A day after China fired ballistic missiles into the South China Sea, an American warship sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands, the US Navy has said, challenging Beijing's claims on the resource-rich waterway.&nbsp;
The US Navy's Pacific Fleet said in a statement that the USS Mustin, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed on Thursday "in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands to ensure critical shipping lanes in the area remain free and open".
The Chinese military on Friday accused the US ship of entering "China's territorial waters" near the islands "without authorisation".

A day after China fired ballistic missiles into the South China Sea, an American warship sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands, the US Navy has said, challenging Beijing's claims on the resource-rich waterway. The US Navy's Pacific Fleet said in a statement that the USS Mustin, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed on Thursday "in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands to ensure critical shipping lanes in the area remain free and open". The Chinese military on Friday accused the US ship of entering "China's territorial waters" near the islands "without authorisation".

US President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden go head-to-head in the first of the three televised debates today. Due to Covid restrictions, there will be no customary handshake, and the 90-minute debate, moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox News will have a smaller-than-usual audience. But the mood of the debate is already set with Trump calling Biden "virtually brain dead" and the Biden branding the president a "toxic presence".

US President Donald Trump and his challenger Democratic nominee Joe Biden, are all set to face each other for&nbsp;first of the three scheduled Presidential debates on Tuesday, with five weeks to go for the November 3 polls.
The 90-minute televised debate will be held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The debate will be moderated by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace.
While Trump has decided to skip any formal preparation, Biden&rsquo;s team believes that the significance of debate may be exaggerated.&nbsp;
Dubbed as the &lsquo;Super Bowl of American Democracy&rsquo;, Trump and Biden will be responding to questions on their track record, the Supreme Court, economy, race and violence in cities and integrity of the elections.

The first Presidential debate was fiery, charged and at times chaotic. President Trump repeatedly talked over former Vice President Joe Biden and moderator Chris Wallace. Trump persistently interrupted nearly every Biden answer. Trump's interruptions at times got better of Biden when he called him "liar", "clown" and at one point asked him to just "shut up"

The World Bank on Tuesday said it has asked its board of directors to approve $12 billion to help poor countries purchase and distribute eventual vaccines against Covid-19.&nbsp;The bank has already implemented emergency response programs in 111 countries and the extra money, if approved, would be aimed at low- and middle-income countries.

US President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden went face-to-face in a fiery first of the three Presidential debates. While Biden called Trump a liar, the President hit back asking what has he done in his 47 years of political life. On the question of Trump's taxes, Biden&nbsp;charged that Trump paid less taxes than a school techer and asked him to show his tax papers after the NYT report that Trump paid just 750 dollars in taxes in 2016 and 2017. Rejecting the report, Trump insisted that he paid millions of dollars in taxes and proof will be out soon. Attacking Trump on Covid handling, Biden said that the President is only interested in opening everything without worrying about people's safety.

Amid ongoing India-China military talks to de-escalate the tension between the two countries, Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday said it does not recognise the what it called 'illegally' constituted Ladakh union territory and opposed India from building her military infrastructure in the border areas. Brushing reports of China building a new military base near the LAC and calling them completely false, Foreign Ministry&nbsp;spokesperson&nbsp;Wenbin&nbsp;Wang said neither India nor China should engage in activities in the border region that could complicate the situation. Last year too, China had strongly responded against the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into J&amp;K and Ladakh.

AP, Dubai:&nbsp;Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation's top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, died Tuesday. He was 91.
In a Middle East replete with elderly rulers, Sheikh Sabah stood out for his efforts at pushing for diplomacy to resolve a bitter dispute between Qatar and other Arab nations that continues to this day.
His 2006 ascension in Kuwait, a staunch U.S. ally since the American-led war that expelled occupying Iraqi troops, came after parliament voted unanimously to oust his predecessor, the ailing Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah, just nine days into his rule.
Yet as Kuwait's ruling emir, he struggled with internal political disputes, the fallout of the 2011 Arab Spring protests and seesawing crude oil prices that chewed into a national budget providing cradle-to-grave subsidies.
&ldquo;He represents the older generation of Gulf leaders who valued discretion and moderation and the importance of personal ties amongst fellow monarchs,&rdquo; said Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington who studies Kuwait.
&ldquo;No question he has suffered from the lack of deference and respect shown by the younger and more brash young princes holding power today.&rdquo; State television announced his death after playing Quranic prayers.
Sheikh Sabah is expected to be succeeded by his half brother, the crown prince Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah.&nbsp;

