Bangladesh's ruling coalition is headed for a massive victory, with the voters handing Sheikh Hasina her third consecutive term as Prime Minister. According to media reports, the coalition led by Awami league has bagged over 260 out of 300 seats. The opposition alliance termed the results 'farcical' and rejected the results, demanding fresh polls. Election day was marred with reports of violence, and at least 17 people died in clashes between rival party workers.

US President Donald Trump downplayed the election campaign of his predecessor, former US president Barack Obama in support of his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, claiming people sent him to the White House due to the Obama administration&rsquo;s failures.
Trump pitched himself as a lonely warrior against the Democrats during a campaign rally Wednesday in North Carolina.&nbsp;"We've had to beat the really stupid, dumb people. The never Trumper'-s," he said.&nbsp;
Trump told Americans that he will deliver optimism, opportunity, while painting a dystopian&nbsp;picture of the US under Biden, saying&nbsp;his Democratic rival will bring in "pessimism, poverty and decline".

Barack Obama appeared at his first public rally for Joe Biden ahead of the November 3 election and urged&nbsp;voters, especially Black voters, not to sit out the election and risk re-electing President Donald Trump.
Further,&nbsp;Obama&nbsp;said, President Donald Trump had proved himself &ldquo;incapable of taking the job seriously&rdquo;.
The former US President presented Biden and his running mate, California Senator Kamala Harris, at a drive-in car rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The significance of the public rally was difficult to miss: The nation's first Black president urged Black voters especially not to give into apathy.
The host city, Philadelphia, is among the Democratic bastions in battleground states where Black turnout four years ago fell off from Obama's 2012 reelection in large enough numbers to flip key states to Trump's column and deliver him the presidency.
With the election less than two weeks away, at least 40 million Americans have already voted, according to the US Elections Project of the University of Florida, nearly 30 percent of the total turnout in 2016.

A participant who died during a trial of AstraZeneca-Oxford's Covid-19 vaccine in Brazil hadn't received the company's shot, news agency Bloomberg has reported quoting a person familiar with the matter. Brazil's health authority had said that a volunteer for the vaccine trial had died on Monday. The regulator said testing of the vaccine would continue after the volunteer's death. It provided no further details, citing medical confidentiality of those involved in trials. The Federal University of Sao Paulo, which is helping coordinate phase 3 clinical trials in Brazil, separately said that the volunteer was Brazilian but did not say where the person lived.

Thailand's Prime Minister on Thursday revoked emergency measures imposed on Bangkok in a bid to pacify pro-democracy protesters calling for the resignation of his government and monarchy reform. The new order, which came mentioned that the situation had returned normal and pre-emergency law enforcements would now suffice. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Wednesday said he is taking the first steps to "de-escalate" political tensions on the condition that "there are no violent incidents" and asked protesters to work through representatives in parliament.&nbsp;The protesting organizations however said that even though the emergency rules have been lifted, the government still had not responded to any of the key demands. Protesters&nbsp;threatened to intensify&nbsp; agitation if the prime minister didn&rsquo;t resign in three days.

Drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts say helped touch off an&nbsp;opioid&nbsp;epidemic, will&nbsp;plead&nbsp;guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. This is the largest settlement ever reached with a pharmaceutical company.
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Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary &ldquo;Francesco,&rdquo; which premiered Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival.
The papal thumbs-up came midway through the film that delves into issues Francis cares about most, including the environment, poverty, migration, racial and income inequality, and the people most affected by discrimination.
&ldquo;Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God,&rdquo; Francis said in one of his sit-down interviews for the film. &ldquo;What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.&rdquo; While serving as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Francis endorsed civil unions for gay couples as an alternative to same-sex marriages. However, he had never come out publicly in favour of civil unions as pope.
The Jesuit priest who has been at the forefront in seeking to build bridges with gays in the church, the Rev. James Martin, praised the pope's comments as &ldquo;a major step forward in the church's support for LGBT people.&rdquo; "The Pope's speaking positively about civil unions also sends a strong message to places where the church has opposed such laws," Martin said in a statement.
One of the main characters in the documentary is Juan Carlos Cruz, the Chilean survivor of clergy sexual abuse whom Francis initially discredited during a 2018 visit to Chile.
Cruz, who is gay, said that during his first meetings with the pope in May 2018, Francis assured him that God made Cruz gay.
Cruz tells his own story in snippets throughout the film, chronicling both Francis' evolution on understanding sexual abuse as well as to document the pope's views on gay people.
Director Evgeny Afineevsky had remarkable access to cardinals, the Vatican television archives and the pope himself.
He said he negotiated his way in through persistence, and deliveries of Argentine mate tea and Alfajores cookies that he got to the pope via some well-connected Argentines in Rome.
&ldquo;Listen, when you are in the Vatican, the only way to achieve something is to break the rule and then to say, 'I'm sorry,'&rdquo; Afineevsky said in an interview ahead of the premiere.
The director worked official and unofficial channels starting in early 2018, and ended up so close to Francis by the end of the project that he showed the pope the movie on his iPad in August. The two recently exchanged Yom Kippur greetings; Afineevsky is a Russian-born Jew who lives in Los Angeles.
But &ldquo;Francesco&rdquo; is more than a biopic about the pope.
Wim Wenders did that in the 2018 film &ldquo;Pope Francis: A Man of His Word,&rdquo; which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. &ldquo;Francesco,&rdquo; is more a visual survey of the world's crises and tragedies, with audio from the pope providing possible ways to solve them.
Afineevsky traveled the world to film it: the settings include Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh where Myanmar's Rohingya sought refuge; the U.S.-Mexico border and Francis' native Argentina.
&ldquo;The film tells the story of the pope by reversing the cameras,&rdquo; said Vatican communications director Paolo Ruffini, who was one of Afineevsky's closest Vatican-based collaborators on the film.
Ruffini said that when Afineevsky first approached him with the idea of a documentary, he tried to tamp down his hopes for interviewing the pope.
&ldquo;I told him it wasn't going to be easy,&rdquo; he said.
But Ruffini gave him some advice: names of people who had been impacted by the pope, even after just a brief meeting. Afineevsky found them: the refugees Francis met with on some of his foreign trips, prisoners he blessed, and some of the gays to whom he has ministered.
&ldquo;I told him that many of those encounters had certainly been filmed by the Vatican cameras, and that there he would find a veritable gold mine of stories that told a story," Ruffini said. &ldquo;He would be able to tell story of the pope through the eyes of all and not just his own.&rdquo;

French President Emmanuel Macron led a national ceremony on Wednesday evening in memory of Samuel Paty, the teacher who was beheaded near Paris last week. The 47-year-old history teacher was beheaded by an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee, after he showed a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed in his class. Macron said that "Samuel Paty has become the face of the Republic, of our will to destroy the terrorists, to diminish the Islamists, to live as a community of free citizens in our country".

Spain became the first country in western Europe to reports more than 1 million confirmed Covid-19 infections on Wednesday. Govt said that its accumulative case load since the start of the pandemic crossed a million after nearly 17,000 fresh cases emerged in the past 24 hours. The country with a population of 47 million is struggling to contain a resurgence of the virus and the authorities have started tightening restrictions.

American officials have claimed that Iran is responsible for emails meant to intimidate American voters and sow unrest in multiple states. The FBI and Intelligence chiefs, at a press conference said that Tehran and Moscow have also obtained voter registration with the goal of interfering in the election. The officials added that the US will impose costs on any foreign countries interfering in the 2020 US election. Democratic voters in at least four battleground states have received threatening emails, purporting to be from the far-right group Proud Boys, that warned the recipients of consequences if they didn't vote for President Donald Trump.

Brazilian health authority said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University has died, news agency Reuters has reported. The regulator said testing of the vaccine would continue after the volunteer's death. It provided no further details, citing medical confidentiality of those involved in trials, the report added. The Federal University of Sao Paulo, which is helping coordinate phase 3 clinical trials in Brazil, separately said that the volunteer was Brazilian but did not say where the person lived.

Thailand&rsquo;s prime minister on Wednesday pleaded with his countrymen to resolve their political differences through Parliament, as student-led protests seeking to bring his government down continued for an eighth straight day.
&ldquo;The only way to a lasting solution for all sides that is fair for those on the streets as well as for the many millions who choose not to go on the streets is to discuss and resolve these differences through the parliamentary process,&rdquo; Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said, according to an English-language text released of a taped speech broadcast Wednesday night.
Prayuth offered a concession to protesters, saying he would promptly lift the state of emergency he declared in Bangkok last week &ldquo;if there are no violent incidents.&rdquo;
Withdrawing the emergency decree has been one of the protesters&rsquo; demands.

