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Democratic candidate Joe Biden has taken an early lead against Republican incumbent Donald Trump as the counting of votes in the crucial US presidential election began on Tuesday night. Polling was yet to conclude in various states in the West Coast as states in the other parts of the country…

  A massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake has hit parts of Greece and Turkey, leaving both countries rattled. Four people have been reported dead so far, Turkey’s disaster management authority has said, and 120 have been injured. Video footage on social media showed buildings in the Turkish city of İzmir had been…

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has denounced France’s treatment of Islam, adding that Western support for cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad is unethical and insulting to Muslims. In a televised cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the president said freedom must be accompanied by a respect for values and consideration of ethics. “Westerners…

  Pakistan: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again drawn an inexplicable parallel between Islamophobia and the Holocaust. In a bizarre letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Khan has sought a ban on Islamophobic content similar to the prohibition put for the Holocaust on the social networking site. In…

Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed four agreements during the first high-level visit from the Gulf state to Tel Aviv since the controversial move by the two countries last month to establish official ties. Emirati Finance Minister Obaid Humaid al-Tayer and several senior officials from the UAE…

The coronavirus pandemic has deepened inequalities across labour markets and accelerated the urgency with which the public and private sectors must act to ensure millions of people remain employable in a changing jobs market, the World Economic Forum (WEF) stressed on Tuesday. Within the next five years, automation and a…

President Emmanuel Macron has ordered a nighttime curfew for Paris and eight other French cities to contain the rising spread of the coronavirus in the country. In a televised interview on Wednesday, Macron said residents of those cities would not be allowed outdoors between 9 pm (19:00 GMT) and 6…

The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has been canceled, the Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed Friday, a move that came as the president announced his first in-person events since being diagnosed with Covid-19. The decision by the nonpartisan commission follows a public disagreement between the two…

A diesel tank exploded inside a Beirut building, killing four people and injuring several others, the Lebanese Red Cross has said. It was not immediately clear what triggered the blast in the western neighbourhood of Tariq Jadidah. The state-run National News Agency said the blaze erupted inside a bakery in…

Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, is reeling from a huge blast, which has killed dozens, injured thousands and caused widespread destruction in the city. There are reports that the blast could be felt hundreds of kilometres away in Cyprus. Rescue workers in Lebanon are searching for more than a hundred…