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Canada lawyer says Huawei's Meng Wanzhou is wasting court's time with doomed extradition manoeuvres
A Canadian government lawyer representing US efforts to have Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou extradited to face fraud charges has accused her lawyers of wasting "precious court time" with legal manoeuvres that are doomed to fail.Robert Frater told Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes of the British Columbia Supreme Court on Tuesday that she should "cut off at the knee" applications by Meng's team to have the extradition case thrown out. Meng's lawyers say the US record of the case is so misleading that the only remedy is to release her, and that new evidence to prove this should be admitted by Holmes."Extradition hearings are supposed to be expeditious processes," said Frater, telling the judge that she had "the ability to refuse to waste precious court time on processes that have no hope of success".Get the latest insights and analysis from our Global Impact newsletter on the big stories originating in China."The dominant thread of case law is for summary rejection of these kinds of motions," Frater said.Meng Wanzhou arrives at the BC Supreme Court to attend a hearing in Vancouver on Tuesday. Photo: AP alt=Meng Wanzhou arrives at the BC Supreme Court to attend a hearing in Vancouver on Tuesday. Photo: APMeng returned to court in Vancouver this week, for the first time since May, to hear her lawyers argue that American authorities misled the court in its record of the case (ROC). They want the court to admit new evidence they say will help show the unreliability of the US ROC and the Supplementary ROC (SROC).Frater argued for the judge to reject the applications. He said that "extradition hearings are not trials", but that Meng's lawyers had "edged perilously close to jury addresses" in their arguments on Monday and Tuesday. "We say you should stop both these applications here and now," he added.Frater said affidavits filed by Meng's team to support their claims were "garden-variety alternative inference and defence evidence that is inadmissible".Earlier on Tuesday, Meng's lawyer Frank Addario said that a HSBC banker who met Meng in a Hong Kong teahouse in 2013 must have left the meeting knowing that Huawei and a partner were working in Iran.Her lawyers argue this undercuts US charges that she defrauded the bank by lying about Huawei's Iran dealings, thus exposing the bank to the risk of breaching US sanctions on Tehran.Addario and another lawyer for Meng, Scott Fenton, have argued this week that the unreliable and "defective" ROC from the US omitted details about the evidence against Meng. Specifically, they cited a PowerPoint presentation she gave to the HSBC banker that forms the backbone of the fraud charge.Fenton and Addario said the ROC omitted parts of the PowerPoint presentation in which Meng described Huawei's business relationship with a partner called Skycom that was working in Iran - the very relationship the US claims she tried to cover up.Meng told the banker, identified as "HSBC Witness B", that Skycom was a Huawei partner working to sell telecommunications gear in Iran, and that the relationship was "normal and controllable business cooperation", her lawyers have said.On Tuesday, Addario said: "The banker would have left the meeting knowing that Huawei and Skycom were working together in Iran."Meng's presentation put the bank "on notice", and should have been enough for it to take any action it deemed necessary to avoid breaching US sanctions, Fenton argued on Monday.HSBC could have vetoed transactions it deemed risky, or conducted them outside the US banking system, in a way that would not have triggered any Iran sanctions risk, he said.Meng's lawyers also say the ROC by the US was misleading because it claimed only "junior" HSBC employees knew of the true relationship between Huawei and Skycom. The US omitted the actual titles of HSBC staff who were aware of the relationship, including a "senior vice-president" who knew Huawei operated Skycom's bank account."The junior-senior distinction is an invention of the ROC author," said Addario on Tuesday. This "deliberately misled" readers of the ROC, he said.In a court filing, Meng's team had said that "the evidence that the Requesting State relies on as essential to committal [the ROC and SROC] is so unreliable or defective that it should be disregarded". The extradition case should be thrown out, they contend.Meng, 48, who is Huawei's chief financial officer and a daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, has denied the allegations against her.She was arrested at Vancouver's airport on December 1, 2018, on a stopover from Hong Kong. Her detention threw China's relations with the US and Canada into disarray.Within days, China arrested Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, charging them with espionage; their detention is widely seen in the West as hostage-taking and retaliation for Meng's arrest.Meng remains under partial house arrest in Vancouver, living in one of the two homes she owns here. Her extradition proceedings are scheduled to last until next year, but appeals could drag out the process much longer.This article originally appeared in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the most authoritative voice reporting on China and Asia for more than a century. For more SCMP stories, please explore the SCMP app or visit the SCMP's Facebook and Twitter pages. Copyright © 2020 South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2020. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:30:00 GMT

