| Report: Trump disparaged US war dead as 'losers,' 'suckers' Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:23 PM PDT  The allegations were first reported in The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments. The defense official said Trump made the comments as he begged off visiting the cemetery outside Paris during a meeting following his presidential daily briefing on the morning of Nov. 10, 2018.
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| Global Ceramic Fiber Industry Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:25 PM PDT |
| Mexico struggles with US water debt, suggests UN audit Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:24 PM PDT  As Mexico struggles to pay a water debt to the United States, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he might personally appeal to President Donald Trump for clemency, or invite United Nations experts to audit water payments. Mexico has fallen behind in the amount of water it must send north from its dams under a 1944 treaty, and time is running out to make up the shortfall by the Oct. 24 deadline. The water treaty has become a burning political issue in northern Mexico, with conspiracy theories and violent protests springing up.
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| Is Zimbabwe extending an olive branch to its white farmers? Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:12 PM PDT  The offer to pay those whose land was seized 20 years ago is intended to mend relations with the West.
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| Africa's week in pictures: 28 August-3 September 2020 Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:08 PM PDT  A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.
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| Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar sued in U.S. court Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:52 PM PDT  Two Libyan citizens filed suit in a Virginia federal court Thursday against Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, alleging he is responsible for the death of numerous family members, including a three year-old girl. Hafter is the commander of the Libyan National Army, the group that rules much of eastern Libya. Since 2014, Haftar's LNA has been battling with the Government of National Accord (GNA), the group recognized as the legitimate governing body in Libya by both the U.S. and the United Nations.
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| Global Connected Agriculture Industry Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:25 PM PDT |
| Democrats request Hatch Act probe of Republican convention Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:48 AM PDT  Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into what they call repeated violations of the federal Hatch Act by members of the Trump administration during last month's Republican National Convention. The 1939 law is intended to limit political activity by federal employees in their official capacity, although it does not apply to the president and vice president. Throughout the convention, administration officials "repeatedly used their official positions and the White House itself to bolster President (Donald) Trump's re-election campaign," the lawmakers wrote in a letter to the independent Office of Special Counsel.
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| Maysak floods Koreas with deadly impacts, leaves dozens missing Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:19 AM PDT  Maysak ripped into the southern peninsula of South Korea on Thursday morning with little regard for the tumultuous typhoon season the region has had to deal with this season. Just one week after Typhoon Bavi brought a lot of worries but little more than heavy rainfall to mainland South Korea, Maysak has proven to be far less accommodating.The ninth typhoon of the West Pacific tropical season and the fourth to impact South Korea, Maysak made landfall on Thursday morning, local time, with 177 km/h (110 mph) winds, equivalent to that of a Category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic basin. The typhoon made landfall near Busan, the second-largest city in South Korea.Before it even arrived on the South Korean peninsula, Maysak was already thrashing the country, as over 20,000 residents on the resort island of Jeju lost power Wednesday night. After landfall, that figure climbed to over 120,000 along with damage reports and a death toll. This Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, satellite image released by NASA shows Typhoon Maysak over Japan's southernmost islands, including Okinawa, center. The powerful typhoon was blowing over Japan's southernmost islands early Tuesday on course for Japan's main southern island and later the Korean Peninsula. (EOSDIS via AP) By the end of the day Thursday, local time, at least two Maysak-related fatalities had been confirmed by authorities. The first came in Busan by way of injuries