Democrat Joe Biden was cleared to be sworn in as U.S. president on Jan. 20 when Vice President Mike Pence declared that Congress had confirmed the Electoral College tally of states’ results that showed Biden the winner of the Nov. 3 contest against incumbent President Donald Trump. Hours after hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters مزید پڑھیں

The Democratic party is one seat away from taking control of the US Senate after Reverend Raphael Warnock was projected as the winner in one of the two Georgia run-offs. Reverend Raphael Warnock’s victory, projected by multiple US networks overnight, capped a grueling nine-week runoff campaign and puts Georgia’s other knife-edge race in the spotlight مزید پڑھیں

As millions of people await their turn to get a COVID-19 vaccine that could be months away, scammers online, in emails and on messaging apps are luring victims with claims they can deliver shots within days for as little as $150. COVID-19 vaccine scams are on the rise, according to European and US government officials مزید پڑھیں

Hundreds of people demonstrated in Istanbul on Monday against what they claim is the politically motivated appointment of a rector at a top Turkish university by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A reporter estimated the number at more than 1,000, with dozens of police officers watching the rally without intervening. Anger erupted after a January 1 مزید پڑھیں

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday a new national lockdown for England until at least mid-February to combat a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus, even as Britain ramped up its vaccination programme by becoming the first nation to start using the shot developed by Oxford University and drugmaker AstraZeneca. Johnson said people must مزید پڑھیں

New lockdowns were announced for England and Scotland Monday even as Britain began rolling out the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a possible game-changer in fighting the disease worldwide, while EU nations were mired in finger-pointing over their own slow progress. Following in the footsteps of the devolved Scottish administration, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said all of مزید پڑھیں

South Korea aims to cut some 30% of carbon emissions from railway travel by replacing all diesel passenger locomotives with a new bullet train by 2029, President Moon Jae-in said on Monday. Moon joined a trial run of the KTX-Eum, an electric multiple unit train as South Korea, one of world’s most fossil-fuel reliant economies, مزید پڑھیں

A British court on Monday ruled that the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange will not be extradited to the United States on espionage charges for publishing hundreds of thousands of secret documents online. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser said she refused his extradition because of “fears that he could commit suicide.” The hearing was carried out مزید پڑھیں

A fresh round of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban would begin in Qatar tomorrow (Tuesday) although months of deliberations between the two sides have yielded little so far. In a major breakthrough last year both parties had finally agreed at least on what to discuss in the next round. Afghan government مزید پڑھیں

A fresh round of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban would begin in Qatar tomorrow (Tuesday) although months of deliberations between the two sides have yielded little so far. In a major breakthrough last year both parties had finally agreed at least on what to discuss in the next round. Afghan government مزید پڑھیں