▽Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept - Glenn Greenwald I am posting here the most recent draft of my article about Joe and Hunter Biden - the last one seen by Intercept editors before telling me that they refuse to pu…

▽White House Watch, Biden 49%, Trump 46% - Rasmussen Reports Democrat Joe Biden has taken a three-point lead over President Trump in Rasmussen Reports’ daily White House Watch survey.The latest national telephone and online survey of Likel…

▽Japanese actor Kentaro Ito arrested in hit-and-run case | The Japan Times Up-and-coming actor Kentaro Ito was arrested Thursday for allegedly driving away after hitting a motorbike with his car in Tokyo the previous day, police said.The 2…

▽Juvenile suicide rate in Japan hit record high in 2019 | The Japan Times The number of people who died by suicide per population of 100,000 came to 3.1 for those under 20 in Japan in 2019, rising 0.3 percentage point from the previous yea…

▽Protests flare in Philadelphia after police kill Black man | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette More than a dozen people were arrested and more than 30 officers injured in protests stemming from the police shooting death of a Black man they say refu…

▽Chilean Voters Approve Plan to Rewrite Constitution Chileans voted Sunday on a proposal to replace the current constitution. Election officials reported that about 78 percent of voters supported creation of a new system of laws, while 22 …

▽Spain announces new state of emergency as COVID infections soar | Reuters Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced a new state of emergency on Sunday in an effort to curb soaring coronavirus infections, imposing local nighttime curf…

▽Nagorno-Karabakh: Nearly 5,000 dead in conflict, Putin says - BBC News Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that almost 5,000 people have been killed in fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenian forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karaba…

▽Nigeria: PDP Demands State of Emergency Declaration On National Security - allAfrica.com The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state …

▽Date Announced For New Kyrgyz Parliamentary Elections Kyrgyzstan's Central Election Commission (BShK) has set December 20 as the date for new parliamentary elections after an October 4 vote was annulled following public protests that oust…

▽Trump Records Shed New Light on Chinese Business Pursuits - The New York Times But Mr. Trump’s own business history is filled with overseas financial deals, and some have involved the Chinese state. He spent a decade unsuccessfully pursui…

▽Why the World Should Care About Language in Inner Mongolia - The Diplomat On August 26 China passed a law to sideline teaching in the Mongolian language in the region of Inner Mongolia (also referred to as Southern Mongolia). This measure…

▽US election 2020: Early voting records smashed amid enthusiasm wave - BBC News State election officials across the US are reporting record numbers of voters casting their ballots ahead of election day on 3 November.More than 29 million ha…

▽Azerbaijan, Armenia agree to new ceasefire | NHK WORLD The foreign ministries of Azerbaijan and Armenia say the countries agreed on Saturday to observe a new ceasefire from midnight... The move comes as fighting over the disputed region o…

▽Federal debt eclipses size of U.S. economy amid coronavirus response, Treasury says - The Washington Post The U.S. budget deficit eclipsed $3.1 trillion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, according to government data released Friday,…

▽Remdesivir has little effect on Covid-19 mortality, WHO study says | Financial Times The Covid-19 treatment remdesivir has no substantial effect on a patient’s chances of survival, a clinical trial by the World Health Organization has fou…

▽Japan’s Dentsu lobbied for and funded campaign for Tokyo games, documents show, despite Olympics contract | Reuters Dentsu Inc donated more than $6 million to Tokyo’s successful campaign to host the 2020 Olympics, according to bank record…

▽Email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian biz man to dad Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured governme…

▽‘I have failed’: Kim Jong Un shows tearful side in confronting N. Korea’s hardships : The Asahi Shimbun North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared to shed tears at the weekend as he thanked citizens for their sacrifices, in the most strikin…

▽Indigenous Peoples' Day: These are the states that have ditched Columbus Day - CNN Technically, Columbus Day is a federal holiday, which means it is recognized by the US government and thus brings the closure of non-essential government o…

▽Honours list: ‘Unsung heroes’ of coronavirus lockdown recognised | The Times Hundreds of people who helped the vulnerable and lifted the nation’s spirits at the height of the coronavirus pandemic have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthd…

▽North Korea unveils 'monster' new intercontinental ballistic missile at parade | Reuters North Korea unveiled previously unseen intercontinental ballistic missiles at an unprecedented predawn military parade on Saturday that showcased the…

▽Russian who 'paid $3.5M to Hunter Biden did so to open doors for her business to enter US market' | Daily Mail Online Russia's richest woman Yelena Baturina has refused to discuss her alleged payment of $3.5 million to Joe Biden's son Hun…

▽Japan's response to first virus wave late but effective, report says | The Japan Times Japan’s virus countermeasures spanning January to July - during which time the country saw its first major wave of COVID-19 - were “belated but produce…

▽Scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for 'genetic scissors' | The Guardian Two scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel prize in chemistry for developing the genetic scissors used in gene editing - the first time two women have shared …

▽Nearly all of Iran on coronavirus red alert as cases, deaths hit records | Reuters Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state television that 26 of Iran’s 31 provinces were “red” zones, the highest alert level, while four were at the…

▽Japan's Aug. jobless rate rises to 3%, highest in 3 yrs due to virus Japan's unemployment rate reached the 3 percent level in August for the first time in over three years as the new coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh on business act…

▽Kyodo News journalist named special adviser to PM Suga Meiji Kakizaki, a journalist at Kyodo News known for his frequent appearances as a TV political commentator, was named on Tuesday as special adviser to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.K…

▽PM Suga refuses to appoint 6 scholars to Science Council of Japan in unprecedented move - The Mainichi Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga refused to appoint six scholars as new members of the Science Council of Japan, a representative organiza…

▽Amnesty International to halt India operations - BBC News Amnesty International says it has been forced to halt its India operations due to "reprisals" from the government.The watchdog also accused the government of pursuing a "witch-hunt…