Venezuela shortages prompt wave of protests across country
* More than 100 protests erupt in 17 of 23 states * Fuel, electricity, water and household goods in short supplyA wave of demonstrations has erupted across Venezuela as angry citizens flout lockdown restrictions to demand an end to worsening shortages of everything from electricity and water to fuel and household supplies.Since Sunday, more than 100 protests have broken out in at least 17 of the country’s 23 states, sometimes resulting in skirmishes with riot police.Unlike previous waves of demonstrations led by the political opposition and focused on ousting President Nicolás Maduro, the current unrest has largely taken place outside Caracas and protesters have not expressly called for a change of government.Nonetheless, police and urban militias known as colectivos have deployed to crack down on protests and scores of people have been arrested.After more than two weeks without running water at his home in the town of Independencia, Juan Rivas joined a demonstration that was quashed when police fired teargas.“They don’t want us communicating with the rest of the country … we couldn’t protest, not just because of the gas but also because they send the colectivos,” he said.“What we are seeing today is part of a long process of infrastructure collapse that has made people’s lives unbearable,” said Dimitris Pantoulas, a political risk consultant specializing in Venezuela. “As people outside Caracas see their lives deteriorate while the government doesn’t resolve their problems, the protests will get more intense and probably more violent.”Although Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves on the planet, collapsing infrastructure has led to a steep drop in production. As a result, the country’s heavy crude remains underground while motorists wait for hours in snaking queues outside petrol stations to fill up.Wilmer Benavides, a cattle farmer who lives near Ciudad Guayana in south-eastern Venezuela, said he had shut down his business as he could no longer transport his goods to the city’s markets.On Monday, Benavides waited in line while nearby demonstrators set up roadblocks in protest against the local governor’s latest fuel rationing measures: a maximum allowance of 10 litres per car and five litres per motorcycle. “That won’t get me anywhere,” he said. “It’s barely enough to last two days driving around town.”Maduro, the leftwing successor to Hugo Chávez, is resisting a challenge to his legitimacy from Juan Guaidó, an opposition leader backed by the US and 50 other countries. The incumbent retains the key support of the military and remains allied with Russia, China and Cuba.Guaidó has voiced some support for the protests, but he and other opposition leaders have largely remained silent. Some observers said that such reticence may be ill-advised.“Calling people to hit the streets in the midst of a pandemic and humanitarian emergency could seem ‘off’,” said Maryhen Jiménez, a doctoral student at Oxford who focuses on authoritarianism. “But there is a growing disconnect between Guaidó and ‘the people’ as he has focused more on international factors than organizing and mobilizing at home.”US-led sanctions prohibit most trade with the embattled nation, though the first of three Iranian-flagged tankers entered Venezuelan waters on Monday, transporting some 270,000 barrels of fuel, which may alleviate some shortages.But while Maduro remains in power, a harsh line against dissent is assured. This month, the United Nations accused his government of crimes against humanity in a scathing report that found Maduro and his top ministers to be responsible for extrajudicial killings and the systemic use of torture.The local watchdog Foro Penal reported on Monday that at least 214 people had been detained and four killed while protesting during 2020.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:00:35 GMT

British car exports still face EU tariffs even if there is a Brexit trade deal
British exports could still face EU tariffs even if there is a free trade agreement with Brussels after David Frost appeared to admit defeat in securing a key demand of the UK car industry. The UK’s chief negotiator told carmakers the EU had rejected “in any circumstances” a proposal that would allow assembled car parts from non-EU countries to count as “British” and so qualify for zero tariffs. In a letter to the car industry seen by the BBC, Mr Frost said the EU had refused to engage with the idea and the UK “obviously cannot insist upon it”. Industry sources countered that Mr Frost has forcefully argued on the UK fishing industry’s behalf in the trade talks, which continue this week in Brussels. About 55 per cent of the UK's 1.06 million car exports went to the EU last year. Under the expected terms of the deal, British manufacturers will need to prove that UK-exported goods meet a threshold of