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COPENHAGEN: Denmark, the world’s biggest producer of mink fur, said on Wednesday it would cull all of the country’s minks after a mutated version of the new coronavirus was detected at mink farms and had spread to people. The mutation “could pose a risk that future (coronavirus) vaccines won’t work the way they should,” Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told a …

ROME: Italian officials agreed on Wednesday to impose a night-time curfew, joining a slew of European nations in ramping up restrictions to reverse a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases.Governments in Europe are struggling to get a hold of a pandemic that has now infected more than 11 million on the continent. Wednesday saw Russia announce nearly 20,000 new infections and …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the European Union on Wednesday agreed to commence their bilateral security dialogue from next year. Pakistan and the EU “agreed to hold the first meeting of the new EU-Pakistan Security Dialogue in 2021, including on the fight against terrorism”, said a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the fifth round of their bilateral strategic dialogue, which …

• Imran, Dzaferovic discuss trade, growing Islamophobia • MoU on scientific, technological cooperation inked ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday signed a bilateral readmission agreement paving the way for repatriation of nearly 3,000 illegal Pakistani migrants. The agreement was signed during a two-day visit of the Chairman of the Tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sefik Dzaferovic. The Bosnian …

US President Donald Trump’s campaign filed lawsuits on Wednesday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, laying the groundwork for contesting battleground states as he slipped behind Democrat Joe Biden in the hunt for the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. The new filings, joining existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada, demand better access for campaign observers to …

Democrat US presidential nominee Joe Biden returned to his childhood home on Tuesday to perform a ritual of sorts, as America headed to the polls to elect its new leader. “From this House to the White House with the Grace of God,” Biden wrote in black pen on a wall of the living room behind a picture, signing his name …

President Donald Trump showed off dance moves in a tweet on Tuesday as the United States headed to the polls to elect either the incumbent president for a second term in office or to place Joe Biden in the Oval Office. A video tweeted from the president’s account showed him performing various dance moves and flashing the thumbs up sign …

US President Donald Trump may either be hours away from an expected defeat or another shocking triumph over Democrat Joe Biden in the race for the White House. One thing, however, is for certain. Donald Trump still continues to surprise everyone. According to Senior White House Correspondent for Bloomberg News, Jennifer Jacobs, the US president was speaking to the press …

WILMINGTON: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Wednesday conveyed hope to his voters and supporters, saying he believed “we’re on track to win” the US Election 2020, as many polls across America came to a close and incumbent Trump accused the former vice president of “trying to STEAL the Election”. “We know that this unprecedented vote count will take a …

WASHINGTON: Twitter flagged a tweet by President Donald Trump on Wednesday wherein the Republican accused Democrats of “trying to steal” US Election 2020. “We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election,” Trump wrote on Twitter moments after Biden told supporters he expected to win. “We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after …