In the United States, the winner of a presidential election is determined not by a national vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots “electoral votes” to all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on their population.

Veteran British journalist Robert Fisk has died of a suspected stroke at the age of 74, BBC reports.

Rescue efforts continued in eight buildings in western Turkish city of Izmir, authorities said, as the death toll from Friday’s powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea region rose to 81.

The World Health Organization chief said late Sunday that he was self-quarantining after someone he had been in contact with tested positive for Covid-19, but stressed he had no symptoms.

As the US awaits election day on Tuesday, misleading claims from President Donald Trump and his opponent Joe Biden are circulating on hot-button issues including the Covid-19 pandemic, the economy and healthcare.

“America first” is Trump’s nationalist slogan describing a policy of unilateral diplomacy, protectionism, trade wars and forcing the world to “respect”

Kamala Harris is on the verge of what would be a double-dream for US Democrats: becoming the nation’s first woman vice president and ending Donald Trump’s turbulent rule.

Vice President Mike Pence is the calm to Donald Trump’s storm, bringing a sedate demeanor and the religious, conservative ballast the men hope will spare them from losing the White House.

Donald Trump said on the campaign that he wants a “smooth, beautiful transition” after Election Day, but he offered an ambiguous follow-up caveat: “But it’s got to be an honest vote.”

A 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Izmir yesterday, after being buried for 33 hours following

President Emmanuel Macron sought to calm flaring tensions with Muslims around the world on Saturday, telling an Arab TV channel he understood that derogatory cartoons to Muslims could be shocking while lashing out at “lies” that the French state was behind them.

At least 10 people died and three others were missing after Typhoon Goni, the world’s strongest typhoon this year, barrelled through the south of the

The US Presidential elections scheduled for Tuesday is expected to see a record high turnout of voters, with polls analysts attributing this to Americans’ attempt for a change.

“Y’all vote?! Did you?” Dexter Faircloth, 35, hollered repeatedly at people as he stalked the streets of Houston’s Third Ward, the historic Black neighborhood where he was born and raised, shouting greetings and asking the urgent question.

One Californian neighborhood had had enough of the acrimonious atmosphere among people ahead of the November 3 US elections.

With two days to go, Democrat Joe Biden holds a commanding national lead over President Donald Trump amid deep voter concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, but Trump is keeping his hopes alive by staying competitive in the swing states that could decide the White House race.

At least four people have died in the super typhoon Goni that lashed on the Philippines’ main island of Luzon, including a five-year-old washed away in flash floods after dikes collapsed.

Two more men have been arrested in connection with a knife attack that left three dead at a church in Nice, bringing the number of people in custody to six as investigators look at the suspected assailant’s last known contacts.

French President Emmanuel Macron -- in an interview with Al Jazeera -- has said that he can understand why Muslims were shocked by the controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, but also said he could never accept the issue justified violence, reports BBC.

Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 53 people and injuring more than 900.