Thursday, 5 November 2020
President's campaign files suits to stop counting, but unclear if strategy will work
- Electoral college vote stands at 253 for Biden, 214 for Trump.
- 'As far as I'm concerned, I already won,' Trump says, despite ongoing vote counts in several states and neither candidate reaching the required 270 electoral college votes.
- Biden campaign calls Trump's claims 'outrageous, unprecedented and incorrect.'
- Trump campaign sues to halt the vote count in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
With millions of votes yet to be tabulated, Biden already had received more than 71 million votes, the most in history.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pushed closer to the 270 electoral college votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the "blue wall" battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing U.S. President Donald Trump's path.
With just a handful of states still up for grabs on Thursday, Trump alleged fraud without providing evidence and tried to press his case in court in some key swing states. It was unclear if any of his campaign's legal manoeuvring over balloting would succeed in shifting the race in his favour.
Two days after election day, neither candidate had amassed the votes needed to win the White House. Biden's victories in the Great Lakes states left him at 253 electoral votes, while Trump has 214.
Biden held narrow leads in Nevada and Arizona while Trump was watching his slim advantage fade in must-win states Pennsylvania and Georgia as mail-in and absentee votes were being counted. The Associated Press and Fox have called Arizona for Biden, but CBC News still considers it too close to call and is waiting to make the determination.
Trump clung to a narrow lead in North Carolina as well, another must-win for him. Trump had to win the states where he was still ahead and either Arizona or Nevada to triumph and avoid becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to lose a re-election bid since fellow Republican George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Trump's campaign said in a statement it was going to make a "major announcement" in Las Vegas on Thursday morning.
With millions of votes yet to be tabulated, Biden already had received more than 71 million votes, the most in history. At an afternoon news conference Wednesday, the former vice-president said he expected to win the presidency but stopped short of outright declaring victory.
"I will govern as an American president," Biden said. "There will be no red states and blue states when we win. Just the United States of America."
It was a stark contrast to the approach of Trump, who early Wednesday morning falsely claimed that he had won the election. Trump's campaign engaged in a flurry of legal activity to try to improve the Republican president's chances and cast doubt on the election results, requesting a recount in Wisconsin and filing lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia.
Statewide recounts in Wisconsin have historically changed the vote tally by only a few hundred votes; Biden led by more than 20,000 ballots out of nearly 3.3 million counted.
It was unclear when a national winner would be determined after a long, bitter campaign dominated by the coronavirus and its effects on Americans and the national economy. But even as Biden's prospects improved, the U.S. on Wednesday set another record for daily confirmed coronavirus cases as several states posted all-time highs. The pandemic has killed more than 233,000 people in the United States.
Trump spent much of Wednesday in the White House residence, huddling with advisers and fuming at media coverage showing his Democratic rival picking up battlegrounds. Trump used his Twitter feed to falsely claim victory in several key states and amplify unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about Democratic gains as absentee and early votes were tabulated.
Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said the president would formally request a Wisconsin recount, citing "irregularities" in several counties. And the campaign said it was filing suit in Michigan and Pennsylvania to halt ballot counting on grounds that it wasn't given proper access to observe. Still more legal action was launched in Georgia.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of votes were still to be counted in Pennsylvania, and Trump's campaign said it was moving to intervene in existing Supreme Court litigation over counting mail-in ballots there. The campaign also argued that outstanding votes still could flip the outcome in Arizona, showcasing an inconsistency in its arguments over prolonged tabulation.
Trump, in an extraordinary move from the White House, issued premature claims of victory and said he would take the election to the Supreme Court to stop the counting.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell discounted the president's quick claim of victory, saying it would take a while for states to conduct their vote counts. The Kentucky Republican said that "claiming you've won the election is different from finishing the counting."
Vote tabulations routinely continue beyond election day, and states largely set the rules for when the count has to end. In presidential elections, a key point is the date in December when presidential electors meet. That's set by federal law.
Dozens of Trump supporters chanting "Stop the count!" descended on a ballot-tallying centre in Detroit, while about 200 Trump supporters, some armed with rifles and handguns, gathered outside an election office in Phoenix, Ariz., following unsubstantiated rumours that votes were not being counted.
Thousands of anti-Trump protesters demanding a complete vote count also took to the streets in cities across the U.S. Protests — sometimes about the election, sometimes about racial inequality — took place Wednesday in at least a half-dozen cities, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and San Diego.
