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Vietnam police bust ring selling used condoms as new

September 25, 2020

According to a report by the BBC , a woman arrested during the raid said the used rubbers were first being boiled in water, dried, and reshaped with a wooden gadget, repackaged and resold to customers. It also shows tools apparently used to wash and reshape the condoms in the factory. And this means disposing of them after one use, even if the wearer never ejaculated, entered another human, or sex is taking place between the same two people.

USA judge asks Trump administration to delay TikTok download ban

September 25, 2020

Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Schwei argued against an expedited schedule in the case, saying ByteDance had filed a separate suit more than a month ago and was late in requesting the injunction. operations. TikTok's experience is "a textbook example of the United States' modern-day piracy and tech bullying", Chinese state news agency Xinhua said in an English-language commentary on Thursday, adding that national security concerns that Washington has expressed over TikTok are "nothing but a ...

Surat: Multiple explosions result in massive fire at ONGC plant

September 25, 2020

Some also posted videos of the explosions and the fire on social media. Several fire department officials of the Surat Municipal Corporation as well as from other companies at Hazira are present at the spot. Patel added that the activity of depressurizing the pressurized gas system is underway by ONGC officials. No causalities have been reported so far by the district administration.

Russian cult leader who hears words of God arrested in Siberia

September 25, 2020

The country's Investigative Committee implicated Torop, who sports long hair and a beard, of "utilizing followers' money and mental violence to cause harm", the Moscow Times reported . But I am the living Word of God the Father. Followers live in small, ecologically-friendly villages and eat only vegan food. The group - who are banned from smoking and drinking alcohol - have been in Siberia for years and it is unclear why the Russian authorities acted now in an early morning raid.

Saudi Arabia suspends flights to and from India

September 25, 2020

He added that Saudi Arabia's cheering of the "maximum pressure" campaign of sanctions imposed by the United States on Iran, the endeavours to expand ties with Israel and its "billion-dollar ransoms from its own people's pockets" have been fruitless, turning it into a "puny" nation among Arab countries.

HK activist Joshua Wong arrested again, vows to fight on

September 25, 2020

Wong, who China calls a "black hand" of foreign forces, said at the time he supported the idea of a non-binding referendum for people to have a say over Hong Kong's future status within China. A police spokesman confirmed a 23-year-old was arrested for "knowingly participating in unauthorised assembly" while violating the mask ban. "I will continue to stay and fight", Wong said, adding, "I think now Hong Kong is just like the new East Berlin in the new Cold War".

USA imposes new Iran sanctions over human rights violations

September 25, 2020

Their objective is to maintain the regime's stranglehold on power and put Iranians who seek freedom into prison-or even to order their execution", said Elliott Abrams, US Special Representative for Iran. Mr Macron dismissed United States efforts to restore UN sanctions against Tehran saying Washington had already left the nuclear deal so was unable to use its mechanisms.

Donald Trump’s neice sues US president, family for fraud

September 25, 2020

The complaint filed in a NY state court in Manhattan against Donald Trump , his sister Maryanne Trump Barry , and the estate of his brother Robert Trump, who died in August , accused the defendants of "rampant fraud " and conspiracy. The book claimed that Trump cheated on his SAT exam for his college admissions, and that he went to watch a movie as her father, Fred Trump Jr ., was dying of a heart attack due to alcoholism.

India's new Covid-19 infections at lowest in nearly a month

September 25, 2020

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 57,32,518 with 86,508 people testing positive in a day while the death toll climbed to 91,149 with 1,129 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. "A total of 17 states/UTs have more new recoveries than new cases", it added. A new smartphone app to boost the United Kingdom's track-and-trace system to help control coronavirus transmissions will be rolled out across England and Wales on September 23.

Facebook Pulls Down Chinese Election Influence Campaign

September 25, 2020

Philippine police chief Camilo Cascolan said official force Facebook pages "remain compliant". Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . The campaign's US operations were deemed to be weak in both sophistication and scale, and did not indicate preferential treatment for either presidential candidate, Nimmo said.

Second COVID-19 wave has already started: PM in address to nation

September 24, 2020

It doesn't talk about agriculture. We are very concerned that there's no fiscal framework. Both Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole and Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet delivered their remarks from self-isolation as they and their spouses have contracted COVID-19.

Xinjiang govt confirms birth rate drop but denies forced sterilisation of women

September 24, 2020

These people have allegedly been subject to indoctrination and abuse. The United States already bans products made through slavery but the act would put a blanket ban on products from Xinjiang , saying that forced labor is inextricably linked to the region's economy.

New York AG: Eric Trump Lied About Deposition Dodge

September 24, 2020

Her office noted Wednesday that the ruling will give her access to documents that have been "withheld by the Trump Organization ". Trump's lawyers said he was willing to meet with investigators regarding a probe into the Trump Organization, but that he was too busy to do so until after the election.

