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Fire breaks out on Mount Kilimanjaro, says Tanzania National Park

October 13, 2020

Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. So far, no injuries or deaths have actually been reported and no residential or commercial property harmed. Meanwhile, David Ponera, a representative of CAWMSO, said hundreds of students have been dispatched to help put out the blaze. The fire could be seen from as far as Moshi, a town known as the gateway to the mountain, which has three volcanic cones and is one of Tanzania's major tourist attractions.

Hawley claims Democrat’s reference to contraceptives case is an anti-Catholic attack

October 13, 2020

Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Barrett said she was still "vehemently" of the belief that a conflict between "a judge's personal beliefs and that judge's rule of law will never" ever exist that this judge will follow his personal convictions in deciding a case and not what the law requires.

Mumbai Trains Partially Restored Amid Outage, Commuters Walk On Tracks

October 13, 2020

The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST), which is responsible for supplying power to Mumbai , has confirmed the development. One of the Mumbai distributors, BEST said the power supply was "interrupted due to TATA's incoming electric supply failure" at around 10.15 a.m.

Pennsylvania judge tosses Trump lawsuit over mail-in voting

October 13, 2020

In Toledo, Biden addressed United Auto Workers who represent a local General Motors' powertrain plant. In a sign of fresh optimism, Biden heads on Monday to OH, a state Trump won by 8 percentage points in 2016 and nearly certainly must carry again to win.

British PM to outline new virus lockdown system

October 13, 2020

Northern England has been particularly hard hit by a new surge in coronavirus cases that has forced local lockdowns as students returned to schools and universities across Britain. "If we told our fishermen that we had drastically reduced their access to British waters - on which they depend for their economic survival - they would say that is indecent and they would be right".

California GOP Putting Out Bogus Ballot Boxes In At Least Three Counties

October 13, 2020

California election officials received reports over the weekend about the boxes in Fresno, Los Angeles and Orange counties. All California counties have official ballot drop box sites where voters can return their mail-in ballots, if they prefer to not send them back through the mail.

China's Qingdao orders city-wide COVID-19 testing following new infections

October 13, 2020

Since the new cases were confirmed, authorities acted quickly and the local health commission said more than 140,000 employees of "medical institutions, newly admitted patients and personnel" had been tested. An investment and trade expo in Qingdao organised by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and scheduled for the weekend of October 16-18 was postponed, state TV reported.

Trump Campaign Targets Seniors in Multi-Million Dollar Ad Campaign

October 13, 2020

The advert was released last week and praises the Trump administration's response to the pandemic and highlights the president's personal recovery from the virus. "These are Dr Fauci's own words", he said. Trump has repeatedly called for states to reopen their economies and Fauci said people did need leeway to do the things important for their livelihoods.

Germany: "Solidarity" with Greece, Cyprus in Turkey dispute

October 13, 2020

Maas has adjusted his program as well, according to the German foreign ministry, and will not travel to Turkey on Wednesday as scheduled. Greece has denounced Turkey's new illegal activities in the Greek continental shelf, south of the Greek island of Kastelorizo.

OH has 1,430 new coronavirus cases; deaths surpass 5,000

October 13, 2020

The Brookings School District COVID-19 dashboard reports that the district has six active cases, as of Monday: one from Mickelson Middle School, three from Dakota Prairie Elementary, one from Hillcrest Elementary and one from Medary Elementary.

Johnson & Johnson pauses COVID-19 vaccine trial as participant becomes ill

October 13, 2020

However, COVID-19 has forced researchers to fast-track the vaccine - making process. Johnson & Johnson ( NYSE:JNJ ) announced it has paused dosing in all its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials after an unexplained illness in a study participant.

Watch: Is it too late for Trump to turn things around?

October 13, 2020

He criticized Trump for his poor response to the pandemic and said the last thing people need is a president who exacerbates challenges. "It looks like I'm immune for, I don't know, maybe a long time, maybe a short time, it could be a lifetime, nobody really knows - but I'm immune", Trump said, adding that he had a "protective glow".

Kim Kardashian West pledges to donate United States dollars 1 million to Armenia fund

October 13, 2020

Kardashian-West and her famous sisters, Khloe and Kourtney , took to Instagram on Saturday to raise awareness of the situation for The Armenia Fund , which seeks to provide food, shelter, medical care and other humanitarian relief efforts for those affected by the conflict.

