Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said "a thousand noes" to the Mideast peace plan announced by President Donald Trump, which strongly favours Israel. Speaking at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah,&nbsp;Abbas&nbsp;said the Palestinians remain committed to ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a state with its capital in east Jerusalem.&nbsp;The US plan would create a Palestinian state in parts of the West Bank but would allow Israel to annex nearly all of its settlements in the occupied territory. The plan would also allow the Palestinians to establish a capital on the outskirts of east Jerusalem but would leave most of the city under Israeli control.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said "a thousand noes" to the Mideast peace plan announced by President Donald Trump, which strongly favours Israel. Speaking at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas said the Palestinians remain committed to ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a state with its capital in east Jerusalem. The US plan would create a Palestinian state in parts of the West Bank but would allow Israel to annex nearly all of its settlements in the occupied territory. The plan would also allow the Palestinians to establish a capital on the outskirts of east Jerusalem but would leave most of the city under Israeli control.

The US on Wednesday passed the grim 2,00,000 Covid deaths landmark. US has hit the figure just 41 days before a presidential election, and as the World Health Organization warned that new cases worldwide have risen to record highs. President Donald Trump said the 200,000 milestone was "a shame" and deflected blame onto China. Addressing the UN on 75th anniversary, Trump called on the world to hold China accountable for "unleashing this plague onto the world".

India on Tuesday slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his remarks on Kashmir during United Nations General Assembly session. India said that Erdogan's speech constitutes "gross interference" in India's internal affairs and is "completely unacceptable". Hours after Erdogan raked the Kashmir issue in the UNGA, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, TS Tirumurti, tweeted that Ankara should learn to respect the sovereignty of other nations and reflect on its policies more deeply. The Turkish President called Kashmir "the burning issue" in his speech.

Chinese virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan has claimed that the deadly coronavirus was developed in a government laboratory in Wuhan. In an interview to news channel Wion, Dr Yan, who investigated the origin of the Covid-19 virus during the initial outbreak in Wuhan, has claimed that the Chinese government knew about the spread of the virus before publicly acknowledging it. According to Dr Yan the World Health Organization is very much a part of the cover up. She has also alleged that the Chinese government is now trying to tarnish her reputation and is also threatening her family in China

What do you do when Vladimir Putin offers you Russia's new coronavirus vaccine, for free? United Nations staff in New York and around the world are now facing that choice, after the Russian president offered to provide them the Sputnik-V vaccine for free. Addressing the UN General Assembly marking the body's 75th birthday, Putin described his Tuesday's offer as a response to popular demand claiming that some colleagues from the UN have asked about this. While Russia has claimed that the vaccine is safe and effective, experts and scientists has raised concerns.

United Nations, PTI: China will never seek hegemony, expansion, or sphere of influence, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday. He added that Beijing has no intention to fight either a "Cold War" or a "hot war" with any country.
Xi also said that China will continue to narrow the differences and resolve disputes with others through negotations, in comments that came in the backdrop of the tense military standoff between Chinese and Indian armies in eastern Ladakh for over four months.
Addressing the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, he said, "We will continue to narrow differences and resolve disputes with others through dialogue and negotiation." "We will never seek hegemony, expansion, or sphere of influence. We have no intention to fight either a Cold War or a hot war with any country," Xi said in a pre-recorded video message to the UN meeting.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a surprise visit to Ladakh on July 4, had said the era of expansionism is over and that the history is proof that "expansionists" have either lost or perished, in comments that were seen as a clear message to China.
Xi, also the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China and the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese military, said his country will not pursue development behind closed doors.
"Rather, we aim to foster, over time, a new development paradigm with domestic circulation as the mainstay and domestic and international circulations reinforcing each other. This will create more space for China's economic development and add impetus to global economic recovery and growth," he said.
The Chinese president also addressed the issue of the Covid-19 pandemic and international criticism about China's attempts to supress details about the outbreak.
"Facing the virus, we should enhance solidarity and get this through together. We should follow the guidance of science, give full play to the leading role of the World Health Organization, and launch a joint international response to beat this pandemic. Any attempt of politicising the issue or stigmatisation must be rejected," Xi said.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump blasted China on Tuesday for "unleashing&rdquo; the plague of the "China virus&rdquo; onto the world, demanding that the United Nations must hold Beijing accountable for failing to contain the coronavirus that has killed nearly one million people across the world, including 200,000 Americans.
Trump demanded that China, where the coronavirus emerged, be held accountable for failure to control the virus and for allowing it to spread across the world.
"As we pursue this bright future, we must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world: China,&rdquo; he said.
The Covid-19 pandemic has so far infected over 30 million people and more than 958,000 people have died. The US, with 6.7 million infections, crossed the grim milestone of 200,000 deaths.

