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Today’s Silent Majority Is Not What Trump Or Republicans Think It Is. Instead, It Mirrors Biden’s Cabinet
WorldNews.com 26 Oct 2020
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Today, there is a fundamental flaw in how Donald Trump and the Republicans perceive the Silent Majority ... (1)The Real Silent MajorityThe problem the president and Republicans face is this is not 1969, and since then, America has undergone a major shift in diversity ... Sen ... Women make up 51 percent....
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White House: 'We're not going to control the pandemic'
Press TV 26 Oct 2020
The White House says the United States is "not going to control" the coronavirus pandemic amid a spike in cases across the country. The US has seen its highest ever number of new virus cases in the past two days, recording 79,852 new infections on Saturday, close to the previous day's record of 84,244 new cases ... With nine days to go before the Nov ... ....
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Australia protests Qatar airport’s examination of women passengers
Gulf News 26 Oct 2020
Canberra. Australia on Monday condemned Qatar authorities’ treatment of women passengers on a flight to Sydney who were subjected to internal examinations after a newborn baby was found abandoned at a Doha airport ... “This is a grossly, grossly disturbing, offensive, concerning set of events,” Foreign Minister Marise Payne told reporters ... ....
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Pakistan quadcopter shot down by Indian Army in J-K's Keran sector
Yahoo Daily News 26 Oct 2020
Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], October 24 (ANI). Indian Army troops shot down a Pakistan Army quadcopter along Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district on Saturday ... (ANI). ....
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Marine Le Pen declares Islamism an ‘enemy of France’
Free West Media 26 Oct 2020
“A war is being waged against us and we must fight this war”. Ten days after the terrorist assassination of Samuel Paty, Marine Le Pen felt that “Islamist ideology” should be considered “an enemy of France”. “We are not waging this war against a State, but against an ideology ... Bruno Pomart, a former police officer of the RAID, recently told CNews ... .......
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Infection of Pence aides raises new questions about Trump’s virus response
Indian Express 26 Oct 2020
“COVID, COVID. COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID,” President Donald Trump groused at a rally in North Carolina on Saturday, expressing dismay that the deadly coronavirus pandemic had come to dominate the final days of his struggling reelection campaign. He made up a scenario. “A plane goes down, 500 people dead, they don’t talk about it ... Robert C ... Rep ... Tags ... ....
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Celebrations as Chile votes by huge majority to scrap Pinochet-era constitution
The Guardian 26 Oct 2020
“Starting today, we must all collaborate so that the new constitution is the great framework for unity, stability and the future,” he said.....
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‘Boycott French products’ launched over Macron’s Islam comments
Al Jazeera 25 Oct 2020photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore
Republicans closely resemble autocratic parties in Hungary and Turkey - study
The Guardian 26 Oct 2020
The Republican party has become dramatically more illiberal in the past two decades and now more closely resembles ruling parties in autocratic societies than its former centre-right equivalents in Europe, according to a new international study ....
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Facebook, Google and Microsoft 'not paying enough tax in developing world'
BBC News 26 Oct 2020
Google, Facebook and Microsoft should be paying more corporation tax in developing nations, says ActionAid. The aid charity estimates that poorer countries are missing out on up to $2.8bn (£2.2bn) in tax revenue that could be used to tackle the pandemic ... Facebook declined to comment while Microsoft and Google did not respond to requests for comment ... ....
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Oxford COVID-19 vaccine trials produce robust immune response in elderly - FT
Yahoo Daily News 26 Oct 2020
(Reuters) - Early results from tests for a coronavirus vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford, in collaboration with AstraZeneca Plc, show it produces a robust immune response in elderly people, the group at highest risk, the Financial Times reported on Monday ... ....
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Three year old boy in Texas shoots and kills himself at his own birthday party
The Independent 25 Oct 2020
A three-year-old boy in Texas has died at his own birthday party after finding a family member’s gun and accidentally shooting himself in the chest. The accident happened on Saturday afternoon in Porter, 30 miles from downtown Houston ... “The child was located with a gunshot wound to the chest.” ... Read more ... ....
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Turkish President says Macron needs mental 'treatment' over response to teacher beheading
Australian Broadcasting Corporation 26 Oct 2020
In a growing diplomatic tussle over Islam and freedom of speech, France recalls its ambassador from Turkey as the European country still reels over the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in class ... ....
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Israel to begin human clinical trials of coronavirus vaccine 'BriLife' from November 1
India TV 26 Oct 2020
Israel Defence Ministry has said that the human clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccine will begin after the Ministry of Health and the Helsinki Committee grant necessary approvals. According to the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), it will start human clinical trials of vaccines from November 1 ... .......
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The ghost haunting the 2020 election
CNN 25 Oct 2020
(CNN)What is haunting the campaign of 2020?. The ghost of 2016, when Donald Trump overcame dismal mid-October polls and eked out a surprise Electoral College victory over Hillary Clinton to become president. Trump's supporters are hoping it will happen again, that the polls aren't registering the full degree of his support among voters ... Read More ... W ... ....
