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Op Blue Star files removed
from UK National archive
The UK Foreign Office Friday
admitted to removing from the
National Archives a number of
files on India-UK relations in the
1980s, including some related to
Operation Blue Star. This
prompted a Sikh group to demand
an independent investigation into
the matter. The files were released
under the 30-year declassification
rules earlier this year.
The Presidential
Predictions...
With just four days left for the much awaited 2016 US presidential
elections, plenty of strange predictions and superstitions have
Could Trumps karma with women cost him?
The recent polls suggesting a neck-to-neck race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump increasingly worry Americas educated
women voters, whose biggest nightmare is a Trump presidency
Desi Obama voters in
Florida switch to Trump
Many of the Indian-Americans in
Florida who voted for the US
President Barack Obama in the
last two presidential elections say
they are switching sides this time
and are supporting Republican
candidate Donald Trump. But
there appears to be a gender
divide, as women appear to be
solidly behind Democratic
candidate Hillary Clinton, because
of her life-long work for children
and women. But Indian-American
women are having a problem at
home convincing their husband to
vote for Clinton, owing to her
image as a corrupt politician.
US intel fear Russian
cyberattack on D Day
US security and intelligence
agencies fear that Russia-backed
hackers might try another round
of cyber-attack on the election
day next week, multiple media
reports have said. Even though
such a move is unlikely to impact
the election outcome, but it might
sow doubts about the legitimacy
of the results, reports said. The
assessment reflects widespread
concern among US spy agencies
that campaign by Russia to rattle
the mechanisms of American
democracy will probably continue
after polls close on one of the
most polarizing races in history,
The Washington Post said.
80%
Of American voters are
disgusted by the state of
American politics and see
Democratic candidate Hillary
Clinton and rival Donald Trump as
dishonest and incapable of
uniting the country post elections
finds a NYT/CBS News poll
Early voting surpasses
record set in 2012
A record number of 35 million
people have already voted under
the early voting provision of
American democratic system
ahead of Tuesdays presidential
election, surpassing the 2012
record when 32.3 million people
exercised their franchise in
advance. Michael McDonald, an
early-voting expert who runs the
Elections Project, said many
states have either already set
records for early voting or
exceeded their 2012 turnout.
Texas,was up 36% from four years
ago. Because of the contentious
nature of the two campaigns,
voters know their positions.
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Missing woman found Pakistani court orders
chained like dog in box eviction of Afghan girl
A woman, who went missing in A Pakistani court Friday ordered
August along with her boyfriend, the deportation of Sharbat Gula,
was found chained like a dog National Geographics famed
inside a locked shipping container green-eyed Afghan Girl, after she
in a rural area in South Carolina. pleaded guilty to charges of
Kala Brown was found by police staying in Peshawar with fake ID
after they heard noises from cards. A special anti-corruption
inside the 15 by 30 feet metal and immigration court ordered
container during a search for the her deportation to Afghanistan
duo. Police arrested the owner after serving a 15-day jail term
who is a registered sex offender. and a fine of 1,10,000 rupees.
COCONUTS FOR
CLINTON
A group of Sri Lankan
Tamils in Jaffna are set to
break over 1,000 coconuts MONKEY
and light 1,008 candles to KISSES
bless Hillary Clinton
TRUMP
surfaced. A look The Tamil National
A Chinese
Alliance members will monkey
conduct the event a described as
temple and Cathedral in
the king of
Jaffna as Clintons win is prophets has
seen as important for the tipped Donald
future of the minority Trump for the
community US presidency
(Above) Hillary Clinton poses with singer Pharrell Williams for a selfie backstage
in North Carolina, on Thursday. (Below) Republican presidential nominee Donald
Trump gestures after speaking in North Carolina on Thursday | AFP
The FBI is investigating how Clinton put the office of Secretary of
State up for sale in violation of federal law. The investigation is
far-reaching and has been going on for more than a year
Donald Trump, Republican presidential nominee
On election day, these states will vote for pot!
LOS ANGELES vada will vote on legalizing pos-
session and recreational use of
THE blue associated with Demo- marijuana, as well as regulating
crats and the red of Republicans its cultivation, production and
will blend with another color sale. Similar initiatives have al-
next Tuesday on Election Day: ready been approved in four
the green of marijuana, as nine states and Washington, DC.
states vote on legalizing pot. In Arkansas, Florida and
Voters nationwide decide be- North Dakota, residents will vote
tween Hillary Clinton and Don- on legalizing the use of marijua-
ald Trump for president, but in na for medicinal purposes. Mon-
those states weed will also be on tana will decide whether to make
the ballot. California, Arizona, more flexible conditions under
Maine, Massachusetts and Ne- which marijuana can be used for
A pro-pot vote in states like California and Florida is certain to lead to a loosening of rules by other
states. If that happens, legalization at the federal level could follow in 5 yrs Troy Dayton, CEO of Market Research
Muslim hardliners rally against Jakarta
Governor for insulting Islam
NEW YORK
Young Indian lawyer in
top UN Law Commission S Korea in 10 months: US
A 33-year-old Indian lawyer won
a hotly-contested election in the
UNGA for membership to its top in eight to 10 months despite
body of legal experts, garnering
the highest number of votes in
the Asia-Pacific group. Aniruddha
Rajput, was among 34 individuals
elected to the International Law
Commission, the UN organ tasked
with progressive development of
foreign law and its codification.