Last Blast: Brits Pub Crawling Ahead of New COVID-19 Curfew

September 24, 2020

The PM added: "We reserve the right to deploy greater firepower, with significantly greater restrictions". "Never in our history has our collective destiny and our collective health depended so completely on our individual behaviour", he said.

Shooting suspect from Nebraska kills himself outside hospital

September 24, 2020

Gardner was charged with manslaughter, attempted assault, unlawful use of a firearm, and terroristic threats. An Omaha, Nebraska bar owner who was recently indicted on charges in the killing of a Black man during May protests for racial justice in the city shot and killed himself outside a Hillsboro hospital Sunday, Sept.

Bulgarian court jails two men for life over deadly 2012 bus bombing

September 24, 2020

It was the deadliest attack against Israelis outside their own country since 2004. The two men were put on trial in absentia in January 2018 for a terrorist attack and manslaughter but were never tracked down. "Whether it will be served or not will be a result of the search of the wanted persons, which is ongoing", Prosecutor Evgeniya Shtarkelova told reporters.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny released from German hospital after 32 days

September 24, 2020

Navalny said, adding that he plans to see a physiotherapist every day. The poisoning of Navalny has heightened tensions between Russian Federation and the West, in particular aggravating the relationship with Germany. After Berlin refused to share any data related to the Navalny affair with Moscow, sending it to the OPCW instead, Russian Federation has reached out to Germany through the organization, the permanent envoy to the chemical weapons watchdog, Aleksandr Shulgin, told RT.

Mourners pay homage as Ginsburg lies in repose at US Supreme Court

September 24, 2020

He went on to win the presidency. Laura Montgomery, Glasgow City's club manager, said: " Ruth Bader Ginsburg is one of the finest legal minds we have known and her own story is remarkable". Since her death, makeshift memorials have been set up outside the Supreme Court. In order to prevent a four-four split on a potential election-related issue, Trump suggested during a roundtable event that lawmakers should take swift action on his candidate, who is expected to be announced on Saturday .

Palestine announces decision not to chair presidency of Arab League

September 24, 2020

For the next six months , Palestine was meant to chair Arab League meetings. "Palestine has made a decision to concede its right to chair the League's council (of foreign ministers) at its current session". After initial remarks, Maliki read from a letter he said he sent to Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit informing him of the Palestinian move and criticising the UAE and Bahrain, both Gulf Arab nations that share Israeli concerns about Iran.

British Woman Nearly Killed After Falling Out Of Car & Onto Busy Highway

September 24, 2020

Social media users were less than impressed with the woman's antics. Moreover, no arrests have been made in the incident. The incident happened on the M25 motorway south of London, as Surrey police wrote on Twitter on Saturday. We have to have a necessity which we did not have for this. Then, Roads Police Unit of Survey Police tweeted, "Nope just no necessity to arrest". "We knew who she was, where she lived, there will have been plenty of evidence and no person or property was likely ...

Trump confirms he plans to take election results to the Supreme Court

September 24, 2020

Laura Montgomery, Glasgow City's club manager, said: " Ruth Bader Ginsburg is one of the finest legal minds we have known and her own story is remarkable". "The American people are exhausted of it", the vice president said. Even if a nomination is secured by Election Day, the prospect that that nominee would then sit in judgment of a case relating to the outcome of the president's election raises concerns about politicization of the court.

TikTok Files Request For Injunction to Halt Trump's Looming Ban

September 24, 2020

It is still uncertain if this deal will satisfy President Trump's concerns. Over the weekend, ByteDance reached a preliminary deal with Oracle and Walmart, which received provisional approval by President Donald Trump. TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance Ltd ., faces a deadline this weekend to win approval for a sale of its US operations or face a de facto ban in the USA stemming from an August 6 executive order by Trump.

Missing South Korean official may be in North Korea

September 24, 2020

The man was a government official who disappeared Monday from a South Korean ship that was checking on potential unauthorized fishing near the inter-Korean sea boundary where several inter-Korean naval skirmishes and deadly attacks blamed on North Korea have occurred.

Sunak considers German-style wage support

September 24, 2020

Reports today suggested the chancellor is now drawing up an alternative to extending the measures already in operation, especially the furlough scheme. In talks with the Treasury, business leaders called for targeted support for the worst-hit sectors, including aerospace, aviation, hospitality and retail, meaning Mr Sunak may limit the help to sectors that need it most.

Hundreds evacuated from Paris's Eiffel Tower after bomb threat

September 23, 2020

Most of the streets around the 131-year-old Paris landmark have been barricaded and a nearby bridge that stretches across the Seine River to Trocadero Plaza has also been temporarily closed, AP reported. According to a French journalist named Amaury Bucco, an unidentified man threatened to "blow everything up" outside the monument. The Eiffel Tower usually receives about seven million visitors a year, some three-quarters from overseas, although even after reopening numbers are down ...