Several states allow mailed-in votes to be accepted after election day as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday. That includes Pennsylvania, where ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 can be accepted if they arrive up to three days later.
Trump appeared to suggest that those ballots should not be counted and that he would fight for that outcome at the high court. But legal experts were dubious of Trump's declaration. Trump has appointed three of the high court's nine justices, including most recently Amy Coney Barrett.
The Trump campaign on Wednesday pushed Republican donors to dig deeper into their pockets to help finance legal challenges. Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, during a donor call, spoke plainly: "The fight's not over. We're in it."
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Iran's supreme leader has mocked the rancorous aftermath of election day in the United States, saying that the vote has exposed the reality of US democracy.
Well over 24 hours after the last polling stations closed in the US state of Alaska, the battle for the White House remains undecided.
US President Donald Trump has caused disquiet among even leaders of his own Republican Party by flatly alleging fraud, while his Democratic challenger Joe Biden's campaign team has accused the incumbent of seeking to deny the electoral rights of tens of thousands of postal voters.
“What a spectacle!” supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted late Wednesday.
“One says this is the most fraudulent election in US history. Who says that? The president who is currently in office.
“His rival says Trump intends to rig the election! This is how #USElections & US democracy are.”
The deepening polarisation of US politics since Trump's surprise election victory four years ago has drawn expressions of concern even from Western allies, with Germany warning of a “very explosive situation” in the aftermath of the poll.
Despite US allegations that Tehran sought to use social media to influence voters in the run-up to polling day, Iran's leadership has publicly insisted it favours neither candidate, despite their sharply divergent policies towards Tehran.
Trump has led a campaign of “maximum pressure” against the Islamic republic, pulling Washington out of a multilateral deal on Iran's nuclear programme and reimposing crippling unilateral sanctions.
Biden has signalled he is ready to rejoin the landmark nuclear agreement struck in 2015 when he served as vice president under Trump's predecessor Barack Obama.
But on Tuesday, Khamenei insisted the outcome of the election would have no impact on Iranian policy.
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ISLAMABAD: Newly appointed Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong on Thursday called on Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at the Foreign Office in Islamabad.
Talking to the envoy, FM Qureshi congratulated Nong Rong over assuming the responsibilities as China’s ambassador to Pakistan.
Matters pertaining to bilateral ties, coronavirus situation, Pak-China friendship, CPEC and other issues came under discussion in the meeting. The foreign minister hoped that the relations batten Pakistan and China will further improved during his tenure.On the occasion, the Chinese ambassador vowed that he will play his role for further strengthening ties between the two brotherly countries.
Earlier on September 18, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa had hosted a farewell dinner in honour of outgoing Chinese ambassador Yao Jing at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.
During the interaction, matters of mutual interest, regional security and enhanced bilateral cooperation came under discussion, the military’s media wing had said.
The COAS had thanked the ambassador for his services and appreciated his contributions for fostering strong ties between the two countries and support towards security cooperation, handling of COVID-19 pandemic and stance on Kashmir.
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OSLO, NOV 5 - On Thursday, Norway announced a new set of measures aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
In the coming weeks, Norwegians must, as far as possible, stay at home and limit social contact with other people, Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) said on Thursday morning.
“The situation is very serious,” she added.
She pointed out that there have been more than 6,000 cases of corona infection in Norway in recent weeks.
She warned that Norway could face a situation like the one seen in several places in Europe.
“We have not lost control of the situation. But we have less control than we want, and it is going in the wrong direction,” she warned.
Intensive care capacity
“If we fail to change the trend of the infection, the reserve capacity for intensive care will be filled up within a couple of months,” Solberg noted.
“The Norwegian Directorate of Health has calculated that we will see a significant increase in the number of patients who require intensive care in the coming weeks,” she said.
Furthermore, Solberg provided the Norwegian parliament with more information about new measures that will be implemented this week.
These are the national corona measures the government is introducing:
1. Recommendations for the whole country:
- In the coming weeks, everyone must stay at home as much as possible and limit social contact with other people.
- In private homes, gardens, or cottages, one should not have more than five guests in addition to household members. If all the guests are from the same household, there can be more. Two families can meet even if they have many children. The restriction does not apply to kindergarten or primary school cohorts.
- Young people and adults who have been with friends and other situations where there has not been a distance of one meter should keep a distance of two meters to people in the risk group.
