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Georgia's secretary of state on Friday said he expects a presidential vote recount in the battleground state, where Democrat Joe Biden has a small lead over Republican President Donald Trump.

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering the Russian government to work towards meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement to fight climate change, but disappointed activists by setting a goal they said would allow emissions to rise.

Sweden, which has shunned lockdowns throughout the pandemic, registered 4,697 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest number since the start of the pandemic, Health Agency statistics showed.

The process of sorting the mailed ballots is onerous. In many states, though not all, the ballots must be verified by matching the voter's signature on the outer envelope with one in a database.

Backers of President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden staged competing demonstrations on Thursday at voting centers in U.S. states where final vote tallies could determine who occupies the White House for the next four years.

Brazil's federal police opened an investigation into the hacking of computers at one of the country's high courts on Thursday.

A judge on Thursday ordered twice daily sweeps at U.S. Postal Service (USPS) facilities serving states with extended ballot receipt deadlines as votes were still being counted in U.S. election battleground states.

Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in the all-important electoral vote count and prevailing in Pennsylvania would put him over the magic threshold of 270 electoral votes needed to win.

Not everyone at the Jersey Shore loves boardwalks.

The world likely cant keep global warming to a relatively safe minimum unless we change how we grow, eat and throw away our food, but we dont need to all go vegan, a new study says.

Some legal experts called the challenges a long shot unlikely to affect the eventual outcome of the election, one of the most unusual presidential races in modern US history due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Irinej, the ageing Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the country's largest Christian denomination, was hospitalised on Wednesday after testing positive for the coronavirus, his office said.

Prominent dissident Guillaume Soro, a former prime minister who was blocked from running in Ivory Coast's presidential election, called Wednesday on the country's military to disobey President Alassane Ouattara after he was allowed to win a controversial...

ELECTION 2020-VOTER TURNOUT Chart. This AP digital embed chart showing voter turnout percentages for U.S. general elections since 1980. It shows that turnout spiked this year, as an estimated 68.2% of the US electorate cast ballots. This chart is current...

ELECTION 2020-RECOUNT RULES Table. This digital embed table shows rules and deadlines for vote recounts in several tightly-contested states in the 2020 presidential race. This table is current as of Nov. 4, 2020, and will not update. Source: AP Election...

Americans sorted themselves into two distinct camps of voters in Tuesday's presidential election, exposing the clear and entrenched partisan divisions that separate voters of different genders, classes and races.