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Many countries in Europe are running out of intensive care beds amid a surge of coronavirus cases - as well as the doctors and nurses required to staff them.

The US has set another record for the daily number of coronavirus cases.

Two notable holdouts have emerged as world leaders congratulate Joe Biden on his US election victory, with the presidents of Latin America's two largest countries - Brazil and Mexico - so far remaining silent.

Turn-out in the US election has hit a 50-year high and eclipsed the record set in Barack Obama's triumph in 2008, in what analysts are calling an extraordinary engagement in what amounted to a referendum on Donald Trump's leadership.

President Donald Trump is facing pressure to cooperate with president-elect Joe Biden's team to ensure a smooth transfer of power when the new administration takes office in January.

US officials have accused Iran of being behind a flurry of emails sent to Democratic voters in multiple battleground states that appeared to be aimed at intimidating them into voting for President Donald Trump.

Anger, frustration and sadness over the decision not to charge Kentucky police officers for Breonna Taylor's death has poured into America's streets.

Donald Trump has again declined to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses November's US presidential election.

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has assumed his sixth term of office in an inauguration ceremony that was not announced in advance.

Rivers swollen by Hurricane Sally's rains threaten more misery for some residents of the Florida Panhandle and south Alabama on Thursday.