- Avoid unnecessary domestic travel. Business trips that are considered necessary, and trips to leisure properties that can be carried out without contact with others are excluded.
- All universities and colleges must assess whether they can reduce teaching and other activities that contribute to increased mobility, including pressure on public transport, in the period ahead.
- Upper secondary schools must prepare for the fact that the level of measures may turn “red” if the infection rises further.
2. Rules for the entire country:
- There is a limit of up to 20 people at private gatherings in public places and rented premises. There is a limit of 50 people at indoor events without fixed seats. Indoors, there can be up to 200 people at events where everyone in the audience has fixed seats. The change will take effect at midnight the night before Monday, November 9.
- Alcohol-serving stops at midnight. Restaurants with a liquor license can not let in new guests after 10.00 PM. The change will take effect at midnight, the night before Saturday, November 7.
- Business travelers who have stayed in areas with a particularly high infection level in the last ten days before coming to Norway can no longer use the scheme that includes testing every three days. The main rule on entry quarantine will, therefore, in principle apply to employees from these areas.
- For employees who can use the exception in § 6 c, changes have been made to the provision. Employees who can use the “leisure quarantine” shall be tested every three days and be accommodated in private rooms for the first ten days in the country. The employer must facilitate keeping distance from others when the employee is in “leisure quarantine.” The exception no longer provides an exemption for entry quarantine in leisure time.
- Travelers from “red” countries must present a negative covid-19 test certificate when they arrive in Norway. The test must be taken less than 72 hours before entry. If the person does not present such a test, he or she may be refused entry. This will be implemented from midnight night to Monday, November 9. The requirement will not apply to Norwegians, persons domiciled in Norway, or persons in transit. The requirement will not apply to people who regularly come to Norway from Sweden and Finland to work. The requirement applies to health personnel who commute to Norway and who have been outside Norway for more than seven days. Personnel in critical societal functions can be exempted when necessary to avoid danger to life and health.
- Persons who come to Norway must have a permanent residence in the country. The employer or client must provide a guarantee of a suitable place of residence upon arrival in Norway. Persons, including tourists and visitors, who do not have their own residence or employer or client in Norway, must stay in quarantine in hotels and test themselves during the quarantine period. This also applies to family members who come to visit relatives in Norway.
The Norwegian Directorate of Health is commissioned to study how these requirements can be introduced.
Until the Directorate presents its findings, border control will be strengthened in accordance with existing regulations.
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In the next few days, temperatures will be as high as 15 degrees in some places in Eastern Norway and mild for the season almost all over the country.
On-duty meteorologist Martin Granerud pointed out two things that will characterize the weather in Norway towards the end of the week and this weekend: mild weather and westerly winds.
On Thursday and Friday, it will be much milder than usual for November.
“We will not have 20 degrees, but we will see almost 15 degrees late in the season, as well as new county records,” Granerud pointed out.
The snow has to wait
On Saturday, temperatures will drop somewhat, but it will still be mild in almost the entire country.
A hint of northerly winds and a drop in temperatures is expected next week.
“There is no snow in sight in the next couple of days… You would have to climb the high mountains to see sleet and snow. Mountain passes will stay free of snow until further notice,” Granerud noted.
Coastal weather
“There will be westerly winds and periods of rain and rain showers from Rogaland in the south to Finnmark in the north,” Granerud added.
In Western Norway, precipitation is expected to decrease.
However, several danger warnings are likely to be issued for Friday in parts of Norway.
“A yellow danger warning will be sent out for Helgeland for Friday, and there will probably be one for Trøndelag also for Friday, both for precipitation,” the meteorologist said.
In short, it will be a long weekend with rather bad weather in Northern Norway, bad but gradually better weather in the west, and quite nice weather in the east – until Sunday.
Generally, higher temperatures than normal are expected throughout the country.
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BUCHAREST (ROMANIA) - The new railway line connecting Bucharest’s largest train station Gara de Nord to the Henri Coanda International Airport in Otopeni will be put into operation on December 12, transport minister Lucian Bode said. A one-way journey on this route will take between 15 and 17 minutes.
The new route will be included in the new train timetable from December 12, the minister said, according to Digi24. He explained that the time interval between departures would be set when it will be known how many operators will be on this route.
This railway connection was one of the requirements Bucharest had to meet to host EURO 2020 matches (which were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The project included the construction of almost 3 kilometers of double railway plus a 1.5-kilometer viaduct that will pass over DN1, the busiest road in Romania, and a passenger terminal at the airport.
