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What Donald Trump might do if he loses

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Of course, Donald Trump doesn't plan to lose Tuesday, but what's the future if he does? From court battles to road trips with his wife Melania, potential post-White House options are as unconventional as everything else about the 45th president. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3jFTRG4 via

New York Marathon canceled, but runners stride on

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Australia reports no new local cases in months

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In Melbourne, the capital of Victoria state, which had the highest number of cases in the country, residents were enjoying the first weekend of cafes, restaurants and pubs reopening to walk-in customers. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/382Z0Wu via

Israel's 'Prince of Torah' confronts coronavirus

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The rabbi was 92-year-old Chaim Kanievsky, whose knowledge of Jewish law is so revered that his rulings are thought to require total compliance within his community. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2HItRNx via

US vote: How the virus upturned the campaign

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The pandemic robs Democratic candidate Joe Biden of one of his key attributes: a personal connection with voters. For two months he confines himself at home, in his basement in Delaware. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mDHT1C via

Super typhoon slams into Philippines, 1m evacuated

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Super Typhoon Goni pounded the Philippines Sunday with authorities warning of "catastrophic" conditions in the region expected to take the hardest hit, where more than 300,000 have fled their homes. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2HP2bGr via

England to enter new lockdown; UK virus cases pass 1 million

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a new month-long lockdown for England after being warned that without tough action a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/35RytZB via

Obama: Trump failed to take pandemic, presidency seriously

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Calling Joe Biden his "brother,'' Barack Obama on Saturday accused Donald Trump of failing to take the coronavirus pandemic and the presidency seriously as Democrats leaned on America's first Black president to energize Black voters in battleground Michigan on the final weekend of the 2020 campaign. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3kPkIRA via

Priest shot outside French church, suspect arrested

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An attacker armed with a sawn-off shotgun seriously wounded a Greek Orthodox priest in a shooting outside a church in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, with the country still reeling from a deadly church attack days before. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3811PHM via

Trump lashes out at doctors as Covid cases surge

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China can no longer rely on old model of development, time for change: Xi

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France struggles against spiral of online jihadist hate

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The weekly put the cartoons on its front page in September to mark the trial opening for 14 suspected accomplices of the gunmen who massacred 12 people at its Paris office in January 2015, the beginning of a wave of terror that has left more than 250 people dead on French soil. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2TDQftt via

Biden's lead over Trump narrows slightly to 8 points

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Currently, Biden is leading Trump with a 52-44 per cent margin, as to 53-43 per cent lead three weeks ago. Among likely voters, the support for Biden has been between 51-53 percent since early September, which is considerably greater than the polls in 2016, where neither candidate exceeded 48 percent support in pre-election surveys -- or the final election results. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/32298el via

Earthquake kills 14 people in Turkey and Greek islands

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Early on Saturday, onlookers cheered as rescuers lifted teenager Inci Okan out of the rubble of a devastated eight-floor apartment block in Izmir's Bayrakli district. Her dog, Fistik, was also rescued, Sozcu newspaper reported. Friends and relatives waited outside the building for news of loved ones still trapped inside, including employees of a dental clinic that was located on the ground floor. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/37ZOPlI via

Iraq reopens Tahrir Square, epicentre of revolt in Baghdad

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Iraqi authorities reopened Baghdad's Tahrir Square and Al-Jumhuriyah bridge on Saturday, symbolically ending more than a year of demonstrations in epicentres of an anti-government protest movement. Protester tents have been dismantled at the Tahrir roundabout, now again circled by cars, and the towering concrete walls used to close off the Al-Jumhuriyah bridge across the Tigris River have been removed. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3oJ5M9T via

Russia pledges help to Yerevan if fighting reaches Armenia

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'Remarks recounting release of Abhinandan have weakened state'

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Nice knife attack: 3rd person under arrest

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An attacker beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the city of Nice on Thursday and a suspect is now in police custody. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/321hOl9 via

US says virus can’t be controlled. China aims to prove it wrong

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China has effectively sealed off its borders from the outside world and doubled down on efforts to eradicate the virus. When a crop of cases emerges, the government swiftly shuts down vast areas and quickly tests millions of people to help keep local transmissions near zero. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3kIMAqs via

