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 terror attack in France among those killed a women was beheaded by the attacker. The stabbing took place at the notre dame church. Denise mayor christian estrosi has said that the suspect behind the  attack has been arrested he also added that the victims had been killed in a horrible way . according to  the mayor the attacker shouted allahu akbar  multiple times. A terror probe has now been opened into the incident     President macron will be arriving shortly in nice to take a stalk of situation meanwhile the interior minister will convene a crisis meeting in paris. The attack has prompted lawmakers in the parliament to hold a minute silence before the prime minister jacques and other ministers abruptly left for an emergency meeting with the president emmanuel macron mean while the mayor of peace called fir churches around the country to be given additional security or to be closed precautionary measure. the two more attacks on french people have b...

 France across the Islamic world has emerged as a challenge for french president Emmanuel macron both at home and abroad. Emmanuel Macron faces a big challenge of curbing radical Islam while not giving way to the rise of Islamophobia in the country. Islam is the second-largest religion in France and the country also has the highest Muslim population among European countries nearly 6 million Muslims live in France earlier this Emmanuel macron unveiled antiradicalism plans saying that Islam was in crisis globally. the french president's declaration of war on Islamic separatism has sparked fears of discrimination against Muslims some also fear that the move may lead to the rise of right-wing groups. internationally Emmanuel macron has been facing backlash from the leaders of the Islamic world who accuse him of being islamophobic. the Rao has dented France's relations with Arab countries and also affected macrons image globally calls to boycott French products have been on the ris...

The final presidential debate between u.s president Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden is all to set to take place today in Nashville Tennessee today will be the second and final debate between the candidates as trumps refuse to participate in the event planned for the 15th of October after it was announced that it would be help virtually. the new rules have been fixed for the final debate the 90-minute debate will be divided into 15-minute segments. At the start of each new topic, the candidate will have two minutes of uninterrupted time during which the opponent's microphone will be turned off. the rest of the time will be for open discussion for remarks by both the candidates on each other's statements during which the microphones of both the candidates will not be muted. NBC news white house correspondent Kristen Welker will be moderating this final debate final face-off between Trump and Biden and will aim to bring order to this showdown.  A Harvard Universit...

Twitter showed parts of Leh and Jammu and Kashmir to be in the people's republic of china. the Indian government has pulled up a social media platform for disrespecting the sovereignty and integrity of India. India has warned twitter not to do that referring to an incident which took place on Sunday where leh was shown as part of china  India said that this raises questions about Twitter neutrality and fairness the images had sparked concerns across a broad section of a Twitter user in India. India's  IT secretary has written a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey conveying strong disapproval of the government over misrepresentation of the Indian map. Twitter had shown a jio location of leh in Jammu and Kashmir as people republic of china source say IT secretary in his letter, Twitter reminded that leh is headquarters of the union territory of Ladakh and both  Ladakh as well as Jammu and Kashmir are integral parts of India. this further raises the questions of social media p...

 American goes to polls in less than three weeks and a lot of Americans are not waiting for November 3rd to vote. millions of people across u.s have already cast their ballots in this upcoming election. experts say that the early voting number is due to the covid pandemic. Americans are looking out for alternatives to long voting cues of over 23 million. Americans have cast their ballot by now either through ail or by in-person voting four years ago at the exact same point in the race only 1.4 million votes were cast. texas set the record for the highest number of ballots cast on the first day of early voting it should be noted that Texas is one of the few states that have strict restrictions on who and who can not qualify for postal voting. taxes is not only state breaking records it is being reported that on Monday over 125000 votes were cast in Georgia. this is a new state record for Georgia in Ohio a crucial swing state more than 2.4 million ballots have already been requ...