President Klaus Iohannis did a trial ride on the new railway line on September 21.
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Trump tries to press his case in court in some key swing states as Biden wins battleground prizes of Michigan and Wisconsin.
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden won the battleground prizes of Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press, reclaiming a key part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago and dramatically narrowing President Donald Trump’s pathway to reelection.
With just a handful of states still up for grabs, Trump tried to press his case in court in some key swing states, It was unclear if any of his campaign’s legal maneuvering over balloting would succeed in shifting the race in his favor.
Two days after Election Day, neither candidate had amassed the votes needed to win the White House. But Biden’s victories in the Great Lakes states left him at 264, meaning he was one battleground state away — any would do — from becoming president-elect.
By flipping yet another critical battleground state that Trump won four years ago, Biden placed himself in a comfortable lead, with only 6 electoral votes shy of the presidency.
Meanwhile, the incumbent president, Trump, vowed to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in on the inconclusive election.
Trump's campaign also filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania — which is yet undecided — and Michigan, laying the groundwork for contesting the outcome in the battleground states that could determine whether he gets another four years in the White House. The campaign also announced it had requested a recount in Wisconsin, which went to Biden with less than a percentage point.
It was still unclear when or how quickly a winner could be determined. Hundreds of thousands of votes were outstanding in Pennsylvania, while Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Alaska also remain to be called.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf tweeted that his state had over 1 million ballots to be counted and that he “promised Pennsylvanians that we would count every vote and that’s what we’re going to do.”
Trump suggested those ballots shouldn’t be counted. But Biden, briefly appearing in front of supporters in Delaware, urged patience, saying the election “ain’t over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted".
“It’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare who’s won this election,” Biden said. “That’s the decision of the American people.”
Trump in an early-morning declaration from the White House had called for outstanding ballots not to be counted.
Several states allow mailed-in votes to be accepted after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday. That includes Pennsylvania, where ballots postmarked by Nov 3 can be accepted if they arrive up to three days after the election.
Michigan
Biden carried Michigan and its 16 electoral votes. The flip from red back to blue was a huge blow to Trump, whose victories in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in 2016 sent him to the White House.
Biden’s campaign had particularly focused on turning out Black voters in Detroit, who failed to show up for Hillary Clinton in the numbers that Barack Obama received during his two presidential bids.
Despite needing to win Michigan, Trump took frequent swipes at the state’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, who was the target of an alleged kidnapping plot that was foiled by federal law enforcement. Chants of “Lock her up!” toward Whitmer echoed at Trump’s rally, and he railed against the governor on Twitter for her cautious approach to the coronavirus pandemic.
Wisconsin
Biden defeated President Trump in battleground Wisconsin, securing the state’s 10 electoral votes and reclaiming a key part of the blue wall that slipped away from Democrats four years ago.
The Associated Press called Wisconsin for Biden after election officials in the state said all outstanding ballots had been counted, save for a few hundred in one township and an expected small number of provisional ballots.
Trump’s campaign has requested a recount. Statewide recounts in Wisconsin have historically changed the vote tally by only a few hundred votes; Biden leads by .624 percentage points out of nearly 3.3 million ballots counted.
In 2016, Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes, a breakthrough that along with wins in Michigan and Pennsylvania helped hand him his first term in the White House. Democrats were determined to reclaim Wisconsin, a state that before Trump hadn’t gone for a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Arizona
Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona and its 11 electoral votes, serving a huge blow to Trump’s chances for reelection. Arizona has backed a Democratic presidential candidate only once in the last 72 years.
Biden’s campaign had focused on Arizona as part of its expanded battleground map through the Sun Belt, citing demographic changes, new residents and realignment away from Republicans among key suburban voters.
Arizona is among the more than half a dozen states that will help determine which candidate gets the 270 electoral votes to capture the White House.
Texas
Trump won Texas and its 38 electoral votes despite a furious, late push by Democrats to turn America’s biggest red state blue.
An avalanche of early votes fed Democrats’ high hopes of ending decades of losses in Texas, where polls showed Joe Biden running unusually close. But Trump carried Texas for a second straight year.
Trump won Texas by 9 percentage points in 2016 and all but took a win here for granted. He didn’t swing through Texas for campaign rallies or swamp television airwaves, and his conservative allies on the ground scoffed at Biden’s chances as a far reach.
