YouTube suspends Trump’s channel after violating policy on inciting violence

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Tuesday it has suspended Donald Trump’s channel as it violated policies for inciting violence after last week’s assault on the United States Capitol by the president’s supporters. Online platforms and social media companies are distancing themselves from, and taking action against, those that encouraged or engaged in the violence in Washington, DC. Trump’s channel is now prevented from uploading new videos or livestreams for a minimum of seven days, which may be extended, YouTube said in a statement. For daily news updates, join…

Bahrain, Israel agree to set up embassies in Jerusalem meet

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ JERUSALEM: Bahrain’s foreign minister called for fresh Israeli-Palestinian peace talks during a landmark meeting on Wednesday in Israel with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Pompeo — President Donald Trump’s top diplomat, on a farewell visit to close ally Israel — did not address Israel’s dispute with the Palestinians, who have protested his planned trip on Thursday to a Jewish-owned business in the occupied West Bank. Bahrain’s Abdellatif al-Zayani said the historic US-brokered deals the Gulf kingdom and the United Arab Emirates…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Trump maps return to campaign trail after White House says Covid-19 treatment complete

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ United States President Donald Trump on Friday prepared to return to the campaign trail with a pair of weekend rallies after his Covid-19 diagnosis sidelined him for a week in the race against Democratic nominee Joe Biden for the White House. The Republican president, who announced he had been infected with the novel coronavirus on October 2 and spent three nights in a military hospital receiving treatment, said late on Thursday he was feeling “really good” and, with a doctor’s blessing, aimed to campaign in Florida on Saturday and…

Government Probes Microsoft’s Plan To Hire More Black Staff Members

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Microsoft is being questioned by the US government over whether a diversity initiative amounts to racial discrimination. The Department of Labor has singled out Microsoft’s pledge to double the number of “black and African American” senior staff by 2025. Officials have warned the company the target appears “to imply that the employment action may be taken on the basis of race”. Microsoft denies the accusation. “We are clear that the law prohibits us from discriminating on the basis of race,” the firm’s lawyer Dev Stahlkopf blogged. “We…

Facebook, Instagram ban QAnon conspiracy-linked accounts ahead of US election

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COURTEYS BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Facebook on Tuesday announced a ban on all accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy group, as the social network tries to clamp down on misinformation ahead of the heated US presidential election. The move against QAnon at Facebook and its image-sharing platform Instagram comes as the online giant tries to avoid being used to deceive or confuse voters, as was the case during the 2016 election that put US President Donald Trump in the White House. “We will remove any Facebook pages, groups and Instagram accounts representing…

Don’t be afraid of the virus,’ says Trump on return to White House; faces backlash

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ US President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care for Covid-19. He immediately ignited a new controversy by declaring that despite his illness the nation should not fear the virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans and then he entered the White House without a protective mask. “If the President bounces back onto the campaign trail, he will be an invincible hero, who not only survived every dirty trick…