Geda the prophetic
primate picked
life-size cutout of
Trump over that of
Clinton and
congratulated the
cardboard
Elementary
candidate with a school bets on
kiss on lips the Democrat Students vote by pulling lever in direction of their choice
It successfully
predicted the
winner of
footballs
European
Sentiment
Championship software
final this year tweets Hillary
FARWA IMAM ALI @ NEW YORK
A large section of women vot-
ers in the United States are wor-
ried about Democratic Presi-
dential nominee Hillary
Clintons lead over her Republi-
can rival Donald Trump being
narrowed down to 3 percentage
points according to a recent
NYT/CBS News poll.
Conducted telephonically be-
tween October 28-November 1,
after the FBI announcement of
plans to review additional evi-
dence against Clinton in the
email scandal, the poll holds an
error margin of plus or minus
3 points. But this key voting
bloc consisting mainly of col-
lege educated white women is
pulling its weight for a Clinton
win. Rewind to year 2012 when
white, college educated women
supported Republican Mitt
Romney by 6 percentage points.
Numerous polls now indicate
the same bloc is apparently
backing Hillary Clinton by dou-
ble digits in the 2016 Presiden-
tial race. And, recent develop-
ments indicate Hillary Clinton
US elections a treat for
Chinese propaganda
BEIJING
NO matter who triumphs on
Tuesday, the US election has
been a big win for Chinas na-
tional propaganda machine,
which has gleefully catalogued
the seemingly endless parade
of skeletons marching out of
Americas political closet.
For decades Beijing has dis-
paraged US democracy, calling
into question the most basic
building blocks of the state,
from competitive elections to
freedom of the press. Ahead of
this years election, Chinese
journalists received instruc-
tions to write stories making
American politics look bad, ac-
cording to sources familiar
therapeutic purposes. The US is
the worlds largest consumer of
drugs, and advocates say that le-
galizing marijuana would help
end a decades-old war on drugs
by eliminating the profit motive.
That war has left thousands dead
in Latin America but done noth-
ing to curb Americans appetite
for getting high. Marijuana is
the most popular illegal drug in
the US, and 57% favour legaliz-
ing it, according to a poll by Pew
Research Centre. AFP
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THAAD to be deployed in
The US will deploy an advanced
missile defense system in S Korea
strong objections from China and
Russia, a US military chief said
Friday. Seoul and Washington
agreed to deploy the THAAD
system after North Korea
conducted a series of missile
launches in the wake of its fourth
nuclear test in January.
An American elementary school has foreseen victory for
Hillary Clinton in the November 8 general elections
The Benjamin Franklin Elementary School has been correctly
predicting US presidents since Richard Nixon in 1968
Teachers explained the electoral process to students and
instead of focusing on candidates, students were asked
about traits that qualify a candidate as a good president
Scientists of Univ of Utah have developed a new software
which determines how someone feels based on what they
say on Twitter
Analysis of more than 1.6 million tweets about the
election over last 5 months predicts that Clinton will win
PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION
is going to need the help espe-
cially in tight races like Florida,
Colorado, Pennsylvania and
Virginia. A high turnout in this
key bloc will carry Clinton safe-
ly past the finish line as it serves
to counter the support that Don-
ald Trump has with his white
men and women voters who do
not have a college education.
Trumps sexist diatribes not-
withstanding, these women
worry about the socio-economic
fabric of the country under a
with the orders. As the prima-
ries began, one reporter at a
major state-run media organi-
sation worried he would have a
hard time finding sufficiently
damning material. His doubts
were unjustified.
Even Americas fiercest de-
fenders agree the contest be-
tween Donald Trump and Hil-
l a r y C l i n t o n h a s s h ow n
democracy at its ugliest. And
Chinas media have happily
joined in. The innumerable
scandals, rumours, conspiracy
theories and obscenities make
it impossible for a person to
look away, the official Xinhua
news service wrote in a com-
mentary, likening the 2016 elec-
tion to a train wreck. AFP
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LONDON
Govt timetable for Brexit
remains unchanged: May shot dead in Jordan
British Prime Minister Theresa
May Friday told European leaders
that her March deadline for
triggering Brexit negotiations
remains unchanged despite a
court ruling that she first needs
parliaments approval. May told
European Commission Prez Jean-
Claude Juncker that the govts
planned timetable for triggering
Article 50 remains unchanged.
