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Lebanon, Israel to hold US-brokered border talks

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ BEIRUT: Lebanon and Israel said on Thursday they would hold US-brokered negotiations on their disputed land and maritime borders, in what Washington hailed as a “historic” agreement between two sides technically still at war. The United States will act as a facilitator during the UN-backed talks to be held in the southern Lebanon border town of Naqoura, Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told a news conference in Beirut, without giving a date. US envoy David Schenker said the negotiations would start in the week of Oct 12.…

US President Donald Trump Tests Positive For Coronavirus

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ The United States President Donald Trump said late on Thursday that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for Covid-19 and have been quarantined. Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020 The first lady also confirmed on her official twitter handle: As too many Americans have done this year, @potus & I are quarantining at home after testing positive for COVID-19.…

Trump backpedals over racist group row, Biden blasts him as ’embarrassment’

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US President Donald Trump scrambled on Wednesday to quell an uproar over his failure to explicitly denounce white supremacist groups during his debate debacle with Joe Biden, who branded his election rival a “national embarrassment”. The bitter adversaries returned to the campaign trail one day after their off-the-rails showdown in Cleveland made headlines less for the substance than for its unrestrained chaos. The toxic shout fest — with Trump constantly interrupting and Biden launching personal attacks — even prompted the overseeing Commission on Presidential Debates to announce it would be imposing new…

Quarantine rules delay Sri Lanka Premier League

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“Chris Gayle was among 30 foreigners available for the LPL, according to Sri Lanka Cricket. ©AFP” /> Colombo (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s cricket Premier League tournament has been put off a second time due to strict quarantine rules for foreign players, the game’s national governing body said Wednesday. The 23-match Lanka Premier League (LPL), originally due to start in August, was rescheduled for November 14, but has now been delayed by one more week, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said. It said the shift was to “ensure that participating players have…

Bairstow loses Test deal as England look to future

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“England's Jonny Bairstow has lost his Test central contract. ©AFP” /> London (AFP) – England wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow has lost his Test ]]> The move by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) was not unexpected as Bairstow, 31, has played just one of the past 12 Test matches since the 2019 Ashes. The World Cup winner has been handed a specialist limited-overs deal, with Pope, Crawley and Sibley all promoted after scoring their maiden Test centuries over the past year. England managing director Ashley Giles said he hoped Bairstow,…

Indian court acquits Hindu nationalist leaders in Babri Masjid demolition case for ‘lack of evidence’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted Hindu nationalist leaders, including former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani, in a case over the demolition of a mosque at a disputed site 28 years ago, citing a lack of evidence. The demolition sparked nationwide riots that killed more than 3,000 people in a decades-long dispute that has fueled Hindu-Muslim tension, as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign for Hindu renaissance helped bring it to power. A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Lucknow in its Wednesday ruling said…

Kuwait’s new emir takes oath, calls for unity at tense time for region

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Kuwait’s new emir was sworn in at parliament on Wednesday as the country prepared to lay to rest late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who helped steer the US-allied Gulf state through some of the Middle East’s most turbulent decades. The cabinet swiftly named designated successor Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah as ruler on Tuesday following the death of Sheikh Sabah, 91, whose body is due to arrive in Kuwait on Wednesday from the United States were he had been hospitalised since July. Nawaf, 83, pledged to…

Azerbaijan ‘determined’ to fight until Armenian troops leave Karabakh

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Azerbaijan on Wednesday vowed to pursue military action against Armenian separatists in the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region until a full Armenian withdrawal from the disputed territory. Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are engaged in the heaviest fighting in years over Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian province that broke away from Azerbaijan in the 1990s during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The long-simmering conflict erupted on Sunday with both sides blaming each other for the outbreak of violence. “We only have one condition: Armenian armed forces must unconditionally, fully, and immediately…

Death toll rises to 39 as fighting between Armenia, Azerbaijan enters second day

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Armenian separatists in the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh said on Monday 15 more of its fighters have been killed in a flare-up of a territorial dispute, bringing the death toll to 39 as the fighting entered a second day. World leaders have urged a halt to the fighting between Azerbaijan and the Armenian rebels after clashes erupted on Sunday, raising the spectre of an all-out conflict that could draw in regional powers — Russia and Turkey. Ex-Soviet Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked since the early 1990s in a…

Donald Trump Paid No Tax At All In 10 Years

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The President of the United States of America (USA) Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017, revealed a report on Monday. The year he won the presidential election. According to the report, the US President paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. The report contained information that Donald Trump disclosed to the US government’s Internal Revenue Service and were not findings of any independent inquiry. Report Findings The report tabulated the tax returns relating to President Trump and…