Name: US Congress pass law, makes lynching a federal crime
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The US Congress has approved a legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, comes 120 years after the Congress first considered an anti-lynching legislation. The measure was approved unanimously, 410 to 4 on Wednesday. Ironically, the bill comes sixty-five years after the shocking lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, which triggered a civil rights movement. Till, who was black, was brutally tortured and killed in 1955 after a white woman accused him of grabbing her and whistling at her at a grocery store. President Trump is expected to sign the bill, which designates lynching as a federal hate crime punishable by up to life in prison, a fine, or both.

The US Congress has approved a legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, comes 120 years after the Congress first considered an anti-lynching legislation. The measure was approved unanimously, 410 to 4 on Wednesday. Ironically, the bill comes sixty-five years after the shocking lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, which triggered a civil rights movement. Till, who was black, was brutally tortured and killed in 1955 after a white woman accused him of grabbing her and whistling at her at a grocery store. President Trump is expected to sign the bill, which designates lynching as a federal hate crime punishable by up to life in prison, a fine, or both.

A lack of &lsquo;skill and expertise&rsquo; to contain the oil spill from a bulk carrier late last month forced the&nbsp;Mauritius government on Sunday to declare a state of environmental emergency. Bulk carrier,&nbsp;MV Wakashio, which was carrying 4,000 tons of fuel,&nbsp;ran aground on July 25th and since then it has been leaking oil into the Indian ocean.&nbsp;Prime Minister&nbsp;PM Pravind&nbsp;Jugnauth who sought help from France, while declaring the green emergency said that inclement weather was making the rescue operation difficult.&nbsp;While Mauritius was able to save the ship&rsquo;s crew, the cracks in its hull have made the spill more dangerous.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

As nations continue to break grim novel coronavirus records, New Zealand under the leadership of Prime Minister&nbsp;Jacinda&nbsp;Ardern is leading the battle against the deadly.&nbsp;The island nation for the 100th straight day on Sunday reported no new cases of the infection&nbsp;and the current 23 active cases were detected at the country&rsquo;s borders.&nbsp;With a&nbsp;total of 1569 infections and 22 deaths so far, the pre-coronavirus&nbsp;lifestyle&nbsp;is gradually springing back in the country. A strict lockdown&nbsp;imposed on March 19, when only 100&nbsp;residents&nbsp;were infected, helped the country of 5 million people to overcome the&nbsp;pandemic. While the country is being praised for successfully eliminating the community transmission, the South Pacific nation has also&nbsp;geared up&nbsp;for the possibility of a second wave of infections.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

AP,&nbsp;Dubai: Saudi Aramco's net income plunged by 50% in the first half of the year, according to figures published on Sunday, offering a revealing glimpse into the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on one of the world's biggest oil producers.
Profits for the first six months of the year plunged to $23.2 billion, half of last year's $46.9 billion for the same time period.
The results were announced as Aramco's second quarter earnings dipped to $6.6 billion compared to $24.7 billion during the same time last year, reflecting a staggering 73% drop.
The majority state-owned company's financial health is crucial to Saudi Arabia's stability. Despite massive efforts by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to diversify the economy, Saudi Arabia still depends heavily on oil exports to fuel government spending.
The price of Brent crude hovers just under $45 a barrel, significantly less than before the pandemic but up from a low of around $21 a barrel in April.
Aramco CEO Amin Nasser acknowledged the company's finances were impacted by &ldquo;strong headwinds from reduced demand and lower oil prices" sparked by the pandemic, which halted flights around the world and plunged economies into recession, including Saudi Arabia's.
The company said it will uphold its commitment to pay out dividends of $18.75 billion for the second quarter as part of its promise to pay $75 billion in annual dividends.
Nasser described Aramco's half-year earnings as &ldquo;solid&rdquo; and credited the company's low production costs and operational strength, which helped it to maintain its promised dividend payments.
Aramco was knocked out of it's top spot as the world's most valuable listed company by Apple in recent days.
It's stock price gained a little on Sunday, trading at around 33 riyals ($8.80) a share. At its highest, Aramco traded above $10 a share in December and at it lowest slipped to $7.20 a share in March.
Looking ahead, Nasser said the energy market is seeing a partial recovery as countries around the world ease restrictions and reboot their economies.
&ldquo;We are determined to emerge from the pandemic stronger and will continue making progress on our long-term strategic journey, through ongoing investments in our business,&rdquo; Nasser said.
Even before the half-year results were announced, it was clear Aramco's half-year earnings would take a hit with the company's first quarter profits down 25%.
Aramco, which floated a sliver of its shares on the local Saudi stock market last year, had long kept its financial details a closely-held secret until the company began preparations for its market debut.&nbsp;

