President Donald #Trump pressured #Georgia‘s Republican secretary of state to “find” enough #votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state’s presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims...
Pelosi narrowly reelected speaker, faces difficult two years
Nancy #Pelosi was narrowly reelected Sunday as speaker, giving her the reins of Democrats’ slender #House majority as she and President-elect Joe #Biden set a challenging course of producing legislation to tackle the...
Coronavirus pandemic: French govt seeks to ramp up vaccination campaign
The #French government on Monday faced growing pressure to accelerate its #Covid-19 #vaccination drive, with President Emmanuel Macron reportedly also furious over the slow pace of progress. Just a few hundred people...
Georgia Senate races: Vote to determine balance of power in Washington
The United States is poised on Tuesday to elect two #senators in #Georgia determining whether the Democrats have overall control of the country’s bicameral Congress – and the future of President-elect Joe...
UK coronavirus pandemic: Johnson under pressure to tighten restrictions
British Prime Minister Boris #Johnson has warned that more onerous #lockdown restrictions in England are likely in the coming weeks as the country reels from a #coronavirus variant that has pushed infection rates to...
Covid: First Oxford dose given to 82-year-old man – BBC News
Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person to be vaccinated with the new Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine after being given the jab at Oxford University Hospital, NHS England has said.
The mums who became pandemic chefs – BBC News
Shalini Sharma and Mrinali Hariyal had always enjoyed cooking – and they were good at it too. But they only cooked for family and friends. But everything changed for them in March when India’s coronavirus...