Fox News Wrote:Police said they are also setting up some barricades around the downtown area. Many of the protests have been around a downtown park and city hall. Federal officials have closed the federal courthouse and other federal buildings for the week.

Fox News Wrote:Baimadajie Angwang, 33, who was born in China's Tibet region and serves in the U.S. Army Reserve, allegedly reported on the activity of ethnic Tibetans in the New York area to the Chinese consulate and was tasked with recruiting potential intelligence assets among the city's Tibetan community, prosecutors said.

As an agent, he “spotted and assessed potential ethnic Tibetan intelligence sources in the New York metropolitan area and beyond,” the complaint said. Tibetans have long been oppressed by the Chinese government and many are believed to have been killed since China occupied the region decades ago.
"The PRC has referred to Tibetans as one of 'the five poisons' threatening the stability of the PRC," the federal complaint said.
The charges against Angwang include acting as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the attorney general, making false statements about his contacts, obstruction of an official proceeding and wire fraud.
The complaint said Angwang serves as a civil affairs specialist with a rank of staff sergeant in the Army Reserve and is stationed at Fort Dix, N.J. He holds a "SECURITY" level security clearance, which allows him access to classified information.

Fox News Wrote:The core of Hurricane Teddy is passing east of Bermuda on Monday, but the large storm will have impacts stretching across the East Coast of the U.S.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Monday that Hurricane Teddy is a Category 2 storm, packing maximum sustained winds of 100 mph and is located about 160 miles southeast of Bermuda, moving north-northeast at 9 mph.
Teddy will pass east of Bermuda throughout the day, with tropical storm conditions already moving over the island.

Fox News Wrote:The problem with this storm, it's going to bring heavy rainfall to areas that were hit by Hurricane Laura.
Rising water levels were reported in several areas along the central Texas coast including in Galveston, where officials advised residents to have supplies ready in case they have to stay home for several days if roads are flooded.

BBC Wrote:The US and China have imposed border taxes on each other's goods and services as part of a trade war.
Tensions between Washington and Beijing have rapidly escalated in recent weeks, mainly concerning technology firms.

BBC Wrote:"Heroes in Harm's Way" premiered on China's flagship TV channel, CCTV-1, on 17 September. It aired during primetime, and promised to be the first TV drama "based on real life stories" about front-line workers in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the site of the first coronavirus outbreak.
The title of the show implied that it was going to highlight the major contributions women had made in China's epidemic fight. Women account for the majority of China's front-line workers.

BBC Wrote:A South Korean official has been shot dead and burned by North Korean troops, said the South's defence ministry which condemned the "brutal act".
Seoul said the man had disappeared from a patrol boat near the border and was later found in the North's waters.
North Korean soldiers shot him, then poured oil over his body and set it alight, the ministry said. It had come to this conclusion based on its analysis of "diverse intelligence".

BBC Wrote:The 87-page report called the younger Biden's role at a company suspected of corruption "awkward" and "problematic" at a time when the US was trying to help clean up corruption in Ukraine.
However, the report found little additional information that had not already been publicly revealed in news reports and testimony to the impeachment committee.
Mr Trump has claimed that Mr Biden meddled in Ukraine to help his son's business interests, but lawmakers found no evidence of this.

BBC Wrote:His expansive new legislative agenda includes new investments and initiatives to help the country recover from the pandemic.
It came with a vow to support Canadians "through this crisis as long as it lasts, whatever it takes".
The Conservatives said it lacked a commitment to fiscal restraint and failed to address the needs of "everyday Canadians".
Mr Trudeau warned Canadians in a televised address following the speech that a second wave of the pandemic was "already under way".

BBC Wrote:Australia's Westpac bank has negotiated to pay a record A$1.3bn (£0.7bn; $0.9bn) fine for the nation's biggest breach of money laundering laws.
Last year, Australia's financial crime watchdog said the bank had failed to adequately report over 19 million international transactions.
Some payments were potentially linked to child exploitation, officials said.

BBC Wrote:Wells Fargo's own record on race has also been in the spotlight, as the firm has paid millions to settle investigations into discriminatory lending and hiring.
In June, the bank announced diversity initiatives, following global protests over police brutality and racism.
In the memo announcing the plans, which was reported by Reuters, Mr Scharf said: "While it might sound like an excuse, the unfortunate reality is that there is a very limited pool of black talent to recruit from."

BBC Wrote:The attack came as a high-profile trial was under way of 14 people accused of helping two jihadists carry out the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed.
Charlie Hebdo vacated its offices after the 2015 attack, and the building is now used by a television production company.