Washington, PTI: Indian-Americans, with their hard work and entrepreneurship, have powered the economic growth of the United States and helped forge cultural dynamism in the country, Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden said on Tuesday. Addressing a national virtual fundraiser organised by Indian Americans, Biden assured the community members and the mega donors that as a president, he would address their concerns with regard to H-1B visa and legal immigrants that attract the best and the brightest to the US.
Think about what this community has done for the country, he said.
Entrepreneurs running businesses around the country and around the world, innovators who make the foundation for Silicon Valley and lead some of the most influential companies in the world come from the community, the former vice president said.
"You have helped forge an economic and cultural dynamism in this country. That is a continuation of who we are, we are a nation of immigrants," Biden said.
Hitting out at President Donald Trump, he said all the harmful actions on H-1B, racial injustice or climate crisis are a common threat. "This president makes things worse, not better," Biden added.
It makes parents wonder whether their kids will have the kind of future they dreamed of when they came here, he said.
"As president, I promise I am going to draw on the best, not the worst, beat this pandemic and build the economy back, help our kids get a good education and make sure healthcare is a right not a privilege, and build an immigration system that powers our economy and reflects our values," Biden said.
"We do not talk enough about how the Indian American community has powered our economic growth," the former vice president said in his address to the virtual fundraiser, which according to his spokesperson Remi Yamamoto was attended by 268 people.
Highly appreciative of the cultural, social and family values of Indian Americans, Biden said that is why he values the Indian American Diaspora so much.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed decades of progress in fighting poverty, Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, said Tuesday at the opening of the annual United Nations General Debate in New York.
Guterres said indicators show that poverty is rising for the first time in 30 years and that several countries face the possibility of famine.
Among the poor, the pandemic is particularly negatively affecting progress made by women and girls. He called on societies to combat the "hidden war on women."
He also warned of a new "cold war" between the economies of China and the United States.

A day after Indian and Chinese military commanders&nbsp;held the sixth round of talks&nbsp;to resolve the military standoff in eastern Ladakh, the two sides Tuesday said they have agreed to &ldquo;stop sending more troops to the frontline, and refrain from unilaterally changing the situation on the ground&rdquo;.
In a joint statement issued Tuesday, India and China said they have agreed to &ldquo;earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, strengthen communication on the ground, avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments, stop sending more troops to the frontline, refrain from unilaterally changing the situation on the ground, and avoid taking any actions that may complicate the situation.&rdquo;

After the&nbsp;UK raised its Covid alert level from 3 to 4,&nbsp;Prime Minister&nbsp;Boris Johnson has now announced a range of new restrictions to check the spread of Covid-19. Ensuring that the country does not have to go through a march-like lockdown,&nbsp;the government in its new regulations&nbsp;has widened the legal requirements of wearing masks and has set out earlier closing times for pubs, bars, restaurants. Urging people to work from home if possible, Johnson also announced that the government will now try new form of mass testing to curb the virus spread. While the measures&nbsp;will come into effect from Monday, Johnson said that until the country does not make visible progress, the nation should assume that the restrictions will remain in place for next 6 months.&nbsp;

Britain's top medical advisors&nbsp;have alerted their government and asked it impose stricter restrictions&nbsp;to check the spread of the pandemic.&nbsp;
While the UK is witnessing a similar&nbsp;Covid&nbsp;infection rate as that in May, Chief Medical officer Chris Whitty on Monday cautioned that without further restrictions the country&nbsp;could see 50,000 new cases per day by mid-October.
The medical advisors&nbsp;also pointed out that the challenge for Britain is to make sure that the doubling time does not stay at 7 days. Last week PM Boris Johnson raised fears of a second wave of the pandemic beginning its sweep across the UK.&nbsp;