A hostage situation that unfolded in the US' Oregon led to a deadly shooting which killed multiple people&nbsp;on Monday including the suspect.&nbsp;Officials of the local county sheriff's office said, cops&nbsp;were at the scene along with a negotiator,&nbsp;responding to a call regarding a hostage situation, but shots were fired, while they were there.&nbsp;Authorities have refused to give any information on the number of casualties, but have said no deputies have been hurt.&nbsp;

The campaign team for Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden&nbsp;is targeting Sikh-Americans ahead of the November 3 US polls.&nbsp;Aimed at reaching out to the Sikh-Americans,&nbsp;it plans to protect the community's youth in schools.&nbsp;
The initiative addresses xenophobia, racism, and&nbsp;discrimination against religious minorities in the US.&nbsp;&nbsp;In a press release,&nbsp;Biden's campaign team stated that cases of bullying against the Sikh community has doubled under the Trump regime.&nbsp;
Kiran Kaur Gill, a prominent civil rights activist and a member of&nbsp;Sikh American National Leadership Council, hailed the new initiative&nbsp;saying, that under Biden,&nbsp;Sikh-Americans can feel safer in schools and on streets.&nbsp;

5 civilians were killed and multiple were injured&nbsp;in a rocket attack in Baghdad on Monday. Among the dead were three women and two children.&nbsp;Iraqi armed groups fired two Katyusha rockets at a house in Baghdad, though reports say target was&nbsp;Baghdad international airport, where US troops are stationed.&nbsp;The Iraqi military, in a statement accused&nbsp;'cowardly criminal gangs and groups of outlaws' of seeking to 'create chaos and terrorise people'.&nbsp;The attack is the latest in a&nbsp;string of attacks targeting Americans, after Washington threatened to close its embassy and withdraw its 3,000 troops from the country unless rocket fire stops.

In an effort to become more inclusive, Japan Airlines (JAL) is dropping the phrase 'ladies and gentlemen' from its greeting announcements. The airline will switch to expressions like 'attention all passengers' and, 'welcome, everyone' starting October 1 on all flights and airports worldwide.&nbsp;
A JAL&nbsp;spokesperson&nbsp;told AFP&nbsp;that the Tokyo-based airline aims to&nbsp;abolish expressions that do not promote&nbsp;gender inclusivity.&nbsp;
JAL is the first Asian airline to adopt this practice.&nbsp;Before this, Air Canada also announced last year that they're making a switch from gender-specific to gender-neutral greetings including 'everybody.'&nbsp;

PTI,&nbsp;New Delhi: India has said that the victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and the 2016 Pathankot strike are yet to get justice because of the "unwillingness" and "non-cooperative" attitude of a particular country, in a clear reference to Pakistan.
At a virtual ministerial meeting of the 'Group of Friends of Victims of terrorism', India has strongly pitched for concerted global actions to effectively deal with terrorism and said it continues to pose a critical threat to international peace and security even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Representing India at the meeting on Monday, Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs Vijay Thakur Singh also called for "redressing deficiencies" in the international efforts to ensure that perpetrators of terrorism are brought to justice.
"I would like to highlight that, for example, the victims of 2008 Mumbai terror attack and 2016 Pathankot terror attack are yet to get justice. This is due to the unwillingness and non-cooperative attitude of a particular country," Singh said.
The meeting was organised by foreign ministers of Afghanistan and Spain, the two co-chairs of the grouping, and the UN office of Counter Terrorism (UNOCT).
In her address, Singh said acts of terrorism not only violate the rights of individual victims but they also deeply affect the enjoyment of a range of rights by the families of the victims and society as a whole.
"Even, amidst the ongoing pandemic, terrorism continues to pose a critical threat to international peace and security," Singh said in an oblique reference to Pakistan.
Notwithstanding the coronavirus pandemic, Pakistan has not stopped pushing terrorists to Jammu and Kashmir in the last few months, according to military officials.
Singh also talked about the danger of terrorists stepping up the use of information and communication technology networks for propaganda and for issuing threats, further exacerbating the stress on victims of terror.
She highlighted the pain and suffering of the innocent victims of terrorism across the world and said while terrorists can never succeed in achieving their "nefarious objectives", they leave behind a trail of death and destruction.
"Measures aimed at addressing the needs of the victims of terrorism, therefore, should factor in the sensitivities of these vulnerable sections of the society. Efforts should also be made to work with the victims to build a counter narrative against the hateful propaganda of terrorism," she said.
The Secretary (East) appreciated the UN for establishing August 21 as the 'International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism', and hoped the UN would continue its work related to addressing the needs of victims of terrorism. &nbsp;