sustained from a broken window that killed a woman, according to Korea Joongang Daily. The 67-year-old woman, who, according to police, was attempting to tape a window in her house in preparation for the storm on Wednesday when she accidentally broke the window and hurt herself with the shattered glass.Another fatality was of a man in his 60s when winds toppled a large outdoor fridge, crushing him, according to Voice Of America.A third death was still under investigation after a man was found dead on Thursday. He was believed to have fallen off his roof while repairing a leak related to Maysak, Reuters reported.At least 12 other injuries have also been reported in Busan and over 850 cases of property damage were reported, according to local reports. In Gyeongsang, located about 85 km inland from Busan, 5,151 hectares of farmland were damaged.Those injury and death totals are expected to climb, however, as dozens of others are missing, including over 40 sailors and over 5,800 cattle who were on a cargo ship that went missing. According to the Japan Coast Guard, only one sailor was rescued after spending several hours in the water.CNN reported that the 133.6-meter-long (438-foot-long) ship, known as the Gulf Livestock 1, was sailing from Napier, New Zealand, to Tangshan, China, according to the authorities. The vessel sent out a distress signal early Wednesday when it was about 185 kilometers (115 miles) west of the Japanese island of Amami Oshima.> The Japan Coast Guard rescued a man who was found drifting after it received a distress signal from a Panamanian cargo ship off Kagoshima Prefecture. https://t.co/TiXexohvLXJCG AmamiOshima pic.twitter.com/PSzoUr4h5x> > -- The Japan News (@The_Japan_News) September 3, 2020Earlier in the week, Maysak had inflicted damage on Japan's Ryukyu Islands with winds of 196 km/h (122 mph).In North Korea, Maysak dumped extremely heavy rainfall, leading to flooding in the coastal town of Wonsan. According to the country's state television broadcast, the Korean Central Television Broadcasting Station, Wonsan was dealt 132 millimeters (5.19 inches) of rain in just three hours.Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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| Election chiefs worry about uncertainty as voting nears Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:54 AM PDT  Political battles and pending court fights threaten to upend months of planning for the pandemic election, election officials are warning. In key states, they remain hamstrung with only weeks to prepare. Ongoing partisan litigation could dictate dramatic last-minute changes to rules and procedures in several states.
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| More than 250 arrested since Blake shooting in Wisconsin Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:48 AM PDT  More than 250 people have been arrested since the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, with more than half from outside the county that the southeastern Wisconsin city is in, police reported Thursday. Blake, a Black man, was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer on Aug. 23, sparking three nights of unrest that resulted in roughly two dozen fires and damage to numerous downtown businesses. Two nights after the shooting, prosecutors say 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shot two demonstrators and wounded a third.
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| Global Data Backup and Recovery Industry Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:05 AM PDT |
| Pressure builds on West to punish Russia over Navalny poisoning Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:58 AM PDT  Calls were mounting on Thursday for tough Western action against Russia over the suspected poisoning of Alexei Navalny, the prominent Kremlin critic. Senior German politicians compared Vladimir Putin to Bashar Assad of Syria and demanded Europe go further than it did in response to the Skripal poisoning in Salisbury two years ago. But the Kremlin refused to back down and senior figures close to Mr Putin sought to claim Mr Navalny may have been poisoned by Germany as a "deliberate provocation". Talks are underway to agree a common Western response after it emerged Mr Navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, and there are clear signs attitudes are hardening in European capitals. "We are committed to working with Germany, our allies and international partners to demonstrate that there are severe consequences for the use of banned chemical weapons," a Number 10 spokesman said ahead of a meeting between Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, and his German counterpart Heiko Maas. "The Putin regime is on the same level as those who have used chemical weapons against their own civilian population in Syria," Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the German defence minister, said in the most outspoken attack on the Kremlin yet by a member of Mrs Merkel's government.
