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US elections 2020
Sunday
8 November 2020
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President refuses to concede defeat as recriminations begin
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President refuses to concede defeat to Joe Biden as Republican allies rally behind him -
Confusion reigns as accounts of attempts to talk president into conceding to Joe Biden are swiftly shot down -
New York representative denies Movement for Black Lives and Green New Deal cost seats -
California senator, who is of Indian and Jamaican heritage, will be first elected woman in White House
Headlines
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US currently has 9.49m confirmed Covid cases; October was worst month for pandemic; economic fallout makes prospect of third world war ‘a risk’. Follow the latest updates -
Country’s prime minister sent in federal troops and aircraft last week in major escalation
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Prime minister says changes to legislation will protect Northern Ireland peace deal -
Free sanitary pad dispensers installed on campuses in effort to counter ‘stigma of menstruation’ in the country -
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President-elect Biden says ‘Plan will be to built on bedrock of science’ and promised ‘to spare no effort’ to fight pandemic -
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Coronavirus poses a threat to the very existence of places such as Roccafiorita in Sicily
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Spotlight
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The actor’s autobiography confronts the abuse he experienced at the hands of the church. But he has as much contempt for Hollywood and US presidents from Obama to Trump -
Abiy Ahmed made his name as a reformer – but was there always an authoritarian waiting to come out? -
2 out of 5 stars.
The Trials of Oscar Pistorius review What about Reeva Steenkamp?
2 out of 5 stars.This docuseries could have asked bigger questions on domestic violence, or the murder of Pistorius’s scarcely mentioned girlfriend. Instead, it is a flawed, fawning hagiography
Around the world
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Most Britons see their car as more important now and would not choose greener alternative -
European Investment Bank accused of failure to properly assess impacts of supported projects in Africa and Asia -
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After being abused as a boy in Nigeria and trafficked to London at 14, boxing and piano playing gave him hope and at 32 Bilal Fawaz is finally able to fight professionally -
Black people in the north African country suffer hardship and disadvantage, and many still carry the label of ‘liberated’ slaves -
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Opinion & analysis
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Not only is the country profoundly divided after Trump, but social trends may be pulling it even further apart -
Once united over shared priority of removing Trump from office, Democrats now anxious and uncertain over path forward -
The president will be having ‘meltdowns upon meltdowns’, according to his niece, who sees poetic justice in the lies and cheating now coming back to bite him -
Sketch: In his victory speech, the president-elect showed himself to be the right person at the right time for an ailing country
Pictures and video
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'We take immense pride in her victory, and who she has become,' said one resident
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Boris Johnson congratulates Biden and Harris: 'There is more that unites us than divides us' – video
Boris Johnson insisted there is scope for cooperation with the incoming Biden administration as he congratulated the Democrat and running mate Kamala Harris
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have offered a message of unity as the pair spoke following their election victory.
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'I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify, who doesn't see red states or blue states, but who only sees the United States'
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Scott Morrison has congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their projected US election win
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'While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last – because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.'
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