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The Paris accord committed the US and 187 other countries to keeping rising global temperatures below 2C above pre-industrial levels.

His first executive order was launching his 100-day masking challenge, asking Americans to mask up for 100 days.

Biden and Harris were sworn as the 46th President and 49th Vice President of the United States respectively on Wednesday. 

The Snapchat lens will also play a message from Biden addressing Snapchatters: "Hey Snapchat!! It's me, Joe. Welcome to inauguration!"

Cedric Richmond, 47, has been named as the White House Senior Adviser and Director of the Office of Public Engagement in the incoming Biden administration.

"It's time to turn the page." "I'm convinced we can work together for the good of the nation," he said.

Time magazine's award -- handed out annually since 1927 -- honors the person or people who most impacted the news, for better or worse, during the calendar year.

Indian American Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was the only woman on the list and stood at the 10th position globally.

The Pfizer-BioNTech jab is one of several vaccines bringing hope for an end to the pandemic that has killed more than 1.5 million people worldwide and ravaged economies.

Trump and his allies have brought at least 50 legal cases trying to overturn the results in the swing states Biden won — mainly Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Biden, who is due to take office on January 20, said he will make sure that the vaccine is both free and available.

According to Twitter, all existing tweets on those accounts will be archived and Twitter will transfer the accounts -- reset to zero tweets -- to Biden.

The current tweets posted during the Trump administration will be archived, and the account will be reset to zero tweets.

Biden will be sworn in as the oldest president in the nation's history, displacing Ronald Reagan, who left the White House in 1989 when he was 77 years and 349 days old.

Trump has refused to accept his loss on November 3, despite his opponent getting over six million more votes.

The move was immediately opposed by the Opposition Democratic Party of the President-elect Joe Biden, whose lawmakers described it as a threat to national security.

China was previously among a handful of major countries including Russia and Mexico that had not congratulated the president-elect.

Harris, 56, is set to make history becoming the first woman - and the first woman of colour - to occupy the office.

Bush, as president and Biden then as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had worked together on a number of issues during the Bush administration.

Netanyahu said he and Biden had "a long and warm personal relationship for nearly 40 years, and I know you as a great friend of Israel."