Day: November 1, 2020

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Trump admin funds plasma company based in owner’s condo

7:19 pm November 1, 2020

Washington: When the Trump administration gave a well-connected Republican donor seed money to test a possible COVID-19-fighting blood plasma technology, it noted the company’s “manufacturing facilities” in Charleston, South Carolina. Plasma Technologies LLC is indeed based in the stately waterfront city. But there are no manufacturing facilities. Instead, the company exists within the luxury condo of its majority owner, […]

French Muslims, stigmatised by attacks, feel under pressure

7:15 pm November 1, 2020

Paris: The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France’s Muslims are feeling squeezed. A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest acts of extremist violence, including two beheadings. President Emmanuel Macron has forged ahead with his effort to rid Islam in France of extremists, part of a project he […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

In campaign’s final days, Trump hopes rallies mean big votes

7:08 pm November 1, 2020

Butler: President Donald Trump is mounting one final test of whether the massive crowds that often show up at his signature rallies will translate into votes as he finishes the final 48 hours of his re-election campaign with a dizzying onslaught of events in the battleground states that could decide the race. The president will hold five […]

Super typhoon weakens after slamming Philippines; 7 dead

7:05 pm November 1, 2020

Manila: A powerful super typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines with ferocious winds Sunday, killing at least seven people and causing volcanic mudflows to bury houses before weakening as it blew toward Manila, where the capital’s main airport was shut down, officials said. Typhoon Goni hit the island province of Catanduanes at dawn with sustained […]

UP: Man’s body found hanging from tree after tiff with mother

6:59 pm November 1, 2020

Noida: The body of a 20-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida on Sunday in a case of suspected suicide, police said. The body was found in Jarcha town and the deceased hailed from nearby Hapur district, they said. “The family members told the police that the man had a tiff […]