Name: Jack Ma, Alibaba charity donate medical supplies to India
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The Jack Ma Foundation and the Alibaba Foundation have donated essential medical supplies to India along with six more countries -- Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Collectively, these seven countries will receive a total of 1.7 million face masks, 1,65,000 test kits as well as protective clothing and medical equipment such as ventilators, forehead thermometers. With this announcement, the two foundations have now donated essential medical supplies to 23 Asian countries, totalling 7.4 million masks, 4,85,000 test kits. The first batch of medical supplies for India arrived in Delhi on Saturday night and was received by the Indian Red Cross Society.
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The Jack Ma Foundation and the Alibaba Foundation have donated essential medical supplies to India along with six more countries -- Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Collectively, these seven countries will receive a total of 1.7 million face masks, 1,65,000 test kits as well as protective clothing and medical equipment such as ventilators, forehead thermometers. With this announcement, the two foundations have now donated essential medical supplies to 23 Asian countries, totalling 7.4 million masks, 4,85,000 test kits. The first batch of medical supplies for India arrived in Delhi on Saturday night and was received by the Indian Red Cross Society.

External Affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday that India and China can overcome their differences in the long-term if they reach &lsquo;some kind of equilibrium&rsquo; but achieving this is one of the big challenges faced by the country.&nbsp;Jaishankar made the remarks while participating in an interactive session&nbsp;organised&nbsp;by the Confederation of Indian Industry.&nbsp;Replying to a question on whether India and China, which are currently engaged in a tense border standoff, could be friends in the coming decades, Jaishankar said the two countries are&nbsp;neighbours&nbsp;and demographically unique as they are the only ones with populations of more than one billion.&nbsp;

US President Donald Trump on Friday said that China would "love" to see him lose to "sleepy" Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden in the November presidential election. "China would love for us to have an election where Donald Trump lost to sleepy Joe Biden. They would dream that they would own our country," Trump told reporters. He added that China would rule America if Biden is elected. Further, the president stated that Iran would also "love" to see him lose the election in November.

The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, and 10 other top officials from Hong Kong and mainland China.
The sanctions were used to target those undermining Hong Kong's autonomy, according to US officials.&nbsp;Among those sanctioned are Hong Kong's police commissioner and several political secretaries.
The move comes weeks after China imposed a controversial national security law on Hong Kong, which critics says threatened its freedoms.
The sanctions came a few hours after the&nbsp;Trump administration moved to ban US transactions with the Chinese owners of&nbsp;WeChat and TikTok apps.

A bridal photoshoot caught the moment a deadly blast spread through the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday. Israa Seblani was posing for pictures in her wedding dress in the neighbourhood of Saifi when the explosion at Beirut's port hit less than 2 kms away. Footage of her shoot shows how a loud bang is followed by a wave of dust, sending bride, groom and cameraman running for shelter.

A group of Polish Opposition MPs&nbsp;donned the rainbow colours of the pride&nbsp;flag during the swearing-in ceremony of President Andrzej&nbsp;Duda&nbsp;on Thursday.
In a show of solidarity for the LGBTQIA community, MPs&nbsp;wore rainbow masks and outfits in shades of the pride flag as well.
Andrzej Duda who was relected as President of Poland for his second term, argued ahead of the July vote that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people 'are not people, it&rsquo;s an ideology'. &nbsp;

The United States on Thursday revoked its 'Do Not Travel' global health advisory for the citizens and will now follow the previous system of country-specific travel advice. Although the country has retained the advisory for India, the officials ensured that the advisory can change depending on the Covid-19 situation in the country.&nbsp; The officials said that the risk of contracting the disease is high in India and that if one gets sick in India and needs medical care resources may be limited. The Trump administration had released the travel advisory on March 19. With 160,000 deaths, the&nbsp;USA has registered 5 million Covid-19&nbsp;cases.

After Tuesday's devastating blast, dozens of people opposing the Lebanese&nbsp;government came out on the streets on Thursday. The protestors&nbsp;who gathered near the parliament clashed with the Lebanese security forces. The forces&nbsp;used tear gas in turn to disperse the protestors. The demonstrators&nbsp;blamed the government of&nbsp;negligence, mismanagement, and corruption that caused the huge blast at Beirut Port. The blast that killed at least&nbsp;137 people and injured about 5000 others was caused by 2,750 tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate that was stored in the warehouse.

A former Saudi intelligence&nbsp;officer close to US intelligence has accused Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of plotting to kill him. In a federal lawsuit filed in Washington, Saad Aljabri has claimed that the Crown Prince set a hit squad to kill him Canada where AlJabri now lives in exile. He has claimed that Mohammed Bin Salman wants to eliminate him as "he has knowledge of damaging secrets about the prince's rise to power". The suit also alleges that Saudi authorities have kept Aljabri's two children hostage since March to pressurise him to return to the kingdom.

