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Just two weeks ago, Joe Biden was the butt of a jibe made by U.S. President Donald Trump during a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump has launched a slew of legal challenges and refused to concede after the major US television networks announced Biden's win.

Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said with understatement that Trump -- who has refused to concede and made unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud -- "doesn't like losing."

Refusing to concede the election, US President Donald Trump has said that he will not rest until the American people have the honest vote count they are entitled to. Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris defeated incumbent President Trump and his...

The election of Kamala Harris as the first Black and the first Asian-American woman vice president of the US is a "momentous thing", a top advisor to president-elect Joe Biden said on Saturday. The Biden-Harris ticket has defeated incumbent President Don...

Among those expected to play a key health care role in a Biden administration is Vivek Murthy, a former surgeon general under President Barack Obama, who has privately advised Biden for months on the pandemic and is expected to play a large public role as...

President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows has been diagnosed with the coronavirus as the nation sets daily records for confirmed cases for the pandemic.

A governing panel at the United Nations' aviation agency urged Iran on Friday to accelerate an investigation into the downing of a Ukrainian airliner in January, while an Iranian official said a final report on the crash would be circulated soon.

Two Venezuelan businessmen once convicted in the U.S. as unregistered agents of the late Hugo Chavez have scored a major victory in a Miami courtroom in a bitter fight for control of the South American countrys largest private airline.

New cases of COVID19 have plateaued in the hardhit Czech Republic, but hospitals are under strain and infections among vulnerable senior citizens are on the rise, authorities said on Friday.

Philadelphia police said on Friday they were investigating an alleged plot to attack the city's Pennsylvania Convention Center, where votes from the hotly contested U.S. presidential election were being counted.

Usually caused by contact with animals, the Brucellosis outbreak in China's Lanzhou, was due to a leak at a vaccine plant, the health commission said. It is caused by a bacteria that affects sheep, goats, cattle, swine and even dogs and is reported in man...

A Russian activist was detained by police Thursday after posing halfnaked on a large wooden cross near Moscow's headquarters of the top national security agency, mimicking Christ's crucifixion.

A federal appeals court ordered the immediate release of a Russian mother whose case garnered international attention after she was convicted of kidnapping for moving her children from the U.S. to Russia amid a divorce.

The outcome of the U.S. presidential election hung in the balance on Thursday as five swing states continued to count their ballots.

A longawaited Vatican report into disgraced exU.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is expected to be released this month to coincide with an annual meeting of American bishops, Vatican sources said on Thursday.