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| EU medicines regulator that left UK after Brexit struggles with staff numbers during pandemic Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:50 AM PDT  The European Union's medicines regulator is enduring "major difficulties" in handling the extra work caused by the coronavirus pandemic due to the number of staff who quit the agency when it moved from London to Amsterdam because of Brexit. The Telegraph has obtained documents that reveal the European Medicines Agency's loss of 72 specialised workers after its its "forced relocation" in March 2019 to the Dutch capital, and back onto EU territory after 24 years before Brexit on January 31 this year. Despite UK signals that it was ready to continue to host the lucrative European Medicines Agency (EMA), and warnings that as many as 75% of the 890 strong staff would not want to leave London, the EU insisted the move was necessary. Amsterdam was eventually chosen over Milan by lots after a selection process resulted in a draw. The EMA is responsible for the development and marketing authorisation of new vaccines and ensuring continued medicine supplies. If the EU approves a coronavirus vaccine for use before December 31, the end of the transition period, the authorisation will last until that date with subsequent decisions being made by the British regulator. An unpublished document submitted to a European Parliament committee exposed the impact of the loss of 72 employees since the move from London was announced and the impeding loss of another 40 staff. There were 818 workers at the EMA at the end of 2019, compared to 890 in 2017. It read, "The agency had to allocate significant human resources to work on the EU response to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. This happened at a time when the Agency had not yet come out the business continuity situation after its forced relocation following Brexit. "Compared to 2017, the agency has experienced a significant reduction in the available workforce and a further reduction of the 40 exceptional short-term contract agents is taking place. Following the loss of workforce and the above described increased workload, the agency has major difficulties returning to earlier levels of activities or to implement additional activities in a number of domains." "Providing a rapid response to Covid-19 is EMA's number one priority," a spokeswoman said. "[The EMA] had to re-shift its priorities very quickly to pull together the resources and expertise necessary to support the global efforts towards rapid development and authorisation of medicines and vaccines against the disease." She added, "The re-initiation of some of the activities that were put on hold due to Brexit preparedness and relocation to the Netherlands […] have not yet fully restarted. "It is important to note however that none of our core business activities related to the authorisation, maintenance and supervision of medicines have been affected – neither due to the agency's relocation nor during the pandemic so far."
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| North Korea waiting for US elections to resume talks, South Korean ambassador says Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:38 AM PDT  North Korea is likely waiting until after the U.S. elections to resume negotiations with Washington over its nuclear arsenal, says the South Korean ambassador to the U.S.
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| A month on, signal in Beirut rubble raises hope for survivor Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:31 AM PDT  A pulsing signal was detected Thursday from under the rubble of a Beirut building that collapsed during the horrific port explosion in the Lebanese capital last month, raising hopes there may be a survivor still buried there. The effort unfolded after the sniffer dog belonging to the Chilean search and rescue team first detected something as the team was going through Gemmayzeh Street in Beirut and rushed toward the rubble of a building. It is extremely unlikely that any survivors would be found a month after the blast that tore through Beirut in August when nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited at the port.
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| The Latest: Trump mocks the way Biden wears his mask Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:29 AM PDT  President Donald Trump is mocking his Democratic rival for letting his mask hang off his ear when he delivers speeches. Trump acknowledges that face coverings are particularly important for the nation heading into the Labor Day holiday weekend, as public experts have called for Americans to be particularly diligent to prevent a repeat of the explosion of new coronavirus cases seen after Memorial Day. President Donald Trump has arrived in Western Pennsylvania for a rally two months from Election Day, as his allies feel new optimism about a battleground state that flipped in his favor in 2016.
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| Coronavirus: Is the rate of growth in Africa slowing down? Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:29 AM PDT  The overall rate of increase may be changing, but there have still been sharp rises in some countries.
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| AP Explains: Novichok that sickened Navalny a Cold War relic Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:08 AM PDT  Novichok, a deadly nerve agent that has left Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a coma and nearly killed a former Russian spy and his daughter in 2018, was the product of a highly secretive Soviet chemical weapons program. HOW LETHAL IS NOVICHOK? Novichok, the nerve agent used in the attack that nearly killed former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the English city of Salisbury on March 4, 2018, has been described as much deadlier than any U.S. equivalents.
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| Once seen as loners, male elephants shown to follow elders Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:00 AM PDT  As they pass a motion-activated camera hidden in low shrubbery, photos record the presence of each elephant. Female elephants are known to form tight family groups led by experienced matriarchs. Younger male elephants were seen tagging along behind older males as they travel from place to place.
