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US Election Today: Trump, Biden make final pleas to voters
Here’s what’s happening Monday in the US Election 2020, one day before Election Day:
Societies pay price when journalists targeted: UN chief
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reiterated his call for a free press that can play its essential role in peace, justice, sustainable development and human rights as the world fights the COVID-19 pandemic.
Campaign draws to a close with US facing a crossroads
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have one last chance to make their case to voters in critical battleground states on Monday, the final full day of a campaign that has laid bare their dramatically different visions for tackling the nation’s pressing problems and for the office of the presidency itself.
WHO chief in quarantine after contact tests positive for coronavirus
World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday that he was self-quarantining after someone he had been in contact with tested positive for coronavirus.
One more Chinese COVID-19 vaccine ready for phase-3 clinical trials
A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by the Institute of Microbiology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has shown to be safe in early-stage trials.
Biden works to push Black turnout in campaign’s final days
Joe Biden was spending the final days of the presidential campaign appealing to Black supporters to vote in-person during a pandemic that has disproportionally affected their communities, betting that a strong turnout will boost his chances in states that could decide the election.
US vote to shape how world warms as climate pact exit looms
What happens on election day will to some degree determine how much more hot and nasty the world’s climate will likely get, experts say.
4-week coronavirus lockdown may have to last longer: UK
A new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don’t fall quickly enough, a senior government minister said Sunday.
EXPLAINER: A long night, or more, before president is known
There’s a good chance Americans won’t know the winner of Tuesday’s presidential election when they go to bed that night.
EXPLAINER: US vote is 51 elections, one in each state and DC
A major misconception about the vote for U.S. president is that it is a national election. It’s not.