China began building at least 13 new military positions, including airbases and air&nbsp;defence&nbsp;units, near the Line of Actual Control with India after the 2017 standoff at&nbsp;Doklam. The work on four heliports beginning after the current tensions in Ladakh.&nbsp;A leading security and intelligence consultancy&nbsp;Stratfor put out&nbsp;details of&nbsp;these&nbsp;military positions in a report released on Tuesday. The new positions include three airbases, five permanent air&nbsp;defence&nbsp;positions and five heliports.&nbsp;The&nbsp;report said&nbsp;2017&nbsp;Doklam&nbsp;crisis appears to have shifted China&rsquo;s strategic objectives, with China more than doubling its total number of airbases, air&nbsp;defence&nbsp;positions, and heliports near the Indian border over the past three years.&nbsp;

Chinese president Xi Jinping&nbsp;on Monday&nbsp;called out the US for acting like the 'boss of the world'. The Chinese leader&nbsp;was addressing a high level UN meeting through a video message to commemarate&nbsp;the 75th year of UN. Asserting&nbsp;that the UN should be 'more balanced', Xi said that no country should be allowed to do whatever it likes and be the hegemon, bully, or the boss of the world. Xi slammed the distortion of&nbsp;international laws by countries and went on to say&nbsp;that countries must not be lorded by those who wave strong fist at others. Lauding the role of the UN in its 75 year long journey, Xi Jinping also pointed out that the&nbsp;UN must promote co-operation as cold war mentalities, ideological lines or zero sum games are no solution to a country's own problem.&nbsp;

Amid the pandemic scare, the United Nations officially celebrated&nbsp;its 75th year on Monday largely through a virtual meeting. While Secretary-General&nbsp;Antonio Guterres&nbsp;gave his speech from the podium, most of the world leaders had sent in pre-recorded&nbsp;speeches to commemorate&nbsp;the occasion. Expressing his regrets about not having an in-person event, Gueterres&nbsp;said that the pandemic had exposed the world's fragilities. He said that today the world has a surplus of multilateral challenges but a deficit of multilateral solution. Apparently, President Donald&nbsp;Trump who would have been the first to speak among the heads of the states did not send his recorded speech for the event. The international organisation of 193 nations was founded in 1945 following the horrors&nbsp;of World&nbsp;War II

A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced an outspoken Chinese real estate tycoon, Ren&nbsp;Zhiqiang&nbsp;to 18 years in prison and also imposed on him a fine of 4.2m Yuan. Zhiquiang, who has been a vociferous critic of Xi Jinping and his&nbsp;Communist party, was facing&nbsp;charges of corruption, bribery and embezzlement of public funds. Popularly known as the 'Big Cannon', the&nbsp;business tycoon who&nbsp;was once a part of the ruling party's inner circle, went missing in March after he wrote an essay that was reportedly critical of Xi Jinping. The local media reported that the 69-year-old&nbsp;had voluntarily and truthfully confessed all his crimes and would not appeal the Beijing court's decision.&nbsp;

In what is believed to be the worst instance of marooning of marine animals in a decade, over 270 whales have been stranded in the&nbsp;Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania&rsquo;s west coast, 90 of which have apparently died.
What caused the whales to move to the shore is still unknown. While&nbsp;some of the whales&nbsp;reached inaccessible locations, marine rescue teams were able to save 25 of the animals on Tuesday and are aiming to escort more back into the sea.&nbsp;
Whale beachings are common in the region, but one of this size has not been seen in over a decade. Tasmania last recorded a mass stranding in 2009 involving around 200 whales.

A high-powered group of more than 160 world leaders, politicians and diplomats extended their support to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,&nbsp;demanding he be released from a UK prison and not be extradited to the US. An open letter addressed to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other government ministers, provides legal arguments about why Assange should not be extradited, including claims he would not receive a fair trial and &lsquo;be exposed to torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment.&rsquo; Assange's lawyer, Jennifer Robinson has noted that this move demonstrates the growing opposition around the world to US efforts to extradite and prosecute Assange.

The United States is inching closer to the grim milestone of 2,00,000 Covid-19 deaths. According to a rolling tally by Johns Hopkins University, 1,99,743 Americans have died and 68 lakh have been confirmed infected by the virus. The worrying Covid numbers come just weeks before voters decide if President Donald Trump will stay in office. The US has had the world's highest official death count for months, ahead of Brazil and India, with close to 1.4 lakh and 88,000 deaths respectively.

US Space Agency NASA&nbsp;has revealed its latest plan to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024, which would take the first woman and the next man to the Moon under the Artemis programme.
The mission, which intends to land astronauts to the Southern Pole, could cost $28 billion. In a briefing, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine spoke of the political risks that were the biggest obstacles to NASA's work, specially before an election.
Three projects are in the pipeline to build the lunar lander that will carry the two astronauts to the Moon. While Artemis I, an unmanned flight is scheduled for 2021 November, Artemis II will take astronauts around the moon without landing, in 2023. The stay on the Moon will last longer under the final one, called Artemis III and will include extravehicular activities.