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| Trump suggests polling place double-check for mail-in voters Posted: 03 Sep 2020 07:52 AM PDT |
| Still too soon to try altering human embryo DNA, panel says Posted: 03 Sep 2020 07:12 AM PDT  It's still too soon to try to make genetically edited babies because the science isn't advanced enough to ensure safety, says an international panel of experts who also mapped a pathway for any countries that want to consider it. Mainstream scientists condemned his experiment as unethical, and He was sentenced to three years in prison for violating Chinese laws. The group doesn't take a stance on whether editing embryos is ethical, just whether it's ready scientifically -- and deems that it's not.
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| HIV Drugs Market Rising at 6.1 % CAGR to Reach USD 40,675.0 Million by 2026; Growing Emphasis on Research and Development of Efficient Drugs to Enable Growth, says Fortune Business Insights Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:58 AM PDT |
| Members named to panel probing WHO's pandemic response Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:57 AM PDT  An independent panel appointed by the World Health Organization to review its coordination of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic will have full access to any internal U.N. agency documents, materials and emails necessary, the panel said Thursday as it begins the probe. The panel's co-chairs, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, announced the 11 other members during a media briefing. Also named to the panel are: Dr. Zhong Nanshan, a renowned Chinese doctor who was the first to publicly confirm human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus; Mark Dybul, who led the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary who is CEO of the International Rescue Committee.
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| Lithuania wants EU leaders to discuss Navalny poisoning at next summit Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:25 AM PDT |
| Russia Is Using the Media to Wage War in Belarus. Sound Familiar? Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:20 AM PDT  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- If you believe the message from the Kremlin, Russia currently has no plans to send police or military forces into neighboring Belarus. But it has sent in some reinforcements — to the news media, as part of a strategy that should stand as a warning to democracies around the world.Of course, President Vladimir Putin mused last week, Russia may eventually need to intervene in Belarus militarily. But as his spokesman put it this week: "At present we see that the situation is under control."Putin is trying to convey the impression that he is just a concerned neighbor in a crisis that has exploded in national unrest since Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko declared victory in a stolen election last month. Russia, Putin wants the world to believe, is holding back.This perception is deceiving. In reality, Russia is waging a kind of stealth intervention in Belarus, the first part of which is taking place in the media. Belarusian state television has replaced Belarusian journalists with those from the Kremlin-financed RT network, which Lukashenko confirmed this week in an interview. "You understand how important you were to us during this difficult period," he told an RT correspondent. "And what you demonstrated technically, your IT specialists, and journalists, and correspondents, and so on ... and your manager. This is worth a lot."An early warning about the Russian takeover of Belarusian state television came from George Barros, who works for the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War. Barros wrote on Aug. 20 about new montage videos that depicted the U.S. and NATO as fomenting unrest in Belarus, as well as slick propaganda videos being released through Belarus' interior ministry. State TV was engaged in an effort to "humanize Belarusian officials," he told me in an interview, while portraying protesters "as threatening the families and lives of security personnel."This is the opposite of what was happening in Belarus. The state began arresting thousands of protesters indiscriminately after the disputed election last month. The BBC has reported that some of those detained said they were tortured in jail.Russia's assistance to Lukashenko did not end there, either. Barros and his colleague Mason Clark have also tracked three flights in mid-August of government-owned passenger jets from Moscow to Minsk. The first such plane, they say, belonged to the FSB, the Russian Federal Security Service. There is no direct evidence that FSB officers were on those flights. But Barros says there is circumstantial evidence that the FSB is advising Lukashenko on how to disperse the protests. After