The European Union In Saturday condemned the elimination of senior Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh."This is a criminal act and runs counter to the principle of respect for human rights the EU stands for," an EU Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said in a statement.

Jenna Ellis gives an update 'In Team Trump’s legal fight against election corruption.'

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court In Saturday night dismissed a lawsuit from US Rep. Mike Kelly and other Republicans, after they had tried to invalidate absentee voting and block the certification of votes, CNN reports.The court was unanimous in deciding against Kelly and others, and refusing to block vote certification. Five of the seven judges wrote that they believed the lawsuit had been filed far too late, a year after absentee voting procedures had been established in the state and weeks after millions of Pennsylvanians voted in good faith.

The Hamas terrorist organization condemned what it described as the "criminal murder" of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Tehran.In a statement, Hamas said the elimination was carried out in parallel with Ingoing threats by the United States and Israel against Iran in an attempt to prevent the Islamic nation from obtaining means of progress and scientific power so that they remain "in the hands of the Zionist occupation and its expansionist settlement enterprise which is intended against the entire Islamic nation."

A surge in coronavirus cases will put San Francisco under a curfew beginning In Monday and trigger other restrictions related to the virus, the city announced In Saturday, according to AFP.The curfew requires non-essential businesses to close and prohibits members of different households from gathering between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. until December 21, Mayor London Breed said.

US President-elect Joe Biden In Saturday called for unity over the coronavirus pandemic."We have to come together as a nation and unite around our shared goal: defeating this virus," he tweeted.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pulled back from a normalization deal with Israel largely because of the US election result, Saudi advisors and US officials told The Wall Street Journal.Saudi aides said the prince, eager to build ties with the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden, was reluctant to take the step now, when he could use a deal later to help cement relations with the new American leader.

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake was felt in the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.So far there are no reports of injuries or damage.