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Friday, October 30th 2020 - 18:09 UTC
US economy grew 33,1% in Q3 on trillions of relief, but 23 million Americans still on unemployment benefit

The U.S. economy grew at a historic pace in the third quarter as the government injected more than US$ 3 trillion worth of pandemic relief which fueled consumer spending, but the deep scars from the COVID-19 recession could take a year or more to heal.
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Friday, October 30th 2020 - 14:33 UTC
More than 80 million Americans have already cast votes, 58% of total 2016 turnout

More than 80 million Americans have cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election, according to a tally on Thursday from the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida, setting the stage for the highest participation rate in over a century.
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Friday, October 30th 2020 - 13:00 UTC
Argentina and Mexico “vote” for Biden and delay nominations at IDB until after the US election

Mexico and Argentina have delayed a key meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank until after the Nov. 3 U.S. election, delivering an early setback to plans by the bank’s new U.S. chief to install vice presidents from smaller countries.
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Friday, October 30th 2020 - 08:58 UTC
World Medical Association blasts leaders who discredit science and sponsor fake news on coronavirus

The spreading of fake news and discredited science by world leaders has led to many people dying and others being exposed to Covid-19, according to the departing President of the World Medical Association. In his valedictory address to this week’s WMA’s annual Assembly, Dr. Miguel Jorge, a psychiatrist from Brazil, mentioned both the Presidents of Brazil and the United States as contributing to more people being exposed to the virus and more deaths.
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Friday, October 30th 2020 - 08:51 UTC
Polish women protest against abortion restrictions becomes global across EU and US cities; huge march expected in Warsaw

Thousands of protesters in cities around the world have gathered over the past days in support of Poles who have taken to the streets after a court ruling further limited the country's restrictive abortion laws.
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Friday, October 30th 2020 - 08:34 UTC
US rejects Nigerian candidate as next WTO director-general, further paralyzing the global trade watchdog

The World Trade Organization's (WTO) bid to select a new leader was plunged into uncertainty this Wednesday after the United States rejected the Nigerian woman proposed as the global trade watchdog's next director-general.
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Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 09:20 UTC
Major US funds involved in Amazon degradation and indigenous rights violations, claim environmental groups

Major US financial firms are helping fund environmental destruction and indigenous rights abuses in the Amazon with billions of dollars in investments in questionable companies, according to a report published on Tuesday.
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Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 08:22 UTC
US and India will share sensitive satellite data; Pompeo knitting a safety ring round China

The United States and India signed a pact to share sensitive satellite and map data as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned of the threat posed by an increasingly assertive China.
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Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 08:19 UTC
Philadelphia under after dark curfew following the killing of a black man by police triggered looting and arson

Philadelphia officials imposed a citywide after-dark curfew on Wednesday, seeking to avert a third night of violence amid protests over the fatal police shooting of a black man wielding a knife and described by family as undergoing a nervous breakdown.
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Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:20 UTC
Catholic and “originalist” Judge Barrett ensures a conservative majority in the US Supreme Court

Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the US Supreme Court came as little surprise. The long-term academic, appeals court judge and mother of seven was the hot favorite for the Supreme Court seat.
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