslide win for Movement for Socialism, but experts predict bumpy road ahead Bolivia’s new president, Luis Arce, has vowed to rebuild his country’s battered economy, revive ties with leftwing neighbours and serve one term only, as he prepared to take office after October’s landslide election. Speaking to the…

Read More 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. Trump had stunned the country four years ago by winning the three states that had been carried for decades by Democrats by a…

Read More President-elect Biden says ‘Plan will be to built on bedrock of science’ and promised ‘to spare no effort’ to fight pandemic As President-elect Joe Biden announced that he would name his own coronavirus taskforce on Monday, the US recorded its fourth consecutive record daily total of new Covid cases, close to 130,000. Related:…

Read MoreElections were first held in 1989 but Parliament’s power remains limited with the king choosing the PM and the senate.Elections were first held in 1989 but Parliament’s power remains limited with the king choosing the PM and the senate.

Read More Firecrackers erupted Sunday in a tiny village surrounded by lush green rice paddies in southern India, where Kamala Harris’ maternal grandfather was born. (Image credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images) Firecrackers erupted Sunday in a tiny village surrounded by lush green rice paddies in southern India, where Kamala Harris’ maternal grandfather was born.

Read More Independent Office for Police Conduct says Wiltshire police officers responded to reports of two men arguing in the street The police watchdog has opened an investigation into the death of a 57-year-old man who was shot after Wiltshire police were called to an incident in Swindon. On Sunday, the Independent Office for Police…

Read More Would you harm yourself just to get at someone else? Spite is in us all, but there are unexpected benefits to it On a memorable episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the curmudgeonly protagonist Larry David is angered by the lukewarm lattes at his local café so he opens a “spite” café. It is…

Read More The UK prime minister insisted there is scope for cooperation with the incoming Biden administration as he congratulated the Democrat and his running mate Kamala Harris. Biden, who has Irish ancestry, has made it clear there will be no agreement on a post-Brexit UK-US trade deal if a no-deal outcome threatens the Good Friday…

Read More On 8 November, the spokesperson for Armenia’s Defense Ministry, Shushan Stepanyan, has reported that its rockets shot down an Azerbaijani Bayraktar TB2 combat drone. At the announcement, Shushan Stepanyan said that at around 13:40 Armenian Air Defense units of the Defense Army shot down another enemy Bayraktar TB2 in the southeastern direction in…

Read More Fed up with modern finance and Britain’s broken banking system, Anne Boden decided there was only one thing to do: set up a bank that ran in the way she wanted it to The first time I met Anne Boden was last December at a glitzy awards ceremony where I knew no one,…

Read More President Aliyev says country’s forces have taken Shusha, despite Armenian denials Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, has said his country’s forces have taken Shusha, the second-largest city in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, though Armenian officials denied it had been captured. Shusha, which Armenians call Shushi, is nine miles (15km) south of the enclave’s largest city,…

Read More Biden has secured a victory and claimed the White House. We analyse who has swung to the Democratic party to help him win the presidency Joe Biden has won the majority of electoral votes and defeated incumbent Donald Trump. With a majority of the results now declared in the US presidential election, it…

Read More Joe Biden wins US election after four tumultuous years of Trump President-elect says ‘This is the time to heal’ in victory speech Trump refuses to concede defeat as recriminations begin Biden’s win marks the end of Trump’s war on democracy and truth Trump v Biden – full 2020 results as they come in…

Read More Here’s how to bring cheer to soggy winter days with hot soup and fritters The damp days of early autumn send me, spoon in hand, in search of soup. Cloudy miso broths the colour of fallen leaves, old fashioned leek and potato so hot it steams up my glasses, sweet pumpkin, and in…

Read More Partisan tactics once used to fight the Nazis have been turned against Alexander Lukashenko’s brutally repressive regime In Minsk, what people here call the Great Patriotic War is never far away. Monuments, street names and museums venerate the memory of the awful years from 1941 to 1945, when the Soviet Union was at…

Read MorePresident Ilham Aliyev says Azerbaijan has taken Shusha, but Armenia says fighting is ongoing.President Ilham Aliyev says Azerbaijan has taken Shusha, but Armenia says fighting is ongoing.

Read More New York representative denies Movement for Black Lives and Green New Deal cost seats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticised the Democratic party for incompetence in a no-holds-barred, post-election interview with the New York Times, warning that if the Biden administration does not put progressives in top positions, the party would lose big in the…

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Read More The next 11 weeks could be the most dangerous in US history, some analysts believe, with a vengeful and fearful lame duck incumbentSome of the mayhem that will follow Donald Trump losing the presidential election is already known. The US exited the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday regardless. The coronavirus pandemic that has…

Read More Results reveal Jorgensen’s vote share was higher than the Trump-Biden margins in some states – but did she really take votes from Trump? When it became increasingly clear that a handful of battleground states would decide the winner in 2020’s US presidential election, many were struck by the razor-thin margins that emerged. Related:…

Read More The U.S. Air Force received the first two HH-60W Jolly Green II  Combat Rescue helicopters, according to a recent service news release. The 23d Wing and 347th Rescue Group leadership received the Air Force’s newest Combat Rescue aircraft on 5 November. The delivery of the new model is significant to the personnel recovery…

Read More Abiy Ahmed made his name as a reformer – but was there always an authoritarian waiting to come out? The beginning of the week saw Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, in one role: a forward-looking statesman, with a vision of peace and prosperity, and a tailored suit. The 44-year-old leader was…

Read More Report claims Kate Bingham’s venture capital firm has invested in companies developing Covid-19 antibody cocktails Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The head of the government’s vaccine taskforce faces fresh questions after it emerged she hailed the launch of a biotechnology investment fund in her capacity as managing director of…

Read More Investment in robot warfare at heart of UK’s planned five-year defence review Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Thirty thousand “robot soldiers” could form an integral part of the British army in the 2030s, working alongside humans in and around the frontline, the head of the armed forces said in…

Read More Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei blasted the US presidential election as a “spectacle” amid Donald Trump’s voter fraud allegations. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Iranian elections a “joke” in an ensuing Twitter spat. “The situation in the US & what they themselves say about their elections is a spectacle!” Khamenei wrote…

Read MoreBiden’s supporters say this is ‘a moment in history’ as first Delawarian president-elect addresses the US.Biden’s supporters say this is ‘a moment in history’ as first Delawarian president-elect addresses the US.

Read More Diana’s revelations to Panorama 25 years ago rocked the royal family. Now the BBC is being accused of setting her up Confidence is crucial. It has to be established to entice a big name to give a candid TV interview. It is also, of course, the basis of many a scam. Pulling off…

Read More The president-elect mapped out his vision of a unified America with opportunity for all, no matter their background Read our full report on the speech My fellow Americans, the people of this nation have spoken. They have delivered us a clear victory. A convincing victory. A victory for “We the People.” We have…

Read More There have been some changes to metropolitan Melbourne’s tough coronavirus restrictions. Here’s what you need to know Regional Victoria’s restrictions: Covid restrictions state by state Victoria cases trend map; Vic hotspots list; full Australian Covid stats Sign up for Guardian Australia’s coronavirus email The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, announced his government’s roadmap for…

Read More Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have offered a message of unity as the pair spoke following their election victory. Harris, who will be the first woman to be vice-president, paid tribute to her mother. For Biden, his speech was an opportunity to offer an olive branch to his political rivals after nearly four…

Read More While, at home, Labour moves ahead to gain a four-point lead over Tories, at 42% More than three times as many UK voters wanted Joe Biden to win the US election than favoured Donald Trump, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer. About 57% of British people chose Biden against just…