Year: 2020

UK becomes fifth country to exceed 50,000 coronavirus deaths

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ LONDON: The United Kingdom on Wednesday became the fifth country in the world to record more than 50,000 coronavirus-related deaths. Figures from the British government showed that 595 more people in the country died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus, the highest daily number since May. The figure took the UK’s total death toll in the pandemic to 50,365. The UK, which has persisted in having the most virus-related deaths of any European country, joins the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico in reporting…

US Election 2020: Joe Biden Presents His Plans For Office

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ US President-elect Joe Biden has presented his plans to work on after winning the election. Joe Biden’s team said that Joe Biden will likely make coronavirus pandemic his top priority. His team announced the first steps in his transition plan. The team said that there would be more testing and Americans would be asked to wear masks. Mr. Biden is likely to announce a 12-member coronavirus task force.  Mr. Trump has yet to accept the results and Mr. Biden’s win remains a projection as several states are still counting…

CCUSA congratulates President Elect Biden

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MARGATE/FL – USA: Cricket Council USA has sent out congratulations to President-Elect of the United States of America Joe Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, promising to restore political normalcy and a spirit of national unity to confront raging health and economic crises, and making Donald J. Trump a one-term president after four years of tumult in the White House. The result also provided a history-making moment for Mr. Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of…

US Election Results: Biden Predicts Victory Over Trump

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden has said he is confident of victory as he is close to Donald Trump. He has won 253 out of 270 Electoral College votes needed to make way towards the White House. In addition to this, he is also leading vote counts in the battlegrounds of Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. What Did Biden Say? Mr. Biden told supporters to win Delaware in a confident tone, “We’re going to win this race.” His running mate Kamala Harris joined him. He said he…

Ali Khan looking forward to USA Nationals

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MARGATE/FL – USA: Fast bowler Muhammad Ali Khan says that he is looking forward to the action at the USA Nationals Maq T10 that gets underway on November 14 at the Maq Stadium in Delray Beach, Florida. Khan sent out a message saying: “I am looking forward to the USA Nationals, it is going to be a cracker.” Khan who is a product of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) came through the ranks as a youth cricketer playing in the US Open T20 tournament and moving from strength to strength. He…

Trump sues in 3 states, laying ground for contesting election outcome

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/news/1588768/trump-sues-in-3-states-laying-ground-for-contesting-election-outcome US President Donald Trump’s campaign filed lawsuits on Wednesday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, laying the groundwork for contesting battleground states as he slipped behind Democrat Joe Biden in the hunt for the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. The new filings, joining existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada, demand better access for campaign observers to locations where ballots are being processed and counted, and raise absentee ballot concerns, the campaign said. However, at one Michigan location in question The Associated Press observed poll watchers…

France fighting Islamist extremism, not Islam: Macron

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ French President Emmanuel Macron has said his country is fighting “Islamist separatism, never Islam”, responding to a Financial Times article that he claimed misquoted him and has since been removed from the newspaper’s website. In a letter to the editor published on Wednesday, Macron said the British paper had accused him of “stigmatising French Muslims for electoral purposes and of fostering a climate of fear and suspicion towards them”. “I will not allow anybody to claim that France, or its government, is fostering racism against Muslims,” he said. An…

Ali Khan to skipper Maq Stars

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MARGATE/FL – USA: American star cricketer Ali Khan will be playing in the USA Nationals Maq T10 tournament and will captain the Maq Stars cricket team. This was revealed by the chairman and CEO of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) Muhammad Qureshi while speaking on MaqTv on Tuesday. According to Qureshi: “It is great that Ali Khan and Saad Zafar will be playing at the USA National Maq T10 tournament as it will lend so much.” Ali Khan who played for the Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL)…

Shane Watson quits all forms of cricket

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COURTESY BY: https://www.cricingif.com/ Australian all-rounder Shane Watson retired from all forms of cricket on Tuesday, drawing the curtain on an injury-plagued career which he managed to extend by reinventing himself as a journeyman Twenty20 specialist. Watson ended his Test career in 2015 and quit international cricket the next year, surrendering in his battle against a litany of injuries that bedevilled his career. He quit Big Bash League last year but played this year’s Indian Premier League where his team Chennai Super Kings failed to make the playoff. “It really does…

Searches For Joe Biden Surpass Donald Trump, Google Trends

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ As online interest in both presidential candidates increases going into Election Day, the number of searches for Joe Biden surpasses those for Donald Trump. Google Trends reports that 50 percent of candidate searches are for the Democrat, with 44 percent for the Republican. Jo Jorgensen, Libertarian candidate is the subject of 5% of searches while 1% is for the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins. Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton never ranked higher than Trump in Google searches during 2016, after Trump became the Republican Party’s nominee. Earlier, Trump led…