The ruling party of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has won enough parliamentary seats to form the next government, according to official general election results released on Friday.
President-elect Joe Biden has won the battleground state of Arizona, dealing another blow to President Donald Trump's struggling effort to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election.
Based on her time working with Joe Biden in the White House, Jarrett says she hopes the qualities she knows the president-elect possesses will help him heal divisions in the U.S.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting on Thursday that former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company's policies to justify his suspension when he urged beheading two senior U.S. officials, according to a recording heard by Reuters.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies are waging a four-front attack on the U.S. election result. It's doomed to fail, but the unusual gambit underscores how abnormal a moment this is in American democracy.
One of U.S. President Donald Trump's most trusted advisers has tested positive for the coronavirus. Corey Lewandowski recently travelled to Pennsylvania to assist Trump's efforts to contest the state's election results.
A U.S. Justice Department report has found former labour secretary Alex Acosta exercised "poor judgment" in handling an investigation when he was a top federal prosecutor in Florida into wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.
At least 74 migrants drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya on Thursday, the United Nation's migration agency said, at least the eighth such shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean since last month.
The international force that monitors the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement said Thursday that eight peacekeepers were killed when one of its helicopters crashed during a routine mission in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. A ninth peacekeeper was badly injured.
The U.S. has recorded more than 240,000 deaths related to COVID-19 and more than 10.3 million confirmed infections, with new cases soaring to all-time highs of well over 120,000 per day over the past week.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden appointed top Democratic official Ron Klain as his chief of staff and assistant to the president on Wednesday.
A typhoon swelled rivers and flooded low-lying areas as it passed over the storm-battered northeastern Philippines, where rescuers worked Thursday to help people flee the rising waters.
Hong Kong's opposition staged a final show of defiance in the legislature on Thursday before resigning to protest against the dismissal of four of their colleagues in what they see as another bid by Beijing to suppress democracy in the city.
