Amid growing hostilities along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan is all set to procure nearly 600 tanks from Russia to strengthen its position along the International border with India, multiple reports said. The deal with Russia, which includes T90 tanks, comes amid Pakistan's push to revamp its armoured fleet by 2025. Pakistan has also procured the first installment of 245 50 mm SP Mike-10 guns from Italy. Russia's growing proximity with Pakistan is bound to raise eyebrows in India, as Moscow has been India's primary defence supplier since independence. 

The Spanish government on Sunday agreed to declare a new state of emergency, which would allow a curfew to be imposed across the country as it continues to battle a resurgence of coronavirus cases. Prime Minister Pedro Sachez's office said that an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers was held in Madrid on Sunday morning "in order to examine the terms of a new royal decree on a state of alert. The emergency has been welcomed by the majority" of Spain's regional governments, "who had requested it".&nbsp;Regions across Spain will now be subject to a curfew at night from 11 pm until 6 am.

In a horrific accident, a shark attacked a 59-year-old man at Britomart&nbsp;Reef in&nbsp;the North of the Australian state of Queensland.
The man was bitten on the upper thigh while spear-fishing with a local group, said the police. The Queensland Ambulance Service Senior Supervisor Ray Hardy said that the man had no pulse and was critical.
He was initially treated by paramedics the Dungeness boat ramp at Lucinda before being airlifted to Townsville University Hospital to undergo surgery.

Democratic&nbsp;Presidential nominee Joe Biden hit back at US President Donald Trump for calling India "filthy" due to the air pollution levels.
Biden took to twitter criticising Trump for his choice of words for friends and his understanding of global issues.
He wrote, "President Trump called India "filthy." It's not how you talk about friends-and it's not how you solve global challenges like climate change".&nbsp;

The sanctions imposed by United States on Iran will not impact India's development of Chabahar Port in the country, Washington has reportedly informed New Delhi through diplomatic channels on October 12. The Trump administration's assurance comes ahead of the India-US 2+2 ministerial meeting that begins on Monday, October 26. US Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo and Secretary of Defence Mark T Esper are slated to visit New Delhi to meet External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on October 26-27. Earlier in October, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on 18 major Iranian banks, that led to India reaching out to the US on concerns regarding the Chabahar port.

The death toll from the suicide attack on Saturday in Afghanistan&rsquo;s capital has risen to at least 18 killed and 57 people wounded, including schoolchildren, as per official records.
The explosion struck outside an education centre.&nbsp;Govt authorities say&nbsp;the attacker was trying to enter the centre when he was stopped by security guards. The attacker then detonated his suicide vest, killing several people.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack.

US President Donald Trump arrived in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday to vote in the presidential elections.
Trump arrived in a motorcade at West Palm Library to cast his early vote.
Florida laws do not allow video access to voting inside polling stations.
After voting, Trump told the media that he had just cast the ballot in the safest way, in a reference to his mistrust of postal voting.
The president added that he "voted for a guy named Trump."

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the reason why India is reluctant to take Islamabad's offer for another consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav is because it wanted to take the case to the International Court of Justice again. Qureshi said that there can be no talks with New Delhi until the decision to change the special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, taken on August 5, 2019.Qureshi also claimed that India was trying to create insurgency in Gilgit-Baltistan and derail Pakistan's efforts for a consensus on at reforms there.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda&nbsp;has&nbsp;tested positive for coronavirus,&nbsp; Blazej Spychalski, secretary of state in the president's office announced on Twitter.&nbsp; The announcement trails a sudden surge in the number of coronavirus infections, followed by the government initiating a&nbsp;lockdown on Saturday. The lockdown brought a partial closure on restaurants, pubs, and cafes&nbsp;which can now only&nbsp;serve takeaway meals. A limit of 5 people has been imposed on gatherings and, weddings or religious services have been completely banned.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev&nbsp;has also gone&nbsp;into quarantine as he had met the Polish President at an investment forum in Tallinn on Monday.

Speaking on the upcoming India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue, which will be last meet between the two countries before the US Presidential elections, the government officials have said that the meet&nbsp;will lay down next steps for the US-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership.
The US officials have also said that the meeting&nbsp;will focus on four themes -- regional security cooperation, defence information sharing, military-to-military interactions, and defence trade, said the US State Department on Friday.
US Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo and Secretary of Defence Mark T Esper will have a packed schedule during their India visit.
Pompeo&nbsp;nd Esper will participate in third India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue along with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on October 27 and will also have bilateral meetings with their counterparts.
They will also be meeting National Security Agency(NSA) Ajit Doval and will jointly call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday said that if elected as president he would make Covid-19 vaccines free for all Americans.
 Laying out his emergency plan to battle the pandemic, in his home state of Delaware, Biden flayed President Donald Trump for his policies and response to combat the coronavirus pandemic, saying the Republican incumbent has "given up" fighting the virus and has "quit on America."
"Once we have a safe and effective vaccine, it has to be free to everyone, whether or not you're insured," Biden said.
Coronavirus has killed over 220,000 people in America and has had a devastating impact on the country's economy. Trump, who trails Biden in the polls, has also stated that a vaccine, which he says will be ready in the coming weeks, should be free.

