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Earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hits Turkey, Greece

Earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hits Turkey, Greece

-- 2020-10-30 19:38:36

A strong earthquake of a magnitude of up to 7.0 struck the Aegean Sea on Friday and was felt in both Turkey and Greece, local and international observatories said. People flooded to the streets in th...

Mahathir denies promoting violence with 'right to kill French' posts

Mahathir denies promoting violence with 'right to kill French' posts

-- 2020-10-30 18:38:39

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday denied promoting violence by saying that Muslims have a right to "kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past" and criticise...

UK's Labour Party suspends Jeremy Corbyn after anti-Semitism report

UK's Labour Party suspends Jeremy Corbyn after anti-Semitism report

Reuters 2020-10-30 18:32:33

Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Thursday suspended former leader Jeremy Corbyn in light of comments he made after a report said the party was responsible for unlawful harassment and discrim...

New Zealand approves euthanasia, set to reject recreational marijuana

New Zealand approves euthanasia, set to reject recreational marijuana

-- 2020-10-30 18:23:47

New Zealand has provisionally voted to legalise euthanasia but is on course to reject law changes that would allow recreational marijuana use, the country’s Electoral Commission said on Friday....

Early voting in US election tops 80 million

Early voting in US election tops 80 million

-- 2020-10-30 17:50:41

More than 80 million Americans have cast ballots in the US presidential election, according to a tally on Thursday from the US Elections Project at the University of Florida, setting the stage for the...

In Tibet, China preaches the material over the spiritual

In Tibet, China preaches the material over the spiritual

Reuters 2020-10-30 17:09:22

Dzekyid, a 54-year-old barley farmer, presents himself as a role model for his neighbours and for the success of China’s efforts to tie economic development to social control in Tibet.  Dz...

Global Covid cases rise by half a million, setting a daily record

Global Covid cases rise by half a million, setting a daily record

Reuters 2020-10-30 12:43:40

Global coronavirus cases rose by more than 500,000 for the first time on Wednesday, a record one-day increase as countries across the Northern Hemisphere reported daily spikes. Global daily Covid-19...

Remote work may trigger migration of 23m Americans from cities

Remote work may trigger migration of 23m Americans from cities

Reuters 2020-10-30 10:52:55

America’s biggest cities should brace for a chunk of families moving out because they prefer to work remotely from less crowded and less expensive areas, according to a survey by Upwork released...

Mahathir comments on Muslim anger with French sparks uproar in West

Mahathir comments on Muslim anger with French sparks uproar in West

Reuters 2020-10-30 09:46:53

Malaysia’s former premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday Muslims have a right to “kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past” but he did not approve of the killi...

At least 140  migrants drown off Senegal coast

At least 140 migrants drown off Senegal coast

-- 2020-10-29 22:49:26

At least 140 Europe-bound migrants drowned off the coast of Senegal when their boat caught fire and capsized, marking the deadliest shipwreck recorded this year, the UN migration agency said on Thursd...

Russia permanently registers Favipiravir for COVID-19 treatment

Russia permanently registers Favipiravir for COVID-19 treatment

-- 2020-10-29 17:49:21

Favipiravir, a drug used to treat COVID-19, has received permanent registration in Russia, Russian Deputy Health Minister Viktor Fisenko said on Thursday, reports UNB quoting TASS. No serious side ef...

Knife attack in France leaves two dead

Knife attack in France leaves two dead

-- 2020-10-29 15:30:36

An attacker with a knife killed two people and wounded several others at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, French media and police said, in an incident the city’s mayor described...

UK lawmakers file case against PM Johnson

UK lawmakers file case against PM Johnson

Reuters 2020-10-29 14:41:30

A group of British opposition lawmakers have filed a legal case against Prime Minister Boris Johnson over what they say is his failure to protect the public’s right to free and fair elections af...

Nagorno-Karabakh says its military death toll crosses 1,100

Nagorno-Karabakh says its military death toll crosses 1,100

Reuters 2020-10-29 13:24:12

The defence ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh region said on Thursday 51 more casualties have taken its military death toll to 1,119 since fighting with Azeri forces erupted on September 27. Fighting...

Global coronavirus cases surpass 44 million

Global coronavirus cases surpass 44 million

-- 2020-10-29 12:24:00

Amid its non-stop spread, the global confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) surpassed 44 million on Thursday, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The data shows the...

