Stories for October 3rd 2020

Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:55 UTC
Concern in the White House about the presidential election; Trump in quarantine at Army hospital

White House officials sought to project an air of business as usual on Friday despite President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, but aides privately expressed concern about the presidential election and showed signs of rising worry about the coronavirus.
Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:54 UTC
Bolsonaro nominates liberal judge to the Supreme Court triggering reaction from evangelical supporters

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday nominated a judge with a record of flexible rulings to the country’s Supreme Court, frustrating evangelical members of his conservative base who had been promised one of their own for the opening.
Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC
Boris Johnson’s Cunning Plan; If PM Johnson is Blackadder, who is his Baldrick?

By Gwynne Dyer – “I’ve got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel,” said Blackadder’s sidekick Baldrick in the BBC’s brilliant historical comedy series ‘Blackadder.’ In fact, he said, “I have a cunning plan” in almost every episode, but the plans hardly ever worked, and it became a popular catch-phrase.
Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC
Merkel and UK remain optimistic on a post Brexit-deal, but “the fisheries gap is unfortunately very large”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had no breakthrough to announce on Friday as a week of EU talks with Britain ended, but remained optimistic that sealing a deal on a post-Brexit trade relationship was still possible before the end of the year.
Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:30 UTC
Energy companies appeal a climate change damages lawsuit which reaches US Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by energy companies including BP PLC, Chevron Corp, Exxon Mobil Corp, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC contesting a lawsuit by the city of Baltimore seeking damages for the impact of global climate change.
Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:20 UTC
US Supreme Court will take a dispute on loosening US media ownership rules

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Friday it will take up a long-running legal dispute over whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can loosen U.S. media ownership rules. A lower court has thwarted the FCC's efforts to revise the rules since 2003 in a series of decisions.
Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:19 UTC
French Overseas Territory New Caledonia votes independence referendum on Sunday

Voters in New Caledonia, a French archipelago in the South Pacific, will choose whether they want independence from France in a referendum that marks a milestone in a three-decade decolonization effort.
Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:15 UTC
Gibraltar leaders hold virtual meeting with the All Party Group on post Brexit talks with EU

Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and the Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Joseph Garcia held a virtual meeting with members of the All-Party Group on Gibraltar on Thursday, which included Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords with Group Chair Sir Bob Neil MP.