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13 CHENNAI SUNDAY 06 11 2016


MOSUL DHAKA MANILA WASHINGTON ROME WASHINGTON BEIJING

IS militants torch oil wells Fresh attacks on temples Philippine mayor accused Chelsea Manning makes Priest blames earthquake Pentagon confirms death China develops intelligent
as Iraqi troops enter Mosul rattle Bangladesh Hindus of drug trade shot in jail second suicide attempt in Italy on gay civil unions of senior al- Qaeda emir unmanned sea vessel
The Islamic State jihadists have In fresh attacks on Hindus in A Philippine mayor President Imprisoned transgender US An Italian priest has said the The US Friday confirmed the China has developed a high-
built huge defences at the Bangladesh, unidentified Rodrigo Duterte had named as soldier Chelsea Manning tried to recent earthquakes that have death of a top al-Qaeda leader in speed, intelligent unmanned sea
entrance of the besieged city of miscreants set ablaze at least six being involved in the illegal drug commit suicide last month while shaken the country, killing an air strike in northeastern vessel which has multiple uses,
Mosul and blocked roads with houses and damaged two trade was shot dead in jail serving time in solitary hundreds and leaving tens of Afghanistan last month, in a including submarine detection.
military reinforcements, satellite temples in central Brahmanbarhia Saturday, police said. Roland confinement for a first attempt in thousands homeless, were divine major blow to the terror group in The 10.25-meter-long SeaFly-01
pictures have revealed. It comes district Friday, police said. Many Espinosa was killed early July, her representatives said punishment for gay civil unions, the war-torn country. Faruq al- vessel completed a test at Nanhu
as dramatic pictures showed how Hindu families have deserted their Saturday in his cell after he shot Friday. Manning, a former Army earning the Vaticans wrath. Qatani was al-Qaedas emir for Lake in Wuhan on October 27,
retreating IS fanatics have houses after the attacks on at officers during a search for intelligence analyst, tried to kill Father Giovanni Cavalcoli, a eastern Afghanistan and one of according to state-run Peoples
sparked huge fires and created a temples and have taken refuge in illegal firearms. He is the second herself on October 4, according to theologian, made the comments the groups senior plotters of Liberation Army (PLA) Daily. The
toxic smoke cloud by torching oil other areas. The assault Friday official implicated in drugs to be a statement she dictated over on the day central Italy was struck attacks against the US, Pentagon vessel has a maximum speed of
wells, according to Daily Mail. has added to existing tensions. killed in two weeks. phone 11 days later to supporters. by a 6.6-magnitude quake. Press Secretary Peter Cook said. 45 knots.

Silicon Valley takes battle online


Facebook, Twitter seek to boost voter turnout as study shows 44% of adults learned about presidential election from social media

Hill voters
hell-bound Trump would not be
A newsletter from a
San Diego Catholic
church has warned
parishioners they
allowed to win: Assange
will go to hell if they MOSCOW money, etc are all united behind
vote for Democrats. Hillary Clinton. And the media
The San Diego WIKILEAKS founder Julian As- as well. Media owners and the
Union-Tribune says PRESIDENTIAL sange has claimed Donald journalists themselves. As-
a flier inserted in
the October 16
ELECTION Trump wont be allowed to win sange also dismissed allega-
next weeks election during an tions from the Clinton cam-
bulletin of the interview to be broadcast on paign over WikiLeaks alleged
Immaculate Russia Today. attempt to interfere with the US
Conception Catholic Speaking from inside the Ec- elections and Trump allegedly
Church called voting FARWA IMAM ALI @ NEW YORK uadorian embassy in London being the whistleblowing plat-
Democratic a sin. where he has been living under forms favoured presidential
SILICON Valley deems the United States Pres- asylum for the past four years, candidate.
idential Election 2016 as the battle for Ameri- the Australian computer hack- Revealing more on IS fund-