Facebook bans posts denying and distorting the Holocaust

October 13, 2020

Facebook announced on Monday that it would begin removing content that denies that the Holocaust happened, a change in policy that left the social media giant in hot water a few years ago. The group on Sunday posted its 75th video from a Holocaust survivor appealing directly to Zuckerberg. The comment provoked immediate uproar from researchers and Jewish groups, who for years have documented how promoting the conspiracy theory that Nazi Germany did not kill six million Jews and millions of ...

Death penalty is no panacea for rape

October 13, 2020

Law and Justice Minister Anisul Huq said a presidential declaration is expected on Tuesday for the new provision to come into effect. An investigation by an autonomous state body, the National Human Rights Commission, found the woman in the recent video had been raped repeatedly and terrorised with weapons by one of the group over the past year.

Greta Thunberg endorses Biden

October 13, 2020

In September, the publication broke with its 175-year tradition of not endorsing presidential candidates and backed Biden . One of his latest endorsements comes in the form of climate change activist Greta Thunberg . In a subsequent retweet, Thunberg shared a message from activist and author Naomi Klein promising to " make " Biden ban fracking, an issue Republicans have capitalized on as Biden has said in the past he will ban it, but now claims he will not.

Texas governor's order on limiting ballot drop-off boxes squashed

October 13, 2020

The US Postal Service already has already warned ballot papers may not arrive in time to be counted on election day, 3 November. Federal Judge Robert Pitman has blocked Gov. Pitman's ruling also notes that the elderly and the ill would be particularly affected by the governor's one drop-off site per county rule, because those voters may be more fearful than most to go to a place that has long lines and more potential exposure to the virus.

Five new COVID-19 infections reported by Waterbury schools

October 13, 2020

Mazzorato said that this change will require significant reorganization and re-staffing of schools and that students may be reassigned to another class and/or teacher as a result. "As parents we know our circumstances and our children best and so I think it's great that there's options for families who feel comfortable sending their kids to school and then there's options for families who just don't feel comfortable yet", said Crandell.

Three dead as forest fires burn in Syria, Lebanon

October 13, 2020

The fires are said to have destroyed hundreds of hectares. The wildfires also burnt wide areas of forests, mostly in the central province of Homs and the coastal province of Latakia. Several villages along Lebanon's border with Israel have been battling wildfires and the fires have triggered the detonation of landmines along the heavily-guarded border.

Two Stanford University professors win Nobel Prize for economics

October 12, 2020

Milgrom and Wilson (with help from Preston McAfee, now at Google) designed an auction format in which all the licenses were sold in one go. The economics prize concludes this year's list of Nobel awards. "I've never actively participated in an auction personally", he replied. Past year the prize went to French-American Esther Duflo, Indian-born Abhijit Banerjee of the U.S., and American Michael Kremer for their experimental work on alleviating poverty.

Americans Win Nobel Prize in Economics

October 12, 2020

Their theoretical discoveries have improved auctions in practice. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson have been announced this year's joint winners of the Nobel prize for economics. Goran Hansson , the secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , praised the pair of American economists for their trailblazing research and creation of new types of auction formats .

Americans Win Nobel Prize in Economics

October 12, 2020

Their theoretical discoveries have improved auctions in practice. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson have been announced this year's joint winners of the Nobel prize for economics. Goran Hansson , the secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , praised the pair of American economists for their trailblazing research and creation of new types of auction formats .

Americans Paul Milgrom, Robert Wilson win Nobel prize in economics

October 12, 2020

In practice, this was adopted by American authorities in 1994 as a method to sell radio frequencies to telecom operators. Before the 1990s, the US government essentially conducted "beauty contests" to hand out the frequencies, letting companies make their case for getting the licenses.

Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics

October 12, 2020

New auction formats have been used for radio spectra, fishing quotas, aircraft landing slots and emissions allowances. "They take into consideration both what they know themselves and what they believe other bidders to know", the release adds, about the complexity involved in picking an auction format .

Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson win Nobel Prize 2020 in economics

October 12, 2020

Using auction theory , it is possible to explain how these three factors govern the bidders' strategic behaviour and thus the auction's outcome. Since their contributions to the field in the 1990s, the internet has had a "profound" impact on auctions with the rise of websites like eBay, Wilson said.

Beijing joins WHO-backed COVAX program to support initiative against ‘vaccine nationalism’

October 12, 2020

The vaccine under development by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is also being reviewed under this new, speedier framework by the EMA. Foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Friday that Beijing had formally signed up to the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) Facility, an worldwide initiative co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO), which aims to provide equitable access to safe and effective coronavirus vaccines.

