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Joe Biden after victory confirmation: 'Will be President for all Americans'

It is time to "unite, heal and turn the page" on the US election, President-elect Joe Biden told Americans, hours after the Electoral College affirmed his victory over Republican President Donald Trump, who has refused to concede his loss and filed a litany of legal challenges to overturn the poll results. The members of the 538-member Electoral College on Monday pushed Biden past the 270-vote threshold to win the race for the White House, one of the final steps required for the 78-year-old Democrat to take office in January next year.

If 2020 wasn't enough, here are StanChart's 8 big market risks in 2021

A pandemic wasn't on too many lists last year, but global markets have largely recovered from the shock, helped by emergency fiscal- and monetary action

US Covid-19 death toll surpasses 300,000: Johns Hopkins University

The US has reached the grim milestone of 300,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Jaishankar hopes to have serious discussions on trade issues with Biden admin

There was fairly serious negotiation between India and the Trump administration on resolving the outstanding trade issues as well as to clinch a trade deal, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said

Influential US lawmakers urge Biden to reverse Trump's immigration policies

A federal court early this month ordered full reinstatement of the Obama-era programme that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the US as minors from deportation

Biden nominates Katherine Tai as top trade rep, says China key priority

Tai currently serves as the chief lawyer on trade on the House Ways and Means Committee, and prior to that she served in the USTR's Office of the General Counsel

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris named Time's 'Person of the Year' for 2020

US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named by the TIME magazine as '2020 Person of the Year' for changing the American story

18 states join Texas election fraud lawsuit seeking to undo Biden's victory

Eighteen states have joined Texas in its election lawsuit that seeks to halt presidential electors in four battleground states from casting their votes for US President-elect Joe Biden

YouTube will remove misinformation on US presidential poll results

The move comes at a time when US President Donald Trump is still seeking to overturn the results of the November 3 election

Trump approaches US Supreme Court against Presidential election results

President Trump has approached the US Supreme Court against the results of last month's presidential election, which he alleges were rigged in favour of President-elect Joe Biden

Biden may select Chinese-American Katherine Tai as US trade representative

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to select Chinese-American trade lawyer Katherine Tai, to become the US trade representative, according to three people familiar with the decision

Covid-19 vaccine: Joe Biden vows 100 million shots in first 100 days

Biden has promised to distribute a coronavirus vaccine to 100 million people during the first three months of his incoming administration, pledging 100 million shots in the first 100 days

Covid-19 to Arnab Goswami, here is what people searched on Google this year

From 'How to make dalgona coffee' to Arnab Goswami, netizens searched it all this year as they tried to make sense of things amid the pandemic

US Supreme Court rejects Republicans' bid to halt Biden's Pennsylvania win

The US Supreme Court has rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground

Grandson of a poor farmer in India: US' new Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

Vivek Murthy, Indian American nominee for US Surgeon General and "grandson of a poor farmer in India" struck notes of gratitude as he delivered his first public remarks from the Biden-Harris lectern

Covid-19 vaccine a miracle, approvals to come soon, says Donald Trump

Trump celebrated the expected approval of the first US vaccine for the coronavirus as the White House worked to instill confidence in the massive distribution effort

Biden vows to reopen most schools in US after first 100 days as President

Joe Biden has pledged to bring the coronavirus pandemic under enough control to open most of the nation's schools during his first 100 days as president

President-elect Biden announces new health team to manage Covid-19 in US

US President-elect Biden announced key members of his incoming administration's health team, which includes Indian-American doctor Vivek Murthy, who will be responsible for managing Covid-19 pandemic

PM Narendra Modi's '9pm9minute' tweet among top trends on Twitter in 2020

Over 700 million Tweets were sent in 2020 about elections around the world

Biden nominates Lloyd Austin as the first black man to lead US defence dept

US President-elect Joe Biden selected retired Army General Lloyd Austin, former commander of US Central Command, to be his Secretary of Defense, a source said