US allies greet Biden as next president despite Trump refusal to concede

Some of the United States’ biggest and closest allies quickly congratulated Joe Biden on his presidential election victory on Saturday even though Donald Trump, with whom several have had rocky relations, had yet to concede.

Germany, Canada and France, which have had strained ties with the Trump administration despite being its G7 and Nato partners, were among the first to recognise Biden’s victory, soon after major US television networks declared it...