Fighting continued between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno Karabakh with both sides blaming each other for resuming the attacks that reportedly killed and wounded dozens.
The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry claimed Armenian forces shelled the town of Tartar, while Armenian officials said the fighting continued overnight and Baku resumed "offensive operations" in the morning.
Footage released by both countries' defence ministries shows soldiers on either side of the conflict engaged in fighting with artillery and missile launchers.
Associated Press has not been able to verify the footage, the location or date the videos were filmed.
The heavy fighting broke out Sunday in the region that lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Yerevan government since 1994 at the end of a separatist war.

Heavy fighting that erupted on Sunday between Azerbaijani and Armenian military forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region continued for the second day. Both sides pounded each other with rockets and artillery. Military and civilian deaths have been reported from both sides, in the worst escalation in violence since 2016. The United Nations has called for &ldquo;the need for an immediate stop to the fighting and resumption without precondition of meaningful negotiations without delay&rdquo;. Most of the international community, including the United States, Russia, Iran and European powers, have been calling for an end to hostilities and the start of talks.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the 1 million global death toll from the novel coronavirus "an agonizing milestone." According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of Covid-19 deaths worldwide has topped 1 million, with over 33 million confirmed cases. More than 23 million have recovered from the contagion worldwide. Calling it a "mind-numbing figure", the UN chief stated that the world must "never lose sight of each and every individual life".

In what is being called a major milestone, the World Health Organisation shared that a new global test could detect Covid-19 in minutes.&nbsp;
This will help detect cases in&nbsp;low and middle-income countries across the globe. This&nbsp;$5 test will be especially&nbsp;beneficial in areas that lack enough healthcare workers and laboratories.&nbsp;
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus&nbsp;shared that the new test will provide results in 15 to 20 minutes and over the next 6 months, manufacturers&nbsp;will provide 120 million tests.

Azerbaijan's Defence Ministry on Monday shared footage which it said shows the destruction of Armenian military personnel and equipment along the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian Defence Ministry released footage on Sunday which it said showed strikes on Azeri tanks.
Clashes broke out Sunday morning in the region that lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since 1994 at the end of separatist war.
It was not immediately clear what sparked the fighting, the heaviest since clashes in July killed 16 people from both sides.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei staged a silent protest Monday against the possible extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, outside the former journalist's trial at the Old Bailey in London.&nbsp;
Assange is fighting an attempt by American prosecutors to extradite him to the U.S. to stand trial on spying charges.
US prosecutors have indicted the 49-year-old Australian on 18 espionage and computer misuse charges over WikiLeaks' publication of secret U.S. military documents a decade ago. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison.
Assange's lawyers say the prosecution is a politically motivated abuse of power that will stifle media freedom and put journalists at risk around the world.
Speaking outside the courthouse, Weiwei claimed that the treatment of Assange bore similarities to the way Chinese authorities suppress dissidents.
"First they try to smash him, to tar his name, to come out with all kinds of strange accusations. The result, they think, is just putting him away - to punish him."
The artist said he believed that the attempt to extradite Assange was intended as a signal "for all the journalists who want to give exposure to governments' wrongdoings."
American authorities allege that Assange conspired with U.S. army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to hack into a Pentagon computer and release hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables and military files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a new indictment announced in June, the U.S. Justice Department expanded its case, accusing Assange of recruiting hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia, recruiting a teenager to hack into the computer of a former WikiLeaks associate and conspiring with members of hacking groups known as LulzSec and Anonymous.
U.S. prosecutors say the evidence underscores Assange's efforts to procure and release classified information.
Assange's lawyers argue that he is a journalist entitled to First Amendment protection and say the leaked documents exposed U.S. military wrongdoing.
The case is due to run until early October. The judge is expected to take weeks or even months to consider her verdict, with the losing side likely to appeal.
&nbsp;

