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Monday, August 31, 2020

Pranab Mukherjee On Emergency, His RSS Speech, Indira Gandhi, PM Modi

Exclusive excerpt from 'Defining India: Through Their Eyes' by Sonia Singh

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Coronavirus: Portugal return to quarantine list would cause 'chaos and hardship'

The head of BA's parent company warns against new measures, as coronavirus cases in Portugal rise.

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QAnon follower asserts Trump is 'an angel'

Thousands of people protested against Germany's coronavirus lockdown measures in Berlin and, among them, were QAnon supporters with outspoken praise for President Trump. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.

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‘We lit a fire to Modi’s social media campaign'

A report in the Wall Street Journal newspaper claims that a day before the BJP swept to victory in the 2014 general elections, Facebook public policy head in India, Ankhi Das, sent out an internal message to the company's employees writing, “We lit a fire to his social media campaign and the rest is of course history.” Facebook, however, said that the posts were taken “out of context”.

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India recorded nearly 2mn Covid cases in August

India reported close to 2 million Covid-19 cases in August, the highest recorded in any country during any month since the outbreak of the pandemic. The country also saw a surge in deaths from the virus, with 28,859 fatalities reported in August, a 50% jump from the previous month’s toll.

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Pranab Mukherjee, 'dada' of Indian politics, bids goodbye at 84

Pranab Mukherjee, whose career on the national political stage began as a Rajya Sabha MP in 1969 and ended as President in 2017, passed away Monday evening at the age of 84 – 22 days after he was admitted to the Army Hospital (Research and Referral) in New Delhi following an emergency operation for a clot in the brain from which he never recovered.

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India's GDP collapses 23.9% in Q1

India’s economy posted its steepest contraction on record in the April-June quarter of the current fiscal year as the strict lockdowns imposed to ward off the spread of the deadly coronavirus infection stalled economic activity, shut out consumption and investment and led to job and income losses. In April-June, it suffered a contraction for the first time since India began maintaining quarterly records.

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How Army foiled PLA’s bid to change status quo

In further escalation in the ongoing military confrontation in eastern Ladakh since early-May, fresh clashes erupted between Indian and Chinese troops on the southern bank of Pangong Tso during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. There was no immediate official word on whether there were any casualties in the latest clashes

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Sturgeon to announce 'national mission to create jobs'

Scotland's first minister is to make creating jobs her top priority in the coming year at Holyrood.

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Ron Jeremy: Adult star faces more rape and sexual assault charges

The 67-year-old, one of the biggest pornography stars, is accused of attacking a total of 17 women.

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Still ill with coronavirus six months later: 'I have no idea how to get better'

For some people Covid just will not go away – one woman’s Instagram diary of her long-haul illness.

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George Ezra opens up about OCD struggle

The musician says he is plagued by intrusive thoughts, and has suffered from OCD "my whole life".

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Hundreds of migrants still dying in Med five years since 2015

Five years on from the migrant crisis of 2015 hundreds are still dying in the Mediterranean.

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Rival powers jockey for the lead in hypersonic aircraft

The US, China and Russia are pouring money into aircraft that can fly at five times the speed of sound.

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Coronavirus: How teachers are feeling as schools return

Four teachers share their experiences of the pandemic as they prepare to welcome pupils back to school.

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The traditional crafts in danger of dying out

Who was the last British deckle-maker? Who makes withy pots? And what is an orrery?

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Trump defends supporters accused in deadly clashes

The US president suggests right-wing activists in Wisconsin and Oregon acted in self-defence.

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Zoom revenues skyrocket as profits double

The popular video conferencing app has seen a 458% jump in customer growth compared with last year.

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Child Trust Funds: Teenagers get first chance to access cash

Savings pots could now be worth more than £1,000 but many teenagers are unaware they exist.

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The 1980s 'super recession': When unemployment topped 3m - and kept rising

As the UK copes with being in a recession, how does it compare with the recession in the 1980s?

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Rohingya crisis: Growing up in the world's largest refugee camp

Nayeem, 3, is one of 20,000 children born every year in the camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

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Meet Senegal's first female professional surfer

Khadjou Sambe, 25, defied social expectations to ride the Atlantic waves.

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Why this black drive-in cinema is a big hit

Drive-ins are booming, of course. But this one is also responding to the other big story of the year.

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Sunday, August 30, 2020

Hilary Swank on Netflix's sci-fi Away and the ultimate work-life dilemma

Hilary Swank talks about her role for Netflix as the commander on the first manned mission to Mars.

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The search engine boss who wants to help us all plant trees

Christian Kroll is the boss of Ecosia, which donates 80% of its profits to tree-planting projects.

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Sheffield United: Who wrote club anthem Greasy Chip Butty?

John Denver's 1974 hit Annie's Song has been the tune of Sheffield United's anthem for decades. Why?

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Norway bunker partygoers poisoned with carbon monoxide

More than 20 people were hospitalised after attending the party in the Norwegian capital Oslo.

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Hope For "Very Significant Control" Over Covid By Diwali: Health Minister

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Sunday expressed hope that we should have "very significant control" over COVID-19 by Diwali.

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Leaders resign after 'Golfgate' scandal highlights hypocrisy

EU Commissioner Phil Hogan, who resigned from his post for breaking Ireland's coronavirus restrictions by attending a political golf society event with 80 other people, was just the latest member of the political elites to be caught flouting the rules. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz

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We have a leader in Sonia, Rahul so no urgency for polls: Salman Khurshid

Uneasy conversations have been taking place between the Congress leadership and the G-23 since both sides emerged from a stormy CWC meeting following the letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi questioning absentee leadership and organisational decline.

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Glitches mar architecture aptitude test

One instance of impersonation, technical glitches and allegations of lack of Covid-19 safety protocols at some of the examination centres marked the online National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA), which was held across the country on Saturday.

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PM Modi urges people to support desi apps

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged startups and entrepreneurs to develop innovative “toys and games, for India and of India” to meet domestic demand and increase its share in the global toy business, estimated at Rs 7 lakh crore. He also called upon people to support indigenously developed apps which could replace the ones currently in vogue and are controlled by foreign companies.

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SC, bar leaders want physical hearings

Deferring to repetitive demands of bar association leaders, the Supreme Court had planned to start limited physical hearing of cases on a trial basis from this week, but the move appears to have fizzled out as a measly 0.87% of advocates agreed to appear in person to argue cases.

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India’s 1st female cardiologist dies of Covid at 103

Dr OP Yadav, CEO of National Heart Institute (NHI), where she was admitted 11 days ago, said Dr Padmavati developed a severe infection in both her lungs, which caused the death. Her last rites were performed at the Punjabi Bagh crematorium in west Delhi. The legendary cardiologist led an active and healthy life till her last few days.

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PM praises role of ‘canine soldiers’

The stellar role of canine soldiers in detecting explosives, tracking terrorists and rescuing disaster victims came in for special mention during PM Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ address on Sunday, while he also exhorted people to adopt Indian breed dogs if they were planning to keep pets.

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I-T dept warns banks against levying UPI fee

Last year, the government had inserted a new provision mandating every business with annual turnover of Rs 50 crore or more to provide customers the choice of making payment through prescribed modes of payment. The list includes systems such as BHIM UPI, UPI-QR Code, Aadhaar Pay, certain debit cards, NEFT and RTGS.

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Coronavirus: India crosses 80,000 cases in a day, first country to do so

India added a record 80,092 fresh Covid cases on Sunday, becoming the first country in the world to cross the 80,000-mark in one single day since the outbreak of the pandemic, even as the week ending August 30 turned out to be the worst of the month. The growth rate in both fresh cases and fatalities not only increased after a dip, but more than doubled compared to the preceding week.

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Hit by Covid-19, Nashik currency press stops ops

The Currency Note Press (CNP) and India Security Press (ISP) in Nashik will suspend operations for four days from Monday as 40 workers from both facilities have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past two weeks. The CNP prints around 17 million currency notes of various denominations while the ISP prints revenue stamps, stamp papers, passports and visas. The CNP has 2,300 permanent employees and the ISP 1,700.

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Agri fund to provide info on nutrition

Ahead of ‘nutrition month’ which is observed in India in September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke about new initiatives such as creation of ‘Agricultural Fund of India’ and introduction of the concepts of ‘nutrition monitor’ and ‘nutrition card’ in schools to address nutritional challenges through awareness at all levels. ​

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Eat Out to Help Out discount comes to an end

The government's dining discount scheme ends on Monday, but there are calls for it to be extended.

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Price of plastic carrier bags to double to 10p next year

The fee for single-use bags will rise to 10p and be extended to all shops from April 2021.

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Government paid influencers to promote Test and Trace

Taxpayer money was used to pay influencers to promote Test and Trace.

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Mauritius oil spill: 'We want to protect our island'

Young locals are helping to prevent environmental damage after an oil leak from a ship that ran aground.

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Letter from Africa: Why Kenyans are no longer cheering their constitution

Letter from Africa: Why Kenyans are no longer cheering their constitutionIt is a time of reflection 10 years after the country was promised a rebirth, writes Waihiga Mwaura.




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Non-stop protests keep pressure on Belarus' president to resign

Non-stop protests keep pressure on Belarus' president to resignOn display was the first major demonstration since Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that he would send in security forces​ "if necessary."




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The Papers: Tax rises 'backlash', and schools' budget 'crisis'

Several papers lead with criticism over Rishi Sunak's reported plans to raise taxes in the next Budget.

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Saturday, August 29, 2020

17 states reject quota in quota

As the Supreme Court sets the stage to re-examine the possibility of sub-categorisation of SCs/STs, as many as 17 states have categorically rejected the Centre’s proposal for sub-division of Dalits, while only five states have responded positively.

