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Votes are still being tallied, but barrier-breaking candidates have notched victories in some of the races that have been called.

Born to an Indian father and an Armenian mother, Gideon, the current speaker to the Maine House of Representatives, lost to Republican heavyweight Senator Susan Collins.

Denmark will cull its mink population of up to 17 million after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans, the prime minister said on Wednesday.

The Vatican has ordered an investigation into the former archbishop of Gdansk on suspicion of negligence over sex abuse allegations, a month after the pope accepted the resignation of a bishop accused of shielding sexually abusive priests.

The Myanmar President Office hit back at the army chief on Wednesday for criticising the government's handling of an upcoming general election, warning that his remarks risked creating fear and unrest, just days away from the vote.

As Election Day came and went without a verdict in the presidential race, President Donald Trump grew agitated. At 2:21 a.m., the president took the stage before a well-lubricated crowd in the East Room and falsely claimed he had won. He vowed to take his...

Oil turned lower on Wednesday after President Donald Trump claimed victory in a tight U.S. election, despite millions of votes still to be counted and a final result not expected for days.

Election results from some battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia, were still not clear and projections from major networks and Edison Research showed Trump still short of the 270 electoral votes need to win re-electi...

Hungary will close entertainment venues and impose a nighttime curfew to curb a fast spread of coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a video posted on his official Facebook page on Wednesday.

As voting sites closed throughout the United States on Tuesday, exit polls conducted by Edison Research provided some insight on major issues driving the presidential vote and an early read on voter support.

Media outlets preached patience as the first Election Day results in the hard-fought campaign between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden came in, even as it ran counter to their instincts.

Republican Donald Trump faced Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Tuesday in the US presidential election. There are 538 Electoral College votes allotted to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It takes 270 votes to win.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had never run for political office before, was well ahead and projected to win her race for US House District 14, some two months after Trump hailed her as a "future Republican star."

US voters are deciding between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden on Tuesday, closing an epic campaign marked by rancour and fear that will influence how the US confronts everything from the coronavirus pandemic to race relations for years to c...

US Election Exit Poll Results 2020 LIVE Updates: Polls have closed in Georgia and an early exit survey of voters there show around 4 in 5 White voters without a college degree went for Donald Trump.

Denis Verdini, for years one of the closest advisers to former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was sentenced to 61/2 years in prison on Tuesday by Italy's supreme court in a graft case tied to the collapse of a bank.