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Updates and information on global events as well as daily incidents in countries which rock and stir into action the rest of the world.

Boris Johnson
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a statement on the current coronavirus statistics and testing and lockdown measures during a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on November 5, 2020, as new lockdown restrictions are introduced in England in an effort to curb rising infections of the novel coronavirus. City centres have reverted to ghost towns as England's 56 million people entered a second coronavirus lockdown on Thursday, amid scepticism that the stringent curbs will work to arrest the worst death toll in Europe. / AFP / POOL / Leon Neal
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Coronavirus: Latest global developments

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PARIS, Nov 5, 2020 (AFP) - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: - Europe the epicenter - Europe has become the epicentre

Ballots
Election officials count absentee ballots on November 04, 2020 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wisconsin requires election officials to wait to begin counting absentee ballots until after polls open on election day. The Milwaukee count was finished about 3AM. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP
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Chaos in US election

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WASHINGTON, Nov 4, 2020 (AFP) - The US election was plunged into chaos early Wednesday as President Donald Trump prematurely declared victory and sought Supreme

Donald Trump
President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at the Kenosha Regional Airport on November 02, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Trump, who won Wisconsin with less than 1 percent of the vote in 2016, currently trails former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the state according to recent polls. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP
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Trump’s dark campaign goes down to the wire, Biden predicts victory

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KENOSHA, United States, Nov 3, 2020 (AFP) - President Donald Trump rallied late Monday in Kenosha, the Wisconsin city at the center of racial protests

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A police car drives in front of the opera house in the center of Vienna on November 2, 2020, following a shooting. Two people, including one attacker, have been killed in a shooting in central Vienna, police said late November 2, 2020. Vienna police said in a Twitter post there had been "six different shooting locations" with "one deceased person" and "several injured", as well as "one suspect shot and killed by police officers". JOE KLAMAR / AFP
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Gunman on the run after Vienna ‘terror attack’ leaves two dead

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VIENNA, Nov 3, 2020 (AFP) - A huge manhunt was under way Tuesday after gunmen opened fire at multiple locations across central Vienna, killing at