Trump Presidency. Lawyer
Elise Stewart who was born and
raised in New York speaks for
her contemporaries saying:
Trump is the antithesis of the
American spirit. He speaks to
peoples fears. When have fear
based decisions ever been good
ones? With Trump having
steadily gained in numbers in
the last week, the college-edu-
cated white women voters mat-
ter simply because they consist-
ently turn out to vote in higher
rates. Interestingly, Clintons
army of educated women vot-
ers has several converts from
the Republican camp too.
Michelle Benet who is studying
medicine in North Carolina vot-
ed Republican last election. But
the 2016 race filled with sex-
ism, racism and vitriolic ver-
bosity from Trump forced her
to abandon the GOP. On No-
vember 8, 2016, Clintons fire-
wall of voters plan to vote in
large numbers, and Trumps
karma with the women voters
could well catch up with him.
The author is a journalist and
columnist based in the US.
Donald Trump supporter holds up her
dog, a Shih Tzu named Teddy Bear, at
a get-out-the-vote rally on Thursday
in Las Vegas | AFP
Clinton, Trump
stage duelling
rallies in key states
Hillary Clinton and Donald
Trump squared off Thursday in
do-or-die North Carolina with
dueling rallies as the bitter US
presidential race continues to
narrow in the home stretch. As
the candidates jostle for
supremacy in the handful of
battleground states that will
decide the November 8 election,
two of the biggest prizes on the
electoral map, Florida and North
Carolina, are now absolute dead
heats, according to
RealClearPolitics poll
aggregates. Clinton unleashed
top surrogates including
President Barack Obama to
bolster her case in a final push,
while billionaire Trump deployed
wife Melania to soften the
Republicans image. North
Carolina was suddenly in the eye
of the political storm, with the
candidates frantically criss-
crossing the state where they
are locked at 46.4% apiece.
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Three American soldiers
Three US personnel were killed in
a shooting outside a military
training facility in Jordan on
Friday. A US defence official
described the incident as green
on blue, a military term for when
friendly forces attack US troops.
But we cant say for the moment
if it was a deliberate act to kill
US personnel or some kind of
misunderstanding, he added.
An Iraqi youth, who fled the violence,
walks with a white flag on Thursday as
people leave Gogjali, Mosul | AFP
ISIS caliph
Baghdadi
escaped from
Mosul: UK
LONDON
ISLAMIC States reclusive chief
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has es-
caped from the terrorist groups
stronghold of Mosul as the Iraqi
Army advanced for a final as-
sault, British foreign secretary
Boris Johnson said Friday.
He said western intelligence
sources believe Baghdadi is no
longer in Mosul, The Guardian
reported. Baghdadi Thursday
broke his year-long silence and
issued an audio recording, urg-
ing his jihadists to continue their
fight to the end in Mosul, where
he was believed to be hiding.
Johnson, in an unusual reference
to intelligence, said Baghdadis
audio recording was cruelly
ironic since some of the intelli-
gence we have suggests he had
himself vacated the scene and is
yet using internet media to en-
courage others to take part in
violence.
Johnsons remarks came hours
after a US military official said
Baghdadi is losing the ability to
control his troops as the battle for
Mosul rages on. Colonel John
Dorrian, a spokesman for the US-
led coalition attacking the IS
group in Iraq and Syria, said al-
though the military had not offi-
cially verified the recordings au-
thenticity, it was clearly an
effort for IS leaders to communi-
cate with fighters. One of the
interesting things that we have
seen in the English translation of
this is that Baghdadi is saying,
Dont fight amongst yourselves,
he told reporters. This is the
type of thing that a leader who is
losing command and control and
ability to keep everybody on the
same page says. We dont believe
it is going to work.
Rumors have abounded about
the Iraqi jihadist leaders health
and movements but his wherea-
bouts are unclear. In June 2014,
he made a rare public appearance
in Mosul to announce the crea-
tion of an Islamic state strad-
dling Iraq and Syria. Agencies
Seven Iraqi military
personnel killed,
face tough resistance
Islamic State group militants
killed seven members of
Iraqs security forces Friday
during a raid south of the
jihadist bastion Mosul which
pro-government troops are
battling to recapture,
officials said. Jihadist
fighters unleashed a deluge
of bombs and gunfire Friday
on Iraqi forces punching into
the streets of Mosul for the
first time, forcing some units
into a partial pullback. Some
armoured vehicles from the
elite Counter-Terrorism
Service returned from
Al-Karamah a few hours
after moving in.