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In the heart of the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus, a cookie is handed out for an early vote.Artisanal doughy treats piled with square chocolate chips and cream-coloured cookies with blue icing are laid out in boxes on top of a Harris/Walz stand in the main square next to a blue wall of boxes plastered with "students for Harris and Waltz" signs. Image: Alec Hughes, co-president of College Democrats at the University of Michigan, says voting has 'been going great so far' "We've had a lot of good energy here and because Ann Arbor is such a blue area so much of the obligation falls on us to not just convince students but to actually turn them out to vote," says Alec Hughes, co-president of College Democrats at the ...

Politicians and people around the world are holding their breath to see who wins the US presidential election on Tuesday. Will it be a second term for the Republican Donald Trump? Or victory for the Democrat Kamala Harris, who would be the first woman POTUS, and only the second person of colour?Unlike in the UK where a prime minister can be kicked out of Downing Street overnight after a general election, there will be a transition period. The next president will not take office until Inauguration Day - 20 January 2025.But when will we know who the next president will be? Recent precedents suggest we may not know on the night after polls close but some days or even weeks later - especially if the result looks close this time, as has been widely predicted.Recent delays - and what used to hap...

It's 13 December 2023. Excited reports of a "landmark" global climate agreement reverberate around the world from the COP28 climate summit in Dubai.At around 11am, weary diplomats with circles under their eyes from fierce, all-night negotiations cheer, cry and hug. The US's climate envoy John Kerry throws his arms around German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock. There’s a round of applause for Tina Stege, a fierce representative from the Marshall Islands who had fought among the hardest for the pledge.They and more than 190 other countries have just agreed to "transition away from fossil fuels" - the culmination of a fraught two weeks of talks at the UN conference.This may not sound very "historic", given burning fossil fuels is the number one cause of climate change, and these annual tal...

Israel claims it has captured a senior Hezbollah operative after conducting a seaborne raid in northern Lebanon early on Friday.The "special operation" in the coastal town of Batroun marks the first time Israel has acknowledged deploying troops that far north during its current campaign against Hezbollah. "The operative has been transferred to Israeli territory and is currently being investigated," an Israeli military official said.CCTV footage obtained by Sky News from the street where the operation allegedly took place appears to show a large group of soldiers leading a person away with their hands held behind their back and their face covered by their shirt.Recounting the event, residents of the apartment block where the person was seized said the armed group introduced themselves as st...