Category: Global Politics

US Election 2020: Trump Predicts ‘Beautiful Victory’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that he will enjoy another victory in the election. He predicted a “beautiful victory” in his final re-election campaign stop hours before the main voting. “We’re going to have another beautiful victory tomorrow,” he told a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the same place where he held the climactic rally of his 2016 campaign when he upset the polls to beat Hillary Clinton. “We’re going to make history once again,” he said. US Election 2020 has begun. Voters in New Hampshire at the…

Turkey pulls 2 girls out of rubble three days after quake; death toll rises to 85

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ In what one rescue worker called a miracle, extraction teams brought two girls out alive on Monday from the wreckage of their collapsed apartment buildings in the Turkish city of Izmir, three days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece. Onlookers applauded in joy and relief as ambulances carrying the girls rushed to hospitals immediately after their rescues. The overall death toll in Friday’s quake reached 85 after teams found more bodies overnight amid toppled buildings in Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city. Close to 1,000 people were injured,…

Free speech has limits, Canada’s Trudeau says

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech on Friday, but added that it was “not without limits” and should not “arbitrarily and needlessly hurt” certain communities. “We will always defend freedom of expression,” Trudeau said in response to a question about the right to show caricatures deemed blasphemous, as France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine did. “But freedom of expression is not without limits,” he added. “We owe it to ourselves to act with respect for others and to seek not to arbitrarily or unnecessarily injure those with…

Who Is Leading The US 2020 Election Polls – Republicans Or Democrats?

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ American voters will decide on 3rd November whether Donald Trump will remain in the White House for another four years, or a new president will be elected. Joe Biden, who is best known as Barack Obama’s vice-president and has been in US politics since 1970s, belongs to the Democratic Party and is standing against the Republican president Trump. National polls give good guidance as to how popular a candidate is across the country, however, they are not an accurate prediction of the election results. This is because the…

Countries turn to rapid antigen tests to contain second wave of Covid-19

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ ZURICH: Countries straining to contain a second wave of Covid-19 are turning to faster, cheaper but less accurate tests to avoid the delays and shortages that have plagued efforts to diagnose and trace those infected quickly. Germany, where infections jumped by 4,122 on Tuesday to 329,453 total, has secured 9 million so-called antigen tests per month that can deliver a result in minutes and cost about 5 euros ($5.90) each. That would, in theory, cover more than 10pc of the population. The United States and Canada are…

‘Long Covid’ may affect multiple parts of body and mind, doctors say

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Ongoing illness after infection with Covid-19, sometimes called “long Covid”, may not be one syndrome but possibly up to four causing a rollercoaster of symptoms affecting all parts of the body and mind, doctors said on Thursday. In an initial report about long-term Covid-19, Britain’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) said one common theme among ongoing Covid patients — some of whom are seven months or more into their illness — is that symptoms appear in one physiological area, such as the heart or lungs, only to abate…

First Hijab Wearing Mayor Of UK To Sue Labour Leadership Over Racism Claims

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ The first Hijab-wearing mayor of the United Kingdom, who left last month due to racism attacks, has announced to take legal action against the labour party. According to the details, Rakhia Ismail said she was marginalised by the Labour leadership at Islington Council. According to Rakhia Ismail, she raised the issue of a knife attack on herself in the media, which angered one of her Labor colleagues who is damaging her reputation. Rakhia added that “The more we speak up – the more we make the change…

Saudi Airlines Resumes Flight Operations To Pakistan

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Saudi Airlines has resumed international flights after seven months of disruption due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the details,  the national flag carrier of the Kingdom, Saudi Airlines touched the skies, after getting approval to fly to 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. Travelers could now fly to Karachi, Islamabad, Cairo, Alexandria, Khartoum, Nairobi, Amman, Dubai, Tunis, Addis Ababa, Amsterdam, Frankfurt,  Istanbul, London, Madrid, Paris, Washington DC, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila. Saudi Arabia partially lifted the suspension of international flights from Sept. 15,…

British govt bolsters salary support for those hit by lockdowns

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ LONDON: The British government said on Friday it will pay two- thirds of the salaries of workers in companies that have to close as a result of new coronavirus restrictions widely expected to come into effect next week. In a change of policy, Treasury chief Rishi Sunak has responded to calls from businesses, local leaders and unions to provide a financial support package to prevent mass job losses in sectors that will be subject to new restrictions. Pubs and restaurants in large parts of the north of…

Armenia, Azerbaijan trade accusations of breaching Karabakh ceasefire

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations of new attacks on Saturday in breach of a ceasefire deal to end nearly two weeks of heavy fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The two sides agreed to implement the ceasefire from noon (0800 GMT) on Saturday, after 11 hours of talks in Moscow, but it took only minutes after the deadline for their forces to claim new attacks. An ethnic Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan, Karabakh broke from the country’s control in a war in the 1990s that killed some 30,000…