Florida
Trump also won Florida and its 29 electoral votes, the biggest prize among the perennial battlegrounds and a state crucial to his reelection hopes.
A victory in Florida means re-election is within Trump’s grasp. A loss in the state would have made it nearly impossible for Trump to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to retain the White House.
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RAWALPINDI - The Chief of Army Chief (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that Pakistan attaches great importance to brotherly relations with Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Talking to the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sefik Dzaferovic who visited Pakistan army’s general headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi on Thursday and met him, the COAS said that Pakistan is proud of the strong bond of love & support between people of the two Countries.
During the meeting, matters of mutual interest, regional security, and Pakistan-Bosnia & Herzegovina relations came under discussion.
Both discussed enhanced bilateral cooperation in various fields including defence, technical expertise & joint ventures.
The visiting dignitary also acknowledged Pakistan’s continuous efforts for peace & stability in the region and pledged to further enhance bilateral relations between both brotherly Countries.
Earlier, on arrival at GHQ, the visiting dignitary was presented a guard of honour and he laid a floral wreath at Yadgar-e-Shuhada to pay homage to martyrs.
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Republicans appeared poised to retain control of the US Senate on Wednesday, after Senator Susan Collins defied political odds to win re-election in Maine and other Republican incumbents led Democrats in a handful of undecided races.
Democrats, who had been favored to win the Senate majority heading into Tuesday’s election, had a net gain of only one seat to show by Wednesday afternoon as their options for further increases dwindled, despite a huge Democratic money advantage going into the final weeks of the campaign.
Republicans currently hold a 53-47 seat Senate majority. To win control, Democrats would need to net three Republican-held seats if Democrat Joe Biden wins the White House and Senator Kamala Harris becomes vice president with the tie-breaking Senate vote.
If Biden loses to Republican President Donald Trump, Democrats would need four seats.
Four Senate races remained undecided by Wednesday evening. Republican incumbents led in three: Alaska, Georgia and North Carolina.
Democratic Senator Gary Peters defeated Republican John James in Michigan, according to projections from television networks and Edison Research.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in Congress who won re-election on Tuesday, discussed the possibility of retaining his leadership role at an event in Kentucky, describing his position as “offensive coordinator”.
“If we win in North Carolina [...] I’m still the offensive coordinator,” McConnell said. “I don’t know whether I’m going to be the defensive coordinator or the offensive coordinator as I speak,” he added.
One Senate contest in Georgia was headed for a January 5 runoff between Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock.
McConnell said a second Senate race on the Georgia ballot, between Republican Senator David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff, could face the same fate.
The best news for Republicans came from Maine where Collins, a Republican moderate once seen as imperiled, pulled off a surprise victory over Democrat Sara Gideon, speaker of the Maine State House of Representatives.
“I feel that this is an affirmation of the work that I’m doing in Washington to fight hard every day for the people of Maine,” Collins told reporters.
Democrats ousted Republican Senators Martha McSally of Arizona and Cory Gardner of Colorado. But those victories were cut to a net gain of one by Democratic Senator Doug Jones’s loss in Alabama.
The Democrats’ path to victory narrowed further as Republican incumbents Joni Ernst of Iowa, Steve Daines of Montana, John Cornyn of Texas and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — all once viewed as vulnerable — fended off Democratic challengers to win re-election.
Republicans also held onto an open seat in Kansas, where Republican Roger Marshall defeated Democrat Barbara Bollier.
A Republican-run Senate would pose deep problems for Biden if he wins the presidency, likely blocking large parts of his legislative agenda, including expanding healthcare and fighting climate change.
A second Trump term would face a similar hurdle in the House of Representatives, where Democrats held onto a slimmed-down majority.
Close race in Michigan
The Senate race in Michigan drew criticism from Trump just before the contest flipped in the Democrat’s favor and Peters was declared the winner.
“Wow! It looks like Michigan has now found the ballots necessary to keep a wonderful young man, John James, out of the US Senate. What a terrible thing is happening!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
In North Carolina, Republican Senator Thom Tillis declared victory over his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham.
The race had not been called, with Tillis leading by less than two percentage points. State election officials said no further results would be available until November 12 at the earliest, when all mail-in ballots are received and counted.
In Georgia, Perdue was more than three percentage points ahead of Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia.
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On November 3, special mobile operation teams of Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) found two 122 mm D-4 white phosphorus (P-4) artillery munitions near Sahlabad village of Tartar region and neutralized them on the spot.