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Govt revives 2-year PG medical diploma courses

With an aim to address the shortage of specialists in district hospitals and in rural India, the health ministry has allowed two year postgraduate (PG) diploma courses that applicants can pursue after completing their MBBS.

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Unlock 4.0: Graded Metro services from Sept 7

In a bid to curb restrictions like "weekend lockdowns" seen to be hurting the economy still reeling under Covid, the Unlock 4.0 guidelines released by the Centre on Saturday make it mandatory for states and UTs to consult the Centre before imposing any local lockdown in areas other than containment zones.

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Covid-19: India sets grim world record with 79k fresh cases in a day

India added nearly 79,000 fresh cases to its Covid-19 tally on Saturday, the highest single-day surge recorded in any country so far, taking the national caseload past the 3.5 million (35 lakh) mark amid an unprecedented spike in the pandemic numbers over the past seven days.

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Govt feels it can bypass NSCN, formalise pact

The long-pending Naga framework agreement is set to be formalised soon irrespective of whether or not National Socialist Council of Nagaland leader T Muivah is part of the peace deal as the Centre feels it has adequate backing of other armed groups and the influential Nagaland Gaon Bura Federation.

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Non-BJP states unhappy with GST relief plan

The Centre on Saturday circulated two options for states to borrow and meet the GST shortfall, which will be repaid via an extension of the compensation cess beyond the June 2022 deadline. The proposal, however, did not find the support of all states. Most states not ruled by BJP plan to meet on Monday to formulate a common strategy opposing the plan.

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BSF finds cross-border tunnel along IB in Samba



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Shah recovered, to be discharged in soon: AIIMS

Union home minister Amit Shah, who was admitted to AIIMS here on August 18 for post-Covid care, has recovered and is likely to be discharged in a short time, hospital authorities said on Saturday. ​​​​​"Amit Shah, Union home minister, is admitted at AIIMS, New Delhi for post-Covid care. He has recovered and is likely to be discharged in a short time," the AIIMS said in a statement.

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Mauritius oil spill: Thousands march in Port Louis

Massive amounts of oil spilled into a wildlife sanctuary, and 39 dead dolphins have been discovered.

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Cop Killed In Action, 3 Terrorists Shot Dead In Encounter In J&K

A policeman died in the line of duty and three terrorists were shot dead in an overnight encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Pantha Chowkarea after a joint team of the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force)...

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Anil Baijal Gives Permission To Conduct JEE, NEET Exams In Delhi: Report

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has permitted holding of JEE and NEET exams in the city, despite objections raised by the Delhi government citing student safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic,...

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California moves to consider reparations for slavery

California moves to consider reparations for slaveryCalifornia lawmakers are setting up a task force to study and make recommendations for reparations to African Americans, particularly the descendants of slaves, as the nation struggles again with civil rights and unrest following the latest shooting of a Black man by police. The state Senate supported creating the nine-member commission on a bipartisan 33-3 vote Saturday. “Let's be clear: Chattel slavery, both in California and across our nation, birthed a legacy of racial harm and inequity that continues to impact the conditions of Black life in California,” said Democratic Sen. Holly Mitchell of Los Angeles.




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Coronavirus: Life chances at risk if pupils don't return to school, Williamson says

The education secretary has written an open letter to parents insisting that schools are safe.

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Algeria's lessons from The Plague in the age of coronavirus

Algeria's lessons from The Plague in the age of coronavirusFinding parallels between the famous novel and how Algeria is coping with coronavirus amid political upheaval.




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Covid warning as a million students set for uni return

Sending more than a million students back to university could spark second Covid wave, say lecturers.

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Coronavirus: How lockdown 'robbed' us of grieving for mum

Jenny Wilson’s mum died just as the UK was going into lockdown.

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Flooding in Hereford: Residents still in temporary homes

People whose houses flooded twice in four months are still in temporary homes.

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Begum Rokeya: The forgotten 19th Century feminist

Begum Rokeya was a writer, educationalist and reformer who tirelessly fought for women's rights.

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One in four BHS stores remain vacant four years after collapse

Department store chain closed its last stores in 2016 but finding new uses is a lengthy process.

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The diary of my daughter's murder: 'We were in hell on earth'

Bea Jones started writing a diary as she tried to come to terms with the brutal murder of her daughter Moira.

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Coronavirus doctor's diary: The fake news about schools that's misleading parents

A video claiming that children could be placed in quarantine at school could disrupt the start of term.

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'They wanted to drown me at birth - now I'm a poet'

Kuli Kohli has always used writing as a means of escape from the prejudice she has experienced as an Asian woman with cerebral palsy.

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Algeria's lessons from The Plague in the age of coronavirus

Finding parallels between the famous novel and how Algeria is coping with coronavirus amid political upheaval.

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Friday, August 28, 2020

In death, man helped Covid patient get new lungs, arms for accident victim

When a 48-year-old man from Ghaziabad, whose lungs were totally damaged following Covid-19 infection, was wheeled into a Chennai-based hospital on Friday, he had just a thin hope of survival. About a few hours later, in faraway Mumbai, Monika More’s dream of having her hands, which had got severed in a train accident seven years ago, back came true with a double hand transplant.

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BJP IT cell's Amit Malviya sought action on Facebook employee for ‘bias’

Two months before a Wall Street Journal report alleged that Facebook had turned a blind eye to hate speech by a BJP leader and right-wing groups, national convenor of BJP’s IT cell Amit Malviya had written two emails to the technology giant in June, calling for action against an employee for “anti-BJP bias”.

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IIT-Indore to teach ancient Indian science in Sanskrit

IIT-Indore has introduced a one-of-its-kind course to teach classical scientific texts to students in Sanskrit, starting with Bhaskaracharya’s mathematical treatise ‘Lilavati’ of almost a thousand years ago, reports Meenakshi Sharma.

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House panel meeting likely to be stormy

The sitting of the standing committee on information technology scheduled on September 2 is expected to be a stormy affair and might see Facebook representatives caught in a crossfire with the rival sides preparing to grill them for allegedly favouring the other.

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Vinesh Phogat, her coach Dahiya test covid positive

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat and her personal Om Prakash Dahiya have tested positive for covid-19 and will not attend the ‘virtual’ national sports day awards ceremony on Saturday. Vinesh and Dahiya were set to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Dronacharya award, respectively, at Sonipat SAI centre.

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Pak anti-terror court sentences 3 JuD leaders

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Friday sentenced up to five years three top leaders of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and close aides of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed on terror related charges.

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Four terrorists killed in J&K encounter, one surrenders

The slain ultras were identified as Al-Badr district commander Shakoor Parray and Suhail Bhat — who were involved in the abduction and killing of a panchayat member in Pulwama district — while the other two were identified as Zubair Nengroo and Shakir-ul-Jabbar.

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79 साल के एथलेटिक्स कोच पुरुषोत्तम राय की दिल का दौरा पड़ने से मौत, आज मिलना था द्रोणाचार्य अवॉर्ड

नेशनल स्पोर्ट्स अवॉर्ड से ठीक एक दिन पहले ही 79 साल के एथलेटिक्स कोच पुरुषोत्तम राय की दिल का दौरा पड़ने से मौत हो गई। उन्हें शनिवार को लाइफटाइम कैटेगरी में द्रोणाचार्य अवॉर्ड मिलना था। एथलेटिक्स फेडरेशन ऑफ इंडिया ने बताया कि राय ने शुक्रवार शाम को नेशनल स्पोर्ट्स अवॉर्ड की ड्रेस रिहर्सल में हिस्सा लिया था। इसके बाद उन्हें दिल का दौरा पड़ा और उनकी मौत हो गई।

पुरुषोत्तम ने ओलिंपियन वंदना राव, हेप्टाएथलीट प्रमिला अयप्पा, अश्विनी नचप्पा, मुरली कुट्टन, ईबी शयला, रोसा कुट्टी और जीजी परमिला जैसे एथलीट्स को ट्रेनिंग दी। इन सभी एथलीट्स ने ट्रैक पर न सिर्फ अपने कोच की साख बढ़ाई, बल्कि देश का नाम ही हमेशा ऊंचा किया था।

एथलेटिक्स फेडरेशन ने कोच राय की मौत पर दुख जताया
एएफआई के अध्यक्ष आदिल सुमारिवाला ने कोच पुरुषोत्तम राय के निधन पर दुख जताया। उन्होंने कहा कि इस घटना से पूरा एसोसिएशन दुखी है। उन्होंने अपनी पूरी जिंदगी एथलेटिक्स को दे दी थी। हम उनके परिवार के प्रति संवेदना जताते हैं।

कोच पुरुषोत्तम राय की मौत से दुखी: अंजू बॉबी जॉर्ज

पूर्व लॉन्ग जंपर अंजू बॉबी जॉर्ज भी उनकी मौत से दुखी हैं। जॉर्ज ने कहा कि वे अच्छे कोच थे। उनकी निगरानी में कई ओलिंपियन तैयार हुए। द्रोणाचार्य अवॉर्ड मिलने से एक दिन पहले उनका गुजर जाना, वाकई तकलीफ पहुंचाने वाला है।

राय ने 1987 की वर्ल्ड एथलेटिक्स चैम्पियनशिप, 1988 की एशियन ट्रैक एंड फील्ड चैम्पियनशिप और 1999 के सैफ गेम्स के लिए भारतीय एथलेटिक्स टीम तैयार की थी।



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Coronavirus: Winter plans revealed in leaked Sage report

A leaked government report suggests a “reasonable worst case scenario” of 85,000 Covid deaths this winter.

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Coronavirus: France sees 'exponential rise' in cases

The country records 7,379 new cases on Friday as President Macron warns of another lockdown.

