Georgia election: Democrats on course for Senate control
The Democratic Party of US President-elect Joe Biden is on the verge of taking control of the Senate as results come in from two elections in Georgia.
Pastor Raphael Warnock is projected to win one seat. Fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff leads narrowly in the other.
If they both win, Mr Biden will have a much better chance of pushing through his legislative agenda.
The election is being rerun because of Georgia's rule that a candidate must take 50% of the vote in order to win.
Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures arrested in sweeping crackdown
Campaigners and politicians held in wave of arrests under the national security law
More than 50 people, including pro-democracy politicians and campaigners, have been arrested in early-morning raids across Hong Kong in a crackdown by authorities that was condemned as a “despicable” assault on freedom.
In a police operation involving more than 1,000 officers, the 53 individuals were detained under the territory’s controversial national security law (NSL), accused of “subverting state power” by holding primaries for pro-democracy candidates for the Hong Kong election.
That election was ultimately delayed by the chief executive, Carrie Lam, for a year, purportedly because of the pandemic, and has not yet taken place.
Republicans, Fearing Trump's Wrath, Splinter Over Bid to Overturn Election
Republican divisions deepened Monday over an effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, as lawmakers weighed their fear of alienating President Donald Trump and his supporters against the consequences of voting to reject a democratic election.
With a Wednesday vote looming on whether to certify the election results, the last-ditch bid to deny Biden the presidency has unleashed open warfare among Republicans, leaving them scrambling to stake out a defensible stance on a test that carries heavy repercussions for their careers and their party.
On Monday, as Trump ratcheted up his demands for Republicans to try to block Biden’s election, elder statesmen of the party and some rank-and-file lawmakers rushed to provide political cover for those disinclined to go along.
Moderna Covid vaccine approved by EU
The European Union’s medicines agency has approved Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine candidate, giving the bloc a second vaccine to use in its battle against the pandemic.
The approval recommendation by the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) human medicines committee comes amid strong criticism of the slow pace at which the vaccine rollout programme is being carried out across the region of some 450 million people.
Opinion: Iran's nuclear move is playing with fire
Iran has announced that it is upping uranium enrichment levels — a move that threatens any attempt to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. Barbara Wesel says it’s time for Europe to re-examine its policies towards the regime.
France, Germany and the UK have never fought so hard to achieve an international deal as they did with the nuclear accord with Iran. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was signed by the five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany and the European Union in 2015. It has largely been on ice since US President Donald Trump's decision tounilaterally withdraw from the treaty in 2018 . For a long time, the deal was lauded as a major European joint foreign policy achievement. Now it looks seriously under threat.
WHO team blocked from entering China to study origins of coronavirus
Updated 1009 GMT (1809 HKT) January 6, 2021
The World Health Organization said that China has blocked the arrival of a team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in a rare rebuke from the UN agency.
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