2 pt
cas soul. Located in California, the tech hub er also accused Hillary Clinton ing, Assange cited a 2014 email,
of the world is playing an important part in of receiving donations from the recently published by WikiLe-
how the race plays out in the state and across same people funding Islamic aks as part of the Podesta dump,
the country. State. He was basing his claims and said, Even the US govern-
lead held by Hillary Employees have received a simple but im- on emails released last month ment has agreed that some Sau-
Clinton over her portant request: Vote. Need the day off to get by WikiLeaks. In the second ex- di figures have been supporting
Republican rival, your vote out? Go ahead and take the day off. cerpt of his exclusive interview and funding IS, but the dodge
Aspiring entrepreneur, Chandramana Kara- with John Pilger, Assange said, has always been that it is some
according to latest
ite says, Several companies like Square, Sur- My analysis is that Trump rogue princes using their oil
poll conducted by
vey Monkey, Spotify have joined the Take-off would not be permitted to win. money to do whatever they like,
Fox news Saturday
Election Day campaign to facilitate employ- Why do I say that? Because he but actually the government

Robot-tweets
influence poll
ees to get out the vote. In fact, Google even
added voter registration information directly
to its search pages. All these moves could ben-
efit Democrats who are a strong force in the
Kamala Harris set to become the has had every establishment off
his side. Trump does not have
one establishment, maybe with
the exception of the Evangeli-
disapproves. The email says
that it is the governments of
Saudi Arabia and Qatar that
have been funding IS, RT re-
Software robots
masquerading as
humans are
region. However, an open anti-Trump letter
was drafted and signed by dozens of Silicon
Valleys prominent tech CEOs and VCs. Pro-
first desi Senator in US Congress cals, if you can call them an es-
tablishment. Banks, intelli-
gence, arms companies, foreign
ported. WikiLeaks has until
now published 45,000 emails of
Clinton campaign. Agencies
Democrat techies believe it is irrelevant given
influencing political
the fact that a poll commissioned by the Sili- LOS ANGELES ange, 47 to 23 per cent, among party. Among those who have al-
discourse on social
con Valley Leadership Group shows Hillary likely voters. Some 17 per cent ready voted, 55 per cent chose
HOLY GUNS!
media as never
Clinton with a threefold lead over Donald KAMALA Harris, Californias remain undecided, and another Harris, 26 per cent backed
before and could
threaten the very
integrity of the
Trump among voters in the South Bay, Cali-
fornia. But a lead is only as good as the vote.
Attorney General, is on the cusp
of becoming the first Indian-
13 per cent volunteered that they
plan to sit out the contest be-
Sanchez and 14 per cent said nei-
ther, the report said. More Republicans worried of
Tech giants in the Valley realize that voter American Senator in the US tween two members of the same While Sanchez has touted her-
election, researchers
warned. Robots
turnout will prove crucial this election. Given
this, Twitter and Facebook have been trying
Congress with latest polls plac-
ing her far ahead of her rival
self as the business-friendly
choice for disaffected voters,
religious violence than Dems
produced 3.8 million to boost voter turnout. Twitter users who sent days before the November 8 gen- about one-third of Republicans
tweets or 19% of all a direct message to @gov with their ZIP code eral elections. and 12 per cent of unaligned vot- Republican/ Democrat/
poll-related tweets Lean Rep Lean Dem Teachings of some
even received their states voter registration Harris, 51, has already got the ers told pollsters they will not
religions promote
deadline and a link to register. Both Twitter backing of US President Barack cast a ballot for either Sanchez
violence
and Facebook live-streamed the presidential Obama and Vice President Joe or Harris, it said. That means
FBI warns of debates. Between January 2016 - October 2016, Biden to be the states next Sena- more Republicans are choosing Some violent people
Qaeda attack according to a Pew study over a hundred mil- tor, brightening her chances to not to vote at all than to support use religion to justify
lion Americans on Facebook generated 5.3 bil- become the first from the com- Sanchez (26 per cent). The sur- action
Authorities in New lion likes, posts, comments and shares about munity ever to be a member of vey, released four days before
York have been put the election. Silicon Valley has witnessed an the Upper House. She heads into voters head to the polls, also
on high alert after online slugfest between Trump and Clinton the US Senate election with a found Republicans do not see
intelligence inputs supporters each advising the other to fact considerable lead over fellow much ideological difference be- How many Muslims in the US are anti-American?
about a possible check. Democrat Loretta Sanchez, Trump cant see beyond tween them, the report said.
terror attack by Quite clearly, never before has social media whose plan to coalesce Republi- race, gender, and religion Harris has never trailed since Republican/
al-Qaeda in the city played such a key role in a Presidential elec- cans and Latinos behind her has and he doesnt want to launching her bid in January Lean Rep
29 28 19 16
on US presidential tion say Poll pundits. According to a Pew Re- not materialised, according to a not when it comes to the last year, with her share of the
election day. search study, 44 per cent of adults learned new poll. Harris is far ahead of judiciary, not when it comes vote increasing seven percent- Democrat/
Intelligence officials about the presidential election from a social Sanchez for US Senate, The Sac-
to womens health, and not
age points since a May poll. She Lean Dem 54 23 11 7
when it comes to civil
alerted joint networking site. And this is where Silicon ramento Bee reported Friday. holds advantages in all major re-
liberties Just a few /none some about half almost all / most
terrorism task forces Valley hopes to scribe congratulations to Harris is leading Sanchez, a 10- gions of the state, and with vot-
of the threat. Clinton after the last vote has been counted. term congresswoman from Or- Kamala Harris ers in all age ranges. PTI
Source: Pew Research Centre