Washington, PTI: US President Donald Trump on Monday restored the UN arms embargo on Iran and imposed sweeping new sanctions against Tehran. The new sanctions target Iran-related conventional arms transfers, several high-profile individuals and government bodies.
"Today, I am taking new actions to restrict Iran's nuclear, ballistic missile, and conventional weapons pursuits. My Administration will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, nor will we allow Iran to endanger the rest of the world with a fresh supply of ballistic missiles and conventional arms,&rdquo; Trump said in a statement.
Trump said he has issued a new Executive Order, restoring United Nations sanctions on Iran, and imposing new sanctions and export controls on more than two dozen entities and individuals that support Iran&rsquo;s nuclear, missile, and conventional arms-related activities.
The executive order blocks the property, and interests in property, in the US of those who contribute to the supply, sale, or transfer of conventional arms to or from Iran, as well as those who provide technical training, financial support and services, and other assistance related to these arms.
Noting that this executive order is critical to enforcing the UN arms embargo on Iran, Trump said that this order will greatly diminish the Iranian regime&rsquo;s capacity to export arms to terrorists and dangerous actors throughout the region, as well as its ability to acquire weapons to build up its own forces.
Trump said that his administration is also imposing new sanctions and export control measures on 27 entities and individuals connected to Iran&rsquo;s proliferation networks.
These actions target the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran for its role in Iran&rsquo;s nuclear escalation, the Iranian missile organisation Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group for facilitating ballistic missile development, and two Iranian entities for their involvement in the transfer and acquisition of conventional arms, he said.
Trump said that the Iranian regime has repeatedly lied about its secret nuclear weapons archive and denied access to international inspectors, further exposing the deep flaws of the last administration&rsquo;s failed nuclear deal from which he withdrew the United States.
&ldquo;The world cannot afford to sit idly by as Iran builds a nuclear weapon. My Administration is restoring these sanctions as part of our efforts to ensure that never happens,&rdquo; he said, asserting that his actions send a clear message to the Iranian regime and those in the international community who refuse to stand up to Iran.
"The United States will not allow the Iranian regime to further advance capabilities to directly threaten and terrorise the rest of the world,&rdquo; he said.

London, PTI: The UK government has raised its coronavirus alert level from three to four, which indicates that the transmission of the virus is high and rising "exponentially".
Downing Street on Monday said new curbs on the hospitality section will come in force across England from Thursday, imposing a 10pm closing deadline for all pubs, bars and restaurants as part of plans to control crowds.
There will also be a table service only stipulation for all such venues as part of the new restrictions, which will be formally tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Earlier, the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) of all four regions of the United Kingdom &ndash; England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales &ndash; issued a joint statement to confirm the change in the alert level for all parts of the UK as the prospect of a second nationwide lockdown looks imminent.
&ldquo;The Joint Biosecurity Centre has recommended that the Covid-19 alert level should move from Level 3 (a Covid-19 epidemic is in general circulation) to Level 4 (a Covid-19 epidemic is in general circulation; transmission is high or rising exponentially),&rdquo; the CMOs said.
&ldquo;After a period of lower Covid-19 cases and deaths, the number of cases are now rising rapidly and probably exponentially in significant parts of all four nations. If we are to avoid significant excess deaths and exceptional pressure in the NHS [National Health Service] and other health services over the autumn and winter everyone has to follow the social distancing guidance, wear face coverings correctly and wash their hands regularly,&rdquo; they said.
&ldquo;We know this will be a concerning news for many people; please follow the rules, look after each other and together we will get through this,&rdquo; they added.
The statement came hours after England CMO Chris Whitty addressed a Downing Street briefing earlier on Monday to present charts and data that showed that the UK is in the grips of a second wave of the pandemic, with infections roughly doubling every seven days.
He warned that unless additional restrictions are imposed on people's movements and mingling, this spike could continue to multiply.
At present, most parts of northern England are already under stricter localised lockdown, with other regions coming under a similar ambit from Tuesday.
On Sunday, 3,899 daily cases took the overall positive coronavirus cases to 394,257. A further 18 people died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the UK death toll from the virus to 41,777.

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