that first flight on Aug. 18, for example, the Belarusian security services ended a policy of mass arrests, which fueled unrest, and began a strategy of targeted detentions of organizers and opposition leaders.In an interview with reporters this week, Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun said there was little doubt that Russia was "exercising some level of influence" in Belarus, and said that publicly available flight tracking data showed that "elite aircraft from the FSB intelligence service has flown into Minsk on more than a couple of occasions."What all this means for the future of Belarus is not good. If Lukashenko is able to retain power, he will have to reverse any policies or stances that sought or promoted greater independence from Moscow. What will happen to his opposition to an economic and political union between Belarus and Russia? Will he still tout his anti-Russian bonafides, as he did during the presidential campaign, when Belarusian law enforcement agencies arrested 33 Russian mercenaries?More broadly, Putin's offensive in Belarus is yet more evidence that Russia considers the media landscape a battlefield for its own brand of hybrid warfare. Sometimes, the war requires actual troops, as in 2014 in Ukraine. Other times, the goal is to sow chaos and mistrust in democracy. This time, in Belarus, it appears that Russia is trying to quell a democratic uprising without firing a single shot.This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Cabinet ministers defend Tony Abbott amid calls for him to be blocked as a trade adviser Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:17 AM PDT  Cabinet ministers have rallied behind former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott amid calls for his appointment as a Government trade adviser to be blocked. Throwing his weight behind Mr Abbott on Thursday, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock insisted that as a former premier he had "enormous" experience and was an "expert in trade." Confronted about claims over Mr Abbott's reported attitudes towards women and homosexuality, Mr Hancock added: "I bow to nobody in my support for everybody to love who they love, whoever that is. "But we need to have the best experts in the world working in their field and the former prime minister of Australia has a huge amount of experience." His comments were echoed by Liz Truss, the International Trade Secretary, who dismissed Labour's opposition to Mr Abbott as "virtue signalling", citing the party's own lack of female leadership. It comes days after Mr Abbott confirmed earlier this week that he was in talks with the Government about taking on a role in post-Brexit trade talks. He is expected to be handed a role as an adviser on the UK Board of Trade. While Number 10 has insisted no decisions have been taken, other Whitehall sources claim that an informal offer has been made and an announcement confirming Mr Abbott's appointment is expected shortly. However, opposition parties have called for the appointment to be blocked, citing Mr Abbott's previous comments on gay people, elderly coronavirus patients and women. Speaking to reporters on Thursday morning, Sir Keir Starmer said he had had real concerns about Mr Abbott, adding that he was not "the right person for the job" and that if he was prime minister "I wouldn't appoint him." His comments were echoed by Nicola Sturgeon, who said Mr Abbott was "a misogynist, he's a sexist, he's a climate change denier." However, hitting back during trade questions in the House of Commons, Ms Truss accused Labour of "hypocrisy". She highlighted comments made by John McDonnell, who in 2014 quoted someone saying they wanted to "lynch" Esther McVey, a former work and pensions secretary. Mr McDonnell has denied he was endorsing the comments. Asked by Labour's Ruth Cadbury why the UK could not find another trade expert who demonstrates "positive British values", Ms Truss replied: "I think it is absolute hypocrisy to hear this type of argument from the Labour Party. "Until recently they had a shadow chancellor...who called for the lynching of one of my female colleagues and never apologised for it. "This is a party that has never elected a female leader, despite having the opportunity time and time again. "The reality is they would rather virtue signal and indulge in tokenism rather than take real action to improve the lives of women." Her comments were echoed by trade minister Greg Hands, who told MPs: Personally I welcome the fact that a former prime minister of Australia is willing to help this country out. "I think we should welcome his interest and the endeavours he has the potential to make for this country on all our behalfs." Asked about the row on Thursday, the Prime Minister's spokesman said that "no decision" on the board's make-up had been made and declined to comment on the "political debate" surrounding Mr Abbott.