Shots were fired in Lagos on Wednesday as protesters continued to demonstrate against police brutality in Nigeria.
Demonstrators gathered at Lekki Toll Gate, where Amnesty International said late Tuesday there was &ldquo;credible but disturbing evidence&rdquo; that security forces had fatally shot protesters who were demonstrating against police brutality despite a new curfew being imposed.
The demonstrations are part of wider protests taking place across Nigeria, under the banner #EndSARS.
In response, the government announced it would ban the anti-robbery squad, which for several years human rights groups have blamed for widespread abuses, including torture and killings.
The demonstrators have not been satisfied with the disbandment of the SARS unit and are demanding an end to abuses and respect for human rights in all parts of the police force

At least 11 women were trampled to death when a stampede broke out Wednesday among thousands of Afghans waiting in a soccer stadium to get visas to leave the country, officials said. Governor&nbsp;Attaullah Khogyani said another 13 people, mostly women, were injured at the stadium in the Nangarhar province, where they were trying to get visas to enter neighboring Pakistan. He said most of those who died were elderly people from across Afghanistan. In a separate incident, at least 34 Afghan police were killed in an ambush by Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan, according to a local hospital official.

It's Pakistan Army Vs the Sindh police over the arrest of former PM Nawaz Sharif's son-in-law. Top officers of the Sindh Police decided to go on a mass leave alleging Army interference and pressure on the force to arrest Captain Safdar from a Karachi hotel on Monday after a massive opposition rally. The police was reportedly pressured by the Pak Rangers into arresting Safdar, which had caused widespread criticism. Reports said that IGP of Sindh was kidnapped by soldiers and pressured to register a case against Captain Safdar. Pakistan Army chief, in a damage control mode, has ordered a probe in to the allegations, and has tried to assuage the Sindh Police, which has got support from the opposition leaders.&nbsp;Police officials have now deferred&nbsp;their leave applications.

The fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of personally ordering Khashoggi's brutal execution in order to silence the high-profile government critic. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Khashoggi's fiancee Hatice Cengiz and the human rights organization Democracy for the Arab World Now that Khashoggi founded shortly before his death. It names Prince Mohammed and a host of Saudi officials, accusing them of a &ldquo;brutal and brazen crime&rdquo; that was the result of &ldquo;weeks of planning" and premeditation.

Washington, PTI: Melania Trump's return to the campaign trail will have to wait. The first lady on Tuesday decided against accompanying President Donald Trump to a campaign rally because of a lingering cough after her bout with Covid-19.
It was to be Melania Trump's first public appearance since recovering from the coronavirus. The first lady's announcement served as yet another reminder for the president that, as much as he wishes the virus would &ldquo;just disappear&rdquo; &mdash; it remains a powerful presence in everyday life, including his. Just on Monday, Trump had said that people are tired of hearing about Covid-19.&nbsp;
More than 58,000 Americans a day are testing positive for the virus, and more than 700 a day are dying from the disease.
Melania Trump continues to feel better every day &ldquo;but with a lingering cough, and out of an abundance of caution, she will not be traveling today,&rdquo; her staff said.
The first lady last appeared in public for the Sept. 29 debate in Cleveland between Trump and Democrat Joe Biden. She and the president tested positive two days later.
The first lady announced in a blog post last week that she had recovered from a bout with Covid-19 that included headaches, body aches and fatigue, and had tested negative. She also revealed that the couple's 14-year-old son, Barron, also had contracted the virus, but never had symptoms. He has since tested negative.
President Trump spent three nights at a military hospital outside Washington receiving treatment for his case of the disease. He was released Oct. 5 and returned to active campaigning last week.
Tuesday's rally in Pennsylvania was to be the first campaign trail appearance for Mrs. Trump since she spoke briefly at a June 2019 event in Orlando, Florida, where the president launched his reelection bid.
She addressed a mostly virtual Republican National Convention in August from the White House Rose Garden.