US President Donald Trump says he thinks Sacha Baron Cohen, the English comedian behind The Dictator and Borat&nbsp;films, is &lsquo;a creep.&rsquo;
The second installment of Cohen's 2006&nbsp;comedy&nbsp;riot, Borat Subsequent, shows Trump&rsquo;s lawyer Rudy Giuliani in a near compromising position in a hotel room with a much younger woman journalist in a 'faked interview'. On Friday night, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said he didn&rsquo;t know what happened with Giuliani.
&ldquo;But, you know, years ago he tried to scam me,&rdquo; Trump said of Baron Cohen. &ldquo;And I was the only one that said, &lsquo;No way. This guy is a phony guy.'&rdquo;
 Trump said the incident happened about 15 years ago, he was likely referring to Baron Cohen&rsquo;s 2003 interview with him while playing Ali G.
Further referring to Cohen, Trump said, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t find him funny.&nbsp;&ldquo;To me, he&rsquo;s a creep,&rdquo; he added.

AP, Lagos: At least 51 civilians have been killed in Nigeria's unrest following days of peaceful protests over police abuses, the president said Friday, blaming "hooliganism" for the violence while asserting that security forces have used "extreme restraint." President Muhammadu Buhari's comments are expected to further inflame tensions in Africa's most populous country after Amnesty International reported that soldiers shot and killed at least 12 demonstrators Tuesday night as a large crowd sang the national anthem. The deaths sparked international condemnation.
In a statement, Buhari also said 11 policemen and seven soldiers had been killed by "rioters" as of Thursday, and "the mayhem has not stopped." He said another 37 civilians were injured in some of Nigeria's worst turmoil in years.
The president said the well-intentioned protests were hijacked by thugs.
But many Nigerians are upset by what the president hasn't said. Buhari in a national address Thursday night didn't mention the shootings, instead warning protesters against "undermining national security and law and order." On Friday he said the government "will not fold its arms and allow miscreants and criminals continue to perpetrate acts of hooliganism." Resentment lingered with the smell of charred tires Friday in Nigeria's relatively calm streets. Soldiers remained in parts of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, as a 24-hour curfew remained in place.
A witness of Tuesday night's shooting, 33-year-old Isaiah Abor, ventured out anyway to visit the scene where solders had opened fire. He managed to escape the chaos.
"When (the soldiers) were making comments that the flag is not bulletproof, that's when I knew this was going to go out of hand," Abor said. Empty ammunition shells still littered the ground.
The president's speech annoyed him. "The blood that stained a whole Nigerian flag, those youths were not even mentioned," Abor said. He added: "We are not cowards. We will always come to this ground, and we will always feel for those that are gone." Another protester, Olatunde Joshua Oluwanifemi, said simply: "The speech killed our spirit." The president's comments, "devoid of sympathy," were worrying, said Okechukwu Nwanguma with the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Center.
Shielding those behind the shootings will only lead to abuses by the police and military, he said: "If those who carried out the killings did so and nothing happens, it will encourage them and others to do the same thing next time." But citing the president's comments, one influential group behind the protests, the Feminist Coalition, urged youth to stay at home, saying that &ldquo;we need to stay alive to pursue our dreams to build the future." Others disagreed. If the protests have been hijacked, then Nigerian youth should not give up the struggle and instead should "go back and re-strategize," said Seriki Muritala with the National Youth Parliament.
This week's scenes have touched a chord with Black Lives Matter supporters in the United States, while the US government has strongly condemned the "use of excessive force by military forces who fired on unarmed demonstrators in Lagos, causing death and injury." The protests turned violent Wednesday after the military's shooting as mobs vandalized and burned police stations, courthouses, TV stations and a hotel. Police battled angry crowds with tear gas and gunfire. The looting and gunfire continued Thursday.
The demonstrations began early this month with calls for Nigeria's government to shut down the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a police unit known as SARS. The squad was launched to fight crime, but it carried out torture and killings, according to Amnesty International.
The #EndSARS campaign spread across the country and Buhari's government announced that it would disband the SARS unit. The protest persisted with demonstrators calling for more widespread reforms of the police and an end to corruption.
In one attempt at calming tensions, the Lagos state government on Friday shared a list of ongoing prosecution against police officers accused of human rights abuses.
"Today seems like a good day to get on to the work of rebuilding Lagos and ending police brutality," Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said.
But an angry crowd shouted at him over the unrest as officials toured burned-out vehicles and the sacked palace of a Lagos ceremonial leader. The leader, or oba, isn't popular with some Nigerians who see him as a product of the country's often corrupt politics.
Opulence and grinding poverty are in close contact in Lagos, a city of some 20 million, and the inequality sharpens Nigerians' grievances.
After touring the battered city, the governor told reporters he was "very traumatized" and that "we lost people in several parts of the city." He didn't give details.
"Enough is enough," he said. "We need to heal ourselves." He said the curfew would begin easing Saturday morning and a panel looking into the unrest would begin receiving petitions on Monday.
And yet nerves were frayed. Near the scene of Tuesday's shooting, police shouted, then fired into the air, to stop a convoy carrying the body of a Muslim who had died overnight; the cause of death was not clear.
After questioning by police, the mourners were allowed to continue, to go on and bury the dead.