Mexico Makes Nearly $160 Million Down Payment For COVAX Vaccine Plan

October 12, 2020

According to the study, when respondents were asked if they were willing to accept less rigorous testing and faster approval of a coronavirus vaccine, almost half (43%) of parents surveyed globally said they were willing. The vaccine, first licensed by Russian authorities for domestic use in August, is now being tested on 40,000 volunteers in Moscow as part of a late-stage trial known as Phase III.

Fauci Says Quote in New Trump Ad Was Taken Out of Context

October 12, 2020

Anthony Fossie, the best scientist in the United States government, has said that the edited clip he used in the Trump campaign advertisement was incorrect. "We did a "phenomenal" job, according to some governors". While they may be Dr Fauci's words, they don't apply to the president, nor his scattershot response to virus management in the world's worst-hit country.

World Health Organization reports record one-day rise in cases

October 12, 2020

Coronavirus infections have continued to soar in Europe and are also on the increase around the world. The previous World Health Organization record for new cases was 330,340 on October 2. Several countries including France and Spain are experiencing a second wave with authorities clamping down on cafes and bars and imposing new restrictions on people's movements.

China 7th Corps Commander meet today

October 12, 2020

In fact, India has reiterated its stand that the PLA should withdraw up to Finger Eight, which was the Chinese position before the April 2020 troop advance began into areas that India considers a violation as per its perception of the Line of Actual Control, or LAC.

Michigan AG Says White Supremacist Groups Behind Plot To Kidnap Gov. Whitmer

October 12, 2020

The FBI, which says the men began planning as early as June, charged another six individuals , who, according to a 15-page criminal complaint , tracked down the governor's DE vacation home and began building bombs. "So are they trying to arrest or was it a kidnap attempt?" "They are criminals and traitors, and they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law".

Belarus police break up protests with stun grenades, detain many

October 12, 2020

Police in Minsk said yesterday they had detained "several dozen" people. Also Read | Twitter Flags Donald Trump's "Can't Get Coronavirus" Tweet For Violating Rules About Spread of Misleading Information on COVID-19. "The aim of the President is to hear everyone's opinion", Mr Lukashenko's press service wrote on Telegram, adding that the participants agreed to keep "secret" the content of the 4½-hour meeting.

Int'l Day of Girl Child: Ogun gov, stakeholders advocate gender equality, empowerment

October 12, 2020

Coinciding with the "International Day of the Girl Child", the District Administration has launched "Balike Bhavishyathu" programme and chose to give an opportunity to one girl each as head of all government offices in the district on from 11 a.m.

Security Guard Jailed in Deadly Shooting at Denver Protests

October 12, 2020

The Denver Police Department said it had taken a private security guard into custody in connection with the shooting . The shooting occurred in the courtyard near the Denver Art Museum, officials said. Jacobs said that she had been at the north end of the park, where police had moved the group she was with, and that the shooting had happened at the south end of the park.

Mumbai faces major power cut due to 'multiple tripping' of supply lines

October 12, 2020

Due to the power failure, suburban local train services and metro operating only for essential workers at present, have been held up. The services will resume as soon as traction power supply is restored, it said. In a recent development, as power supply restored in West Railway's Mumbai Suburban section, all OHE hv been charged at 12:20 PM and WR's suburban train services restored.

India's Covid-19 tally crosses 71-lakh mark with 66,732 fresh cases

October 12, 2020

There are 8,61,853 active cases in the country and 6,149,535 cured/discharged/migrated cases. It is followed by the southern state of Tamil Nadu which has recorded 10,187 deaths and a total of 597,033 cases, and the southern state of Karnataka which has 9,891 deaths due to the pandemic and 569,947 cases so far.

‘Mental health problems and COVID-19’

October 12, 2020

In Covid and post-Covid eras, the ongoing mental health needs of South Africans with pre-existing mental illness and the needs of those with new-onset mental illness must be adequately catered for. The annual awareness week aims to shine a spotlight on individual and community mental health and wellbeing. In many countries, mental health programmes are vastly underfunded and given the massive impact of the pandemic on people, the need for investment in mental health and psychosocial support ...

Egypt welcomes cease-fire between Armenia, Azerbaijan

October 12, 2020

CCTV footage obtained by Turkish state-run TRT Haber showed the moment a large explosion hit Azerbaijan's second-largest city of Ganja. Minutes into the agreed truce, however, Armenia and Azerbaijan accused one another of breaking the ceasefire.