BAKU, NOV 2020 (DN) - Since September 27, 2020 the armed forces of Armenia have been targeting
the civilian population, private houses and civilian infrastructure in
Azerbaijan in a deliberate, widespread and systematic manner.
By doing so, Armenia grossly violates its obligations under
international humanitarian law, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions and its
Additional Protocols as well as disregards the humanitarian ceasefire declared
on October 10, 18 and 26.
On November 04, Armenia continued to launch attacks in various
directions, including across the international border with Azerbaijan. During
night hours the border regions of Azerbaijan – Tovuz and Agstafa were fired at
from Berd region of Armenia.
Around 08 am, the armed forces of Armenia fired artillery shelled at Husanli and Gazyan
villages of Tartar region, as well as Hajilar, Garakhanli and Boyat villages of
Aghjabadi region. Later, Armenia continued shelling at the villages in Aghdam
region.
On November
3, special mobile operation teams of Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action
(ANAMA) found two 122 mm D-4 white phosphorus (P-4) artillery munitions near
Sahlabad village of Tartar region and neutralized them on the spot.
As of
November 3, ANAMA found 317 unexploded ordnance (UXO), 1627 pieces of
anti-personnel mines, 276 pieces of anti-tank mines, explosives of 460
anti-tank mines, 1173 pieces of 9N235 type bomblets (cluster munitions), 723
exploded missile parts and etc.
As of November 4, as a result of Armenia’s attack 91 civilians,
including children, women and elderly were killed, 405 civilians have been
hospitalized with serious injuries.
Moreover, 2734 private houses, 98 apartment buildings and 500 civilian infrastructures
were destroyed or damaged.=DN
Below are photos from ANAMA’s neutralization
of D-4 (P-4) white phosphorus munitions.
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cries foul.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden won the battleground prizes of Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press, reclaiming a key part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago and dramatically narrowing US President Donald Trump’s pathway to reelection.
A full day after Election Day, neither candidate had cleared the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. But Biden’s victories in the Great Lakes states left him at 264, meaning he was one battleground state away from crossing the threshold and becoming president-elect.
By flipping yet another critical battleground state that Trump won four years ago, Biden placed himself in a comfortable lead, with only 6 electoral votes shy of the presidency.
Meanwhile, the incumbent president, Trump, vowed to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in on the inconclusive election.
Trump's campaign also filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania — which is yet undecided — and Michigan, laying the groundwork for contesting the outcome in the battleground states that could determine whether he gets another four years in the White House. The campaign also announced it had requested a recount in Wisconsin, which went to Biden with less than a percentage point.
Michigan is a critical battleground state that helped deliver Trump the presidency four years ago, along with Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Earlier, the AP had called Wisconsin for Biden, good for 10 electoral votes, after election officials in the state said all outstanding ballots had been counted, save for a few hundred in one township and an expected small number of provisional ballots.
It was still unclear when or how quickly a winner could be determined. Hundreds of thousands of votes were outstanding in Pennsylvania, while Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Alaska also remain to be called.
However, the intense jockeying for the states was overshadowed by Trump’s extraordinary early-morning declaration from the White House calling for outstanding ballots not to be counted.
By late Wednesday, neither candidate had the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win. Electoral College votes are assigned to each state, in part based on their population. Trump made premature claims of victories in several key states and said he would take the election to the Supreme Court to stop the counting. It was unclear exactly what legal action he might try to pursue.
Several states allow mailed-in votes to be accepted after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday. That includes Pennsylvania, where ballots postmarked by Nov 3 can be accepted if they arrive up to three days after the election.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf tweeted that his state had over 1 million ballots to be counted and that he “promised Pennsylvanians that we would count every vote and that’s what we’re going to do.”
Trump suggested those ballots shouldn’t be counted. But Biden, briefly appearing in front of supporters in Delaware, urged patience, saying the election “ain’t over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted".
“It’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare who’s won this election,” Biden said. “That’s the decision of the American people.”
Arizona
Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona and its 11 electoral votes, serving a huge blow to Trump’s chances for reelection. Arizona has backed a Democratic presidential candidate only once in the last 72 years.
Biden’s campaign had focused on Arizona as part of its expanded battleground map through the Sun Belt, citing demographic changes, new residents and realignment away from Republicans among key suburban voters.
Arizona is among the more than half a dozen states that will help determine which candidate gets the 270 electoral votes to capture the White House.
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