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Romania’s Ceausescu And America’s Trump: What To Do With Two Authoritarians That Refuse To Leave
WorldNews.com 30 Oct 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Amid lagging poll numbers and dwindling crowds at campaign stops, it was not too long ago that President Donald Trump was humiliated by a White House balcony speech after contracting Covid-19 ... (1) ... Mourners honoring Justice Ginsberg, suddenly shouted ... Yet it did not do so ... Protest, Power, and Change ... 444.....
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Three workers from Modi’s ruling party shot dead in Kashmir as anger erupts at controversial land law
The Independent 30 Oct 2020
Three workers of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were shot dead in Kashmir late on Thursday, amid simmering tensions over a controversial new land ownership law. The attack was reportedly carried out by separatist militants in the Kulgam area of what is now the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir ... ....
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Russia registers 44 ceasefire violations in Syria over past 24 hours, Turkey registers 4
Sify 29 Oct 2020
Moscow [Russia], October 29 (ANI/Sputnik) ... The Turkish part of the commission recorded four breaches," the ministry said in its daily bulletin ... This figure included 153 women and 261 children ... Military personnel discovered and defused 24 explosive devices. (ANI/Sputnik). ....
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Americans have bought record 17m guns in year of unrest, analysis finds
The Guardian 30 Oct 2020
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China's military rise poses the greatest foreign policy challenge to the next US President
CNN 30 Oct 2020
Hong Kong (CNN)China was one of two countries, along with Russia, named in a 2018 Pentagon report as posing the most significant military challenge to the United States. Two years on and that challenge has only grown ... The USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Groups conduct dual carrier operations in the Indo-Pacific earlier this year ... ... ....
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Number of Palestinians made homeless by Israeli demolitions hits four-year high despite pandemic
The Independent 30 Oct 2020
At least 741 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem were made homeless between January and 30 September 2020 because of demolitions, according to data compiled by Israeli rights group B’Tselem ... Both in the de facto and de jure annexed West Bank and East ......
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Qatar to prosecute officials over forced exams of women at airport
BBC News 30 Oct 2020
Qatar says officials responsible for subjecting women on flights from Doha's airport to forced gynaecological exams have been referred for prosecution. The women - who included Australian, British and New Zealand citizens - were checked for whether they had recently given birth after a baby was found in a bin at the airport on 2 October ... Top Stories....
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UN urges UK to restart resettlement of refugees after family drowns in Channel
The Guardian 30 Oct 2020
The UK government needs to urgently restart its resettlement scheme after two young children and their parents died while trying to cross the Channel, the UN refugee agency’s UK representative has said ... The fate of the family’s third child, 15-month-old Artin, is unknown ... The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) assesses and grants refugee status....
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Russia open to return of occupied lands in Karabakh to Azerbaijan: Putin
Press TV 30 Oct 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is open to the return of the occupied lands of the south Caucasus region of Nagorna-Karabakh to Baku, in an effort to put an end to weeks of heavy fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia ... “Each side has its own truth. There are no simple solutions,” Putin added ... Karabakh conflict ... www.presstv.ir ... ....
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Indonesia condemns France for 'disrespectful' statement on Islam
The Jakarta Post 30 Oct 2020
Shares. Indonesia, through the Foreign Ministry, has condemned a “disrespectful” statement toward Islam made by French President Emmanuel Macron that has offended the Muslim community globally. The ministry said Macron’s statement had offended over 2 billion Muslims in the world and also sparked division among different faiths ... 16 ... ....
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France attack: What we know about stabbings in Nice
BBC News 29 Oct 2020
Three people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the southern French city of Nice. One suspect has been arrested over the stabbings on Thursday, which President Emmanuel Macron described as an "Islamist terrorist attack" ... What happened at the church? ... A man was also killed at the scene ... Who were the victims? ... Who was the attacker? ... ....
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Election emerges as referendum on race relations in America
The Independent 30 Oct 2020
Every day feels like a raw wound for Omari Barksdale. His sister, Laneeka Barksdale, died of COVID-19 in late March in Detroit — and since then, so have more than 226,000 Americans. Many were Black Americans whose communities were disproportionately devastated by the virus ... People of color bore the brunt of pandemic-related job losses ... Sign up ... ....
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Moderna prepares global launch of its COVID-19 vaccine
People Daily 30 Oct 2020photo: AP / Michel Euler
Macron vows defiance after 'Islamist' knife attack in church kills three
The Times of India 30 Oct 2020
NICE. French president vowed his country would stand firm against religious extremists after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church, in the country's second attack blamed on Islamist terrorism this month ... "Tell my children I love them," she managed to say before her death, according to French cable channel BFM TV ... ....
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Lord Janner inquiry: Alleged abuse investigation was 'cover-up'
BBC News 30 Oct 2020
Police investigations into allegations of child sexual abuse against Lord Janner amounted to a "cover-up", an inquiry has heard....