Taiwanese businessman has served as the middle man helping the hunter Biden build a business connection with Chinese state-owned companies. that's according to an exclusive article by hong kong's pro-democracy newspaper apple daily for years 57-year-old Michael ling and his Boston based investment advisory Thornton group have been arranging meetings between u.s officials and people like hunter Biden and Chinese state-owned company executives. according to Thornton's official website in April 2010 the company arranged for Hunter Biden whose father was the vice president at the time to visit multiple financial institutes owned by the Chinese regime hong kong media outlet apple daily reports that any of them later became business partners of hunter Biden in china. the report says that according to an exclusively seen records of u.s secret service. hunter Biden visited China at least six times during the eight years when his father was u.s vice president and al the trips involv...

Joe Biden's potential involvement with Ukraine more documents have surfaced involving Biden's son. this time hunter Biden is found to have business tires to china according to new york post emails show that hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving cefc china energy co one of china's largest private energy companies. the emails show hunter Biden discussing business ventures including some that he said would be quote interesting" for me and my family" one email chain sent to hunter Biden on May 13, 2017, shows discussions of compensation packages for six people involved in an unspecified business endeavor Hunter Biden was named chair slash vice-chair depending on the agreement with cefc with a pay quote of 850. the email also detailed a provisional agreement where 80% of shares would be divided between six people in another email chain dated august 2nd 2017, hunter Biden discusses a deal with cefc's former chairmen ye jin ming in which hunter hold half own...

 India and China are holding their seventh military-level talks today in Trishul on the Indian side of the line of actual control. Now the co-commander level meet is not only taking stock of the situation on the ground but also discuss de-escalation measures by the Chinese side. The Indian delegation is being led by 14 core commanders 14 left lieutenant general kpg  Menon and senior diplomat Naveen Srivastava is also part of this delegation.  The Chinese foreign ministry official is also participating in these military-level talks both the countries had called for a halt and troop deployment in the last military-level talks which were held on September 21st  In a joint statement, India and china are stopped sending more forces to the frontline meanwhile the u.s secretary of state Mike Pompeo has warned India of Chinese aggression ahead of talks between Washington and New Delhi. Pompeo said that china deployed 60000troops at the lac. Earlier the Indian air force carri...

The nurses across the world are manning the front line fighting covid 19 since the onset of the pandemic. Health care staff across the world have put their duties before anything else but having carried on the battle for this long. The nurses are also suffering now a burnout the international council for nurses has come out in support of covid warriors suffering psychological distress as per icn nurses face abuse and discrimination out of work. The supply of ppl kits for nurses remains insufficient. on the occasion of the world health day this is what the chief executive of the council said that “we’re extremely concerned about the mental health impacts on nurses. Our most recent survey of national nursing associations showed that more than 70% were saying that nurses have been subjected to violence or discrimination and as a result of that they’re very concerned about extreme cases of psychological distress and mental health pressures” The figures quoted by the chief executive of the ...

On the occasion of taiwan national day president, Tsai Ing-wen addressed her nation. during her speech spoke about the rising tension between India and China along with other belligerent action. China has resorted to over the course of the last few months she said that the island nation will continue to modernize its defensive capabilities. she's also about to accelerate upgrading the capabilities of Taiwan to deal with any kind of military expansionism or provocation from the other side of the Taiwanese straits. tensions have been on the rise between Taiwan and china along the Taiwan strait the island is expected to bolster its military further in a bid to counter any prospect of Chinese aggression  Tsai Ing-wen assured the Taiwanese people that Taiwan will uphold the principle of neither fearing nor seeking war with china. the Tsai ing-wen was reelected by a landslide victory in the month of January earlier this year on the promise of standing up to china and not getting bul...

The Russian president spoke about the u.s election in a way that left the viewer confused.putin said that a sharp anti-Russia rhetoric was noted in Joe Biden's comments. the democratic candidate Joe Biden has been critical of Russia throughout his campaign expressing his displeasure Putin said that Russia has grown used to Biden's anti-Russia stand.  Putin expressed Moscow's willingness to work with the elected leadership of America. Putin also made a point to praise Donald trump to improve working ties with Russia despite it not materializing on the ground. u.s and Russia have never enjoyed a friendly relationship but post-cold war the relationship hit a new law when evidence of Russian meddling emerged after trump's elevation as the president of the united states of America though Putin has repeatedly denied all charges of interference last month Microsoft issued a warning that hacker was trying to spy on both Donald Trump and Joe Biden which was usual was dismissed b...