Hindu groups in the US have demanded an apology from the niece of Senator Kamala Harris for tweeting what they believe is an&nbsp;'offensive' image, which portrayed the Democratic vice presidential nominee as goddess Durga. Meena Harris, who is the founder of an organisation that works to bring awareness to intersectional social causes, has now deleted her tweet. In&nbsp;the now deleted tweet, Kamala is depicted as goddess Durga, and was seen killing US President Donald Trump, who was depicted as buffalo demon 'Mahishasura'. The image also showed Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden as a lion, the vehicle of the goddess.

Armenia and Azerbaijan reported more fighting on Tuesday over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, where clashes have continued for over three weeks despite two attempts at establishing a cease-fire.
Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said the hostilities carried on overnight and accused Armenian forces of shelling the Terter and the Agdam regions of Azerbaijan in the morning.
Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanian reported &ldquo;intensive fierce battles&rdquo; on Tuesday morning in the southern areas of the conflict zone, and alleged that Azerbaijani forces were using aviation and artillery in the northern sector.
The two countries announced a cease-fire on Saturday in a bid to halt the fighting that has killed hundreds since Sept. 27, when clashes resumed in the worst escalation of a decades-old conflict. The agreement &mdash; just like a cease-fire deal brokered by Russia a week earlier &mdash; was almost immediately challenged by mutual claims of violations and the fighting resumed unabated.
Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a war there ended in 1994.
By then, Armenian forces not only held Nagorno-Karabakh itself but also captured substantial areas outside the territory's borders.
According to Nagorno-Karabakh officials, 773 of their troops have been killed since Sept. 27, along with over 30 civilians. Azerbaijan hasn't disclosed its military losses, but says 61 civilians have died so far and 282 have been wounded.
The deadly flighting prompted calls for cessation of hostilities from around the globe and raised concerns of a wider conflict involving Turkey, which has publicly supported Azerbaijan, and Russia, which has a security pact with Armenia.
On Oct. 9, Moscow hosted the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan. After more than 10 hours of talks, they announced a cease-fire deal, which was violated minutes after it took force.
The new truce announced on Saturday followed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's calls with his counterparts from Armenia and Azerbaijan, in which he strongly urged them to abide by the Moscow deal. Despite the agreement, both sides have reported new attacks.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers are scheduled to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington on Friday.
Last week Pompeo said Washington was making diplomatic efforts to help achieve a sustainable settlement to the conflict and called on both countries to &ldquo;implement their agreed-upon commitments to a cease-fire." Russia, the US and France co-chair the so-called Minsk Group, set up by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the 1990s to mediate the conflict.&nbsp;

More than 1,300 inmates have escaped from a prison in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after an attack by rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces. The escape from the central prison in Beni&nbsp;comes three days after another attack on the Kangbayi prison, in which about 100 inmates had fled and dozens were killed.
Mayor Modeste Bakwanamaha told The Associated Press on Tuesday that one inmate had died during the latest attack.
"It's the only case that we are aware of, but we haven't heard about others," he said.
The mayor has called on Beni's citizens to report anyone they suspect as being escapees.
News of the jail break in Kangbayi angered locals, who feared the mass release could further exacerbate violence in the area.
The Allied Democratic Forces rebel group, known as the ADF, originated in Uganda and has long been a threat in eastern Congo.
The Islamic State group recently claimed some attacks carried out by ADF rebels but the exact relationship between the two groups is not entirely clear.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Following a violent altercation with&nbsp;Chinese diplomats, Taiwan will file an official complaint over the incident. At the recent Taiwan National Day reception at Fiji, the Chinese diplomats and the Taiwan officials got&nbsp;into a fight which was later confirmed by both the countries.&nbsp;
The two countries maintained a stand where they both rejected each other's&nbsp;claim of what precipitated the fight. The fight also&nbsp;resulted in one Taiwanese staffer being sent to a hospital with a head injury whereas one Chinese diplomat was also hurt.
The confrontation, an extreme example of the tensions between the rival governments, erupted when Taiwanese at the gathering tried to stop Chinese diplomats from taking photos of guests at the reception marking Taiwan's national day, a Taiwan foreign ministry spokeswoman, Joanne Ou, said in a written statement.
Speaking from Taiwan City on Tuesday, Ou said the case was being looked into by the Fijian foreign ministry and police department.
Ou also condemned China for its behaviour.
"We have witnessed through this issue, the very brutal, savage, overbearing and unreasonable nature of China's authoritarian regime," she said.
China's embassy in Fiji said in a statement released Monday that Taiwan's account was "inconsistent with the facts."

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