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| Global Drug Abuse Testing Industry Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:45 AM PDT |
| Indian Americans can be an influential voting bloc – despite their small numbers Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:24 AM PDT  Senator Kamala Harris being picked by Joe Biden as his running mate has put a spotlight on the Indian American community in the United States.The interest, in part, stems from her origins: Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a biologist from the Indian city of Chennai. Her father, Donald Harris, an economist, was from Jamaica. After her parents divorced, her mother raised Kamala Harris and her sister as members of the Black Church. But her mother also took Harris to Hindu temples. In her memoir Harris writes about her Indian origins. I am a political scientist of Indian origin who has followed the rising trajectory of Indian Americans in American politics.Though Indian Americans constitute a mere 1.5% of the population their impact on American politics can be disproportionate. Indian Americans are among the wealthiest and most educated of all immigrant groups in the U.S. The question is: How exactly do they vote? Presence in American politicsAt 4 million, Indian Americans are one of the fastest growing immigrant groups in the United States and the second-largest immigrant group after Mexicans.The community, however, started with modest numbers, owing to severe restrictions on immigration prior to the the passage of the landmark Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. This legislation, that ended immigration on the basis of national origins and prioritized highly skilled workers, led to a dramatic increase of immigration from Asia. A disproportionate segment of those who formed the first wave of migrants were middle class professionals - doctors, educators and managers. In 1957, Dalip Singh Saund became the first Asian American to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, coming from a district in southern California. A naturalized U.S. citizen of Indian heritage, he was subsequently elected for two more terms before he suffered a stroke in 1962 and was too ill to run again. Indian Americans were a minority in Saund's constituency – California's 29th District – which includes part of Los Angeles County. Saund pursued a campaign that could overcome widespread suspicion, distrust and even outright hostility toward immigrants from South Asia.In 2005, another Indian American, Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, became the second Indian American to be elected to the House of Representatives. In 2011, Pramila Jayapal, became the first Indian American woman in the U.S. House of Representatives. Today there are five Indian Americans in Congress including Kamala Harris in the Senate. Being a high-earning and educated immigrant group makes Indian Americans a very attractive pool of potential donors for political campaigns. In the current election season they have emerged as significant donors. Not surprisingly, both Republicans and Democrats make ardent efforts to court them especially in highly contested regions. Affluent Indian American voteSince the days of President Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party had tried a "big tent" strategy, an effort to accommodate people of various political leanings. That, however, is no longer the case, especially under President Trump. The approach was ostensibly designed to broaden the appeal of the party especially to hitherto marginalized communities and immigrant groups of color including those from various developing nations as well as Hispanics. The party did attract particular individuals of Indian American origin who rose to positions of considerable prominence, such as Bobby Jindal, the former governor of Louisiana, and Nikki Haley, the erstwhile American ambassador to the United Nations whose parents emigrated to the U.S. from Punjab. However, the party could not genuinely broaden its Indian American base across the country. Both these individuals also distanced themselves from their religious roots by converting to Christianity. Particular episodes also alienated Indian Americans from the party. In one such episode in 2006, George Allen, a former Republican senator from Virginia, while running for office during a campaign rally referred to a young Indian American as Macaca, a certain species of monkey. "This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt. Macaca or whatever his name is. He's with my opponent, he's following us around everywhere," he said.The incident, which attracted media attention, has long since rankled members of the community. Some affluent Indian Americans do tend to vote for the Republican Party. When Trump visited India in February 2020, he received a huge reception especially at an extravaganza organized in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat. Leaning DemocraticHowever, a majority of Indian Americans either identify with the Democratic Party or lean Democratic politically. In the past, a 2012 Pew survey showed 65% of Indian Americans are Democrats or lean Democrat. According to a more recent 2020 survey that political scientist Karthick Ramakrishnan has conducted, 54% of Indian Americans are leaning toward the Democratic nominee, Joseph Biden, while 29% are in favor of the Republican incumbent, Donald Trump. [Deep knowledge, daily. Sign up for The Conversation's newsletter.]The same survey also shows that there are 1.8 million Indian Americans, whose vote in crucial swing states ranging from Arizona to Wisconsin could help tip the election one way or another. There may be several likely explanations for the overwhelming level of support among Indian Americans for the Democratic Party. For the past several decades, Democrats have been more welcoming of immigrants and minorities. And most Indian Americans tend to have more liberal political leanings. It may be worth noting that as many as 84% of the Indian American community had voted for President Obama. Whether the same trend is repeated is yet to be seen.This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.Read more: * What's behind the new US-India Defense Pact? * Behind Modi: The growing influence of the India lobbySumit Ganguly receives funding from: The Smith Richardson Foundation, the US Army War College and the US Department of State.