India crosses grim milestone of 8 million virus cases

India crosses grim milestone of 8 million virus cases

Reuters 2020-10-29 12:03:15

India crossed a grim milestone of 8 million coronavirus cases on Thursday, with a daily rise of 49,881 infections, health ministry data showed. The world’s second most populous nation also has...

25 die, dozens go missing after typhoon lashes Vietnam

25 die, dozens go missing after typhoon lashes Vietnam

-- 2020-10-29 10:38:20

Vietnam deployed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery on Thursday to search for survivors after landslides triggered by torrential rains from Typhoon Molave, one of the strongest typhoons in the r...

Turkey accuses West of relaunching 'Crusades' thru Prophet cartoons

Turkey accuses West of relaunching 'Crusades' thru Prophet cartoons

-- 2020-10-29 10:12:09

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Western countries mocking Islam wanted to “relaunch the Crusades”, heightening a confrontation with France over cartoons of the Prophet...

Trump or Biden's common challenge: Jobs

Trump or Biden's common challenge: Jobs

Reuters 2020-10-29 09:58:07

The winner of the race for the White House will face a generation of low-to-middle income Americans struggling to get back to work because of a health crisis not seen in more than 100 years. Whether...

US asks Suu Kyi to ensure safe return of Rohingyas

US asks Suu Kyi to ensure safe return of Rohingyas

-- 2020-10-28 22:02:30

United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale has asked Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to ensure voluntary, safe, dignified, and sustainable return of Rohingyas and...

Germany, France prepare new lockdowns as COVID sweeps Europe

Germany, France prepare new lockdowns as COVID sweeps Europe

Reuters 2020-10-28 19:15:23

Germany and France prepared to announce restrictions approaching the level of last spring's blanket lockdowns on Wednesday as COVID deaths across Europe rose almost 40 per cent in a week, sending fina...

Delhi University Vice Chancellor Prof Yogesh Tyagi suspended

Delhi University Vice Chancellor Prof Yogesh Tyagi suspended

-- 2020-10-28 18:06:55

Delhi University Vice Chancellor Prof Yogesh Tyagi has been placed under suspension on President’s orders, India’s ministry of education officials said on Wednesday, reports hindustantimes...

France cautions citizens to be alert as anger seethes in Muslim world over cartoons

France cautions citizens to be alert as anger seethes in Muslim world over cartoons

-- 2020-10-28 16:55:13

France warned its citizens in several Muslim-majority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, and the head of Russia's Chechnya r...

India amends law allowing its citizens to buy land in disputed Kashmir

India amends law allowing its citizens to buy land in disputed Kashmir

Reuters 2020-10-28 16:09:22

India has amended a law in Jammu and Kashmir allowing Indian citizens to buy land in the disputed territory, said officials, sparking opposition criticism about a steady erosion of the rights of Kashm...

Iran starts building underground nuclear facility, UN watchdog confirms

Iran starts building underground nuclear facility, UN watchdog confirms

AP 2020-10-28 11:55:18

Inspectors from the UN’s atomic watchdog have confirmed Iran has started building an underground centrifuge assembly plant after its previous one exploded in what Tehran called a sabotage attack...

Biden thrusts into Trump country, Bloomberg funds Texas ads

Biden thrusts into Trump country, Bloomberg funds Texas ads

Reuters 2020-10-28 11:49:25

US Republican President Donald Trump questioned the integrity of the national election again on Tuesday, saying it would be “inappropriate” to take extra time to count the tens of millions...

'America can't shield Trump from rape accuser's defamation lawsuit'

'America can't shield Trump from rape accuser's defamation lawsuit'

-- 2020-10-28 10:32:38

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a US government request to drop Donald Trump as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit by a writer who said the president falsely denied raping her in a Manhattan depa...

France issues travel alert to its citizens in Bangladesh

France issues travel alert to its citizens in Bangladesh

-- 2020-10-27 19:57:27

France has warned its citizens living or travelling in Bangladesh and several Muslim-majority countries to take extra security precautions as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)....

Trump's Rust Belt boom wasn't there in fact

Trump's Rust Belt boom wasn't there in fact

Reuters 2020-10-27 18:55:32

The voters of Monroe County, Michigan, may have expected an economic windfall when they flipped from supporting Democrat Barack Obama to help put Donald Trump in the White House in 2016. But it went...

Antibodies against coronavirus decline rapidly in British population: Study

Antibodies against coronavirus decline rapidly in British population: Study

-- 2020-10-27 18:07:20

Antibodies against the novel coronavirus declined rapidly in the British population during the summer, a study found on Tuesday, suggesting protection after infection may not be long lasting and raisi...