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TikTok stars charged over partying in LA during pandemic

Bryce Hall and Blake Gray held parties that breached Covid-19 restrictions, Los Angeles officials say.

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Apple removes Fortnite developer Epic from App Store

The move is the latest in a row between Apple and Fortnite creator Epic over in-app payments.

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‘My son was stillborn and now I help other parents’

Tommy Ferguson’s son Joshua was stillborn in 2009. He says helping others has been a "game changer" for him.

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House Democrats launch contempt proceedings against Mike Pompeo

House Democrats launch contempt proceedings against Mike PompeoCommittee says secretary of state has refused to comply with subpoenas for documents connected to Ukraine scandalCongressional Democrats have launched contempt proceedings against Mike Pompeo for his refusal to comply with subpoenas for documents connected to the Ukraine scandal that led to Donald Trump’s impeachment.The move is the culmination of a long-running struggle over Congress’s authority to conduct oversight of government agencies. The secretary of state, who was a fierce advocate of congressional rights when he was a Republican representative from Kansas, has ignored a string of demands for documentation from the Democrat-controlled House foreign affairs committee (HFAC).Experts and former officials questioned what impact a resolution declaring Pompeo in contempt would have on a secretary of state determined to defy Congress and undermine its authority, other than to register frustration at his behaviour and the erosion of the constitutional division of power.A state department spokesperson dismissed the contempt announcement as “political theatrics” and said the documents could be available to the HFAC, but gave a different version of the conditions attached from those laid down in a letter Pompeo sent to the committee on Thursday.In that letter, the secretary of state said the documents would be handed over if Engel could confirm he was “substantively investigating” Ukraine’s alleged “corrupt influence” on US foreign policy – an apparent reference to a conspiracy theory that has been debunked by US intelligence agencies.The spokesperson said on Friday the relevant documents would be produced to Engel on the “only condition being that he send a letter explaining what foreign policy issue he is investigating that requires these documents”.Pompeo has swept away a raft of norms as secretary of state. In May, he orchestrated the firing of the inspector general who had been looking into his use of departmental resources for personal errands and his declaration of an emergency to get around a congressional block on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.This week, he took part in the Republican national convention with a filmed address from Jerusalem, while on a visit as secretary of state, in what legal scholars said was a likely violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits public funds from being used for electoral purposes.“He seems to think the office he holds, the department he runs, the personnel he oversees and the taxpayer dollars that pay for all of it are there for his personal and political benefit,” Eliot Engel, the HFAC chair, wrote.The trigger for the contempt proceedings was Pompeo’s refusal to deliver to the HFAC documents about US policy towards Ukraine that the state department provided to the Republican-controlled Senate in the run-up to the impeachment of Trump.At the end of July, Engel issued another subpoena for documentation on the alleged use of state department resources to collect material to supply to the Senate aimed at discrediting Trump’s challenger for the presidency, Joe Biden.“From Mr Pompeo’s refusal to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry to his willingness to bolster a Senate Republican-led smear against the president’s political rivals to his speech to the RNC, which defied his own guidance and possibly the law, he has demonstrated alarming disregard for the laws and rules governing his own conduct and for the tools the constitution provides to prevent government corruption,” Engel said.The HFAC published a letter Pompeo sent to Engel on Thursday, in which the secretary of state said he would hand over the material if the committee opened an investigation in line with a Republican-led Senate inquiry into allegations of Ukraine exerting influence on Obama administration policy towards the country through Biden’s son, Hunter. Hunter Biden was on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, from 2014 to 2019.“If you can confirm by letter that the committee is, in fact, substantively investigating identical or very similar corruption issues involving Ukraine and corrupt influence on US foreign policy, the department is ready to commence production of documents,” Pompeo said in the letter.No evidence of any such evidence has been found, and the head of the National Counterintelligence and Security Centre, has issued a warning that a pro-Russian politician in Ukraine has been “spreading claims about corruption..to undermine former Vice President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party.”The HFAC said Pompeo was seeking to involve the committee in a smear campaign being pursued by Senate Democrats.“I want no part of it,” Engel wrote. “Under no circumstances will I amplify Putin’s debunked conspiracy theories or lend them credence. And I won’t stand by and see the committee or the House treated with such disdain by anyone.”A state department spokesperson issued a statement setting out less onerous conditions for the delivery of the documents.“We have previously offered to provide copies of these documents to Chairman Engel, with the only condition being that he send a letter explaining what foreign policy issue he is investigating that requires these documents,” the spokesperson said. “Once this letter is received, the Department will produce the documents. This press release is political theatrics and is an unfortunate waste of taxpayer resources.”Former officials expressed concern the HFAC contempt proceedings might ultimately serve to underline the impotence of a Congress in the face of a defiant, rule-breaking executive.Rori Kramer, the former deputy assistant secretary of state in the bureau of legislative affairs, said of Engel’s announcement: “That’s wonderful but there’s not as much teeth as there used to be with congressional oversight.“It’s really shocking. Four years ago, it would have been completely bizarro Twilight Zone, that Congress could subpoena you and hold you in contempt, and the answer of the administration would be: “I don’t care”,” said Kramer, who is now director of US advocacy at the American Jewish World Service.“The people who work for the people who say we don’t care about oversight [see that] and then his senior leadership and/or political appointees also don’t follow the rules… and it’s a race to the bottom.”




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Medal for hero dog Kuno who saved soldiers' lives in Afghanistan

Kuno ran through a hail of bullets to tackle a gunman - and now has prosthetic paws after being shot.

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Coronavirus unemployment: 'I felt worthless'

Julie changed jobs a week before lockdown - then found herself out of work and ineligible for help.

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A clever way to provide life-saving oxygen

An invention is saving children’s lives, providing oxygen in hospitals without reliable electricity.

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Why parcel delivery courier company DPD is in court

Most DPD drivers are on self-employed franchise contracts without sick pay and holiday pay.

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Week in pictures: 22-28 August 2020

A selection of remarkable images taken around the world this week.

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Jejoen Bontinck: I escaped a life of Islamic terror - now I rap about it

Jejoen Bontinck, an ex-member of Islamist group Sharia4Belgium, wants to use music to move on from his past.

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Coronavirus: Bus journeys will be first challenge of new school year

As pupils return, there are concerns buses could be a weak link in the back-to-school safety plan.

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Amazon fires: Are they worse this year than before?

Blazes are continuing to rage in the Amazon rainforest, despite the Brazilian president's fire ban.

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Five things to focus on in your CV

When it comes to CV-writing, maximise your chances of a job by focusing on these five things.

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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Reduce Covid deaths, Centre tells 9 states, 1 UT

Amid rising concerns about increasing Covid-19 deaths in some states, the Centre has asked nine states and one Union Territory – that together contributed 89% of total Covid-19 casualties in the last two weeks - to take proactive steps to limit transmission of the infection and reduce fatalities to less than 1% across all districts.

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Delaying JEE-NEET not viable: Pokhriyal

Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, in an interview to TOI, said any further delay in holding the JEE and NEET-UG will lead to a zero academic year resulting in a loss for students. “Though we are facing a pandemic situation, academics and career of students cannot be jeopardised. Life must go on and we have to stand strong,” he said.

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Delhi govt says Centre stalling increase in tests

A letter written by Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain to Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla, accusing the ministry of home affairs (MHA) of putting pressure on state government officials to stall the proposed increase in Covid-19 testing sparked a major row on Thursday, immediately attracting a strong rebuttal from MHA which dismissed the charge as “false and baseless”.

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Registration for JEE from Sep 11, exam on Sep 27

Registration for computer-based JEE (advanced) 2020 will commence from September 11, 2020. According to the new brochure, the deadline for registration ends on September 16 (5 m) and the last date for filing application fees is September 17 (5pm). The exam is scheduled for September 27, 2020.

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Ignou may hold exams for 3 lakh students in Sept

Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) is planning to conduct final exams from the second week of September, reports Manash Gohain. Around three lakh students from across India are expected to write the exams which will be conducted in three formats — pen-paper, online and multiple choice objective.

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NSA against man for rape-murder

A day after a TOI report on the rape and murder of an 18-year-old Dalit girl in a UP town, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of the case. Hours before that, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath announced Rs 5 lakh compensation for the family and ordered stringent NSA provisions against the accused.

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‘Covid antibodies may last just 50 days’

Covid-19 antibodies may not last more than a couple of months, according to a study carried out on affected healthcare staff of JJ Group of Hospitals. “Our study of 801 healthcare staff from JJ, GT and St George’s Hospitals included 28 who had tested positive for Covid (on RT-PCR) seven weeks prior (in late April-early May),” said the study’s main author Dr Nishant Kumar.

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India to cite money trail to Pak banks at FATF

The irrefutable trail of Rs 10.4 lakh cash deposits by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed masterminds into Pulwama case accused Muhammad Umar Farooq’s two bank accounts in Peshawar and Khyber Agency to finance the February 14, 2019, fidayeen attack, is likely to strengthen India’s case for Pakistan being ‘blacklisted’ by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

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Highest Covid cases on Thursday, 1,081 deaths

India’s Covid-19 pandemic continued to escalate, with a record 76,489 fresh cases being reported on Thursday and the daily count staying above the 76,000 mark for the second straight day. Deaths from the virus climbed to 1,081, the second-highest daily toll recorded so far.

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Amid big shortfall, GST cess to stay beyond June 2022

The Centre and states on Thursday converged on the need to borrow more funds to meet the latter’s compensation requirement due to an estimated Rs 3-lakh-crore shortfall in goods and services tax collections this year but failed to agree on the details.

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Congress clips wings of ‘letter writers'

Two days after a stormy CWC meeting, the Congress leadership on Thursday sent out a strong statement of intent by curbing the role of “letter writers” in Parliament even as Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of the leading lights among the dissenters, reiterated the demand for elections to the working committee.