Chaos reigns in Beirut as hundreds of protesters angry over the devastating explosion on Tuesday stormed a number of government offices and ministry building to vent their anger against the ruling establishment. Protesters on Saturday stormed the economy ministry in Beirut. Earlier dozens had entered the empty building of the foreign ministry and declared it the headquarters of their protest movement. Some walked away with documents claiming they will reveal the extent of corruption that permeates the government. Hundreds have been injured in clashes over the last couple of days. Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Saturday evening said the only solution to save the country was to hold early elections.

Colombo, PTI:&nbsp;Sri Lanka&rsquo;s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in on Sunday as the country&rsquo;s new prime minister at a historic Buddhist temple, days after his party won a landslide victory in the General Election.
The 74-year-old Sri Lanka People&rsquo;s Party (SLPP) leader was administered the oath of office for the ninth Parliament by his younger brother and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the sacred Rajamaha Viharaya in Kelaniya, a north Colombo suburb.
Mahinda Rajapaksa completed 50 years of parliamentary politics in July this year. He was elected as a Member of Parliament at the young age of 24 in 1970. He has since been elected President twice and has been appointed Prime Minister thrice. The SLPP, led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, registered a landslide victory in the August 5 general election, securing two-thirds majority in Parliament needed to amend the Constitution to further consolidate the powerful Rajapaksa family's grip on power.
Mahinda Rajapaksa polled over 500,000 individual preference votes -- the highest ever recorded by a candidate in the history of elections.
The SLPP won in 145 constituencies, bagging a total of 150 seats with its allies, a two-thirds majority in the 225-member Parliament.
The cabinet ministers, state and deputy ministers are expected to be sworn-in on Monday.
The Rajapaksa family -- including SLPP founder and its National Organiser 69-year-old Basil Rajapaksa, who is the younger brother of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 71, and Mahinda Rajapaksa -- has dominated Sri Lankan politics for two decades.
Mahinda Rajapaksa previously served as the president for nearly a decade from 2005 to 2015.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had won the November presidential election on the SLPP ticket.
In the parliamentary election, he was seeking 150 seats mandatory to execute constitutional changes, including to repeal the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which had curbed the presidential powers while strengthening the role of Parliament.
Activists, already alarmed by the diminishing space for dissent and criticism in the island nation, fear such a move could lead to authoritarianism.

The United States set a record for coronavirus cases on Saturday, with more than 5 million people now infected, according to a Reuters tally. With one out of every 66 residents infected, the United States leads the world in Covid-19 cases, according to a Reuters analysis. The country has recorded more than 1,60,000 deaths, nearly a quarter of the world&rsquo;s total virus fatalities. Trump had earlier this week said that it was possible the United States would have a coronavirus vaccine by the time of the November 3 presidential election.

Brazil on Saturday surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths and three million cases of infection, according to the latest tally from the country's health ministry. The Latin American country which the second worst hit by the virus after the US, reported close to 50,000 new cases and 905 deaths from the infection in the past 24 hours. But the official figures are most likely an undercount, with experts estimating that the total number of infections could be up to six times higher due to insufficient testing, reports said.

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.

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