When President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20, he will assume the Twitter handle @POTUS

20 prefectures hit since the middle of last month

Outgoing president has ignored all requests for clemency from convicts

EU's most populous country adds another 22,368 new cases over past 24 hours

Taro Kono is first cabinet member to deviate from PM's insistence Japan on track to hold 'safe and secure' Games

Smooth roll-out sees citizens inoculated at a pace almost three times higher than the EU average

Device includes info on aircraft’s speed, altitude and direction

Hundreds more injured when 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck in the early hours

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In the 7 days to Wednesday, nation of 128 million logs 6,930 fatalities, including record 1,314 on Tuesday alone

More than 1.99 million people have died of disease

Temblor hits Sulawesi; disaster agency says 24 people injured

20,000 National Guard troops among those mobilised as violence warning looms