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Man tries to extort money from Mahesh Manjrekar

A 34-year-old man, who lost his livelihood due to lockdown and pandemic, ended at police lock-up after he impersonated as a member of an underworld gang and threatened a noted actor.

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Coronavirus: 'Reassuring' study of children's 'tiny' risk

Severe Covid-19 is rare and dying from it exceptionally rare, a study of UK hospital data finds.

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Kyle Rittenhouse charged over Wisconsin protest deaths

Kyle Rittenhouse is charged with killing two people and injuring another amid protests in Kenosha.

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EastEnders recruits real-life partners for 'intimate' scenes

The cast's real-life partners are being recruited as body doubles to enable safe filming.

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Coronavirus: New virus hotspots emerge in Australia

Public health alerts are issued in Sydney amid a cluster of cases believed to be linked to gyms.

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Scientists target coronavirus immunity puzzle

There's to be a new effort to understand how the immune system responds to Covid-19.

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Delhi Jeweller Brothers Died By Suicide Over Financial Crisis: Police

Two brothers, who owned a jewellery shop in central Delhi's Chandni Chowk, were found dead at their store today around 3 PM, the police said. A suicide note has been recovered from the spot, they...

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The Latest: McConnell paints dystopian picture of Dems' US

The Latest: McConnell paints dystopian picture of Dems' USRepublican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is painting a dystopian picture of what America would look like with Democrats in charge as he looks to keep control of the Senate. The Kentucky Republican said Thursday at the Republican National Convention that “today's Democrat Party doesn’t want to improve life for middle America.”




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"No Honest Introspection": Details Of 'Dissent' Letter To Sonia Gandhi

The letter by 23 Congress dissidents to party chief Sonia Gandhi says there has been a "steady decline of the party", witnessed in the 2014 and 2019 elections, but there has been no honest...

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U.S. seeks to seize 280 cryptocurrency accounts tied to North Korean hacks

U.S. seeks to seize 280 cryptocurrency accounts tied to North Korean hacksThe U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil forfeiture complaint after having in March charged two Chinese nationals with laundering more than $100 million in cryptocurrency on behalf of North Korea. "Today's action publicly exposes the ongoing connections between North Korea's cyber-hacking program and a Chinese cryptocurrency money laundering network," Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department's criminal division said in a statement.




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U.S. seeks to seize 280 cryptocurrency accounts tied to North Korean hacks



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The Papers: 'Secret' care deaths and UK ushered back to office

Claims that virus death tolls in care homes are not being disclosed feature on Friday's front pages.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Brenton Tarrant: Christchurch gunman given life term without parole

The judge called the actions of a man who murdered 51 people in two mosques in New Zealand last year "inhuman".

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The 'selfish waster' who now runs a monastery

How a rebellious young man from Tibet ended up as abbot of a Buddhist centre in southern Scotland.

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FBI: Texas father sought in daughters' 2008 deaths arrested

FBI: Texas father sought in daughters' 2008 deaths arrestedA Dallas-area taxicab driver wanted for the 2008 slayings of his two teenage daughters was arrested Wednesday in a small North Texas town, the FBI said. Agents arrested Yaser Abdel Said, 63, in Justin, 36 miles (58 kilometers) northwest of Dallas. The Egyptian-born suspect had been sought on a capital murder warrant since the New Year's Day 2008 fatal shootings of the two Lewisville High School students, Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18.




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Global Automotive Closure Industry



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Global Precast Concrete Industry



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Global Precision Viticulture Industry



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Defense official: Arson suspected as cause of Navy ship fire

Defense official: Arson suspected as cause of Navy ship fireArson is suspected as the cause of a July 12 fire that left extensive damage to the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, and a U.S. Navy sailor was being questioned as a potential suspect, a senior defense official said Wednesday. The sailor was being questioned as part of the investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the official said, adding that defense department leaders were notified of the development. The official, with knowledge of the investigation, spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to provide details not yet made public.




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Coronavirus: Payment for people on low incomes who must self-isolate

In England, people on low incomes self-isolating in areas where coronavirus cases are high will get help.

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UK flu jab rates prompt complacency warning

Experts fear the winter flu season could coincide with a rise in Covid-19 infections.

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Trump challenges Biden to drug test before debate

The president claims Mr Biden went from incoherent to articulate in a previous debate.

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Coronavirus Can Affect Almost All Organs, Say Experts At AIIMS

Not just the lungs, COVID-19 can affect almost all organs and the initial symptoms may be totally unrelated to chest complaints, experts at AIIMS said on Wednesday.

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Typhoon barrels into N. Korea after causing damage in South

Typhoon barrels into N. Korea after causing damage in SouthA typhoon that grazed South Korea, ripping off roofs and knocking out power to more than 1,600 households, made landfall in North Korea early Thursday. Packing maximum winds of 133 kilometers (83 miles) per hour, Typhoon Bavi was barreling north and just 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, after passing over a western coastal region known for fishing and other industries, South Korea’s weather agency said.




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The Latest: Noem paints dark picture of US under Dem leaders

The Latest: Noem paints dark picture of US under Dem leadersSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is echoing many of her fellow Republicans’ dark portrayal of America under Democratic leadership who have spoken at the Republican National Convention this week. Noem has crept into the national conservative discussion by appearing regularly on Fox News in the past year after installing a satellite television link-up in her office in remote Pierre, South Dakota, and consulting often with former Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski. Noem did not mention her praise of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, a position that won her praise from President Trump, as did her lifting of the ban on fireworks at Mount Rushmore where she appeared with Trump for an Independence Day weekend rally in July.




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Jacob Blake: Police officer in Kenosha shooting named

Wisconsin's attorney general names the officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back.

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Red Cross chief: cyber attacks increasing on hospitals



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Sushant Singh Rajput case: Narcotics bureau files case against Rhea Chakraborty

In a new twist to the case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) registered a case on Wednesday evening to probe the drug dealing and consumption related allegations involving the actor’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty and other friends.

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Diplomacy can resolve China row: Jaishankar

Days after Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said defence services remain prepared for military action if all efforts to restore status quo on LAC do not succeed, foreign minister S Jaishankar brought the focus back to diplomacy as a way to resolve the continuing border crisis with China.

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Interest on loans seen to be key to paying depositors

The Supreme Court’s stand on loan moratorium has taken the government and RBI by surprise, as they had backed interest payment on loans during the period to ensure that banks remain financially viable. RBI and government’s argument is that banks survive on deposits, which are then used to lend to individuals and companies. And, depositors get interest based on the interest that banks earn on loans.

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FBI gave us key inputs in Pulwama probe: NIA

America’s intel and security service FBI had helped India’s National Investigation Agency in its probe into the Pulwama terrorist attack with two key inputs — it identified the point person the handlers were in touch with and also the nature of explosives used in the blast.

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Coronavirus: Record 76k+ new cases, total deaths cross 60k

India went past the 60,000-mark in Covid fatalities on Wednesday even as the country added a record 76,014 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, crossing the 76,000-mark for the first time since the onset of the pandemic and taking the total caseload to 33,04,598.

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Sensex closes above 39k exactly after 6 months

Boosted by strong buying in auto, banking & financial services and IT stocks, the sensex on Wednesday closed above the 39K mark after exactly six months. Despite a flat closing in the US on Tuesday night, in late rally the sensex closed 230 points higher at 39,074 points. So far this month, boosted by the highest net foreign fund flow in over a decade, the sensex is up about 1,500 crore.

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Coronavirus: Pent-up demand 'leading to quicker home sales'

Property deals are racing though compared to last year, as the market recovers after lockdown halted sales.

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The Papers: 'Paid to quarantine' and ghost town UK 'needs saving'

The plan to pay people in certain areas who are on low incomes to self-isolate features on Thursday's front pages.

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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

WindowSwap: ‘I think we all are explorers in our own ways’

People from around the world are sharing videos of what’s outside their windows.

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Beirut residents fear they may lose their homes to gentrification after blast

Mrs Beaini has lived in the same Beirut house for more than 60 years, but she can't afford repairs.

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Eat Out to Help Out: The highs and lows of the coronavirus discount scheme

Some of the highs and lows of the government's discount scheme for diners.

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Navalny and Russia’s arsenal of exotic poisons

Nerve agent was apparently used on Putin critic Alexei Navalny – and Russia has a history of poisonings.

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Carnival and coronavouchers: Brazil’s economic struggles

The disruption caused by coronavirus means that Brazil's samba schools now face an uncertain future.

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South Africa's sugar cane murders: Living in fear of serial killings

A farming community in South Africa is reeling after the bodies of five women were recently discovered.

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Mike Pence at RNC 2020: The rare times he made headlines

The vice-president has largely stayed out of the limelight. We take a look at the few times he didn't.

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Russia In Touch With India To Manufacture COVID Vaccine Sputnik V: Centre

In a significant development related to the COVID-19 vaccine, Russia has expressed its willingness to the Indian government for collaboration in the manufacturing of COVID vaccine - Sputnik V, a...

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South Africa's sugar cane murders: Living in fear of serial killings

South Africa's sugar cane murders: Living in fear of serial killingsA farming community in South Africa is reeling after the bodies of five women were recently discovered.




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Global Hygienic and Aseptic Valves Industry



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US Postal Service: Three states sue Trump government

Hawaii, New Jersey and New York are suing the Trump administration over alleged "partisan meddling".

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Coronavirus: Can I work from home overseas?

Thinking about setting up a home office abroad? Here's what you need to know.

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Lockdown may have lasting effects on friendships

Some marginal friendships will by lost, says psychologist, while other deeper ones may need work.