India is not in a good shape for revising down since its June forecast of 3.2 drops and reflecting the impact of coronavirus led lockdowns world bank has projected India's GDP to plunge by 9.6% in the current financial year which is fy21. Indian economy contracted a record 23.9 in the June quarter the pandemic materialized in the backdrop of enduring fragility in the financial sector slowing overall growth and limited physical buffer underlining the extent of economic damage brought about by the pandemic and ensuing lockdown many forecasters they now expect the Indian economy to contract in double digits this year. growth is expected to rebound to 5.4% in fy22 which is next year. according to the world bank estimate which assumes COVID-related restrictions they are completely lifted but mostly reflecting base effect however the bank said potential output is expected to remain depressed in the medium term and inflation is expected to remain around RBI target range midpoint of four p...

secretary of state Mike Pompeo meets with the three-nation that make up the quad alliance. the quad alliance unifying goal is achieved a free and open indo-pacific region one that can't be achieved without tackling the threat from China secretary of state Mike Pompeo meeting with the foreign minister for japan, Australia, and India.the four regional allies in the indo-pacific region seeking to boost ties and cooperation against a common threat china's communist regime.  japan foreign minister Yoshimitsu Motegi translation for the above video.  (we the four nations share the same fundamental values of democracy rule of law and free economy we as a responsible partner in the region share a common goal to enhance a free and open international order abiding by the rules.) In a quad meet, Mike Pompeo met with the Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga who said his country had been pushing hard to realize a free indo-pacific region.

 The u.s citizenship and immigration services published a policy alert about banning member of the communist party from getting an immigrant visa in general unless otherwise exempt any intending immigrant who is a member or affiliate of the communist party or any other totalitarian party domestic or foreign is inadmissible to the united states. the policy alert is not new it is based on laws passed by the u.s congress between world war 1 and the 1950s but it suggests that the Trump administration may take tougher action to enforce them. the law provides an exemption for aliens whose membership or affiliation was involuntary or for purposes of obtaining employment food rations or other essential of living and where necessary for such purpose the law provides another exemption where aliens must have terminated their membership at least five years before the date of the application and had actively opposed the doctrine and ideology on Saturday one day after the policy alert had been i...

 The mass trial of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine in Bangladesh has hit a roadblock as Chinese pharma companies in Novak has refused to channel its original proposal with the country. on September 24th the Beijing-based vaccine giants sent a letter to the international center for diarrhoeal disease research in Bangladesh which was to conduct the trial. now the company was supposed to bear the costs as per their agreement but in their letter, the drugmaker said the mass trail of their vaccine would be delayed unless the Bangladesh government-provided funds. what remains unclear is the amount of funds it would need and why it was seeking funds at the last moment.  Bangladesh government gave the approval for Sinovac biotech for the clinical trial of vaccines after examining all necessary research protocols including effectiveness and safety issues as per this contract Sinovac was to provide 110 000 free vaccines doses to Bangladesh and the clinical trial was supposed to start by t...

India and the U.S will be holding the meeting on Oct 26th and 27th the talks will be held in New Delhi reports say that the countries will be signing the basic exchange and cooperation agreement for Becca for geospatial partnership.  Now the agreement is an important precursor to India acquiring armed drones such as mq-9b from u.s and the unmanned aerial vehicle uses spatial data for pinpointed strikes on enemy targets. India will be able to use geospatial data provided by u.s for accuracy data of standoff weapons like Cruz and ballistic missiles. the communication agreement will allow both the countries to share military information about the threats on land and the indo-pacific.  According to a report u.s defense secretary mark esper will be attending the two plus two dialogue which is the highest level institutional mechanism between the two countries. esper will also be also meeting the India prime minister Narendra Modi the two sides are expected to discuss Chinese aggres...

