As Covid infection rates slow public health experts have warned that despite the current lockdown it is impossible to avoid continued restrictions over Christmas.
Club-swinging police went after demonstrators in Belarus' capital who were demanding the resignation of the country's authoritarian president yesterday, the 90th consecutive day of protests.
Shortly before noon on Saturday, The Washington Post and other major news organisations called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. At the time, President Donald Trump was playing golf, the same game he said in 2016 that he wouldn't have time for as president.
Donald Trump was under mounting pressure to concede the US presidential race last night as George W. Bush congratulated Joe Biden on his victory and said the election was “fundamentally fair”.
Donald Trump will remain a “900lb gorilla” in the Republican Party and there will be no renunciation of his political ideology after he ceases to be president, according to senior party figures.
Thai pro-democracy protesters were confronted by riot police and water cannons as they tried to approach Bangkok's Grand Palace to deliver letters about their political grievances addressed to the country's king.
Bolivia's Luis Arce was sworn in as president yesterday, ushering the country's powerful socialist party back into power a year after long-term leftist leader Evo Morales was ousted amid angry protests that sparked off a political crisis.
