DNC 2020: Biden vows to end Trump's 'season of darkness'
Newly minted Democratic White House nominee Joe Biden said US President Donald Trump has "cloaked America in darkness for much too long".
The former US vice-president said his rival has unleashed "too much anger, too much fear, too much division".
His impassioned speech was the capstone of a political career spanning nearly half a century.
Mr Biden, 77, heads into the general election campaign with a clear lead in opinion polls over Mr Trump, 74.
Alexei Navalny's wife asks Putin to let him be treated in Germany
Letter appeals to Russian leader after doctors refuse to allow Kremlin critic to leave country
Andrew Roth in Moscow and Graham Russell
Published onFri 21 Aug 2020 13.54 BST
The wife of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has appealed directly to Vladimir Putin to allow her husband to be evacuated to a clinic in Germany to receive treatment for a suspected poisoning.
Doctors treating Navalny in the Siberian city of Omsk have refused to release him for evacuation to a clinic abroad, sparking a standoff with his family and aides who say his life is in danger in Russia.
In a letter addressed to the Russian president’s administration, Yulia Navalnaya wrote that her husband “needs qualified medical assistance” and asked for permission to transport Navalny to Germany.
Positive indicators mask India's deepening coronavirus crisis
Epidemiologists and experts warn that the uptick in the number of people recovered and positive projections of the infection curve should not lead to complacency. Murali Krishnan reports from New Delhi.
Over the past month, India's national capital Delhi has witnessed a decline in the daily new coronavirus infections, giving authorities a reason to believe that they have turned the corner in the fight against COVID-19.
Delhi recorded an average of 1,022 new cases a day over the past week, a significant drop from a month ago. At its peak in end-July, the capital was adding an average of over 3,000 new cases a day.
Libya’s warring rivals announce ceasefire
Libya's warring rival governments announced in separate statements Friday that they would cease all hostilities and organise nationwide elections soon, an understanding swiftly welcomed by the United Nations.
The statements were signed by Fayez al-Sarraj, head of the UN-recognised unity government based in the capital Tripoli, and Aguila Saleh, speaker of the eastern-based parliament backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar.
The two have been at war virtually since the formation of Sarraj's government in December 2015.
One Arab press, from Morocco to Syria
Newspapers without borders
Papers in Arabic began as a way for regional rulers, and western colonial powers, to communicate with their subjects in the language they use, which is shared in written form across the region.
by Arthur Asseraf
Everyone from Rabat to Baghdad can read the same newspapers because Arab countries share a written language (literary Arabic, or fusha) not limited to a single political territory. This means the audience for Arabic newspapers, radio or television crosses the borders of nation states. From a European perspective, the development of the press in the Arab world is anomalous. Many, including the sociologist Gabriel Tarde in France and the historian Benedict Anderson from Ireland, have claimed that print media are at the origin of national sentiment. For them, newspapers create a readership united by a common language and daily reality, who can imagine themselves all reading the same article at the same time. Newspapers establish the ‘imagined community’ of the nation.
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern wants to eliminate coronavirus. Is she setting herself up to fail?
Updated 0927 GMT (1727 HKT) August 21, 2020
In mid-March, as the coronavirus pandemic began to take hold in Europe and the United States, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern presented her country with a choice.
They could let coronavirus creep into the community and brace for an onslaught, as other countries around the world had done. Or they could "go hard" by closing the border -- even if that initially hurt the island nation's hugely tourism-dependant economy.
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