The Chinese government has now admitted to the death of a Uighur man whose family believed that he was held in a Xinjiang internment camp since the year 2017.  the government has now confirmed the death formally to the united nations Abdul Gafur Hapis's disappearance was registered with the working group in April of 2019 but the Chinese government did not respond to formal inquiries until this month.  According to the reports by the guardian when it did not respond or that is when it did respond it told the group that the retired driver from Kashgar had died almost two years ago of severe pneumonia and tuberculosis while his daughter has disputed the suggestion that he died of pneumonia and tuberculosis in 2018. the formal acknowledgment of his death is significant for the Uighur community in Xinjiang not only is it an extraordinarily rare response from the Chinese government. it also raises the hope of a potential legal recourse.  china began persecuting Uighur Muslims w...

The wildfires which continue to wreak havoc in California and Paraguay millions of acres of land has been burnt off in California and the Paraguay government has now declared forest fires a national emergency for weeks, California has been ravaged by wildfires and as the fire season wears on and new blazes ignite relief is not yet in sight.  the weather forecast in the napa valley warns of the return of the dangerous high winds and hot weather this weekend. the wildfire engulfed more than four million acres of this year and claimed 31 lives many homes have been burned to the ground in what has now been called the worst fire of the season. more than 2500 firefighters have been deployed at Calistoga near San Francisco named the glass fire this is the fourth major blaze in the region in three years and comes ahead of the third anniversary of the October 8, 2017 wildfire which kills 22 people. Paraguay is another country hit by nature's fury. more than 5200 fires were detected just in ...

president trump joined the growing list of world leaders infected by the ccp virus. a china analyst says this may prompt him to take an even tougher line against threats posed by the ccp. when he has recovered china analyst tan jin yang says the news might prompt u.s president trump to take an even harder approach towards the Chinese regime. tan jin yang Chinese analyst says as u.s president he's supposed to have the highest level of security and protection but even he can't get away from the virus. from one side shows that the threat that the ccp has brought to the world is far beyond people's imagination. In may the trump administration issued a new report detailing its strategic approach to china. the report criticized the past u.s engagement policy towards the ccp. it also condemned china's actions on trade and other issues but it also states that u.s policies are premised on an attempt to change the PRCS or people's republic of china's domestic governance m...

German chancellor angela Merkel has said that she would hold talks with Belarus's main opposition leader. days after french president Emmanuel Macron met with her and pledged to help mediate talks between Lukashenko as well as figures. Merkel said that she will be meeting Svetlana thikhanovkaya soon speaking to the German parliament Merkel even hailed the women's protest movement in Belarus calling it impressive. Merkel who holds the rotating presidency of the European Union said german did not recognize Lukashenko as the winner of the vote and that she condemned the government's violence against protesters. french president Emmanuel Marcon spoke with thikhanovkaya this week on a visit to Lithuania in her most high profile meeting so far since the Belarus election.  the organization for security and cooperation in Europe or the OSCE has offered to help a broker a negotiated  end to the crisis in Belarus mass protest that has continued since the election have now been met wi...

 US President Donald Trump & first lady Melania tested positive for COVID 19. trump & Melania go into quarantine after testing positive for COVID  trump and Melania were tested after aide hope hicks tested positive for COVID. hick was on board air force one with trump as he traveled for the presidential debate.  Trump had earlier tweeted to say that they got tested after hope hick tested positive.

China has been promising a de-escalation at the border but it doesn't walk the talk now china has come up with a new logic a new plan to justify its military assertiveness. China says it is following the line of actual control proposed way back in 1959 a position that India has rejected for more than 60 years now China is not willing to relent what should new Delhi do. strengthen its defenses and that's what it's doing rolling out missiles to counter the Chinese threat. India tested the Brahmos missile and two more missiles have been deployed.  the city of Balasore in India Orissa was buzzing today a supersonic cruise missile road through the skies traveling three times faster than the speed of sound. Brahmos was India's arsenal for a while now the scientists at Indias defense research and development organization or DRDO have extended its range the missile can now travel up to 400 km. it has the potential to hit targets deep inside enemy lines. the Brahmos is part of a...