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Democracy campaigners and journalists in Hong Kong are condemning the arrest of a local television producer as an attack on press freedom.
Journalist Bao Choy is accused of making false statements when conducting vehicle registration searches, as part of her investigations into Hong Kong's police force.
Richard Kimber reports.
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Polls have closed in a raft of U.S. states, in a bitterly contested presidential election.
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana and several more are reporting their results, but some states are too close to call.
Nina-Maria Potts has the latest:
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America is in its final hours of voting, with the first polls closing. [NB EDITORS, FIRST POLLS CLOSE AT 6PM EST/ 23 GMT]
Political aids to U.S. President Donald Trump have set up a ‘war room’ at the White House, where the incumbent president is holding a watch party with 250 invited guests.
Joe Biden spent the day in Pennsylvania urging people to get out and vote, and ends the day at his base in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Voters in California are expected to cast their ballots for Joe Biden by a wide margin, giving him the state's 55 electoral college votes.
America's most populous state has already seen record turnout so far.
Ira Spitzer has more from Oakland.
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Tanzania's top Chadema leaders , Tundu Lissu, Freeman Mbowe and Godbless Lema are being held by the Tanzania Police for allegedly mobilizing youth over the weekend to start burning cars and petrol stations.
Daniel kijo reports
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It's election day in the United States and a record number of voters are expected to participate and decide whether President Trump deserves four more years in the White House, or whether he should be replaced by Joe Biden.
Nearly 100 million Americans participated in early voting before polls officially opened at dawn on election day itself.
The stakes are enormous.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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The African Union has condemned the killing of civilians in Ethiopia's Oromia region.
A massacre, which the government says was caused by an illegal armed group, happened on 1st November.
The armed assailants gunned down people in broad daylight.
Coletta Wanjohi reports from Addis Ababa:
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Polls have started to open in the United States - nearly one hundred million Americans have already cast their votes, more than two thirds the total ballots counted in 2016.
Both candidates criss-crossed the country in the final days of campaigning. Election Day sees President Donald Trump at the White House, while his Democratic challenger is spending the day in Pennsylvania, where the president is threatening legal action.
Nina-Maria Potts reports:
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The entire population of the city of Liverpool in the UK will be regularly tested for Covid-19 as part of a trial using new rapid-turnaround tests.
The British government is hoping that if the scheme is successful mass testing can be rolled out nationwide in time for Christmas.
Holly Hudson has more.
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