US President Donald Trump will vote in his adopted home&nbsp;of Florida before holding three campaign rallies on Saturday in&nbsp;three swing states of North Carolina, Ohio, and Wisconsin, all won by Trump in 2016.
Last year, Trump switched his permanent address&nbsp;and voter registration&nbsp;from New York to West Palm Beach in Florida.&nbsp;
In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won Florida, a major swing state, by 49.02 per cent of the votes, while his then-Democratic rival Hillary Clinton came in close with 47.82 per cent of the ballots.
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Addressing a briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the world is at a critical juncture in the times of COVID-19 pandemic. WHO noted the exponential increase in Covid-19 cases in countries, particularly in the northern hemisphere.It urged countries to take immediate action to prevent unnecessary deaths, the collapse of essential health systems, and the shutdown of economies. WHO chief said it is important for leaders to be clear and honest with the public about the status of the pandemic in their respective countries.

The United States is watching the India-China standoff in Ladakh closely, senior officials of the Trump administration said on Saturday, ahead of an important visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper next week. US wants to ensure the situation does not escalate, they said. The US also stresses it is important to work with like-minded partners like India to counter "China's aggressive behaviour" and wants an increased Indian involvement in Southeast Asia including its military presence in the South China Sea. 'The defence relationship with India is at its best in recent memory&rsquo; the US officials noted.

In a boost to global coronavirus vaccination hopes, a study has found that the Covid-19 vaccine spearheaded by Oxford University builds strong immunity to the virus. As the front-runner in the global race for a vaccine entered final Phase III clinical trials, researchers at Bristol University carried out tests to check whether it was behaving as intended. The Bristol team found that the vaccine was successfully able to instruct human cells to copy the genetic instructions to create the spike protein. The study confirmed that large amounts of the coronavirus spike protein are produced with great accuracy, and this goes a long way to explaining the success of the vaccine in inducing a strong immune response. Sarah Gilbert, who leads the Oxford University vaccine trial, praised the study for helping to explain the vaccine&rsquo;s effectiveness.

Democrat Joe Biden on Friday said that if elected president he would mandate Covid-19 vaccines be free for all Americans. As a part of a national strategy to "get ahead" of the coronavirus he laid out his emergency plan to battle the pandemic. Criticising the US President's response, Biden&nbsp;said&nbsp;Donald Trump has "given up" fighting the virus and has "quit on America." Biden, who has made it a point to follow scientists' guidelines such as wearing facemasks and engaging in social distancing, said that if he is elected he would be focused on bringing the pandemic to heel, and to help struggling Americans with the costs.

As US readies to go to polls on November 3, the political heat is hard to miss. Following the last Presidential&nbsp;debate between Trump and his challenger Biden,&nbsp;US Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris called Donald Trump a "racist" and said his racism is a "pattern"as she cited the President questioning the legitimacy of his predecessor Barack Obama.&nbsp;While addressing&nbsp;a rally in Georgia, Harris said&nbsp;America needs a President who 'acknowledges systemic racism and speaks truth with an intention to address the inequities'&nbsp;
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French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will be fighting the virus until at least the middle of next year as cases there surged past a million. Speaking on a visit to a hospital Macron said scientists told him that they believed the virus would be present &lsquo;at best until next summer&rsquo;.
On Friday France recorded more than 40,000 new cases and 298 deaths. Other nations including Russia, Poland, Italy and Switzerland also saw new highs.
Daily infections in Europe have more than doubled in the past 10 days. The continent has now seen a total of 7.8m cases and about 247,000 deaths.

The&nbsp;Financial Action Task Force or the&nbsp;FATF, the world&rsquo;s top anti-terrorism monitoring group, on Friday voted to keep Pakistan on a grey list for the Imran Khan government&rsquo;s&nbsp;failure to fully comply&nbsp;with a 27-point action plan handed to it earlier.
The FATF&nbsp;said that not only have more than 4,000 terrorists gone missing&nbsp;from Pakistani government's records but the country has also taken in India's most wanted terrorists,&nbsp;Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed.
The latest decision comes as a huge setback for Imran Khan who had made efforts in the run-up to the virtual meeting of the FATF plenary to get his country off-the-hook. It could also mean that Pakistan will remain on the grey list for a minimum of six months till its performance can be reviewed.

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