Mexico's coronavirus death toll surged past 50,000 on Thursday, the government said. The grim milestone came just days after Mexico became the country with third-highest cases in the world. The health ministry announced 819 more deaths in its daily update om Thursday, taking the total to 50,517 since the the Latin American country's first case was detected in February.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order that would ban the Chinese social media apps&nbsp;TikTok&nbsp;and WeChat from operating in the US in 45 days if not sold by their Chinese parent companies.&nbsp;
Trump had threatened a deadline of Sept. 15 to &ldquo;close down&rdquo; TikTok unless Microsoft or &ldquo;somebody else&rdquo; bought it. "The United States must take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect our national security," the order said.
The order alleges that TikTok "automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users". This data collection, the order says, threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information -- potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors

More countries across Europe imposed new travel restrictions and containment measures on Thursday as global deaths from the pandemic climbed over 7 lakh. Many European countries are worried about a second wave of coronavirus infections as cases surge after lifting of lockdowns. Europe remains the hardest-hit region worldwide with more than 200,000 fatalities since the virus first emerged in China late last year. Total coronavirus infections have crossed 19 million worldwide.

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As the Sri Lanka People&rsquo;s Party, run by the Rajapaksa family, heads for a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dialed Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa to congratulate him for his party&rsquo;s massive mandate, and reiterated the need to strengthen bilateral cooperation. Rajapaksa thanked PM Modi for his words of appreciation and resolved to work together for a &ldquo;long-standing cooperation&rdquo; between the two countries. The Sri Lanka People&rsquo;s Party, scored more than 60% of the overall votes in the 16 seats that were declared from the south, which is dominated by the majority Sinhala community. Rajapaksa&rsquo;s party won 13 out of the 16 seats.

Japan&nbsp;on Thursday marked the 75th anniversary of&nbsp;the world's first-ever atomic bombing in Hiroshima by the US, which killed over 14,000 people. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the ceremony was muted. About 1000 people gathered&nbsp;at the Hiroshima Memorial Park, which is one-tenth the number compared to previous years. Survivors and their relatives observed a minute's silence in to mark the 8.15 am blast memory. Japanese PM&nbsp;Shinzo&nbsp;Abe said that the nation will firmly maintain the three non-nuclear principles and serve as a bridge to countries with different positions. The 3 non-nuclear principles include&nbsp;not possessing, not producing, and not permitting the entry of nuclear weapons in the country. Japan which hosts 50,000 American troops, is protected by the U.S. nuclear umbrella. The country&nbsp;is yet to sign the 2017 nuclear weapon ban treaty.&nbsp;

While the world continues its fight against the Covid-19, China has reported 60 infections and 7 deaths caused by a newtick-borne virus, according to&nbsp;local media reports on Wednesday. In the first half of the year, East China's Jiangsu&nbsp;province reported 37 cases of the new SFTS virus,&nbsp;and later&nbsp;Anhui&nbsp;province also reported 23 cases of the same. The SFTS&nbsp;virus is a tick-borne Bunyavirus&nbsp;and China has isolated the pathogen for the virus in 2011. Virologists believe&nbsp;that the virus can be transmitted&nbsp;to humans through a tick bite and that it can be transmitted between humans. Patients can pass the virus to others via blood or mucous.&nbsp;

A recent&nbsp;Wuhan&nbsp;University report has claimed that 90% of the recovered Covid-19 patients in the Covid-19 epicentre&nbsp;are suffering from lung damage. A team from the&nbsp;Zhongnan&nbsp;Hospital was tracking 100 recovered patients since April. The first phase of this programme ended in July and according to the results for 90% of people, their lung ventilation and gas exchange is not recovered completely. It also revealed that antibodies against the virus have disappeared for 10% of the patients.&nbsp;The patients' immune system was still recovering, the report added.
While the average age of the patients in the study is 59, the team has conducted follow up visit for recovered patients who were above the age of 65 as well. The first case of the novel Coronavirus&nbsp;was registered in Wuhan, China.

France reported 1,695 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, making it the highest number of infections since May 30, the country's&nbsp;health ministry data revealed.&nbsp;Apart from France,&nbsp;with 1,772 infections in a single day, Spain also registered the highest number of Covid-19 cases on the same day. After easing their&nbsp;lockdown&nbsp;measures, the European nations&nbsp;are now witnessing a&nbsp;resurgence in Covid-19 cases. Cities of Paris, Toulouse have put in place new restrictions, that require people to wear face masks in the busiest streets. France has 1,94,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases and over 30,000 deaths, which is the third-highest death toll in Europe after the UK and Italy.&nbsp;

TikTok has announced its plans to build a $500m data centre in Ireland.
It will store videos, messages and other data generated by European users from the short-form video-sharing app.
Until now all of its users' records were stored in the US, with a back-up copy held in Singapore.
The move comes at a time when President Trump has threatened to ban the app in the US on the grounds of its Chinese ownership which makes it a national security risk.
TikTok's&nbsp;parent company Bytedance&nbsp;is in talks to sell its US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand operations to Microsoft.

Paris' iconic Eiffel Tower went dark on Wednesday night, in honour of those who lost their lives in the Beirut port explosion.
The blast on Tuesday killed at least 135 people and injured thousands of others. It has left up to 300,000 residents homeless, as per reports.
French President, Emmanuel Macron announced that he would fly to the Lebanese capital. In addition, rescue workers and aid from France was on its way to the place of disaster.

US President Donald Trump landed in Twitter cross hairs once again. The social media platform said on Wednesday it had restricted Trump's campaign from tweeting after its account shared a video containing false claims about the coronavirus. The tweet, a video of Trump's interview with Fox News in which he said children are "almost immune" to the virus, "is in violation of the Twitter Rules on Covid-19 misinformation," Twitter said in a statement. It asked the Trump campaign to remove the tweet before they can be allowed to tweet again." Facebook too had removed a post from Trump's main page featuring the same interview for similar reasons.

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