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Debate veers from ‘How you doing?’ to ‘Will you shut up?’
Wtop 30 Sep 2020
CLEVELAND (AP) — It started out civilly enough, with President Donald Trump striding deliberately to his lectern, and Democrat Joe Biden nodding to his opponent and offering a “How you doing, man?” ... There was no friendly handshake to kick things off, no room full of supporters in each candidate’s court ... “Show us your taxes. Show us your taxes.”....
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Trump secretly mocked Christian leaders: Report
Press TV 29 Sep 2020
US President Donald Trump has secretly mocked Christian leaders, describing them as “schmoozed” and “conned,” though he was praising them in public through his campaigns and presidency, a new report says ... “His view was ‘I’ve been talking to these people for years,” I’ve let them stay at my hotels — they’re gonna endorse me ... www.presstv.ir ... ....
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Armenia's defence ministry says warplane shot down by Turkey
RTE 29 Sep 2020
A Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down an Armenian SU-25 warplane over Armenian territory today, killing the pilot, an Armenian defence ministry spokeswoman said. Shushan Stepanyan, an Armenian defence ministry spokeswoman, wrote on her Facebook page that the plane had been on a military assignment when it was shot down ... ....
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Duterte lashes out at Facebook after it takes down fake accounts
Deccan Herald 29 Sep 2020
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines is one of a number of populists around the world who rose to power in part by harnessing Facebook to get his unfiltered messages to millions. During Duterte’s 2016 campaign, his allies flooded the social media platform with misinformation about his opponents and laudatory stories about him ... Philippines....
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Like Hitler’s Gleiwitz Event To Invade Poland, Was Trump’s Discarded Ballots Staged To Destroy Democracy?
WorldNews.com 30 Sep 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr’s rush to politicize the handful of discarded military ballots in Pennsylvania (a battleground state) initially cast for the president appears to have been like the Gleiwitz incident ... Neither were all of them marked for Trump ... Its credibility doesn’t matter....
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Armenian PM says not ready for Russia-mediated peace talks with Azerbaijan
Dawn 30 Sep 2020
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday said peace talks with Azerbaijan under Russian mediation would be inappropriate, as fighting over the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region entered a fourth day ... “A suitable atmosphere and conditions are needed for negotiations.” ... There have been 98 confirmed deaths in the fighting ... ....
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Elon Musk says humans must leave Earth 'because Sun will engulf our planet'
Yahoo Daily News 30 Sep 2020
When Elon Musk launched a Tesla into space, it carried a sign saying “Don’t panic" on the dashboard – but the billionaire was in a more doom-laden form this week ... Read More ... Launched in 2016, Neuralink is centred on creating devices which can be implanted in the human brain, and Musk made the comments while recruiting tech talent for the startup ... ....
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Biden releases tax returns hours ahead of first debate with Trump
Market Watch 29 Sep 2020photo: PIB of India / Photo Division Ministry of I & B Govt. of IndiaSoochna Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003011-24362384, 24362473
India caseload shows decline, VP tests positive
The Himalayan 30 Sep 2020photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth, File
Meghan loses latest court battle with U.K. tabloid newspaper
Toronto Sun 29 Sep 2020
LONDON — Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, has lost the latest skirmish in her privacy lawsuit against a tabloid newspaper, after London’s High Court ruled on Tuesday the paper could amend its case to include details from a recently published biography ... We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or ... ....
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Court acquits Hindu nationalist leaders in Babri mosque demolition case
Yahoo Daily News 30 Sep 2020
By Saurabh Sharma. LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - 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 ... "We will seek remedy," he added ... ....
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Relatives of dozen HK detainees reject mainland counsel
Hong Kong Standard 30 Sep 2020photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America
Trump to far-right extremists: 'Stand back and stand by'
Yahoo Daily News 30 Sep 2020
President Donald Trump on Tuesday didn’t clearly condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a “left-wing” problem and telling one far-right extremist group to “stand back and stand by.” ... Trump has repeatedly blamed “antifa,” which stands for the anti-fascist movement ... ....
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Kuwaiti Ruler Sheikh Sabah Has Died at 91
Hamodia 29 Sep 2020
Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation’s top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, died Tuesday. He was 91 ... WhatsAppPrintEmailGmail. ....
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Farm laws to curb black money, says PM Narendra Modi
Deccan Herald 29 Sep 2020
Slamming the Opposition for holding protests against three new agriculture-related laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that through these laws, the government has ended one more way of creating black money. "Some persons are unable to tolerate this freedom (of farmers) ... They're opposing the freedom of farmers." ... Read ... Narendra Modi ... .......
