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 […]

The US state of Georgia said Friday it will recount votes from the election in which Joe Biden has eked out a razor-thin lead over President Donald Trump. “With a margin that small, there will be a recount in Georgia,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters in Atlanta. Raffensperger, the top elected official […]

As Joe Biden moves closer to becoming the President of the United States of America, the incumbent, Donald Trump has not stopped putting progressively bigger question marks on the electoral process, the latest being that his leads are miraculously disappearing.