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Modi’s biopic to first hit screens when cinemas reopen on Oct 15

Modi’s biopic to first hit screens when cinemas reopen on Oct 15

-- 2020-10-10 20:20:22

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biopic will be the first Bollywood movie to hit Indian theatres when multiplexes across the country reopen on October 15 after nearly seven months. The movie that maps...

Sri Lankan president draws his country closer to China after summit

Sri Lankan president draws his country closer to China after summit

-- 2020-10-10 20:15:55

China and Sri Lanka plan to restart discussions on a free trade agreement, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Friday, following a high-level meeting between the two countries. Seen as cl...

Organisers cancel October 15 US presidential debate

Organisers cancel October 15 US presidential debate

-- 2020-10-10 18:42:52

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) of the United States has cancelled the planned October 15 debate between US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. The nonpartisan co...

29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery: Report

29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery: Report

-- 2020-10-10 17:28:58

A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labour, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude. Grace Forre...

Malaysia detains 60 Chinese nationals, six vessels

Malaysia detains 60 Chinese nationals, six vessels

-- 2020-10-10 16:36:20

Malaysia’s maritime authorities said on Saturday they had detained 60 Chinese nationals and six Chinese-registered fishing vessels they said were trespassing into the Southeast Asian country&rsq...

Russia registers new all-time record of daily Covid cases

Russia registers new all-time record of daily Covid cases

-- 2020-10-10 14:40:50

Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 12,846 on Saturday, a new daily record since the start of the outbreak early this year, pushing the overall total number of infections to 1,285,084. The previ...

Corona-infected Trump to be equated with incapacitated presidents!

Corona-infected Trump to be equated with incapacitated presidents!

REUTERS 2020-10-10 14:32:53

One week after Republican President Donald Trump announced he had Covid-19, Democrats in Congress on Friday proposed creating a commission to help decide whether to transfer a future US president&rsqu...

N Korea holds military parade marking party anniversary, Seoul says

N Korea holds military parade marking party anniversary, Seoul says

Reuters 2020-10-10 13:51:45

North Korea held a military parade early on Saturday to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers’ Party in a rare predawn event, South Korea’s military said. The an...

'70m migrants in Americas to be provided health support'

'70m migrants in Americas to be provided health support'

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-10-10 12:44:26

More than 70 million migrants living across international borders in the region of the Americas are set to receive health support under an agreement signed by IOM and PAHO. Carissa F. Etienne, direct...

Four die in Beirut fuel tank explosion

Four die in Beirut fuel tank explosion

-- 2020-10-10 11:36:48

Four people were killed and several more were wounded when a fuel tank exploded in a Beirut building on Friday, the Lebanese Red Cross said. The explosion caused a large fire to break out in the buil...

Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to ceasefire: Russia

Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to ceasefire: Russia

REUTERS 2020-10-10 11:20:03

Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a ceasefire starting on Saturday to exchange prisoners and bodies of those killed in the conflict between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces over the Nagorno-Karabakh re...

Trump to resume campaign rallies ; second debate cancelled

Trump to resume campaign rallies ; second debate cancelled

REUTERS 2020-10-10 11:06:17

US President Donald Trump will resume in-person campaigning on Saturday after being sidelined by a case of Covid-19, but a debate next week against his presidential election opponent Joe Biden was can...

Global Covid cases soar to 36,802,708

Global Covid cases soar to 36,802,708

-- 2020-10-10 10:55:50

The global Covid-19 cases have reached 36,802,708 on Sunday with 1,067,101 deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The...

Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral’ content

Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral’ content

-- 2020-10-09 20:27:19

Pakistan on Friday blocked social media app TikTok for failing to filter out ‘immoral and indecent’ content, the country’s telecommunication authority said in a statement. “In...

Russia says Armenia, Azerbaijan will attend Moscow talks

Russia says Armenia, Azerbaijan will attend Moscow talks

-- 2020-10-09 18:03:50

Armenia and Azerbaijan have confirmed that their foreign ministers will come for talks to Moscow, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Friday. With Russian President Vladimir Putin calling for a h...

