US Election results: Biden predicts victory over Trump as counts go on
Joe Biden has again said he is confident of victory as he inches closer to beating Donald Trump after Tuesday's US presidential election.
The Democratic challenger now has 253 of the 270 Electoral College votes needed to clinch the White House under the state-by-state US voting system.
Mr Biden leads vote counts in the battlegrounds of Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Arizona.
A Biden win would see Mr Trump leave office in January after four years.
Iran temporarily frees human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
Release follows warnings about her health after six-week hunger strike
Iran has temporarily released Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent lawyer who was jailed two years ago on spying and propaganda charges, the judiciary’s news agency reported.
Sotoudeh’s release followed warnings last month by human rights groups that her health had severely deteriorated after she staged a six-week hunger strike to demand the release of political prisoners and rights activists.
“Nasrin Sotoudeh … went on furlough with the agreement of the assistant superintendent of the women’s prison,” the judiciary’s Mizan news agency said, without giving further details.
New Zealand rodeo: Animals ‘throttled, given electric shocks, punched and slammed to ground in violent scenes’
Plea issued to UK shoppers not to buy meat and dairy from country
New Zealand farmers subject calves, bulls and horses to agonising violence in rodeo events, including delivering electric shocks and slamming them on their backs and tying their legs together so they can't move, campaigners say.
Footage obtained by The Independent shows cowboys punching, slapping and hitting animals, and wrestling their heads so hard that the animals’ faces are smashed to the ground.
Some creatures are wrenched or forced into such painful positions that they collapse, suffering broken necks, legs or backs.
Tanzania: Internet slowdown comes at a high cost
Tanzania's internet and social media have been disrupted for more than a week, at great cost to the economy and free speech. The slowdown started just before Tanzania's presidential elections.
On average, Makungu reaches out to 10 clients a day, earning his company between $100-200 (€85-170) and himself a nice commission.
But ever since internet and social media services were restricted in the days before Tanzania's general elections on October 27, Makungu barely manages to make two sales a day.
France’s PM vows to fight ‘relentlessly’ against ‘radical Islam’
Jean Castex says government will mobilise all its forces to fight ‘enemy’ at memorial for Nice church attack victims.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex has said his government would keep “fighting relentlessly” against “radical Islam” as he paid tribute to the three victims of a knife attack in the southern city of Nice last month.
“We know the enemy. Not only has it been identified, but it has a name, it is radical Islam, a political ideology that disfigures the Muslim religion,” Castex said in a speech during a ceremony for the victims on Saturday.
A Motorcycle Rally in a Pandemic? 'We Kind of Knew What Was Going to Happen.'
Mark Walker and Jack Healy
Albert Aguirre was amped as he and a buddy skimmed across the South Dakota plains, heading to join 460,000 bikers for a motorcycle rally shaping up to be a Woodstock of unmasked, uninhibited coronavirus defiance.
“Sit tight Sturgis,” Aguirre, 40, posted on Facebook on Aug. 7 as he snapped a photo of the sun sifting through the clouds. “We’re almost there!”
A month later, back home in the college town of Vermillion, South Dakota, Aguirre was so sick he could barely take a shower. He had not been tested but told friends that it had to be COVID-19.
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