Ghana’s former President Jerry Rawlings is dead
AFRICA
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Ghana’s former president Jerry Rawlings, a member of the radical and charismatic generation of figures who emerged in West Africa in the 1980s,...
US President-elect Biden vows immediate science-based action on COVID-19
FOREIGN
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President-elect Joe Biden vowed on Saturday immediate action to contain the United States’ coronavirus crisis, signalling science would dominate the national response once...
US election 2020: Biden leads in Electoral College votes
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President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls closed across the United States...
Hazard stunner gives revived Real Madrid win over Huesca
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Eden Hazard scored his first goal for Real Madrid in over a year and his team appeared to turn a corner as they...
US objection delays Okonjo-Iweala’s emergence as WTO DG
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Key World Trade Organisation (WTO) ambassadors on Wednesday tapped Nigeria’s nominee, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the best pick to lead the organization, but she...
Trump, Biden slug it out in battleground states 21 days from...
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President Donald Trump told a Pennsylvania crowd Tuesday that he’s fighting “Marxists” and “lunatics” while his Democratic challenger Joe Biden accused him in...
India coronavirus cases exceed 6 million
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India reported its six millionth coronavirus case on Monday as it surged closer to the United States as the most-infected nation, and authorities...
World’s workers lost $3.5 trillion in wages amid pandemic: UN
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The coronavirus pandemic is taking a heavier toll on jobs than previously feared, the UN said Wednesday, with hundreds of millions of jobs...
UK sharp rise in coronavirus – Return of fans to English...
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Tuesday that the planned return of spectators to sports venues in England could be on hold for...
Trump’s negligence caused US recession, says Biden
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Joe Biden courted working class voters in hotly contested Michigan Wednesday as he warned that President Donald Trump’s “negligence” in handling the coronavirus...