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Former Australian PM Tony Abbott to head new UK trade board

Former Australian PM Tony Abbott to head new UK trade boardFormer Australian prime minister Tony Abbott is to be Britain's new joint president of the Board of Trade. Mr Abbott, a vocal supporter of Brexit, who led Australia from 2013 to 2015, will be tasked with drumming up deals for the UK around the world, the Sun reported last night. The Board of Trade has traditionally been made up of British politicians and business executives. Its mission is to "champion exports and inward and outward investment to deliver economic growth and prosperity". It came as farmers and business chiefs have been given a louder voice to ensure they do not lose out in trade negotiations as ministers bid for a raft of post-Brexit deals. Bosses in 11 sectors including agriculture, manufacturing and financial services have signed non-disclosure agreements so they can help to shape potential deals with other countries - including commercially sensitive rules on tariffs and rules of origin.




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Kremlin questions German doctors’ diagnosis that Putin critic was poisoned

Kremlin questions German doctors’ diagnosis that Putin critic was poisonedThe Kremlin on Tuesday attempted to throw cold water on the diagnosis of German doctors who said Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who fell ill on a flight last week, was poisoned. The Charité hospital in Berlin said Monday that its tests on Navalny indicated he was poisoned with cholinesterase inhibitors, which affect the nervous system. Navalny, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, entered a coma last Thursday and is receiving treatment in Berlin.




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'Don’t make him a martyr': Bhushan's counsel in SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its decision on quantum of punishment for Prashant Bhushan, convicted of contempt of court, after giving vent to its anguish over the activist-advocate's repeated contemptuous remarks even as attorney general K K Venugopal suggested letting him off with a warning not to repeat such behaviour.

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Covid-19: August case count crosses 15-lakh mark

Fresh cases reported on Tuesday zoomed past the 66,000 mark after a gap of two days, taking the total tally past 32 lakh. Active cases too rose slightly by a little over 1,000. August has so far seen over 15.3 lakh cases in India. This is the second highest count of cases recorded in any country during a month after the US, where close to 2 million (20 lakh) infections were reported in July.

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Messi tells Barcelona he wants to leave club

Lionel Messi has told Barcelona he wants to leave the club after nearly two decades with the Spanish giants. The club confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that the Argentina great sent a document expressing his desire to leave. The announcement comes 11 days after Barcelona's humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals.

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Maha building collapse: 13 dead, two rescued alive

Almost 28 hours after a ground plus five-storeyed building collapsed in Mahad town, three persons are still missing, while a four-year-old and a 55-year-old woman were rescued alive from the Mahad building collapse site on Tuesday.

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Pak salvage draw in third Test, England win series

James Anderson became the first seam bowler to take 600 Test wickets but England had to settle for a draw against Pakistan after a rain-hit final day of the third Test at the Rose Bowl on Tuesday.

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दिग्गज खिलाड़ियों के बैट ठीक करने वाले अशरफ मुंबई के अस्पताल में भर्ती, सचिन तेंदुलकर ने आर्थिक मदद की

क्रिकेट में हमेशा रन बनाने और लंबे-लंबे छक्के लगाने वाले बल्लेबाज को ही हमेशा याद रखा जाता है। जबकि पर्दे के पीछे उन खिलाड़ियों के बैट बनाने या ठीक करने वाले हमेशा गुमनाम ही रहते हैं। ऐसे ही मुंबई के एक शख्स अशरफ चौधरी हैं। उन्होंने सचिन तेंदुलकर, विराट कोहली और क्रिस गेल समेत कई दिग्गजों के बैट ठीक किए हैं, लेकिन अभी वे 12 दिन से अस्पताल में भर्ती हैं।

वे क्रिकेट की दुनिया में अशरफ चाचा के नाम से मशहूर हैं। कोरोना के कारण क्रिकेट बंद होने से उनकी आर्थिक हालत भी बेहद खराब हो गई है। ऐसे में सचिन ने उनकी मदद के लिए हाथ आगे बढ़ाया और उनका हाल भी जाना।

पोलार्ड और स्मिथ के बैट भी ठीक किए हैं
अशरफ के करीबी दोस्त प्रशांत जेठमलानी ने कहा, ‘‘तेंदुलकर मदद के लिए आगे आए और अशरफ चाचा से बात की। उन्होंने आर्थिक तौर पर भी उनकी मदद की है।’’ अशरफ चाचा की दक्षिण मुंबई में ‘एम अशरफ ब्रो’ नाम से दुकान भी है। उन्होंने ऑस्ट्रेलियाई प्लेयर स्टीव स्मिथ और वेस्टइंडीज के कैरोन पोलार्ड के भी बैट ठीक किए हैं।

मैच के दौरान हमेशा वानखेड़े स्टेडियम में मौजूद रहते हैं अशरफ
मुंबई के वानखेड़े स्टेडियम में जब भी भारतीय टीम या इंडियन प्रीमियर लीग (आईपीएल) के मैच होते हैं, तब अशरफ हमेशा वहां मौजूद रहते हैं। उनके बारे में कहा जाता है कि वे कई बार खिलाड़ियों के बैट बिना फीस के भी ठीक कर दिया करते हैं।



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Nokia 5.3, Nokia C3 launched: Price, specs and more



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The Papers: PM 'forced to backtrack' on masks and 'Harry's shame'

The PM's U-turn on face masks in schools and Harry Maguire being found guilty of assault make the front pages.

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Monday, August 24, 2020

Coronavirus: How do you look after someone with Covid-19?

BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what you should do when taking care of someone who has coronavirus in your home.

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Notting Hill Carnival: 'We're playing in Brixton this year'

Channel One have been at every Notting Hill Carnival since 1983 but this year the event is online.

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Why are clothes sizes so erratic and can they be fixed?

New apps use your phone to record your dimensions and recommend what size to buy at shops.

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Hong Kong protest singers fear for their future

Has the new national security law pulled the plug on Hong Kong's pro-democracy musicians?

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Coronavirus turns Kenyan classrooms into chicken coops

Some Kenyan private schools have found new sources of income after they were forced to close.

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Phase 2 Trial Of Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate To Begin Today

The phase 2 human clinical trial of the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the country by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) is set to begin today.

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Coronavirus Cases Live Updates: COVID-19 Cases In India Rise To 31,06,348

A single-day spike of 61,408 infections has taken India's coronavirus caseload to 31,06,348, data from the Union Health Ministry on Monday showed. The number of deaths climbed to 57,542 with 836...

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Republican Convention takeaways: All Trump, all the time

Republican Convention takeaways: All Trump, all the timePresident Donald Trump aggressively asserted control over the Republican National Convention on Monday, overshadowing the prime-time speakers, as he made clear he wants voters to focus on him. Never one to shy away from the spotlight, Trump showed he will be omnipresent at the convention, appearing every night and sure to dominate the proceedings. Traditionally, the presidential nominee — including Democrat Joe Biden last week — makes a fleeting convention appearance or two early in the week but largely stays on the sidelines, building anticipation for the acceptance speech on the final night.




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Republican National Convention: Trump warns of 'rigged election'

He opens the Republican conference with disputed claims about that the election could be "rigged".

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Brazil footballer Ronaldinho released in Paraguay

A judge in Paraguay releases the footballer after his detention for a forged passport.

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Coronavirus: Norfolk chicken processing plant staff test positive

Five more workers at the Norfolk poultry plant are isolating as they await test results.

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Bolsonaro threatens to punch reporter's face

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been captured on camera threatening to punch a reporter in the face, after being asked about alleged family corruption.

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Coronavirus in Kenya: How it turned classrooms into chicken coops

Coronavirus in Kenya: How it turned classrooms into chicken coopsSome Kenyan private schools have found new sources of income after they were forced to close.




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AP FACT CHECK: Trump's fiction on health care, voting fraud

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's fiction on health care, voting fraudPresident Donald Trump made a dizzying array of misleading claims about voting fraud and falsely asserted that he was the one who ensured that people with preexisting medical problems will be covered by health insurance in opening remarks at the Republican National Convention. People with preexisting medical problems have health insurance protections because of President Barack Obama’s health care law, which Trump is trying to dismantle.




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Redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park

Redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state parkWhen a massive wildfire swept through California’s oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth, may finally have succumbed. Among the survivors is one dubbed Mother of the Forest. “That is such good news, I can’t tell you how much that gives me peace of mind,” said Laura McLendon, conservation director for the Sempervirens Fund, an environmental group dedicated to the protection of redwoods and their habitats.




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10 years after migrant massacre, Mexico pledges justice

10 years after migrant massacre, Mexico pledges justiceMexico’s president said Monday the United Nations would be welcome to come to Mexico to investigate any rights violation like the Aug. 24, 2010 massacre of 72 migrants in the northern town of San Fernando. Speaking on the 10th anniversary of the slaughter of mostly Central American migrants, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he has proposed legal changes to make international investigations possible from the start, especially in cases of forced disappearances. “We are about to send a bill approved by the executive branch to the Senate ... so that in cases of forced disappearance, in every case that represents a violation of human rights, the U.N. could intervene with no limitations," López Obrador said.




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Unlock 4: Metro services may resume from Sept 1

Metro rail services, suspended for over five months now due to Covid-19, may resume from September 1, with the home ministry contemplating excluding these from the list of prohibited activities under Unlock 4. However, schools and colleges are likely to remain shut. Bars too may be allowed to sell liquor over the counter for take-away, though there are still reservations against allowing public consumption of liquor.

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CWC: Gandhi loyalists view G-23 letter as revolt, crush call for change

The seven-hour marathon meeting saw the dissenters, with only four of them in the CWC, being pushed on the back foot. They were charged with being inconsiderate in the timing of the letter and reminded that they had all enjoyed important posts with the confidence of the party leadership. Member after member led by Rahul Gandhi questioned the motives of the dissidents and the desirability of the letter.