Typhoon Goni: Philippines orders 2L to evacuate

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More than 200,000 people in the Philippines were ordered to evacuate their homes Saturday as the most powerful typhoon of the year so far barrels towards the country, with authorities warning of "destructive" winds and storm surges. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2JrcPnD via

France tightens security after Nice attack

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President Emmanuel Macron deployed thousands of soldiers to protect sites including places of worship and schools, and the nation was at its highest level of security alert after the second deadly knife attack in its cities in two weeks. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/31ZPGyT via

Death toll reaches 26 in quake that hit Turkey

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New York state launches online flu tracker

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"This fall could be a one-two punch for infection as we manage the start of another flu season while working diligently to keep the Covid-19 virus at bay," Xinhua news agency quoted Governor Andrew Cuomo as saying in a statement on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2JjZ4a1 via

26 dead as major quake hits Turkey, Greece

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US presidential polls: Trump and Biden intensify their election campaigns

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US, Europe coronavirus cases soar, but Trump defiant days before vote

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'Biden is corrupt career politician; betrayed America for last 47 years'

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Mike Pence: The calm to Trump's storm

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Free speech has limits, Canada's PM Trudeau says

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Kamala Harris: On the cusp of US election history

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Harris comes into the November 3 election already a repeat trailblazer as California's first Black attorney general and the first woman of South Asian heritage elected to the US Senate. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/37X3IVV via

Trump has turned Americans against one another: Biden

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Chavez's ex-nurse indicted in US for money laundering

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Hugo Chávez's former nurse has been charged with money laundering in a Miami federal court, accused of taking bribes from a billionaire media mogul to green light lucrative currency transactions when she served as Venezuela's national treasurer. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mBMy47 via

Strong earthquake kills 14 people in Turkey and Greek islands

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Fourteen people were killed in Turkey and Greece after a strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday, bringing buildings crashing down and setting off tidal waves which slammed into coastal areas and islands. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/37U8bbF via

Harvey Weinstein is sued by woman he was convicted of sexually assaulting

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6.6 magnitude earthquake in Aegean Sea shakes Turkey, Greece

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A small tsunami struck the Seferisar district of Izmir, said Haluk Ozener, director of the Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute. At least four people were slightly injured on Samos, where a tsunami warning was issued. Six people were killed in Izmir, Turkey's third-largest city, including one who drowned, and 202 were injured, according to Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, or AFAD. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/34HmE8X via

6.6 magnitude earthquake in Aegean Sea shakes Turkey, Greece

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Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said Friday's earthquake was centered in the Aegean at a depth of 16,5 kilometers (10.3 miles) and registered at a 6.6 magnitude. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, with an epicenter 13 kilometers north northeast of the Greek island of Samos. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2HRP2MQ via

As anger rises, thousands of Muslims protest French cartoons

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Thousands of Muslims in Pakistan poured out of prayer services to join anti-France protests on Friday, as the French president's vow to protect the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad continues to roil the Muslim world. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2TF75Ze via

China urges US not to be haven for criminals and their assets

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China said on Friday the United States should not become a haven for Chinese criminals' ill-gotten wealth and it denied that five people arrested in the United States for conspiring to coerce a Chinese family to go home were its law enforcement officers. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3kHtPDv via

France on alert as official warns of more militant attacks after Nice church killings

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Facebook using experience from polls in India to stop abuse ahead of US elections

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said steps taken by the social media giant have helped protect the integrity of more than 200 different elections around the world, including in India, and have also played an important role in stopping abuse ahead of US elections. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/31WUODV via

New arrest after France church attack, security tightened

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Over 1,000 new Covid-19 cases reported in Pakistan

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Jill Biden: A chance to transform the role of first lady

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Twitter deletes Mahathir Mohamad's tweet for glorifying violence; France seeks account suspension

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New Zealand to introduce compulsory Covid testing for maritime crew

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'China is angry': Taiwan anxiety rises as sabre-rattling grows

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Macron vows defiance after 'Islamist' knife attack in church kills three

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Australia bushfire inquiry warns of 'compounding disasters'

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Melania Trump: The reluctant first lady

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India stresses UNSC to list terror entities involved in violence

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US breaks daily record for coronavirus cases

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The previous one-day record for US coronavirus cases was 84,169 on October 23. Globally, India holds the record for new cases in a single day at 97,894 infections on September 17. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2TCAS4Q via