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Joe Biden has won the US Electoral College, formally making him the United States president-elect [Mike Segar/Reuters]
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Electoral College officially confirms Biden presidential victory

President-elect to address the nation as US’s largest state, California, puts Biden over the 270 votes needed to win

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Turkey's purchase of the Russian missile system 'would endanger the security of US military technology and personnel' [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]

US sanctions NATO ally Turkey over Russian S-400 defence missiles

Turkey condemns US move, calling it a ‘grave mistake’ and threatens to retaliate as necessary.

ICRC teams on Monday delivered aid to Mekelle to fortify the city's paralysed healthcare facilities [Courtesy ICRC]

Ethiopia’s Tigray war: A doctor’s account of Mekelle’s plight

Healthcare personnel perform CPR on a patient inside a COVID-19 unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas [Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters]

US deaths from COVID-19 pass 300,000 as vaccine rolls out

A member of the Halgurd Brigade of the Peshmerga stands guard at a newly constructed outpost close to the town of Sidekan [Adam Gnych/Al Jazeera]

Fighting intensifies between Peshmerga and PKK in northern Iraq

The United Kingdom started vaccinating people over 80 and healthcare workers on December 8 with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and its regulators are also evaluating other vaccines [Henry Nicholls/Reuters]

UK identifies new coronavirus variant; London on toughest curbs

Hassan Diab stepped down days after the explosion but continues to serve as a caretaker prime minister [File: Aziz Taher/Reuters]

Lebanon judge faces off with top politicians over port explosion

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in Tehran on Monday [Official Presidential website via Reuters]

Iran’s Rouhani: No conditions or negotiations on nuclear deal

An explosion struck a ship off Saudi Arabia's port city of Jeddah on the Red Sea on Monday [File: Amr Nabil/AP Photo]

‘Terrorist attack’ strikes oil tanker at Saudi port in Jeddah

The Electoral College, not the national popular vote, decides the winner of the presidential election in the United States [John Minchillo/The Associated Press]
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What’s in store as the Electoral College votes


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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Turkey's purchase of the Russian missile system 'would endanger the security of US military technology and personnel' [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]

US sanctions NATO ally Turkey over Russian S-400 defence missiles

ICRC teams on Monday delivered aid to Mekelle to fortify the city's paralysed healthcare facilities [Courtesy ICRC]

Ethiopia’s Tigray war: A doctor’s account of Mekelle’s plight

Healthcare personnel perform CPR on a patient inside a COVID-19 unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas [Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters]

US deaths from COVID-19 pass 300,000 as vaccine rolls out

A member of the Halgurd Brigade of the Peshmerga stands guard at a newly constructed outpost close to the town of Sidekan [Adam Gnych/Al Jazeera]

Fighting intensifies between Peshmerga and PKK in northern Iraq

The United Kingdom started vaccinating people over 80 and healthcare workers on December 8 with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and its regulators are also evaluating other vaccines [Henry Nicholls/Reuters]

UK identifies new coronavirus variant; London on toughest curbs

Hassan Diab stepped down days after the explosion but continues to serve as a caretaker prime minister [File: Aziz Taher/Reuters]

Lebanon judge faces off with top politicians over port explosion

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in Tehran on Monday [Official Presidential website via Reuters]

Iran’s Rouhani: No conditions or negotiations on nuclear deal

An explosion struck a ship off Saudi Arabia's port city of Jeddah on the Red Sea on Monday [File: Amr Nabil/AP Photo]

‘Terrorist attack’ strikes oil tanker at Saudi port in Jeddah

The Electoral College, not the national popular vote, decides the winner of the presidential election in the United States [John Minchillo/The Associated Press]
Simply 2020

What’s in store as the Electoral College votes

Boeing performing additional checks on 787 Dreamliner fuselages

The US planemaker said the problem does not pose an imminent safety hazard.

Boeing said earlier this month that inspections for production flaws with its 787 Dreamliner were taking longer than expected, hampering the US planemaker's ability to get jets to customers [File: Eric Johnson/Reuters]
A nurse prepares to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy’s Hospital in London, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. U.K. health authorities rolled out the first doses of a widely tested and independently reviewed COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, starting a global immunization program that is expected to gain momentum as more serums win approval. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)

Coronavirus: The vaccine roll-out

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The United Kingdom started vaccinating people over 80 and healthcare workers on December 8 with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and its regulators are also evaluating other vaccines [Henry Nicholls/Reuters]

UK identifies new coronavirus variant; London on toughest curbs

Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester from Northwell Health at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park [Mark Lennihan/Pool via Reuters]

‘Relieved’: US health workers start getting COVID-19 vaccine

Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo in Michigan [Morry Gash/AP Photo]

US COVID-19 vaccine programme head optimistic as shipping begins

Pfizer has said that its two-dose regimen is safe and is 95 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 [File: Dado Ruvic/Reuters]

US issues emergency authorisation of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

A panel of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to hold a meeting on December 17 to discuss Moderna's request for an emergency use authorisation for its vaccine [File: Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters]

US to buy 100m more doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

Ignoring accusations by the UK of Russian-linked hackers targeting vaccine research, Moscow has said it is open to cooperation with Western countries [File: Justin Tallis/AFP]

AstraZeneca to trial combination with Russian COVID-19 vaccine

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Kids and COVID isolation & stress: What parents need to know

Experts concerned over how social isolation and parents’ financial issues are affecting children.

Experts are concerned about how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed children's relationships with the world outside of their homes [File: Henning Bagger/ EPA-EFE]

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US regulators targeting fraudsters who ‘rip money’ from Americans

US officials say Americans lost an estimated $1bn in fraudulent schemes designed to prey on vulnerable people in 2020.

US regulators on Monday unveiled 'Operation Income Illusion', a yearlong nationwide law-enforcement sweep targeting scammers [File: Scott Eells/Bloomberg]

Kashmiris outraged as authorities fell thousands of apple trees

Gujjar community say their trees – a major source of livelihood – were cut down as part of gov’t eviction drive.

Shareef Ahmad Bajad, a Gujjar in Kanidajan village whose apple orchard was felled by authorities in central Indian-administered Kashmir for 'illegally occupying forest land' [Rifat Fareed/Al Jazeera]

US ‘Indians’ baseball team to drop name long considered racist

The move comes after discussions with Native American groups and decades of pressure to change the 105-year-old name.

A man wears a shirt to protest the the Chief Wahoo mascot of the Cleveland Indians baseball team [Tony Dejak/AP Photo]

US United Auto Workers union reaches deal in corruption probe

The UAW agreed to pay $1.5m to settle tax issues and enact significant reforms, including independent monitoring.

United Auto Workers union President Rory Gamble promised he would overhaul the UAW, and previously announced a series of ethics reforms, including increased financial oversight of the union's accounting department [File: Paul Sancya/AP Photo]

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