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With the latest projections, Biden, 78, will become the oldest serving US president while Kamala Harris will be the first vice president, the first vice president of color and the first South Asian woman to reach this rank. Joe Biden, who has become the US’s President-elect as per US media’s projections, has sent a message to those who voted for President Trump, calling for unity and reconciliation. US President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Opening his speech to the nation at the Chase Center in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said the American people had made their choice clear. “The people of this nation have spoken they've delivered us a clear victory, a convincing victory, a victory for we the people.” He went on to say he was surprised by the celebrating in the streets across the country, calling it an “outpouring of joy, of hope, renewed faith in tomorrow to bring another day.” “I am humbled by the trust and confidence you have placed in me,” Biden added. “The work ahead of us will be hard, but I promise you this: I will be a President for all Americans — whether you voted for me or not. I will keep the faith that you have placed in me,” Biden said on Twitter after media unanimously declared his win. According to CNN, Biden won 20 electoral votes in Keystone battleground state Pennsylvania, securing 279 voted, more than 270 required to take over the White House in the coming four years. Biden, who served as vice president under Barack Obama in two terms, said it was time both sides "listen to each other again." "It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again, and to make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are Americans," Biden said. “This is the time to heal in America," he noted. With the …

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US President Joe Biden speaks during his first press briefing in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2021. Biden said Thursday that the United States will "respond accordingly" if North Korea escalates its missile testing.(Jim WATSON / AFP) The nuclear-armed North has a long history of using weapons tests to ramp up tensions, in a carefully calibrated process to try to forward its objectives. Biden's response demonstrates a change of tone from his predecessor Donald Trump, who engaged in an extraordinary diplomatic bromance with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and last year repeatedly played down similar short-range launches. Pyongyang had been biding its time since the new administration took office, not even officially acknowledging its existence until last week. But on Thursday it launched two weapons from its east coast into the Sea of Japan, known as the East Sea in Korea. It was a violation of UN resolutions and the US was "consulting with our partners and allies," Biden said, warning North Korea that "there will be responses if they choose to escalate. We will respond accordingly." "I'm also prepared for some form of diplomacy, but it has to be conditioned upon the end result of denuclearization," he told reporters. - 'Nuclear capable' - Washington and Tokyo said the North had fired ballistic missiles, which it is banned from developing under UN Security Council resolutions that have imposed multiple sanctions on the isolated country. Pyongyang insisted Friday that the test involved a "tactical guided projectile" with a solid-fuel engine, with its official KCNA news agency saying it was supervised by senior official Ri Pyong Chol, rather than leader Kim Jong Un. The weapons hit a target 600 kilometres (370 miles) away, KCNA said -- further than the 450 kilometres reported by South Korea's military -- and could carry a payload of 2.5 tons. Pictures in Pyongyang's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed …

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US President Joe Biden answers a question during his first press briefing in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2021. Biden said Thursday that the United States will "respond accordingly" if North Korea escalates its missile testing.(Jim WATSON / AFP) British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca could be among the pharmaceutical companies hit first as EU chief Ursula von der Leyen warned that her bloc would not allow Covid vaccine exports to the UK and other countries until the firms make good on their own promised deliveries. "I think it is clear that first of all the company (AstraZeneca) has to catch up, has to honour the contract it has with the European member states, before it can engage again in exporting vaccines," von der Leyen told a news conference. The focus of the latest row is an AstraZeneca plant in the Netherlands, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government claims as part of the British vaccine supply chain. As the EU met via videoconference Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron aligned himself with von der Leyen, despite some countries' -- including the Netherlands and Belgium -- hesitancy to impose an embargo. "The supply chains are so intricate, they're so intertwined, so it's not automatically a good thing if this new instrument is to be applied," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said, citing the example of a Belgian plant making BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines that relies on raw materials from Britain. Von der Leyen released updated figures on how many vaccine doses the bloc has exported -- 77 million to 33 countries since December. By contrast, 88 million doses will have been delivered in the 27-nation bloc by the end of this week, also since December. But estimates for the second quarter of this year showed that 360 million doses should be delivered from BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson. In contrast to Europe's woes, vaccinations in the United States -- the world's …

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