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US election 2020: What legal challenges remain for Trump?

Donald Trump is continuing his attempts to overturn the result of the US presidential election, but he has been dealt a series of legal blows and time is running out. ...

Italy's Calabria has two pandemics: Covid and the mafia

"Until half an hour ago, 12 of our 18 Covid intensive care beds were occupied," says Demetrio Labate, fastening his protective clothing. "But now we're down to 11. We just lost another patient - he was 82." ...

Afghanistan, home to the heroin trade, moves into meth

Underneath a busy bridge in Kabul, among piles of discarded rubbish and a stream of filthy water, lives a drug-ravaged community of homeless men. ...

Tigray crisis: Ethiopian soldiers accused of blocking border with Sudan

The number of refugees fleeing the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia - where federal and regional forces are engaged in fighting - has reduced drastically after soldiers were deployed to the border with Sudan. ...

Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine 'dose error' explained

On Monday, the world heard how the UK's Covid vaccine - from AstraZeneca and Oxford University - was highly effective in advanced trials. ...

US election 2020: What is the presidential transition?

President Trump has yet to concede to Joe Biden but has accepted that the formal transition process should begin, even as his team's legal challenges continue. ...

Nagorno-Karabakh: 'It's too painful to sleep'

Fighting has ended in and around Nagorno-Karabakh but some civilians are still suffering. ...

The assassination of a ‘Brave Journalist of Afghanistan’

The night before he died, Aliyas Dayee was up late working. This was not unusual for Dayee, who didn't mind going to bed late or getting up early for a story. That night, he was finishing a radio report about an attack on an Afghan military checkpoint near Lashkargah in Helmand province, Afghanistan, where he lived. ...

Covid: Oxford vaccine shows 'encouraging' immune response in older adults

The Oxford coronavirus vaccine shows a strong immune response in adults in their 60s and 70s, raising hopes that it can protect age groups most at risk from the virus. ...

Belarus protesters battered, bruised but defiant after 100 days

Opposition protesters remain defiant in Belarus despite police brutality, 100 days after they first took to the streets to denounce the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko. ...

Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: The long, medium, and short story

A conflict between the government of Ethiopia and forces in its northern Tigray region has thrown the country into turmoil. ...

Trump's legal battles: How six cases may play out

As president of the United States, Donald Trump enjoyed unique protection from legal action, be it criminal or civil. ...

Tigray crisis: Why Ethiopia is spiralling out of control

Ethiopia appears to be fast approaching civil war. Fighting between forces loyal to the federal government headed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has claimed hundreds of lives and is threatening to rip the country apart. ...

Letter from Africa: Culture clash over Nigeria's rival alphabets

In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Trust newspaper, looks at what a row over Arabic script reveals about Nigeria's divides. ...

Doug Emhoff: The first 'second dude' in the White House

The moment that Kamala Harris celebrated the news she would be the next vice-president - captured on camera for posterity - was history making three times over. Come January, she will become the first female, first black and first Indian American vice-president. ...

Covid: Vaccine or no vaccine, we have to get through this first

After the euphoria of a vaccine breakthrough, it did not take long for the virus to provide a reality check. Within days of the news that an effective vaccine may have been found, it was being announced the UK was the first European country to pass the grim milestone of 50,000 deaths. This was quickly followed by a record rise in new cases with 33,400 reported on Thursday. ...