BBC Wrote:Switzerland decided long ago not to join the EU, but it does want access to Europe's free-trade area, and it wants to co-operate with Brussels in areas like transport, the environment, and research and education.
The price for this is to sign up to the EU's major policy "pillars" including free movement, and Schengen open borders.
The EU has consistently told the Swiss there will be no cherry-picking: leaving free movement would mean leaving those lucrative trade arrangements too.

BBC Wrote:Speaking at the White House Rose Garden, Mr Trump described her as a "woman of unparalleled achievement".
Her nomination will spark a bitter Senate fight to get her confirmed as November's presidential election looms.
Mr Trump said Judge Barrett was a "stellar scholar and judge" with "unyielding loyalty to the constitution".

BBC Wrote:Police investigating the fatal shooting of a police officer in south London say four crime scenes are being searched.
Sgt Matiu Ratana, 54, from New Zealand, died in hospital on Friday after being shot in Croydon as a handcuffed suspect was being taken into custody.
The 23-year-old suspect, who is thought to have then shot himself, remains in a critical condition, police said.
The BBC's Daniel De Simone said the Banstead address is down a long driveway and contains a series of concrete bunkers.

BBC Wrote:On Saturday Spain's Health Minister Salvador Illa said current restrictions did not go far enough.
He said it was "time to act with determination" to control the pandemic.
"There is a serious risk for inhabitants, for the neighbouring regions," Mr Illa said, calling on the capital's regional authorities to "put the health of citizens first" and impose a partial lockdown on the entire city.
Spain's regions are in charge of healthcare and so the central government does not have the power to impose the restrictions it prefers.

BBC Wrote:A man suspected of injuring two people with a meat cleaver in Paris has admitted to deliberately targeting the former offices of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine, French media report.
The man, an 18-year-old born in Pakistan, reportedly linked his actions to the magazine's recent republication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Charlie Hebdo did this as a trial over the 2015 Islamist attack on the magazine which killed 12 people began.

South China Morning Post Wrote:Blaze broke out a building under construction in Dongguan, Guangdong province
Victims were members of the project’s site management team

AP News Wrote:Jum’s trapped on a Malaysian plantation run by government-owned Felda, one of the world’s largest palm oil companies. His boss confiscated and then lost his Indonesian passport, he says, leaving him vulnerable to arrest. Night after night, he has been forced to hide from authorities, sleeping on the jungle floor, exposed to the wind and the rain. His biggest fear: the roaming tigers.
All the while, Jum says his supervisor demanded he keep working, tending the heavy reddish-orange palm oil fruit that has made its way into the supply chains of the planet’s most iconic food and cosmetics companies like Unilever, L’Oreal, Nestle and Procter & Gamble.

AP News Wrote:Though labor issues have largely been ignored, the punishing effects of palm oil on the environment have been decried for years. Still, giant Western financial institutions like Deutsche Bank, BNY Mellon, Citigroup, HSBC and the Vanguard Group have continued to help fuel a crop that has exploded globally, soaring from just 5 million tons in 1999 to 72 million today, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The U.S. alone has seen a 900 percent spike in demand during that same time.

AP News Wrote:Palm oil is virtually impossible to avoid. Often disguised on labels as an ingredient listed by more than 200 names, it can be found in roughly half the products on supermarket shelves and in most cosmetic brands. It’s in paints, plywood, pesticides and pills. It’s also present in animal feed, biofuels and even hand sanitizer.

Liban Mohamed, the brother of Minneapolis City Council member Jamal Osman Wrote:Just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman. I have 300 ballots in my car right now . . .

BBC Wrote:According to Mr Véran, more than 30% of beds in Paris's intensive care units have been filled with Covid-19 patients.
He warned that if the maximum alert was put in place, there would be no more family reunions and bars would be closed. Bars and restaurants in the region already have to close by 22:00.

BBC Wrote:A video of a dying indigenous woman screaming in distress and being insulted by staff shows the "worst form of racism", says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Three investigations are underway and a nurse has been fired since the video emerged early this week.
The woman, Joyce Echaquan, streamed her treatment on Facebook shortly before her death.

BBC Wrote:Turkey and Greece have set up a military hotline in a bid to reduce the risk of clashes in the Mediterranean, where the two are locked in a row over energy resources and maritime borders.
The move was announced by the Nato military bloc, of which both countries are members.
Tensions rose this year when Turkey sent a research ship to a disputed area.
It comes as EU leaders met to discuss the bloc's thorny ties with Turkey.
Turkey has been a long-term candidate for membership of the European Union but efforts have stalled, with EU leaders criticising Turkey's record on human rights and the rule of law, in particular in the wake of the 2016 failed military coup.