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Leaks, tweets, resignation offer in CWC drama

Sources said fingers were pointed at a former MP for sharing the screen shot of the virtual meeting, and another senior functionary with close links with the media, for 'leaking' information. A section of social media, however, also trained guns at the dissenting leaders, alleging that the leaks were their handiwork.

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Military options open if China talks fail: Rawat

In a clear signal of intent to China, CDS Bipin Rawat said the Indian armed forces "remain prepared for military actions" if "peaceful efforts" through talks did not succeed in restoring the status quo along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) as it existed in April. The military confrontation in Ladakh is in its fourth month now, with China refusing to complete the proposed troop disengagement in Pangong Tso and Gogra.

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The Papers: BBC Proms 'no words row' and Army plan to 'axe tanks'

The BBC's decision to play an instrumental version of Rule, Britannia! at the Proms features on the front pages.

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Sunday, August 23, 2020

Highest count of Covid cases & toll last week

More than 4.5 lakh fresh Covid-19 cases and 6,666 deaths from the virus were recorded in India in the past seven days, the highest so far, making it the deadliest week of the pandemic in the country. However, the growth rate of infections as well as fatalities continued to decrease. Active cases rose by 31,518 during the week, as compared with 43,601 in the previous.

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Pakistan tries to wriggle out of D-confession

Pakistan's Foreign Office issued a statement saying the SROs (Statutory Regulatory Orders) issued reflect the information contained in the list entry of UN designated individuals/entities. It said the reports in certain sections of the media about Pakistan imposing new sanctions measures, through these SROs, were not factual.

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Pirated NCERT books found from Delhi to TN



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AG rejects contempt plea against Swara Bhasker

Attorney general K K Venugopal on Sunday refused to permit filing of a contempt petition against actor Swara Bhasker for her allegedly derogatory comments against the Supreme Court on the Ayodhya land dispute verdict. On the petition against Bhasker, the AG said: "The Supreme Court need not be extra sensitive. If we start contempt proceedings, it unnecessarily gives publicity to the wrong remarks. "

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Timing of letter ‘insensitive’: Family loyalists



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Rahul has quit but key moves have his imprint



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Key CWC meet today as Sonia insists on quitting as party chief

Sonia Gandhi has conveyed to the party that she is not ready to continue as 'interim president' any longer. The declaration is likely to push the Congress Working Committee meeting on Monday into brainstorming over the leadership crisis. It may see a strong request for Sonia to continue or for Rahul to take charge. But the two are unlikely to heed the request.

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J&K jobs: PRC holders need domicile certificate

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) holders will also need J&K domicile certificate in order to apply for jobs and to get other benefits in the Union Territory. Singh, Union minister for PMO, said an impression is being created in certain quarters that those holding PRC don't need to apply for the domicile certificate in Jammu & Kashmir "which is not true".

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Woman in Belarus tells CNN reporter to 'Leave, Satan'

Protests continue in Belarus as embattled President Alexander Lukashenko, who has has been in power for 26 years, is facing pressure from inside and outside the country to resign. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.

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Travel firms 'desperately need' government help

The industry is asking government for a new rescue plan as jobs are being lost at an "alarming" rate.

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Rain Batters Gujarat, Lakhs Affected By Floods In Bihar, Andhra: 10 Facts

The flood situation in Bihar remained grim on Sunday with more than 80 lakh people across 16 districts affected. On the other end of the country, in Gujarat, several areas were pounded by heavy rain...

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No Goal or Scoring Record But Robert Lewandowski Finally Wins UEFA Champions League

Robert Lewandowski scored 15 goals in the Champions League this season to guide Bayern Munich to the title.

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UEFA Champions League: PSG Fans Clash with Paris Riot Police after Final Defeat

Paris Saint-Germain fans' celebrations turned into chaos as the club lost to Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League final.

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Revealed: Jared Kushner’s Private Channel With Putin’s Money Man

