Mon 19 October 2020: Forbes also valued Trump’s assets at $3.66 billion, which it argued is “enough to make his net worth an estimated $2.5 billion”. Last year, The New York Times reported that Deutsche Bank had been lending Donald Trump millions of dollars for years since the late 1990s, and that POTUS could be […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: Azerbaijan’s army has liberated 13 more villages in the Jabrayil region from Armenian. The announcement was made on Monday on Twitter by President Ilham Aliyev, who added that the Armenian army publicly violated the temporary humanitarian ceasefire on October 18 and fired heavy artillery on Azerbaijani citizen settlements and positions. UN […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: Belgium imposed a nationwide overnight curfew as Switzerland made wearing face masks compulsory in indoor public spaces, the latest desperate measures by European governments to fight a powerful second wave. More than 250,000 people have died of the virus in Europe but the deepening crisis there stands in contrast to Australia, […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Voting in Bolivia’s long-awaited presidential election has begun amid the COVID-19 pandemic and a tense social and political climate. The polls, in which more than seven million people are expected to cast their votes, opened at 8 a.m. Sunday. For the first time in 20 years, the name of Evo Morales […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Tens of thousands of people have marched through the streets of the Belarusian capital Minsk to demand the resignation of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko, despite a threat by officials to use firearms against protesters. Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, has been rocked by strikes and weekly street […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: The Government is to take “decisive” action and will announce further nationwide Covid restrictions on Monday. It now looks likely that level 4 restrictions with some additions will be imposed after Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris said level 3 restrictions “have not worked”. “The Government will act tomorrow and the […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Health officials in New York put a stop to a planned wedding after receiving reports that “upwards of 10,000 individuals” were scheduled to attend the event in Brooklyn on Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. “We received a suggestion that that was happening. We did an investigation and found that it […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of violating a new humanitarian ceasefire in fighting over Azerbaijan’s ethnic-Armenian-controlled enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Meanwhile Azerbaijan shot down another Armenian Su-25 fighter jet, according to the country’s ministry of defense, the second Su-25 to be downed in recent days. In a statement, the ministry said […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: As Paris and other cities and regions enter the first night of a curfew Saturday, new cases of coronavirus infections hit a new daily record. There were 90 new fatalities with France’s death toll now standing at 33,392. A total of 7,198 patients remain hospitalized with 1,269 in the ICU, but […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Armenia and Azerbaijan said they had agreed on Saturday to a new humanitarian ceasefire from midnight (2000 GMT) in fighting over Azerbaijan‘s ethnic Armenian-controlled enclave of Nagorno–Karabakh. A statement by Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry earlier said that the decision was taken “following the statement of the Presidents of the French Republic, the Russian Federation and the United States of America, representing the co-chair […]
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