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“Tonight I reflect on their struggle, their determination and the strength of their vision to see what can be unburdened by what has been,” Harris said, wearing a white suit in tribute to women’s suffrage
The 2020 general elections are the third election under the country's 2008 Constitution
Mr Biden defeated incumbent President Donald Trump following a cliff-hanger vote count after Tuesday's election
Kamala Harris, who on Saturday became America's first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect, represents a new face of political power after an election all about who wields power and how they use it
Biden has won more than 73 million votes so far, the most ever for a US presidential candidate. Trump has drawn almost 70 million, the second-highest tally in history
The Democratic hopeful could pick up the votes needed for victory from other states where counting was continuing on Thursday — Georgia, Nevada or Pennsylvania
The shooting began just hours before Austria was to re-impose a coronavirus lockdown, with people out in bars and restaurants enjoying a final night of relative freedom
After a suicide bomber struck inside the campus around 11:00 am (0530 GMT), two gunmen then opened fire, sending hundreds of students fleeing and scrambling over perimeter walls
Tedros has been at the forefront of the United Nations health agency's efforts to battle the pandemic
Morgan Ortagus, spokesperson for the US State Department, said it in a statement on Wednesday
Britain, the United States and European Union organised the virtual conference along with the United Nations Refugee Agency, aiming to meet a target of $1.0 billion in funding for 2020, less than half of which had been raised
The paper, drawn up by the German government after discussions with other member states, is the latest to outline the EU’s months-long plans to address the WHO’s shortcomings on funding, governance and legal powers
The prize for economics is officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
Speaking after 11 hours of Moscow-mediated talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the warring sides had agreed to a ceasefire from "12 hours 00 minutes on October 10 on humanitarian
The Prize was given to Ms Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”
The protracted battle to secure one of the plum international jobs will be decided early next month, with the winning candidate faced with a number of pressing problems
'The picture today is less dire… allowing for a small upward revision to our global forecast for 2020'
No sooner had Trump returned to work than the Pentagon announced that members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including General Mark Milley, the chairman, were self-quarantining
This year's prize was about "the darkest secrets of universe
This was the second time that Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has voluntarily observed a self-quarantine. He did the same in May when one of his Cabinet officers was diagnosed with the virus