Revealed: Jared Kushner’s Private Channel With Putin’s Money ManOn a late afternoon in March, a large military aircraft bearing the Russian Federation insignia descended into John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Its mission: to deliver personal protective equipment and ventilators to nearby hospitals scrambling to treat patients during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had pleaded for weeks with the federal government for additional resources, particularly ventilators, to treat the thousands of COVID-19 patients across the state. Yet news of the Russian delivery surprised those in the governor’s office working to obtain additional medical equipment. They’d thought the ventilator support would come from the U.S. stockpile or from an American company.Officials in the U.S. State Department were surprised, too. Despite a department press release announcing the delivery, several senior officials working on the Russia portfolio in the department and elsewhere in the national security apparatus were unaware exactly how the 45 ventilators had ended up on American soil. Half of the shipment was paid for by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), one of the country’s sovereign wealth funds, which is under U.S. sanctions. (The sanctions do not prohibit all transactions between U.S. entities and the firm, but they have limited the fund’s interactions with American businesses.) And the fund’s CEO, Kirill Dmitriev, had been scrutinized by Congress and former special counsel Robert Mueller for his communications with Trump transition officials shortly after Moscow had meddled in the 2016 election.For years, the Trump administration had attempted to find ways to cooperate with Russia on the world stage but largely failed in those efforts because Moscow has continued to engage in activity that threatens U.S. national security, from hacking operations to reportedly offering bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan. A public display of Russian supplies being offloaded caught some officials in the Trump administration off guard. U.S. Warns Russia on Bounties While Trump Cries ‘Fake News’But there was a simple answer to the whodunit. The Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) told The Daily Beast it had assigned the State Department “to represent the U.S. in the transaction with the Government of Russia.” But it was President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who helped facilitate the ventilator delivery, according to two senior administration officials. During the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Kushner headed “Project Airbridge”—the medical supply delivery program that worked to fast-track the delivery of personal protective equipment and other medical supplies by using federal funding to underwrite the cost of shipping. In an effort to supply New York City hospitals with the medical equipment they needed, Kushner looked in multiple places for the equipment and found a safe bet in Moscow, those officials said. While the State Department had been involved in the logistics of the onboarding and offloading, it was Kushner who helped strike the deal.The ventilators turned out to be faulty and were cast aside by officials in New York and New Jersey, according to local officials who spoke with The Daily Beast. During that same time period, the city of Los Angeles was told by representatives of the federal government that it had lost a bid for N95 masks to a Russian entity, according to two people familiar with the matter. The L.A. officials were never told the Russian outfit’s name. Kushner held the details of the New York shipment closely and accelerated the order by leaning on his personal relationship with Dmitriev, a confidant of President Vladimir Putin who’d been dispatched to make inroads with the inexperienced 2016 Trump transition team. Dmitriev was one of the main participants in the infamous January 2017 Seychelles meeting with former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, in which the two discussed a roadmap for U.S.-Russia cooperation in the new administration. In the years since, Kushner and Dmitriev have communicated—often at a distance, and at times through intermediaries—about ways the U.S. and Russia could work together. The conversations have touched on everything from creating a joint business council to increase investment, to working on a Middle East peace deal, to helping lead negotiations on a recent OPEC deal, to delivering those medical supplies, according to multiple senior officials. Revealed: What Erik Prince and Moscow’s Money Man Discussed in That Infamous Seychelles MeetingMore than a dozen Trump administration officials, current and former, described Kushner’s relationship with Dmitriev as a byproduct of President Trump’s deep-rooted beliefs that he was unfairly punished for beating Hillary Clinton and that the sprawling investigation into his campaign’s Russia contacts was a hoax. Trump distrusted the national security and intelligence communities and saw the officials operating in that apparatus as harboring “Deep State” actors whose goal it was to remove him from office.The career officials Trump distrusted have nevertheless attempted to do their jobs—which included safeguarding the U.S. from Russian aggression, officials said. As Fiona Hill, Trump’s former top Russia adviser, once put it during her impeachment testimony, officials in her orbit tried to help “with President Trump’s stated goal of improving relations with Russia while still implementing policies meant to deter Russian conduct that threatens the United States, including the unprecedented and successful Russian operation to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.” Most of the time, officials said, it didn’t work. “It was a vicious cycle where, even though we were doing a lot of concrete things to take punitive measures against Russia, the president’s own personal behavior and how that was portrayed in the domestic context didn’t allow us to say, ‘We have a coherent Russia policy,’” one former senior official said, referring to later actions the administration took to punish Russia, including expelling diplomats from the country, enacting a slew of sanctions on Russian actors, and pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019.Four other former senior officials described years of frustration—of trying to push ahead on a Russia strategy only to get sidelined from conversations in the White House because, as the investigations into his campaign ramped up, the president grew more distrustful of the people around him.Instead Trump relied on his closest allies—often Kushner—to handle the business of government. Trump depended on his son-in-law to go and deliver on the promises he’d made publicly from the outset, including establishing closer ties with Moscow. As Hill and other top officials who worked on Russia began to step away from their jobs—in some cases because they had been forced out of government—Kushner stepped even further into the vacuum. He emerged as one of the most powerful people in the White House, former National Security Adviser John Bolton said in a recent interview with CNN.The Treasury Department and the State Department did not respond to requests for comment for this story. The White House did not comment on the record. The Russian Direct Investment Fund and Dmitriev also did not respond to requests for comment.“Jared Kushner has worked closely with our NSC team. Prior to my becoming the National Security Adviser, I worked with Jared on hostage recoveries and his support of the President’s efforts was critical in bringing several of our hostages and detainees home,” National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said in a statement. “As the NSA, I have seen first-hand how Jared and his office coordinate their work with the NSC and other U.S. Government departments and agencies as he assists President Trump on important foreign and domestic issues.” As the U.S. and Russia have struggled to partner on a host of issues—from counterterrorism intelligence sharing to deconfliction of forces in Syria—Kushner and Dmitriev have continued to communicate about alternative ways Moscow and Washington can cooperate. “Dmitriev came into the picture because Putin was always saying, ‘Talk to my guy because he can help you with the Gulf and with the Middle East peace plan, we can help stabilize,’” said one former senior administration official. “A lot was going on behind the scenes… they kept it to themselves.”While those close to Kushner praise the president’s son-in-law’s efforts to find ways to circumvent the bureaucratic process of communicating with Russia and “get things done”—as one individual who has worked with him put it—others have been disturbed by the sidelining of career officials on critical matters of national security. Current and former officials tell The Daily Beast the hollowing out of the Russia policy teams across the administration and Trump’s continued lack of trust in that community has left the administration without a cohesive, coordinated approach to handling Moscow. Not only have the two countries failed to reach the rapprochement that Trump so badly wanted, but the U.S. and Russia also are now engaged in an active dispute over Moscow’s use of anti-satellite missiles, its attempts to hack into the networks of U.S. coronavirus vaccine-makers, and its efforts to meddle in the 2020 presidential election.“It’s as bad as it’s ever been,” one former senior national security official said in describing the administration’s relationship with Russia. Seychelles RendezvousAfter the 2016 election, President Putin himself tasked Dmitriev directly with trying to make inroads with Trump’s transition team, according to a recent report issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee and Robert Mueller’s special counsel report. Dmitriev got to work, actively trying to connect with members of Trump’s inner circle who would eventually wield influence in a new administration. He was particularly interested in connecting with Kushner, those reports said.Dmitriev began his outreach to Kushner by connecting with George Nader, a Lebanese-American politico close to the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed in the United Arab Emirates who helped broker meetings with the incoming Trump administration. Dmitriev’s fund, RDIF, had co-invested with the Emirati sovereign wealth fund on a series of projects and the two men had been in frequent contact. Dmitriev invited Nader to a chess tournament and asked him to invite Kushner, though Nader never passed on the message, the reports said. Over the next several weeks, Dmitriev continued to speak with Nader about the possibility of meeting transition officials like Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. (Nader was later sentenced on child pornography charges in the Eastern District of Virginia).Dmitriev also reached out to Rick Gerson, who ran a New York hedge fund and was a close friend of Kushner’s. According to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee report, “Dmitriev told Gerson that Putin had tasked him with developing a reconciliation plan for United States-Russia relations.” Dmitriev’s team previously pushed back on his connection with Putin in a series of articles The Daily Beast published in 2018. Gerson told Dmitriev that he would find the right people to talk to about the plan. In the following days, the pair drafted bullet points for the plan and Dmitriev communicated that he had shared the document with Putin.Days later, Dmitriev flew to the remote archipelago of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Executives from across the world had gathered on the island to meet with the crown prince. Several of them stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in villas overlooking the water. One of those individuals was Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, who was close with White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and throughout the campaign had tried to connect to Trump’s circle.Mueller Exposes Erik Prince’s Lies About His Rendezvous with a Top RussianPrince met with Dmitriev, who was there with his wife, twice while on the island. Prince later told congressional investigators that he’d run into Dmitriev by chance and spoke with the Russian fund manager over a beer. But Prince was made aware of Dmitriev’s planned trip to the island through Nader, who sent Prince Dmitriev’s bio ahead of time, according to the Mueller report.Dmitriev and Prince discussed opportunities to improve the U.S.-Russia bilateral relationship under the incoming Trump administration and the bullet points that Gerson had helped draft. Nader was also present. The Daily Beast previously obtained the reconciliation plan Dmitriev had worked on with Gerson and which Dmitriev sent to Gerson for final approval Jan. 17—five days after his meeting in the Seychelles with Prince.  In his congressional testimony in November 2017, Prince said he told Dmitriev that “if Franklin Roosevelt can work with Joseph Stalin after the Ukraine terror famine, after killing tens of millions of his own citizens, we can certainly at least cooperate with the Russians in a productive way to defeat the Islamic State.”The reconciliation plan called for, among other things, improvement of U.S.-Russian relations over a one-year period, which included building a pathway for the countries to develop “win-win economic investment initiatives.” It noted that Russian companies would “make investments with RDIF financing to serve the U.S. market in the Midwest, creating real jobs for hard hit areas with high employment.”The next day, Gerson went to see Kushner at the White House to brief him on Dmitriev and hand him the reconciliation plan. Kushner told the Senate Intelligence Committee during an interview that he gave a copy of that plan to Bannon and incoming Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to a recent committee report.In the weeks leading up to Trump’s inauguration, senior officials in the White House who worked alongside the transition team said it became clear that Trump’s inner circle, including Kushner, were going to bypass career officials to make critical national security decisions. In the early days of his administration, Trump didn’t meet with the national security team on Russia policy. “We were still coming to terms with the aggressiveness with which [the Russians] attacked our electorate process. The whole kit and caboodle—the leaks, the information campaign, the social media initiatives. The new administration just seemed to ignore that,” that same official said. “There was a general feeling that we could accommodate the Russians in some way.”Wild ideas flew—withdrawing U.S. troops from the Baltics just to please Putin, cooperating with the Russian military to such an extent it would have broken the law. One former official said there were “whispers” of the Trump team attempting to roll back sanctions on Russia for the election attack and for its invasion of Ukraine. “Their thought was... if we scale back sanctions we can work with them in the Middle East. That was just stupid because the Russians had already offered and asked to work with us,” the official said. “Our idea was: Don’t give up the shit that’s free.” Ships in the Saudi NightTwo individuals familiar with the matter said Trump was briefed on the Dmitriev U.S.-Russia reconciliation plan ahead of his first call with Putin on Jan. 28, 2017. A White House readout of the call said Trump and Putin spoke for about an hour on subjects ranging from mutual cooperation in defeating ISIS to creating investment opportunities for both countries—two bullet points included in that reconciliation memo.During the same time period, Kushner was beginning to lay the groundwork for the development of a Middle East peace plan—one Team Trump thought could evolve with considerable international buy-in, including from Russia. The idea for a peace plan had been in the works before Trump took into office, officials said. At an event before his inauguration, Trump spoke with reporters from the Times of London about the idea, saying Kushner would lead the peace plan process.  Meanwhile, stories began to leak to the press that Trump’s inner circle had worked for weeks behind the scenes to backchannel with Russian officials. In February, The Washington Post reported a series of stories saying National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had spoken with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak about sanctions and lied to the FBI about it. In February 2017, Flynn was pushed out of his national security job after the news broke that he’d lied to the feds. Before long, talk of rolling back sanctions began to recede.Russian business executives, lawyers, and lobbyists—including some of those connected to RDIF—tried to ease the financial burden by promoting opportunities for American businesses in Russia. RDIF was beginning to develop major partnerships with sovereign wealth funds and other large financial hubs, co-investing in large projects related to oil, transportation, technology, and medicine. The hope was that the Trump administration could help promote business relations between the two countries. One former senior official said Putin had tapped Dmitriev specifically to try to work with American companies.Jon Huntsman, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, held business roundtables at the embassy, in an effort to help push forward conversations about creating business opportunities for American companies in Moscow with the help of RDIF.Dmitriev looked to California, where RDIF already had an investment in Los Angeles-based technology company Virgin Hyperloop One, headed by British businessman Sir Richard Branson.In Washington, Hill moved into her position as the National Security Council’s top Russia hand in April 2017. Slowly, officials under the new national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, fleshed out a concrete Russia strategy for the administration.