Ex-defence minister appointed Mali's transition leader

September 23, 2020

Goita said that retired Col. Maj. The junta said last week that it would prefer the military to run the transition, however. N'Daou and Goita were appointed by a group electors chosen by the junta. Ndaw served as defence minister under Keita and was an aide to Mali's former military ruler Moussa Traore. Mali's military junta announced the leaders of a new transition government in the Sahel state on Monday, which will retain strong army links despite global pressure to appoint civilians ...

Moderator announces topics for 1st Trump-Biden debate

September 23, 2020

That subject seems specifically created to let Trump list off his favorite talking points: the dangers of "antifa", the horrors of Democrat-led cities, and Joe Biden's (not real) plan to let violent city-dwellers destroy the suburbs. ABC News has not independently confirmed The Atlantic report, which cites four unnamed sources with direct knowledge of the claims. Biden was referring to comments Trump reportedly made mocking the American war dead.

Everest's legendary 'snow leopard' Ang Rita Sherpa dies at 72

September 23, 2020

He quickly rose through the ranks to become a guide - summiting some of Nepal's highest mountains. The legendary climber has scaled Mt. Everest for ten times without supplementary oxygen. According to a web portal focused on Qomolangma history, Ang Rita's mountaineering career began at the age of 15 as a porter. He lately was suffering from brain and liver problems, The Kathmandu Post reported.

Death toll from COVID-19 tops 200,000 in US

September 23, 2020

If they have other problems, that's what it really affects", Trump told supporters at an airport outside Toledo. "Below the age of 18, like, nobody", he continued. On last night's broadcast, Anderson Cooper took Trump to task for his comments, noting that he is the exact kind of person that has issues with COVID.

Belarus: Lukashenko sworn in as president

September 23, 2020

Lukashenko garnered the support of 80 percent of voters in the 9 August election, according to the official results, which were widely rejected by the opposition as falsified. Protesters are demanding the president resign and hold back elections. Much of the worldwide community also rejected Lukashenko's claim that he won the election with 80% of the vote.

Nearly 500 pilot whales stranded on Australian island state

September 23, 2020

The additional whales were found in a part of the harbor where the water is a dark tannin color - so they may have been stranded, washed back into the water, then back into the bay, making them more hard to detect, Deka said. Even though Carlyon said the event was natural, there was a public expectation that the survivors should be helped. "The plan remains the same. our focus is on those animals that are still alive and are still in condition to be rescued off the bar and out to deeper ...

Sore Muscles After Activity: What It Means and Relief

September 22, 2020

Muscle soreness causes immense discomfort. However, it only lasts a few days. In this piece, we will talk about how you can deal with muscle soreness. The pain will then begin to subside. Nonetheless, this condition can disrupt your daily routine. When it is severe, you can barely do anything. If you feel a sharp pain a few hours after exercising, then you could be suffering from a muscle injury and it is best to have a doctor look at it.

All 42 DAP MPs to support Anwar if he has majority

September 23, 2020

Anwar held a special press conference earlier today, 23 September, during which he made the claim about securing a "strong, confident, and formidable majority". "If Anwar has the numbers, snap polls will be very likely", said Adib Zalkapli, director at political consultancy BowerGroupAsia. "They [lawmakers] recognize that the country must have strong, stable and accountable leadership to manage the crisis and to do so with compassion and concern for the plight of all people who are ...

Record rise in weekly COVID-19 cases, but deaths down

September 23, 2020

Though the majority of active cases remain among younger people - between the ages of 20 and 50 - hospitalizations overwhelmingly occur among patients over the age of 50. So far, 703 confirmed cases have been recorded in September. There are 72 active cases in Knox County. Johnson County has 24 confirmed cases, 1 active lab confirmed case and 6 probable cases.

United Nations General Assembly Opens Historic Session Tuesday

September 23, 2020

But she noted that the United Nations has lacked transparency and been too vulnerable to the agendas of autocratic regimes and dictatorships. "Unilateralism is a dead end". German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the interests of individual member states had "too often" forced the United Nations to lag behind its ideals.

Ireland among 156 nations in plan for Covid-19 vaccines

September 23, 2020

Australia will have access to some of the world's leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates after the Federal Government committed more than $120 million to enter a global vaccine agreement. China, where the coronavirus began, was also not on the list, but officials said discussions were continuing, according to Reuters news agency. Other countries, however, appear to have no intention of signing up.

Senate GOP lines up with Trump to quickly fill court seat

September 22, 2020

But the sudden vacancy also is fueling tensions among Democrats. While nominees don't comment on pending cases (or, with very rare exceptions, past cases either), there's no reason they can't be asked how many Americans would lose their insurance, or how many with pre-existing conditions be subject to major insurance price hikes, if there were no ACA.

