Hours after hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a harrowing assault on American democracy, a shaken Congress on Thursday (January 7) formally certified Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory. Immediately after the certification, the White House
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate federal appeals judge Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general, a Biden transition official said on Wednesday (January 6), a choice most Americans know as the Supreme Court nominee of President Barack Obama
U.S. Congressman Peter Welch said on Wednesday (January 6) that he had been told to put on a gas mask after tear gas was fired inside the U.S. Capitol. Swarms of protesters stormed the Capitol as they sought to force
Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump addressed thousands of supporters, including members of far-right groups, at a rally in Washington protesting Wednesday’s (January 6) meeting of Congress to confirm his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden in November. Trump, who has
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called China’s mass arrest of politicians and activists in Hong Kong “unacceptable” and said it was “further evidence” of China violating the freedoms and autonomy of people in Hong Kong. Hong Kong police arrested 53
At least two children and one woman have drowned after a passenger boat sank on Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said on Wednesday (January 6), as survivors warned that dozens more were still
One hundred people were killed on Saturday (January 2) in attacks on two villages in western Niger, Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said, following one of deadliest days in recent memory for a country ravaged by Islamist violence. Rafini announced the
Worried about wasting shots and public resistance in a country where scepticism of vaccines is common, France introduced a series of bureaucratic hurdles that must be cleared before rolling out COVID-19 inoculations in nursing homes. The result, some health experts
Colombia’s food and drug regulator on Tuesday (January 5) authorised emergency use of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE’s COVID-19 vaccine, joining other countries that have already approved coronavirus vaccines. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which has shown a 95% success rate, was
The European executive gave approval for the use of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by U.S. company Moderna on Wednesday (January 6), health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said, the final step in the EU’s authorisation process. “The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is approved
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