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The United States has broken a new pandemic record, with more than three thousand Covid-19 deaths in a single day.
A record number of Covid-19 patients are in the hospital as well.
Rachel Silverman has this report from Oakland California.
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More than 3000 Americans died of Covid-19 on Tuesday, the highest number on record so far.
The White House made no comment at all on the news.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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President elect Joe Biden's son Hunter says his taxes are being investigated by prosecutors in Delaware.
Throughout the election campaign, President Trump falsely claimed that Joe Biden and his son had received millions of dollars of illegal payments from China and Ukraine.
Our US Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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The US Government and 48 American states are joining forces to try and force Facebook to sell Instagram and WhatsApp.
The company is being hit with two separate lawsuits that saw shares in Facebook to plunge in value.
Our US correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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The US government and dozens of individual US states have sued Facebook. They're accusing the social media company of buying up rivals to squash competition.
Technology Correspondent Rachel Silverman reports from San Francisco.
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Canada has approved the use of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech.
It's the third country to authorize use of the vaccine ….after the UK and Bahrain.
US Correspondent Rachel Silverman has more.
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The French government has formally unveiled proposed legislation to combat separatism - especially radical Islamism - which President Macron blamed for fatal attacks in France in October.
The new bill will target institutions harbouring extremist ideologies but some Islamic leaders fear it unfairly targets law-abiding Muslims.
Ross Cullen reports from Paris.
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The Government of Uganda has approved the importation of the COVID-19 vaccine from China. The Chinese community of investors at an industrial park in Central Uganda requested for authorization to import and administer 4,000 doses of the Sars-Cov-2 inactivated vaccine.
Leon Solomon reports
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5 people have died during electoral violence since Ghana went to the polls on Monday. Ghana's electoral process has in the past been generally peaceful. But this year's election, which is seen as a tight contest between incumbent Nana Akufo Addo and former President John Mahama, has seen tensions rise among supporters of both candidates.
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The Ethiopian government says it does not need external investigations into the killings of over 600 people in the north of the country last month.
It blames separatists the Tigray People's Liberation Front, for the massacre.
Coletta Wanjohi reports from Addis Ababa:
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