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And no fly zone to stamp out a separate a struggle here in flags of concerns of war crimes in the goal of care about or for armenia and azerbaijan are accused of committing atrocities. There its been 4 days since election day but americans are still waiting to find out who will be their next president s race to the white house is headed for a 4 to finish with every hour narrowing the gap between donald trump and joe biden heres the overall picture as it stands this hour there are just 4 battleground states left to count and any one of them could give joe biden the win that he pulled ahead in georgia in the last hour or so and he also has a lead over in nevada donald trump however is ahead in the others. She states but the margins are razor thin no those states being counties are the ones that you see here in yellow nevada georgia North Carolina and of course pennsylvania by the nih has 264 Electoral College votes trump meanwhile has 214 that still puts both in range of the magic number
Counting continues in a handful of states with more results to to be announced in the coming hours. In other news the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation intentions as ethiopias Prime Minister sends troops into the to gray region. Its over 600 g. M. T. Which is 1 oclock in the morning in the United States and in georgia one of several battleground states where the results of tuesdays president ial election remains in the balance now these are the latest pictures from atlanta georgias capital city where a vote counting still ongoing is the extremely close race in the traditionally republican states and all troops initial lead has been steadily falling now hes about 28000 votes ahead with thousands of absentee ballots still to be counted now we are expecting more data in the coming hours what might help joe biden though most of all is that the remaining votes from atlanta are from the suburbs which lean more towards the democrats what winning georgia could be crucial for biden this
So many problems as theyre well within the eye wall of a full and growing need the strongest typhoon to hit the country and perhaps the world this year and earlier today there was an advisory that word top government officials spoke where they talked about preemptive measures that about 19000000 people are actually going to be affected by this typhoon and that here in manila the impact can only be felt late into sunday police in hong kong arrested 7 prodemocracy politicians on charges related to a Legislative Council meeting more than 5 months ago the group is accused of contempt and obstructing a session to see crews in turkey are working to save people trapped under the rubble and is near a powerful earthquake on friday hit the western turkish province and the greek island of some all struggling a small tsunami at least 51 people have been killed and hundreds more injured. Turkish president recip diverged arrived in his mirror on saturday night visited one side of collapsed buildings
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