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Ugandans will vote on Jan. 14 in a presidential election that pits longruling incumbent Yoweri Museveni against ten rivals, including a young pop star who is emerging as the strongest challenger.

Poland reported a record 27,143 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, approaching a threshold at which the government has said it could be forced to impose a nationwide lockdown.

Moscow's mayor said on Thursday that the city's coronavirus situation was getting worse, and extended a remote learning period for secondary schools as infections climbed nationwide at a nearrecord daily rate.

Former Kosovo Liberation Army spokesman and veteran Kosovar politician Jakup Krasniqi was arrested and transferred to The Hague on Wednesday, the Kosovo war crimes tribunal said in a statement.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to side with a Catholic social services agency in a dispute with Philadelphia over the agencys refusal to work with samesex couples as foster parents.

Nigerian immigration officials blocked a prominent antipolice brutality activist from leaving the country and confiscated her passport, she told Reuters on Wednesday.

The country's authorities have registered a mutation of the new coronavirus in mink, which has spread to humans, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a press conference.

Several hundred Democrats gathered for a drive-in rally at Biden's campaign headquarters in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware for a socially-distanced, election night event like no other.

Democratic socialist Ocasio-Cortez raised more than $17 million for her second congressional campaign, making it the second most expensive House race in the country even though her primary win all but guaranteed her House seat was safe.

Preliminary figures showed a deeply divided nation and mixed signs for each candidate, with Biden appearing to underperform in the crucial state of Florida as Trump made inroads in Cuban-American-dominated Miami.

Voting across the nation was largely smooth as voters lined up early in the morning across polling stations in the country to cast their ballots in one of the most consequential and polarised elections in US history.

The pandemic and the fragile economy weighed heavily on voters in Tuesdays presidential election, a contest that for many amounted to a referendum on President Donald Trump's leadership in a time of turmoil.

Some of that misinformation — rumors, misleading videos and mislabeled photographs — has been making the rounds for weeks as millions of Americans voted early. The New York Times has been debunking that information daily.

The Associated Press will count the nations vote in real time Tuesday and report the results of presidential, congressional and state elections as it has for more than 170 years.

Riot police dispersed opposition supporters outside the main Ivory Coast opposition leader's house on Tuesday after the government accused him of sedition for creating a parallel administration in defiance of President Alassane Ouattara's election win.

Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, said it is important for voters to recognise that the process may require time.