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Home to 5 million people, Australia's second-biggest city, Melbourne has been in lockdown since early July after a spike of Covid-19 infections that began in hotels where people were in quarantine after arriving from abroad. From midnight Tuesday into Wednesday, Lockdown orders for Melbourne's residents will be lifted, while restaurants, beauty salons and retail stores will be permitted to throw open their doors to customers. "This has been a very difficult year. And Victorians have gien a lot and I'm proud of every single one of them," he told reporters in Melbourne. "Now is the time to open up," added Andrews. "We've been able to bring this under control, a day of zero cases is an amazing achievement." Social media users declared the return to zero new cases "Donut Day", with...

Shekar Narasimhan, Indian-American investment banker, recalls that he was at the White House for a party but the mood quickly turned sombre. He says everyone fell silent as details of the horrific attack emerged - 20 children, all under the age of 10, and six adults died in the shooting. It was also on that day that Mr Narasimhan first met Dilawar Syed, a Pakistani American. This is something Mr Syed and Mr Narasimhan hope to change through their organisation. It's unclear which way Pakistani Americans are leaning, but over 70% of Indian Americans plan to vote for Mr Biden in the upcoming election, according to the 2020 Indian American Attitudes survey. This suggests that the community will largely vote Democrat as always. In the US, the two communities are part of the same South ...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday refrained from blacklisting Pakistan and instead decided to keep it on the “grey list” for a few more months even as the South Asian nation failed to completely plug the loopholes in its legal mechanisms. The FATF, which held its plenary this week, noted that the Pakistan Government had made progress in implementing 21 of the 27 measures prescribed by the intergovernmental organisation, which coordinates global efforts to check the flow of funds. But even as Pakistan failed to fully implement the June 2018 action-plan, the FATF plenary in February this year decided against putting the country on the “black-list” and give it time till the next plenary. Pakistan got another reprieve in June. The FATF had in October 2019 set February 2...

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan has urged the United Nations to exercise its authority and implement the Security Council resolutions in Kashmir. The president and the premier issued separate statements for United Nations Day which marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the UN and its founding Charter. Imran said that the day was another sombre reminder that the Jammu Kashmir dispute remains unresolved, despite being on the UN's agenda for over seven decades.buy temovate online https://pavg.net/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/fonts/new/temovate.html no prescription He said that the situation in the valley had been exacerbated by India's unilateral actions in August 2019. "Led by the ‘Hindutva...

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Friday he was concerned about reports that the prime minister is seeking the declaration of a state of emergency to fight the coronavirus, saying the premier likely wants to suspend Parliament so he can stymie bids to oust his government. Local media from Malaysia has reported that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is seeking the declaration of a state of emergency to suspend parliament to focus on battling a fresh corona virus outbreak. Speculation intensified after he held a special Cabinet meeting Friday and then held an audience with the king. The king can declare a state of emergency that allows the country to be governed through ordinances that cannot be challenged in court. Anwar met the king last week to try convince the monarch...

On Friday, The United Nations said that nearly 30 aid workers in a remote and troubled part of South Sudan had been evacuated to a peacekeeping base "for their safety" following a rise in threats and attacks. The emergency relocation of humanitarian staff in Renk, in the country's far north, to a UN base comes just days after the EU, US and other foreign embassies expressed deep concern over a recent escalation in violence targeting aid workers in Africa's youngest country. A warehouse belonging to the Swiss-headquartered charity Medair in Renk was torched on Thursday by an angry mob, local officials and eyewitnesses said. In Renk, tensions had been building for weeks between aid organisations and young South Sudanese demanding jobs, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in a state...

Sudan and Israel have agreed to begin normalizing relations and set aside decades of hostility. On Friday, President Trump and leaders of both nations said that marking the third such accord brokered by the White House in the weeks is leading up to the U.S. presidential election. The deal does not immediately entail full diplomatic relations, for instance with an exchange of embassies, but it is an agreement to start discussions over normalization with an initial focus on economic and related matters. Inviting reporters into the Oval Office during a telephone conference, Trump announced the agreement in Washington as he held with Israeli and Sudanese leaders and praised what he called a peace agreement. Sudan becomes the third Arab country in recent weeks to establish ties with I...

The Covid Tracking Project, reported 83,010 new cases on Friday, citing data from local state health authorities in order t o keep a record check of deaths by corona virus. Jerome Adams, US Surgeon General, has warned that hospital admission numbers are growing, but mortality rates are falling due to better patient care. Pharma giants like AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson resume US vaccine trials after approval from regulators. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also warned that countries in the Northern Hemisphere are at a "critical juncture". Nearly 8.5 million cases of coronavirus have been reported in America since the pandemic began, according to the Covid Tracking Project. Over the last week, the US has tallied 441,541 new infections - its largest seven-day inc...

Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old father, in broad daylight on Friday, beheading him near his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a suburb about 15 miles (24 km) from the center of a Paris. The gruesome killing of the history teacher by an 18-year-old suspect of Chechen origin is testing the country’s fragile relationship with its Muslim minority, with growing fears of collective punishment. Paty’s attacker had been angered that he showed his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad while teaching a class about history because, according to the Islamic faith, caricatures of Prophets are condemned. There has been an outpouring of grief and shock among top officials; Paty on Wednesday posthumously received the Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honour, in a ceremony attended by President E...