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Denmark is to cull around 17 million mink in the country's fur farms and has placed the region of Nordjütland in lockdown. The animals have been infected with coronavirus for months, and now a mutation has been transmitted to humans.

Joe Biden is the favourite in the final phase of the vote counting in the US. So far he has received almost three million more votes than Trump - but he still doesn't have enough electoral votes to declare victory. Donald Trump, who prematurely declared himself the winner on election night, has now filed lawsuits in several states claiming fraud in the vote-counting process. For observers, this a blow to the very foundations of US democracy.

Thanks to mail ballots, Joe Biden is leading the race for the US presidency with 253 votes to 214. But Donald Trump still has chances of winning and, as was the case in 2016, is doing far better than polls and the European press had predicted. What is it that makes the Trump phenomenon so unfathomable?

Four dead and more than twenty injured at six crime scenes: Vienna is in shock after an attack on Monday that was apparently motivated by Islamic extremism. A 20-year-old suspect with a criminal record was shot dead by the police. Commentators outline the challenges in dealing with radical Islam and discuss what Europe could do better.

The death toll from last weekend's devastating earthquake in the East Aegean has risen to 116. The Turkish city of Izmir with four million inhabitants was hit particularly hard, with several apartment buildings collapsing. A debate is raging in the national press about whether politicians could have lessened the impact of the disaster with targeted protective measures.