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| CORRECTED-Live from Pyongyang: N.Korea state media tests new formats on air and online Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:00 AM PDT |
| Mayor suspends officers involved in man's suffocation death Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:57 AM PDT  Seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of Daniel Prude last spring in Rochester, New York, were suspended Thursday by the city's mayor, who said she was misled for months about the circumstances of the fatal encounter. Prude, 41, who was Black, died when he was taken off life support March 30. Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren announced the suspensions at a news conference amid criticism that the city kept quiet about Prude's death for months.
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| Kremlin tells West not to rush to judge it on Navalny as sanctions talk starts Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:54 AM PDT |
| Monitor: Strikes on east Syria kill 16 Iran-backed fighters Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:41 AM PDT |
| The daily business briefing: September 3, 2020 Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:34 AM PDT |
| Mideast's confirmed coronavirus death toll goes over 50,000 Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:07 AM PDT  The confirmed death toll from the coronavirus passed 50,000 in the Middle East on Thursday, according to a count from The Associated Press based on official numbers provided by health authorities. The top U.N. official for Libya on Wednesday warned the coronavirus pandemic in the war-ravaged country appears to be "spiraling out of control." Over 21,900 people have died there from the virus, with over 380,000 confirmed cases and 328,000 recoveries.
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| No-trade deal Brexit? JPMorgan says about one third chance Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:03 AM PDT  JPMorgan said there was about a one third chance of a no-trade deal Brexit at the year end but that brinkmanship between Britain and the European Union over coming months would make it appear a much greater risk. Britain left the EU on Jan. 31 but talks have so far made little headway on agreeing a new trade deal with the bloc by the time a status-quo transition arrangement ends in December. "The chance of no-deal is about a third, but with brinkmanship part of the process it may appear higher than that before agreement is reached," JPMorgan analyst Malcolm Barr said in a research note to clients.
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| Navalny case poisons ties between Germany, Russia Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:01 AM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced mounting pressure Thursday to toughen her ambivalent stance toward Russia following her announcement that Berlin has "unequivocal" proof that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a deadly nerve agent.
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| 10 things you need to know today: September 3, 2020 Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:58 AM PDT |
| Turkish Cypriot official: No tensions if waters divvied up Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:47 AM PDT  Tensions over the search for oil and gas off ethnically divided Cyprus would fade if Greek Cypriots agreed to divvy up the country's territorial waters and drilling rights with Turkish Cypriots, according to the man who hopes to be the next leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state. Ersin Tatar, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Turkish Cypriot state in Cyprus' northern third, said such a deal should happen before there's a resumption of United Nations-facilitated talks aiming at reunification. "I believe that if we can agree on this matter, it will act as a catalyst to ensuring regional peace, Greek-Turkish friendship, as well as to resolving the Cyprus problem."
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| EU executive says more Russia sanctions can only come after probe into Navalny case Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:45 AM PDT |
| Tunisia country profile Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:06 AM PDT  Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with current news about Tunisia
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| Global Efficacy Testing Industry Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:05 AM PDT |
| Global Elastomeric Membrane Industry Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:45 AM PDT |
| Chinese diplomats must get approval to visit US universities or meet local government officials Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:30 AM PDT |
| Global Electric Heat Tracing Industry Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:25 AM PDT |
| Global Electric Power Steering Industry Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:05 AM PDT |
| Global Electric Toothbrush Industry Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:45 AM PDT |
| UK public tribunal to probe Uighur genocide allegations Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:31 AM PDT  A prominent British human rights lawyer is convening an independent tribunal in London to investigate whether the Chinese government's alleged rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in the far western Xinjiang region constitute genocide or crimes against humanity. The tribunal is expected to reveal new evidence and testimony over several days' hearings next year. While the tribunal does not have government backing, it is the latest attempt to hold China accountable for its treatment of the Uighurs and ethnic Turkic minorities, who have been subject to an unprecedented crackdown since 2017.
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