Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, on Friday night said he had already started preparing for work as President of the United States. In a speech from Wilmington, Delaware, Biden reiterated that he would win the election, even with the counting of votes still ongoing. “We don’t have a final declaration of victory yet, but the numbers […]

A US Supreme Court justice on Friday denied a request by Pennsylvania’s Republicans to immediately halt the counting of ballots arriving after Election Day — referring the challenge to the full court to consider on Saturday. Samuel Alito ordered Pennsylvania in the meantime to continue keeping the late-arriving ballots separate, affirming a decision already made […]

Germany’s Federal Employment Agency (BA) is to spend 62 billion euros (74 billion dollars) this year on expenditure relating to the coronavirus pandemic, its finance head said. BA finance head Christiane Schoenefeld said in Nuremberg on Friday. The expenditure would lead to a deficit of 27 billion euros to be funded from reserves and assistance […]

Twitter on Friday flagged as premature posts referring to Joe Biden as “president-elect,” as the vote count continued in the knife-edge US election with the Democrat leading Donald Trump in several key states. Tweets referring to the former vice president with the victor’s title and his running mate Kamala Harris as “vice president-elect” were tagged […]

Italy’s health minister did not waiver on tough new anti-coronavirus restrictions on Friday as the country continued to be rocked by protests against the curbs. Friday marked the first day in which four Italian regions – Calabria, Lombardy, Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta – were forced into lockdowns. Less stringent measures were applied in the rest […]