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The campaign of President Donald Trump says it has filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court seeking to invalidate the presidential election results there the latest in a series of legal challenges intended to reverse his loss to Presidentelect Joe Biden.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday he had imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials and others who have used or threatened to use violence, the release of private information or other coercive tactics to intimidate critics.

Ethiopian farmer Gebrahid Welderfael said he last saw his wife and 18yearold daughter in the sewer in his village in the Tigray region where the family had taken shelter from explosions and gunfire.

Thai researchers have unearthed a rare partially fossilised skeleton belonging to a Bryde's whale believed to be around 5,000 years old at an inland site west of Bangkok.

The European Union told Britain on Friday that it was time to make a decision on a Brexit trade deal after a lastminute problem in talks prompted London to say chances of a breakthrough were receding.

Hungary still cannot accept a clause on respecting the rule of law attached to the European Union's budget and coronavirus recovery fund, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, adding the political rules should be dealt with separately.

Dr Sardjono Utomo, a senior Indonesian doctor, admitted himself to his local hospital in East Java late Tuesday afternoon.

The Pakistan cricket team have had their exemption to train during managed isolation in Christchurch withdrawn due to several members of the squad testing positive for the novel coronavirus, New Zealand's Ministry of Health said on Friday.

Major industrial areas in northern China are at risk of falling short of their winter pollution targets after surges in the production of steel and cement, the Helsinkibased Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said on Thursday.

Germany will extend restrictive measures designed to stem a tide of new COVID19 infections until Jan. 10, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday after talks with German state leaders.

Jamali served as the prime minister from November 2002 until June 2004 when Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf was the president of the country.

President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn Wisconsin's election results by tossing ballots only from the state's two most heavily Democratic counties is an assault on democracy, attorneys for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said in filings with the Wisconsin...

Austria on Wednesday chose a middle way on skiing after neighbouring countries argued opening its resorts would be unsafe, saying it would allow skiing on Christmas Eve effectively only for locals and day trippers, with visits from abroad made difficult.

After Spain's stringent coronavirus lockdown trapped many in cramped urban flats, builders and architects say demand for new homes with more space, better air quality and higher security has soared.

President Emmanuel Macron will try to revive a French initiative on Lebanon when he hosts an international aid conference on Wednesday evening, but with the country's fractious political class bickering, hopes of a breakthrough appear slim.