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Myanmar's military has taken control of the country after detaining a number of leading politicians and claiming there were "huge discrepancies" in November's election.

The Supreme People's Court of China (SPC) has appointed Chief Justice Emeritus Bart Katureebe as a member of its expert committee on the adjudication of international commercial disputes for the next four years.

Uganda’s speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga on Wednesday met with the new US Ambassador to Uganda, Natalie Brown, and they discussed issues of “mutual interest between our countries,” according to the speaker.

President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday joined other world leaders to congratulate Joe Biden upon becoming the forty-sixth president of the United States.

Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House, US media said Saturday, defeating Donald Trump and ending a presidency that convulsed American politics, shocked the world and left the United States more divided than at any time in decades.

President Trump said early Friday morning that he and the first lady have tested positive for the coronavirus, throwing the nation’s leadership into uncertainty and escalating the crisis posed by a pandemic that has already killed more than 207,000 Americans and devastated the economy.

President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden have fiercely clashed in one of the most chaotic and bitter White House debates in years.

Mr Trump frequently interrupted, prompting Mr Biden to tell him to "shut up" as the two fought over the pandemic, healthcare and the economy.

Samuel Mugoya Higenyi has been appointed the director of Syndication and Client Solutions at the African Development Bank Group.

Global payments company Western Union has launched a new report, “The Global Services Trade Revolutions: Fuelling post-pandemic economic recovery and growth,” in partnership with Oxford Economics – a leader in global forecasting and quantitative analysis.

A-level and vocational results are arriving for hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

But unlike other years, these results have been estimated after exams were cancelled by the Covid-19 pandemic.