A week after major U.S. networks called the election in favor of his rival Joe Biden, President Donald Trump has continued to dispute the results. The soon-to-be former president has resorted to Twitter to air a flurry of unsubstantiated and false claims about voter fraud. In response, the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council, a group of senior election officials across the United States, has released a statement suggesting that this election was the “most secure” in American history.

In addition to his tweets, President Trump’s campaign has filed several lawsuits across the United States, mostly in an attempt to validate his claims of voter fraud. In most of the completed cases, Trump’s legal team either lost the lawsuit or was forced to withdraw. Moreover, several law firms have, under increasing public pressure, withdrawn from cases in which they were representing the President.

Over the past week, Biden was also deemed the victor in tightly contested races in Georgia and Arizona, states which had not voted Democratic since the 1990s. Nonetheless, the Biden team’s efforts to prepare for the presidency have been hampered by the Trump administration, which has refused to officially begin the transition process. The latter move has been criticised by officials across the political spectrum, a list that notably includes John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff.

After a bloody war in Nagorno-Karabakh that lasted six weeks, Azerbaijan and Armenia finally agreed to a peace deal brokered by Russia. The conflict started in late September when both countries accused each other of mounting unprovoked attacks. Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey, eventually gained the upper hand and captured significant portions of the region.

This included Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh’s second largest city, which was captured by Azerbaijani forces on Nov. 8. On the very next day, both sides announced the peace deal, which allows Azerbaijan to hold on to the areas of Nagorno-Karabakh it captured during the conflict. The deal also allowed the presence of Russian peacekeepers, purportedly to patrol the front line.

Almost immediately, there were contrasting reactions in the Azberbaijani capital of Baku and the Armenian capital of Yerevan. In the former, there were widespread celebrations, as crowds flocked to Martyrs’ Alley, a memorial to Azerbaijan’s fallen soldiers. In the latter, there were major protests against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who described the deal as "incredibly painful both for me and both for our people.” Protesters eventually stormed the parliament and beat up the speaker.

The National League for Democracy, the political party of Myanmar’s civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has seemingly won the second contested election the country has held in decades. Suu Kyi, once an international icon for her democratic resistance against the country’s military junta rule, has acquired infamy for defending the actions of Myanmar’s military in the Rohingya crisis, including at the International Court of Justice against charges of genocide.

In this election, virtually all the Rohingya were disenfranchised, leading observers to question the credibility of the election. Moreover, the Myanmar Electoral Commission cancelled elections in conflict-hit areas in parts of the Rakhine state as well as Shan and Kachin. Overall, more than two million individuals were disenfranchised in a country with an electorate of 37 million registered voters. Adding to the controversy, Suu Kyi’s military-backed opponents have demanded a rerun of the election as they accused the government of irregularities. They have offered little evidence to substantiate these claims.