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Trump continues to claim he’s being ‘cheated’ as Biden closes in on White House

Donald Trump has continued to claim he is being cheated out of re-election, as his Democratic opponent Joe Biden appealed for calm and patience.

The Republican incumbent alleged he was the victim of interference from "phony polls" as well as "big media, big money and big tech" after launching legal fights to stay in office.

His Democratic rival Mr Biden is just one victory in a battleground state away from taking the White House.

Speaking earlier, he pushed back against Mr Trump’s bid to halt the results process by re-iterating that “each ballot must be counted”.

Denmark removed from UK’s coronavirus travel corridor list

Denmark has been removed from the UK’s coronavirus travel corridors list.

Those arriving in the UK from the country after 4am on Friday now must self-isolate for 14 days.

It comes after health authorities in Denmark found a mutated form of Covid that can pass to humans, present in its mink farms.

30,000 NHS staff sick or self-isolating amid second wave

Around 30,000 NHS staff are self-isolating or off sick from work due to coronavirus as the UK faces the second wave.

NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens said the numbers underlined the need to control the spread of Covid-19 in order to protect the care that could be offered in the health service.

In July, Amnesty International revealed the UK has recorded one of the highest Covid-19 health worker death tolls in the world, at more than 540 fatalities.

100 arrested after anti-lockdown protesters descend on Trafalgar Square 

More than 100 people have been arrested as anti-lockdown protesters marched through the streets of central London on the day tougher coronavirus rules came into force in England.

Officers urged demonstrators to go home as they took to the streets near Trafalgar Square on Thursday evening. They warned those who had gathered that they were breaching coronavirus restrictions.

Protesters, very few of whom were wearing face coverings, began to walk up the Strand soon after 6pm, chanting "freedom" and "no more lockdown”.

Manchester students pull down security fences erected at halls of residence to stop households mixing

Students angered by fences put up around their halls of residence to help stop households mixing have pulled down the barriers in protest.

The fences were erected at University of Manchester's Fallowfield campus as a "security measure” on the day England’s second lockdown came into force.

But the measure caused unrest among students, who protested last night and pulled the barriers down.

The university subsequently issued an apology and said the fences would be removed on Friday.

Rose McGowan Breaks arm while reading US election results on stairs 

Actress and activist Rose McGowan said she broke her arm after reading US election results while on the stairs.

The Me Too campaigner shared a picture from a hospital bed in Mexico showing her with her left arm in a cast.

"Reading US election results while on the stairs = bone break," McGowan wrote in the caption.

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