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Biden, 77, and Harris, 56, would be sworn in as the president and vice president of the United States on January 20, 2021.

Harris vowed to fight to "root out systematic racism" but, like Biden, made a broad appeal to unity, saying that Americans "have elected a president who represents the best in us."

"Crying and holding my daughter, "look baby, she looks like us," tweeted actress Mindy Kaling, referring to Kamala Harris.

Five years ago Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory, but was forced by the constitution into an uneasy power-sharing agreement with the still-mighty military.

Although Harris was among the first few who supported the idea to break up Facebook last year, she has been a moderate voice, calling for tech reforms and better protection of consumer data.

Promising "not to divide but unify," Biden reached out directly to Trump supporters, declaring "they're not our enemies, they're Americans."

Twitter gives special privileges to world leaders and some other officials, leaving rule-breaking content online if there's "a clear public interest value to keeping the tweet on the service."

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 8,462,080, while the country's death toll soared to 125,562.

The work ahead of us will be hard, but I promise you this: I will be a President for all Americans -- whether you voted for me or not, said Biden in a tweet

By winning the vice presidency, she will be a heartbeat away from leading the United States and poised on a stepping stone to the ultimate prize

According to CIRCLE’s estimates, youth turnout was much higher in the 2020 election than in 2016

After four full days of waiting patiently for the slow march of vote counting to work itself out, Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R Biden, 77, pulled off one of the great political turnarounds in America

Europeans find it tough to point out what is really essential during the lockdown

But world-famous racecourses including Ascot, Newmarket and Goodwood are taking a battering, with spectators barred due to rules to limit the spread of coronavirus.

"Our results demonstrate the dramatic impact that earlier interventions could have had on the COVID-19 pandemic in the US," the authors wrote.

The journalist killed has been identified as Yama Siawash, who had worked with Tolo News. Kabul police said the explosion happened at around 7:30 am on Saturday morning. No group has so far taken responsibility for the attack.

So far, 20 municipalities in different regions of the state have been affected by overflowing rivers and landslides, Xinhua news agency quoted the state's Civil Protection Secretariat as saying on Friday.

Trump tweeted eight times on Thursday night and saw fully half of the tweets restricted by Twitter.

As of Saturday morning, the total caseload and death toll stood at 49,228,536 and 1,241,366, respectively, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

If Biden wins Pennsylvania, he wins the White House

By Friday morning, Biden overtook Trump in the number of ballots counted in the battleground, a must-win state for Trump that has long been a Republican stronghold

The Paris Climate Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The LGBT community faces widespread discrimination in the South Asian country, with a colonial-era law still in place that punishes gay sex by prison terms, though enforcement is rare.

The development comes as President Trump has made controversial broad allegations of voter fraud in Tuesday's election.