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Woman beheaded in knife attack in France's Nice city; three dead
DNA India 29 Oct 2020
A woman was beheaded by an attacker with a knife who also killed two other people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police said, in an incident, the city's mayor described as terrorism ... Police said three people were confirmed to have died in the attack and several were injured. Also read ... France knife attack. ....
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Israeli zeal for second Trump term matched by Palestinian enmity
Yahoo Daily News 29 Oct 2020
Anyone in any doubt about Benjamin Netanyahu’s preferred candidate in the US presidential election need only visit his personal Twitter account. Right at the top, behind the headshot of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, is a banner photo of him with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, their eyes fixed on each other ... ....
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Biden casts early vote for US presidential election
The Times of India 29 Oct 2020
WASHINGTON. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has cast an early ballot in his home state of Delaware for the November 3 election, saying that he will work with the Republicans on improving the (ACA) to give Americans better healthcare ... Regarding the ACA, also known as , the former vice president said ... Download ... more from times of india news ... ....
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Al-Qaeda still 'heavily embedded' within Taliban in Afghanistan, UN official warns
BBC News 29 Oct 2020
"The Taliban were talking regularly and at a high level with al-Qaeda and reassuring them that they would honour their historic ties," Mr Fitton-Brown said.....
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8 dead, 45 missing in landslides in central Vietnam
Sina 29 Oct 2020
HANOI, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people died and 45 others remain missing in landslides in Vietnam's central Quang Nam province as of Thursday morning, Vietnam News Agency reported ... Enditem. ....
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Hong Kong activist Tony Chung prosecuted under a national security law imposed by Beijing
RTE 29 Oct 2020
Hong Kong activist Tony Chung has been charged with secession. The teenager is the first public political figure to be prosecuted under a sweeping new national security law Beijing imposed on the city in June ... The UK-based activist group 'Friends of Hong Kong' said he had planned to enter the consulate claim asylum ... ....
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Macron imposes new virus lockdown as French hospitals engulfed
The Jakarta Post 29 Oct 2020
Shares. French President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday a new coronavirus lockdown until at least Dec.1, hoping to bring under control an outbreak that is poised to overwhelm hospitals in a matter of days. ... "If we did nothing... within a few months we would have at least 400,000 additional deaths," he said ... Topics .. ....
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Climate change: China's forest carbon uptake 'underestimated'
BBC News 28 Oct 2020
China's aggressive policy of planting trees is likely playing a significant role in tempering its climate impacts. An international team has identified two areas in the country where the scale of carbon dioxide absorption by new forests has been underestimated ... China's increasing leafiness has been evident for some time ... He commented ... ....
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Poland's abortion ban is a cynical attempt to exploit religion by a failing leader
The Guardian 28 Oct 2020
Coronavirus may be new, but the authoritarian instinct is as old as politics itself. One of the standard tricks of the Covid-19-era illiberal populist is to reach for religion when you are being accused of incompetence ... This in practice now means almost all forms of abortion are banned ... The slogan “women’s hell” has gone viral....
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The age of the elderly candidate: how two septuagenarians came to be running for president
The Guardian 29 Oct 2020
“I woke up and I felt good,” Donald Trump told supporters at a campaign rally in Arizona, slamming the side of his lectern as he described hospitalisation with the coronavirus....
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Russia makes bid to water down UN commitments on female peacekeepers
The Guardian 29 Oct 2020
Russia has introduced a new UN security council resolution that could threaten the rights of women in conflict by attempting to water down previously agreed commitments on human rights ... Negotiations are ongoing and it is doubtful they will conclude ahead of a special virtual meeting on Thursday to discuss women’s role in peace and security efforts....
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Pakistan anti-terrorism court acquits PM Imran Khan in 2014 Parliament attack case
India TV 29 Oct 2020
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was aquitted by an anti-terrorism court on Thursday in the 2014 Parliament attack case but other senior ministers, including Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, were summoned for indictment, according to media reports ... .......
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Turkey vows legal action over Erdogan cartoon
BBC News 28 Oct 2020
Turkey has vowed to take "legal, diplomatic actions" over a cartoon of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The cartoon depicts Turkey's president lifting the dress of a veiled woman. State media say Turkish prosecutors have launched an official investigation into the satirical magazine ... Related Topics. ....
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Will The Undecided Voter Choose The Next President Of The United States? Probably So
WorldNews.com 28 Oct 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. The undecided voter in this election is not only an endangered species, but they probably will choose the next president of the United States of America, whether the Republican incumbent Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden ... (1) The opposite, however, may be true ... Being Wrong ... New York, New York....
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Five ways to boost your immunity against Covid-19
Yahoo Daily News 29 Oct 2020
This week’s immunity study from Imperial College London certainly makes sombre reading. The React-2 trial, which asked about 350,000 people in England to send in finger prick antibody tests from home, suggests that protective antibodies against Covid-19 wane “quite rapidly” after the first infection, according to researcher Prof Helen Ward ... ....