BBC Wrote:The New York Times has been forced to scrutinise its reporting on Islamic State (IS) in a popular podcast about the terror group, after a source was charged with lying about his experience.
Canadian Shehroze Chaudhry, 25, was arrested by police on Friday, and stands accused of hoax-terrorist activity.
Mr Chaudhry was a key voice in the Times' Caliphate series.
Police allege he made up his story.
Questions over Mr Chaudhry's tales of the Islamic State first emerged after he gave interviews to Canadian and American news outlets with contradictory information.

BBC Wrote:"I assert that Putin is behind this act, I don't see any other explanation," he told German news magazine Der Spiegel in an interview.
Germany, where Mr Navalny is recovering, says he was poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent. Its findings were confirmed by labs in France and Sweden.
The Kremlin denies any involvement.
Responding to the interview on Thursday, Mr Putin's spokesman said there was no evidence that Mr Navalny had been poisoned with a nerve agent, and said CIA agents were working with the opposition leader.

Fox News Wrote:A Philadelphia reporter said he walked right into an elections warehouse Thursday, a day after reports that someone had stolen USB drives used to program the city's voting machines from the same facility.
There were no security guards at the door or surveillance cameras visible, according to Max Marin, an investigative journalist at WHYY's Billy Penn news site, who shared video and photographs from his adventure to Twitter Thursday afternoon.
The thumb drives and a laptop went missing sometime this week, but exactly when remains unclear, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Wednesday.
“We are confident that this incident will not in any way compromise the integrity of the election,” a spokesman for City Commissioner Lisa Deeley told the paper.

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Fox News Wrote:President Trump's physician is treating his COVID-19 with Regeneron's experimental treatment. The details were released as the President makes his way to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for observation.
This biotech's board boasts a Nobel Laureate and a former Wall Street CEO.
In late September, the company said its antibody cocktail was successful in treating common COVID-19 symptoms.

Fox News Wrote:Voters can also request that the ballot be sent to them by email, in which case they would print it themselves.

Fox News Wrote:“If he becomes sick, it could raise questions about whether he should remain on the ballot at all,” Times reporters Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman wrote after noting that Trump’s positive test throws “the nation’s leadership into uncertainty.”
“No big deal. Just The New York Times openly wondering if (read: rooting for) Trump should QUIT the election and thus preemptively concede to Joe Biden,” Houck wrote. “And yet, the national press don't want to be called the enemy of the people.”

BBC Wrote:At least two people have died and at least 25 are missing after a powerful storm hit southern France and north-western Italy.
A number of villages suffered serious damage around the southern city of Nice. Its mayor described it as the worst flooding in living memory.
In northern Italy, roads and bridges were swept away by floodwater, while several rivers overflowed their banks.

BBC Wrote:Mr Moranis went to hospital and reported pain in his head, hip and back before reporting the crime at the precinct.

BBC Wrote:The EU and Belarus have imposed sanctions on each other in an escalating row over a disputed presidential election.
On Friday, the EU announced it was sanctioning 40 members of Mr Lukashenko's team.
Belarus announced retaliatory measures the same day, but has not disclosed which EU officials have been targeted.
Among those on the list are said to be Interior Minister Yuri Karaev and top security official Alexander Valerievich Bykov, whom the EU accused of "torture of peaceful demonstrators".
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists the sanctions were "an important signal because it strengthens the hand of those who are protesting for freedom of opinion in Belarus."

BBC Wrote:An error in the grading calculation system in the Republic of Ireland means thousands of pupils will get improved grades.
It is the third mistake identified in the system and is thought to affect about 6,100 students.
Those who have been awarded higher grades can now see that reflected online.
Two previous errors had already been flagged up during an audit of the coding used to standardise results.

Fox News Wrote:The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) declassified information indicating that former President Obama's administration knew of allegations that former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was attempting to tie Trump to the Russia and distract from her email scandal before the 2016 presidential election.
DNI John Ratcliffe informed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the prior administration obtained Russian intelligence in July of 2016 with allegations against Clinton, but cautioned that the intelligence community (IC) "does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication."

Fox News Wrote:An IT outage in Pennsylvania is affecting a slew of online services including voter registration and mail-in ballot applications, officials say.
The equipment failure occurred around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday at a data center managed for the commonwealth by Unisys. It affects the Pennsylvania Departments of State, Revenue, Human Services, and Liquor Control Board, among others.

Voice of America Wrote:New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, to contain the spread of COVID-19 in what was once the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, said on Sunday he is moving to shut non-essential businesses as well as schools in nine neighborhoods identified as coronavirus clusters, starting on Wednesday.
Seeking state approval for the lockdown, de Blasio said it would affect nine ZIP codes where coronavirus positivity rates have spiked, sometimes as the result of failure to social distance and wear face masks. He said neighborhoods in another 11 ZIP codes were on a "watch list" because of their rising positivity rates.

Fox News Wrote:Haeger had suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound and his body was found along the southern rim of the Grand Canyon.