China, India agree to stop troop deployment along disputed border

September 22, 2020

A meeting between military commanders of India and China is now underway near the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control to defuse tension along the de facto border between the two neighbours. This was not a meeting that would have achieved full agreement on disengagement. "China is expanding and upgrading a large number of military facilities along its entire border with India as tensions continue to run high in the wake of the bloody clash between Indian and Chinese forces in June, ...

Woman arrested over White House ricin attempt

September 22, 2020

One official tell di NY times say investigators believe say di package dey send am from Canada. Back in 2014, "The Walking Dead" actress Shannon Richardson was found guilty of of sending envelopes that contained highly toxic ricin to then-President Barack Obama and then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Trump incorrectly claims that coronavirus affects ‘virtually’ no young people

September 22, 2020

Mr. Trump told supporters there that he's considering five women for the Supreme Court seat. Biden has advocated that any vaccine be equitably distributed and that its development be free from political pressure. As "the country blew past estimate after estimate" of COVID-19 deaths, Politico's pandemic newsletter said Monday night , "the term "grim milestone" in headlines became so routine that we banned it".

Other countries ‘coming fast’ to make peace with Israel — Trump at UN

September 22, 2020

The president ripped into the China for not halting outbound flights at the outset of the coronavirus outbreak, saying it infected the world. "The Chinese government and the World Health Organization , which is virtually controlled by China , falsely declared that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission".

McConnell: Senate Will Vote On Trump's Pick To Replace Justice Ginsburg

September 22, 2020

That comment came up in 2016, when McConnell said of Obama's nomination of Garland: "This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President". Democrats are trying to gain control of the White House and the Senate, which has the power to confirm the president's nominees for the Supreme Court.

Blast Rocks Hezbollah Site In South Lebanon: Residents

September 22, 2020

The blast was caused by a " technical error ", according to the security source. The explosion on Tuesday rocked a village in the country's south, an area which is a Hezbollah stronghold. Other footage showed a wrecked SUV parked outside a damaged house. It coincides with heightened tensions along Lebanon's southern border with Israel, after Hezbollah vowed to retaliate for the killing of a Hezbollah operative in Syria in July.

Health officials recommend against usual trick-or-treating

September 22, 2020

This reflects an independent survey from Insight to Action that found 70% of moms plan to celebrate the Halloween season with their children this year. Using a cardboard tube he'd received an Amazon shipment in, Beattie and his 6-year-old daughter decked it out for Halloween in orange with a black stripe and attached the 4-inch-wide tube to the railing on the stairs in front of their house.

Pakistani Court Rules Deadly 2012 Blaze Was Arson, Sentences Two to Death

September 22, 2020

Moreover, three gatekeepers of the factory, Fazal Mehmood, Arshad Mehmood, and Ali Mohammad, and manager Shahrukh were handed life imprisonment for abetment. A later joint investigation team of nine senior police and intelligence officials concluded instead that the fire was "a planned sabotage/terrorist activity and not an accidental fire, carried out due to refusal to pay extortion of 200 million rupees".

Louisville PD Declare State Of Emergency Ahead Of Breonna Taylor Decision

September 22, 2020

Sgt. Brett Hankison , who, according to his termination letter, shot 10 rounds blindly into Taylor's apartment, was sacked in June. Internal investigators will see if the officers violated any police policies during the incident, the spokesman said.

United Kingdom at 'critical point' over Covid-19, top scientists to warn

September 22, 2020

Vallance said that on current trends, the daily count of cases will reach about 50,000 on October 13, and a month later exceed 200 deaths every day. They said new infections could increase tenfold to nearly 50,000 a day next month if nothing is done now.

Boris Johnson to announce 10PM curfew for pubs and restaurants in England

September 22, 2020

Similar restrictions on hospitality in Scotland are also expected to be announced later today. Mr Johnson will emphasise the need for people to follow social-distancing guidance, wear face coverings and wash their hands regularly, and - according to reports - urge people to work from home where it does not hurt businesses .

Without reform, United Nations faces ‘crisis of confidence’, says Narendra Modi

September 22, 2020

US President Donald Trump's administration is marking the 75th anniversary by announcing new sanctions on Iran that it says are authorized by the United Nations - a stance contested by virtually every other country. "We can only address them together". Antonio Guterres deplored the lack of multilateral solutions to global challenges. "No one wants a world government - but we must work together to improve world governance".

Democrats, Republicans Clash Over Naming Supreme Court Pick Before Election

September 22, 2020

Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota stresses that key issues are hanging in the balance before the Supreme Court including health care, the environment and labor rights so it would be premature to act with voters in many states already casting votes.

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