“We had a brief moment after Flynn had been retired —a window under McMaster—to put together a Russia policy,” one senior former official said.The document called for closer cooperation on fighting ISIS in Syria while ramping up deconfliction efforts in the country, working toward a non-aggression pact in cyberspace, and laying out a roadmap for a dialogue on arms control. But it did little to provide focus to the administration’s approach to handling Moscow, officials said, because the national security, diplomatic, and intelligence communities were often ostracized from conversations with Trump’s inner circle. As officials in those communities took steps to try and hold Russia accountable for meddling in domestic politics, they found themselves held back from making progress because the president publicly sided with Putin. Meanwhile, Kushner was quickly becoming Trump’s go-to on all things foreign policy, tapped not only for the Middle East Peace plan but also for engaging with Middle Eastern leaders, including Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Zayed in the UAE and Mohammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia. National security and intelligence officials worried about Kushner’s interactions with world leaders, and not only because he lacked government experience and had not been briefed on critical national security matters. Officials said they were also concerned about how his former business ties played into his communications with certain individuals. “I’d always worried that he’d go and say something that he shouldn’t and that it would blow up in all our faces,” one former senior official said.In October 2017, Kushner, who had settled into his role as one of the interlocutors of meetings with foreign officials, took an unannounced trip to Saudi Arabia. Then-Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, who traveled with Kushner to Riyadh, would become one of the plan’s key designers. Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell also joined. The Kremlin—and specifically Dmitriev—was seen as having a significant role to play. The White House did not give details of who Kushner met with while in Riyadh. During that same week, the kingdom hosted the Future Investment Initiative—a conference that Branson and Dmitriev both attended. Dmitriev told reporters there that he would invest “billions” in NEOM, a high-tech, futuristic project led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in the northwestern part of the country. Several individuals who attended the conference said Kushner met with individuals on the sidelines of the summit, though they could not remember if the president’s son-in-law spoke with Dmitriev in a sit-down setting. One senior official said Kushner and Dmitriev did not meet at the conference.That same month, Dmitriev announced that RDIF pledged to invest again, this time with the Chinese Investment Corporation—China’s sovereign wealth fund—in Branson’s Hyperloop.“There were questions being asked about where Russia might want to spend its money. Dmitriev was the money guy and held the strings,” one former U.S. senior official said. “And the idea on Russia’s part was, ‘We can sell to Jared and everyone else on Middle East peace.’” IRL EncounterThe details of Kushner’s conversations with foreign officials about the peace plan and other areas for business opportunities for the U.S. remained closely held throughout the next two years. As the president’s son-in-law continued to use his personal relationships with foreign leaders to advance the White House and President Trump’s goals, the administration’s Russia policy fell into disarray, as career officials struggled to balance the national security interests of the country with the reality that Trump did not want to address Russia’s interference head on. Officials said that tension grew increasingly worse as Congress demanded the administration punish Russia for its actions. In January 2018, Congress, which was working on implementing the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, asked the Treasury Department to provide a list of oligarchs with links to Putin. One of those individuals was Oleg Deripaska, the owner of one of the world’s largest aluminum companies, and former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort’s one-time paymaster. The decision to add Deripaska to the list for Congress was “fast and not thoroughly researched,” as one former senior administration official put it. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control sanctioned Deripaska and two companies in which he held stakes, including aluminum giant Rusal and EN+, an energy and metals company. The listings would later cause a massive uproar on Capitol Hill and among European leaders who relied on Rusal for products such as aircraft.The chaos didn’t stop there. In the fall of 2017 and winter of 2018, the U.S. State Department and Pentagon had engaged in conversations about whether to send Ukraine Javelins—anti tank weapons—and whether the U.S. would provide those weapons through federal funding.“The Secretary [Tillerson] went in to see the president and whether or not we should be doing this—giving Ukraine the Javelins. And the president’s reaction was, ‘Are you out of your fucking mind? Why are we giving them anything?” one former senior official told The Daily Beast. “His whole attitude was [the sale] would hurt the Russians. I wondered at that time what it was about the Ukrainians that particularly irritated him. Of course, we later found out.” Tillerson was fired in March 2018.Later that month, Trump ignored the advice of his national security team, choosing on a phone call with Putin to congratulate him—instead of condemning him for Moscow’s election interference or its alleged nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter on British soil. Trump even floated the idea that Putin visit the White House.“He really wanted to get on track with Putin and we kept having to react,” one former senior official said. President Trump fired McMaster just a few days later, replacing him with Bolton. Officials said various Cabinet officials, including new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and Bolton, had varying ideas on how to approach the “Russia problem,” as one former senior official put it. Not long after, Trump went to Helsinki for a summit to discuss bilateral relations with Putin. The meeting became instantly infamous when Trump publicly rebuked the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia had interfered in the previous election. Trump Fails, Again and Again, to Condemn Putin for AnythingBolton found it curious for another reason. “What both of them [Putin and Trump] really wanted to discuss was increasing U.S. trade and investment in Russia, a conversation that lasted a surprisingly long time given there was so little to say, with so few U.S. businesses really eager to dive into the Russian political and economic morass,” Bolton wrote in his book. It was a point Dmitriev and Kushner had been trying to get across for a long time.Meanwhile, back in Washington, senior U.S. officials attempted to engage in intelligence sharing with Russia, including information on terrorist financing. But when the U.S. shared intelligence with Moscow, it was rarely reciprocated—and when it was, the information was unhelpful, officials said. “Moscow took a lot of license to really push our boundaries and our buttons very harshly,” as one senior official described it. Things were only made worse for national security officials when, under pressure from allies, the Treasury Department was forced to walk back its previous sanctions designations on Deripaska and Rusal in December 2018.Officials said when Congress asked for the names of oligarchs earlier that year, the Treasury Department panicked. It didn’t want to be seen as soft on Russia, and it didn’t want to piss off the White House. So the department made a quick decision. One former senior official said the department drafted the list with such speed that it had not had the chance to fully understand what sanctioning Rusal would do to the world’s aluminum industry. And, that official said, the department hadn’t “unpacked the Rusal ownership structure.” When the Trump administration announced the sanctions, global metal prices skyrocketed.“At the time we had to get that list out, Mnuchin thought he had to do something demonstrative that we were going to punish Russia for election meddling,” one former senior official said. “You had all of the Europeans asking us to delist and for understandable reasons. So, we went through a painful process of trying to force Deripaska out of Rusal so we could delist Rusal.”Tensions between the national security community and the White House persisted. Kushner carried out negotiations on his peace plan and included Dmitriev in those talks. The contents of those conversations stayed within Kushner’s circle. One individual familiar with the matter said Kushner met Dmitriev in person “for the first time” in May 2019, though this official close to the president’s son-in-law refused to say where the meeting took place. The official said Huntsman, then the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, introduced the two. During this same time period, Kushner spoke publicly about the Middle East peace plan process and appeared at a Washington think tank’s annual dinner for a panel about his work on the issue.Two months later, in June 2019, Kushner and his team flew to Manama, Bahrain, to attend a summit for a series of meetings on how to implement one of the major aspects of his plan—investing in Palestine. Hundreds of foreign dignitaries, and investors from across the globe, including Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, attended the lavish event at Manama’s Ritz-Carlton. They gathered in ballrooms for panels and speeches. Kushner gave a presentation on investing in the Palestinian territories. Dmitriev attended. An official with knowledge said Kushner and Dmitriev “crossed paths” at the conference but did not offer more details about their interaction.That summit spurred additional conversations in Bahrain and afterward among Kushner’s peace plan team, Dmitrev, and a host of other financiers and banking executives on how best to bring about investments in the Palestinian territories. But the details of those conversations remained closely held within Kushner’s inner circle. “No one ever really knew what Jared was up to,” one former official said. Another former senior official said they heard bits and pieces of the Kushner peace plan—and word of Russia’s involvement in helping craft portions of it—but that officials in the State Department and National Security Council were primarily kept in the dark. “There were maybe three or four people who really knew what Jared was up to and who he was speaking with and what was included in the plan,” that official said. “But they didn’t dish to anyone. And sometimes even people working with Jared didn’t know exactly who or how he was communicating with foreign officials.”On Aug. 14, Kushner, along with President Trump, announced a deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates that marked a significant step in establishing peace in the Middle East. Kushner was the lead negotiator on the deal, in which Israel and the UAE, among other things, signed on to establishing embassies, increasing trade, and partnering on the fight against the coronavirus. Under the agreement, Israel also promised to temporarily suspend annexation of the West Bank. Multiple senior officials said they expect the president’s son-in-law in the next several weeks to deliver similar agreements between Israel and other Arab nations. Kushner is in conversations with several countries about those deals, including Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Bahrain, those officials said. Why Can’t We Be Friends?Kushner wasn’t Trump’s only agent of behind the scenes diplomacy. Former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, along with Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, worked to deliver messages to Ukraine that officials there should announce investigations into Joe Biden and his son Hunter. In December 2019 the Senate officially launched an impeachment trial into whether the president had withheld military aid to Ukraine in exchange for President Volodymyr Zelensky announcing an investigation into the Bidens and the allegations that a Ukrainian company had interfered in the 2016 election. Trump was acquitted of a charge of abuse of power with a 58-42 vote and of a charge of obstruction of justice by a vote of 53-47. By that time, key Russia experts, including Hill and Tim Morrison, who took her place on the council, had left the administration. “It all slowly unraveled and by the end we felt like we didn’t have a Russia policy at all,” one former senior official said. Now, in the lead-up to the November election, the Trump team is focusing on trying to create a situation through which the U.S. and Russia could work together on arms control. But officials are not optimistic about the chances of brokering any kind of serious negotiations. Not at a time when Moscow is batting off allegations that it paid bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan—and is actively interfering in the 2020 campaign.Dmitriev, meanwhile, has continued to try and work with U.S. officials on creating a business council where the U.S. and Russia could look for mutually beneficial investment opportunities. In January 2020, Dmitriev went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to push the message.  “I think business cooperation between Russia and the U.S. is important. It’s non-existent right now,” Dmitriev said, adding that he believed sanctions are “wrong… Particularly U.S. sanctions, because they really undermine the U.S. long term.” Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, and Secretary Mnuchin were at Davos as well, leading the American delegation. This spring, a few days after that Russian plane loaded with protective gear landed in New York City—the shipment made possible in part by Kushner’s “Project Airbridge”—Saudi Arabia and Russia struck a deal to cut oil production in order to stabilize the market that had been rattled by the coronavirus. OPEC and its allies agreed to cut production by 9.7 billion barrels a day in May and June after oil prices fell to 18-year lows. One senior administration official said Kushner and Dmitriev worked behind the scenes to help negotiate the deal.During the last-minute negotiations, Dmitriev published an op-ed with CNBC saying the U.S. and Russia should work together to defeat the coronavirus.“During World War II, American and Russian soldiers fought side by side against a common enemy,” Dmitriev wrote. “Just as our grandfathers stood shoulder to shoulder... now our countries must show unity and leadership to win the war against the coronavirus.” Dmitriev’s article was viewed in the administration as the most recent proposal by the Russians to work with the United States. He often appears on television and publishes opinion articles in CNBC and other American media outlets proposing new pathways for cooperation between the U.S. and Russia. He also pitches ideas publicly at international forums, including in Davos. Dmitriev’s plan for cooperation on the virus seemed to those working on the Russia portfolio like a way the two countries could legitimately partner on a major international crisis. In May, a U.S. Air Force aircraft landed in Moscow. Officials with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) carried out the delivery of a $5.6 billion shipment with ventilators meant to help Russia fight the virus—even though USAID ceased operations in the country in 2012. The agency did not respond to a request for comment for this story.In its communiqué, the U.S. State Department used language similar to Dmitriev’s: “Particularly in times of crisis, we must work together—much like we did during the Second World War, when the people of our two nations and other allies fought valiantly, suffered great losses, and endured great hardship.”Two months after that, the U.S. and United Kingdom intelligence communities accused hackers working for the Kremlin of breaking into the networks of groups working on a COVID-19 vaccine.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.




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