North Korea prepares for big military parade despite coronavirus concern

North Korea prepares for big military parade despite coronavirus concern

-- 2020-10-09 16:57:02

North Koreans wearing medical masks have gathered in the capital of Pyongyang, state media reported this week, ahead of what is expected to be a big military parade on Saturday, possibly featuring the...

World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize

World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize

Reuters 2020-10-09 16:01:38

The United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace in areas affected by conflict. Th...

China joins WHO-backed vaccine programme rejected by Trump

China joins WHO-backed vaccine programme rejected by Trump

Reuters 2020-10-09 14:33:07

China has joined a global scheme for the distribution of Covid-19 vaccine backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), it said on Friday, giving a major boost to an initiative shunned by US Presiden...

Trump complicity alleged for plot to kidnap Michigan governor as militia members charged

Trump complicity alleged for plot to kidnap Michigan governor as militia members charged

REUTERS 2020-10-09 13:03:58

Thirteen men, seven of them associated with an anti-government militia group called the Wolverine Watchmen, have been arrested on charges of conspiring to kidnap the Michigan governor, attack the stat...

78pc Americans blame government for Covid-19 crisis: poll

78pc Americans blame government for Covid-19 crisis: poll

-- 2020-10-09 11:58:38

A poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy found 78 per cent of Americans believe that US government policies caused the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in the country, includi...

US election 2020: Record turnout expected as over 6.6m have already voted

US election 2020: Record turnout expected as over 6.6m have already voted

Reuters 2020-10-09 11:21:44

Americans are rushing to cast ballots ahead of the November 3 election at an unprecedented pace, early voting numbers show, indicating a possible record turnout for the showdown between President Dona...

Done with Covid-19 therapy, Trump eyes return to rallies

Done with Covid-19 therapy, Trump eyes return to rallies

REUTERS 2020-10-09 10:57:13

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he may return to the campaign trail with a rally on Saturday after the White House physician said he had completed his course of therapy for the novel coronavir...

‘14m tonnes of harmful microplastics polluting seafloor’

‘14m tonnes of harmful microplastics polluting seafloor’

AL JAZEERA 2020-10-08 20:23:46

An estimated 14.0 million tonnes of harmful microplastics may be present in the bottom of the world’s deep oceans as a result of the pervasive use of plastic, according to a world-first study by...

Britain’s Prince William launches global environment prize

Britain’s Prince William launches global environment prize

-- 2020-10-08 19:41:30

Britain’s Prince William launched a multi-million-pound environmental prize on Thursday, teaming up with celebrities including footballer Dani Alves and Alibaba founder Jack Ma to launch a prize...

US presidential debate: Trump refuses to take part in virtual TV event

US presidential debate: Trump refuses to take part in virtual TV event

-- 2020-10-08 19:11:30

US President Donald Trump has refused to take part in a virtual TV debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Earlier the commission deciding the October 15 Miami debate's format said it would have...

China advises Indian media not to call Taiwan a country

China advises Indian media not to call Taiwan a country

-- 2020-10-08 18:20:47

Chinese has advised Indian media not to violate the ‘One China’ principle and not to address Taiwan as a country after publication of advertisements on Taiwan’s national day on Satur...

American poet Louise Glück wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

American poet Louise Glück wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

-- 2020-10-08 17:10:58

American poet Louise Glück has been named the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the seven-member Nobel Committee, the Prize was given to Ms Glück “for her unmi...

Mexican Nobel laureate Molina, ozone layer prophet, no more

Mexican Nobel laureate Molina, ozone layer prophet, no more

-- 2020-10-08 17:07:37

Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), died on Wednesday...

Nobel Literature prize to be awarded after years of tumult

Nobel Literature prize to be awarded after years of tumult

-- 2020-10-08 16:21:00

The Nobel Prize for Literature is set to be awarded Thursday after several years of controversy and scandal for the world’s pre-eminent literary accolade, reports AP. In 2018 the award was pos...

UK considering more local curbs as virus spreads

UK considering more local curbs as virus spreads

Reuters 2020-10-08 14:53:39

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is considering additional local Covid-19 restrictions for parts of northern England as the second wave of the novel coronavirus accelerates, Hou...