US President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale was hospitalised on Sunday after he threatened to harm himself. Hired by Jared Kushner in 2016, Parscale&nbsp;was admitted in a hospital under the Baker Act. He&nbsp;was demoted in June this year by Trump after their ties begun to sour as Parscale attracted a wave of media attention that included focus on his seemingly glitzy lifestyle on the Florida coast that kept him far from campaign headquarters in Virginia.&nbsp;Parscale ran most of the microtargeted online advertising that Trump aides believe was key to his victory four years ago.

PTI,&nbsp;Lahore:&nbsp;Pakistan's Leader of the Opposition and PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif was arrested on Monday after the Lahore High Court rejected his bail plea in a Rs 7 billion (USD 41.9 million) money laundering case.
Shahbaz, the younger brother of former premier Nawaz Sharif, was taken into custody from the court's premises, where a large number of PML-N workers gathered ahead of the hearing.
The country's anti-graft body National Accountability Bureau (NAB) took him to its Lahore's detention centre and will produce him to the accountability court for his physical remand.
The LHC's two-member bench headed by Sardar Ahemd Naeem rejected his bail after hearing the arguments from the NAB's team and Shahbaz's lawyer.
The Imran Khan government last week filed the money laundering case against 69-year-old Shahbaz, who served as chief minister of Punjab from 2008 to 2018, and his family.
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Shahzad Akbar on September 23 alleged that Shahbaz and his sons Hamza and Salman were involved in money laundering through fake accounts.
Akbar said the financial monitoring unit had detected 177 suspicious transactions of Shahbaz' family after which NAB started a probe.
He alleged that billions of rupees were laundered through employees of the companies owned by Shahbaz and his children.
Akbar accused Shahbaz and Hamza of taking kickbacks and commissions in return for party tickets and projects to favourites.
Before his arrest, Shahbaz told media that Prime Minister Khan wanted to have him arrested.
"It is the unholy alliance of Imran Khan and NAB that wanted to put me behind bars," Shahbaz said.
Reacting to his arrest, PML-N spokesperson Maryam Nawaz said Shahbaz has been arrested only because he did not leave his elder brother.
Alleging that it was a political victimisation by the government, she said, "This politics of vengence cannot dampen the spirits of our workers." PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari condemned Shehbaz's arrest, saying that Prime Minister Khan was worried after the Opposition parties launched an alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement, to oust the Imran Khan government.
The Opposition was anticipating strong reaction from the government following Nawaz Sharif's attack on the military in the multi-party conference over a week ago.
Sharif while addressing the conference via video link from London talked about the Army's involvement in politics, saying in the country "there is a state above the state." He said that the joint Opposition's struggle is not against Khan but against those who imposed an "inefficient" man on the nation through a rigged elections in 2018." The Opposition is anticipating more arrests. The NAB has already issued a call up notice to JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman who is also leading the joint opposition's campaign against the government in income beyond means case.&nbsp;

A day after China fired ballistic missiles into the South China Sea, an American warship sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands, the US Navy has said, challenging Beijing's claims on the resource-rich waterway. Incidents this week have further escalated already high tensions between Washington and Beijing.
The US Navy's Pacific Fleet said in a statement that the USS Mustin, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed on Thursday "in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands to ensure critical shipping lanes in the area remain free and open".
The Chinese military on Friday accused the US ship of entering "China's territorial waters" near the islands "without authorisation".

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