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Top Indian news anchor Arnab Goswami arrested
One of India’s top TV news anchors, Arnab Goswami, was arrested by police in Mumbai yesterday for alleged abetment of suicide in a case registered in 2018, his channel said in a statement.
4 November 2020, 18:00 PM
US postal service fails to complete sweep for ballots
The US Postal Service told a judge it could not complete his order to sweep mail processing facilities on Tuesday afternoon for delayed election ballots and immediately dispatch any for delivery in about a dozen states, including closely fought battlegrounds Pennsylvania and Florida.
4 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Aegean quake toll rises to 116 as Turkey ends search
Turkey has ended search and rescue efforts in the rubble of buildings that collapsed as a result of the strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea, after the death toll crept up to 116 in the western city of Izmir and a Greek island.
4 November 2020, 16:33 PM
Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum joins coronavirus vaccine trial
Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum said Tuesday he had received an experimental coronavirus vaccine, becoming the latest United Arab Emirates official to take part in the trials.
4 November 2020, 06:03 AM
Vienna terror attack: Erdogan hails heroic actions of 2 Austrian-Turks
Two Austrians of Turkish descent -- Recep Tayyip Gultekin and Mikail Ozen -- were honoured at Turkey's Embassy in Vienna, Austria on Tuesday for saving the lives of a police officer and two women during the attack on Monday night, says Turkish state international news channel TRT World.
4 November 2020, 04:59 AM
India, Quad start key naval exercise
India, Australia, Japan and the United States started a strategic navy drill yesterday in the Bay of Bengal, with all four countries keeping a wary eye on China’s growing military power.
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Biden’s easiest path to victory
Unlike President Donald Trump, who has a very narrow set of paths to get to 270 electoral votes, Joe Biden has a slew of ways to get to that magic number. Here’s his easiest route to the presidency.
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Battlegrounds: Who is ahead
Democrat Joe Biden leads in the national polls and most of the battleground states going into Election Day but President Donald Trump is insisting they’re wrong and he’ll repeat his upset victory of 2016. Here is a look at the latest national polls and polls in key battleground states:
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Key legal battles that may shape US polls outcome
A federal judge in Texas on Monday denied a bid by Republicans to toss more than 127,000 votes already cast at drive-through voting sites in Houston, a Democratic-leaning area.
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Battlegrounds: Who is ahead
Democrat Joe Biden leads in the national polls and most of the battleground states going into Election Day but President Donald Trump is insisting they’re wrong and he’ll repeat his upset victory of 2016. Here is a look at the latest national polls and polls in key battleground states:
3 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Terrorism threat level in Britain raised to 'severe'
Britain’s terrorism threat level has been raised to ‘severe’, interior minister Priti Patel said on Tuesday, meaning an attack is now seen as highly likely.
3 November 2020, 17:03 PM
Scorned by Trump, many Nigerians love him all the same
Hundreds of men and women marched, clad in T-shirts supporting US President Donald Trump or pink fabric dresses bearing the image of Jesus, as they waved American flags, Republican presidential campaign signs, and even a few Nigerian flags.
3 November 2020, 10:06 AM
Most cases of crimes against journalists yet to be resolved: Unesco
Even though 2020 saw a “slight decrease” in the rate of impunity for crimes against journalists, 87 percent of such cases worldwide were still not resolved, according to Unesco, the UN agency tasked with defending press freedom, among other things.
2 November 2020, 20:44 PM
Gunmen storm Kabul University in second deadly attack on students
Gunmen stormed Kabul University, killing students in their classrooms and firing on others as they fled in the second attack on an educational institution in the city in just over a week, officials and witnesses have said.
2 November 2020, 15:36 PM
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince condemns terror attacks, hate speech during call to Macron
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan has expressed his condemnation of recent terrorist attacks in France during a phone call with the country’s President Emanuel Macron, Reuters reports citing UAE state news agency WAM.
2 November 2020, 13:59 PM
Trump threatens to fire Fauci in rift with disease expert
President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after Tuesday’s election, as his rift with the nation’s top infectious disease expert widens while the nation sees its most alarming outbreak of the coronavirus since the spring.
2 November 2020, 10:58 AM
Turkey pulls 2 girls out of rubble three days after quake
In what one rescue worker called “a miracle,” extraction teams brought two girls out alive 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.
2 November 2020, 10:46 AM
Explainer: The Electoral College and the 2020 U.S. presidential race
In the United States, the winner of a presidential election is determined not by a national vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots “electoral votes” to all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on their population.
2 November 2020, 07:57 AM
Renowned British journalist Robert Fisk passes away
Veteran British journalist Robert Fisk has died of a suspected stroke at the age of 74, BBC reports.
2 November 2020, 07:05 AM
Turkey continues rescue work after quake, death toll hits 81
Rescue efforts continued in eight buildings in western Turkish city of Izmir, authorities said, as the death toll from Friday’s powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea region rose to 81.
2 November 2020, 05:32 AM