North Korea displays new intercontinental ballistic missile at military parade

October 12, 2020

But the missile was carried on an enormous and previously unseen 11-axle transporter-erector-launcher, far larger than the eight-axle Chinese-made vehicles the North has employed so far. "So the longer TELs we saw were indigenously produced". The missile was estimated at 24 metres long and 2.5 metres in diameter, which specialist Markus Schiller said was big enough to carry 100 tonnes of fuel, which would take hours to load.

Buhari meets with IGP, speaks on #EndSARS protests

October 12, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday night summoned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu , over the ongoing agitation for the scrapping of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) over allegations of brutality. The force said Sunday also said it would set up a mechanism to prevent future abuse. A "Citizens' and Strategic Stakeholders' Forum" will have regular contact with the force at all levels to address issues of concern, it said.

Opposing sides launch war of words as truce fails within minutes

October 12, 2020

Turkey's defence ministry blamed Armenia for the ceasefire violations in a post on Twitter and accused Yerevan of committing "war crimes and crimes against humanity". "The ceasefire which was declared on humanitarian grounds for the exchange of prisoners of war and bodies, is an important first step, but can not replace a lasting solution", the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Judge Blocks Abbott’s Order Limiting Mail Ballot Drop-Off Sites

October 12, 2020

Greg Abbott's move to limit counties in the state to one ballot drop-off site each. With an unprecedented number of Texas voters requesting mail-in ballots during the coronavirus pandemic , and concerns about the reliability of the U.S. November 4. In order to be eligible for mail voting, Texas residents must be 65 or older, disabled, out of the county on Election Day and the early voting period or in jail but otherwise eligible.

More than 1,000 students test positive for coronavirus at Newcastle University

October 12, 2020

Meanwhile, at Leeds University, 555 students and three staff members have tested positive between September 28 and October 4. The university halls, called The Courtrooms, are owned by the University of Bristol - which has had 254 students and three staff members test positive for coronavirus .

2nd presidential debate between Biden and Trump canceled

October 12, 2020

The commission had announced Thursday it was converting the 15 October town hall debate to a virtual affair out of an abundance of caution because Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus . But the commission said it would not reverse its decision to prevent the candidates from being on stage together, citing health concerns. Though the co-chair of the commission later clarified that Scully had been " hacked ", the incident only spurred suspicions of hidden dealings behind the scenes ...

Taiwan president calls for 'meaningful dilaogue' with China

October 12, 2020

After repeated warnings from Beijing to adhere to "One China Policy", hundreds of posters wishing Taiwan on its "National Day" were hung around the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi . "From sovereignty disputes in the South and East China Seas and the China-India border conflict, to developments in the Taiwan Strait, as well as the "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law" that has garnered worldwide concern, it is clear that democracy, peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific are now ...

Amy Coney Barrett Remarks: Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing

October 12, 2020

Democrats are still fuming that McConnell is hurrying to confirm Barrett as the election approaches after refusing to let the Senate even consider Democratic President Barack Obama's nominee to fill a 2016 Supreme Court vacancy because it was an election year.

Debate Commission Claims Moderator’s Account Was Hacked

October 12, 2020

The commission is investigating the the help of the authorities, the broadcaster said. He was set to serve as moderator of the second Trump-Biden meeting, a town hall format on October 15, but that has been called into doubt by the president's COVID-19 illness.

Spain govt imposes Madrid state of emergency to curb virus

October 12, 2020

On Sept 21, Madrid had imposed a partial lockdown on dozens of areas based on data from local health authorities, which were expanded a week later to cover more than a million residents. The death rate and case load remains lower in Germany than many of its neighbours but the number of infections has jumped in recent days, hitting 4,721 on Saturday.

Azerbaijan, Armenia accuse each other of truce violations

October 12, 2020

The agreement to pause hostilities in order to exchange prisoners and the bodies of people killed after two weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region was approved by Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers in marathon Russia-brokered talks in Moscow.

Woman delivers baby on flight from Delhi to Bengaluru

October 12, 2020

One passenger, named Prabhu Stavarmath, tweeted: "Was on @ IndiGo6E 6E 122 flight to BLR, woman gives birth mid-indiair, awesome team work of indigo flight attendants". Both the mother and child are healthy now, and the baby when born weighed 1.82 kg. "Congratulations to all. Kudos to your training Team First Aid". Photos and videos of the woman and her baby were clicked along with the crew and pilot who helped her in the process.