A COMPLETE ARTIST

Bob Dylans vision of America on display


LONDON sionate about art since he first
moved to New York and was tak-
BOB Dylan, music legend and en by his girlfriend Suze Rotolo
Nobel laureate, is also a prolific around museums, said Green.
painter whose works depicting Since then he has not stopped
the landscapes and culture of the painting, using his numerous
United States are now the focus tours to sketch out the homeland
of a major London exhibition. which he describes so often in his
Around 200 paintings by the US songs. The exhibition, entitled
singer-songwriter, produced by The Beaten Path, retraces the
the 75-year-old in the last two singers travels across the four
years, are on show from Saturday corners of the US, from its super-
at the Halcyon Gallery in the cities to its immense expanses of
British capitals plush Mayfair desert. The common theme of
district. The collection of oil, these works having something to
acrylic and watercolour paint- Paul Green, founder of Halcyon Gallery, stands beside Bob Dylans painting Endless do with the American landscape,
ings reveals a different side to Highway during a preview of his artwork in London on Friday | AFP Dylan explains in a written intro-
Robert Allen Zimmerman, an duction to the exhibition. More
icon of 20th century US popular timing of this exhibition all the visual arts in the early 1960s. He specifically: staying out of the
music, whose poetic lyrics earned more apt. Its a great honour for designed the cover of the 1968 al- mainstream and travelling back
him the Nobel Prize for literature us hosting the exhibition and for bum Music from Big Pink by road, free-born style. In San
NO PARKING HERE ANYMORE last month, to much surprise.
Dylan announced last week
him to have received that honour
at the same time, Paul Green,
Canadian roots-rock group The
Band. More recently, his works
Francisco, Dylan chose to paint a
seafood seller in Chinatown,
Over 40,000 demonstrators gather in Gwanghwamun square in central Seoul on Saturday during a protest calling for the that he would travel to Stockholm president of the Halcyon Gallery, have been exhibited in Milan and rather than the citys Victorian
resignation of South Korean President Park Geun-Hye over a crippling corruption scandal | AFP to receive the prize, making the said. Dylan began exploring the New York. Dylan has been pas- houses or its skyscrapers. AFP

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