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Ghana's incumbent, Nana Akufo Addo has won re-election in a keenly contested Presidential race. He came up against former President John Mahama and 10 other candidates. The Electoral Commission's result put Nana Akufo Addo in the lead with nearly 52 percent of total votes cast.
From Accra, Nabil Ahmed Rufai reports.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is laying the foundation for India's new parliament building on Thursday.
But the new project is marred by legal troubles…
With opposition parties urging the government to not go ahead with the spending, as Ishan Garg reports from New Delhi.
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The Australian governments cashless welfare card trial will be extended for two years despite its failure to make the scheme permanent.
Shaun Bindley reports
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Hong Kong is further tightening its measures to combat the spread of Covid-19, including mandatory testing for people living in areas linked to new outbreaks.
Daily case numbers have regularly topped 100 in recent days, prompting some health experts to call on the government to enforce a complete lockdown in the worst affected areas of the city.
Richard Kimber reports.
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Japanese authorities say Japan has broken a new record of daily coronavirus cases, with the country's healthcare system threatening to buckle under the weight of the 'third wave'. Grace Lee reports from Tokyo.
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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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