British parts. EU parts could count as British towards the threshold, which is expected to be about 50 percent, but moves to extend that to countries such as Japan and Turkey have been rejected by Brussels. British moves to secure an exemption for electric cars and bikes have also been stonewalled by the EU, the BBC reported. In June, Michel Barnier said that giving into the British demands on “rules of origin” and “cumulation” would cost European jobs. “Why make it easy for UK manufacturers to source nearly all their parts from elsewhere?," he said and claimed 80 percent of UK car part imports came from the EU. British chemical manufacturers will need to send ammonium nitrate to EU labs for detonation safety testing after the end of the Brexit transition period, the European Commission separately warned on Wednesday. The EU has so far rejected British demands in the trade talks for mutual recognition of UK testing labs. Mutual recognition means the labs could carry out testing for EU standards from January 1 and spare UK exporters the costs and time of using EU labs. The current round of trade negotiations is the last scheduled and ends on Friday morning. It is hoped compromises can be found to kickstart more intense negotiations, finalise the trade deal by the EU Summit on October 15 and leave time to ratify the agreement before the transition period ends on December 31. Ireland’s foreign minister Simon Coveney said last night that there was a “good chance” of agreeing a trade deal before the EU’s end of October deadline, despite the divisions over fishing, governance and the level playing field guarantees. “The obstacles are not insurmountable,” he said before claiming a deal would mean the row over the UK’s Internal Market Bill, which overrides parts of the Withdrawal Agreement, would “fade away”. EU sources said a British offer this week over state subsidies, one of the major sticking points in the negotiations, did not go far enough on enforcement of the rules. The EU wants the power to suspend parts of the trade deal if state aid rules are ignored by Britain.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:57:10 GMT

Foreign observers note 'chaos,' 'rancor' in US debate
BEIJING (AP) — “Chaos, interruptions, personal attacks and insults," one outspoken Chinese newspaper editor said of the U.S. presidential debate. An Australian counterpart said it was “swamped" by the “rancor engulfing America." The first debate pitting Republican President Donald Trump against Democratic challenger Joe Biden was not a highlight of political oratory in the eyes of many overseas.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:38:15 GMT

Tech Army Set Up by Europe’s Last Dictator Turns on its Creator
WARSAW, Poland—One of the rare successes chalked up by the regime of Europe’s last dictator has been the establishment of a kind of East European Silicon Valley, which spawned a booming industry of Belarusian programmers and tech start-ups.The autocratic president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, now fears he has created a monster.An army of 30,000 tech-savvy professionals is turning against its creator. Coders and software engineers, many of whom are linked to the state-sponsored Hi-Tech Park in Minsk, have formed a hacking collective called Cyber Partisans which is wreaking havoc as Lukashenko tries to quell a growing revolution.Thousands of Belarusians have been arrested since August’s presidential election, which was condemned as rigged by foreign observers. Opposition leaders claim Lukashenko was voted out of power amid huge demonstrations against a brutal quarter of a century in power.Hundreds of those who were arrested have been beaten and assaulted, some have allegedly even been raped and killed in jails. Lukashenko has tried to emulate his ally President Putin’s iron grip on dissent. Abduction of the Woman Leading the Belarus Revolution Is Classic KGB ‘Terror’ PloyOver the weekend, Cyber Partisans hacked into the Belarusian TV and Radio Company website, the national state media organisation, and showed 30 minutes of footage of security forces using violent force against protestors instead of the usual state news. “The guy who created this is a real hero,” one of the hackers told The Daily Beast. “He spent about one week to prepare everything. He was a few days without sleep.”That was just the latest act of online civil disobedience.Over the past three months, a common sight in the streets of Minsk—often in broad daylight—is the image of a desperate civilian being dragged, kicking and screaming, into an unmarked police vehicle by masked men, often in plain clothes. The vast majority of the individuals behind the violent crackdown and aggression have remained nameless and faceless. Abuses and crimes committed against the population were likely to go without consequence—until now.In a small office in central Warsaw, Yan Verbitsky, who works for NEXTA, an independent, anti-Lukashenko media organisation, sat at his computer admiring a spreadsheet he recently procured from the hackers filled with the personal details of Belarusian police. “We want to show that they will not be able to hide behind masks and remain anonymous in their atrocities” he says. Mumbling to himself in Russian, he plots the best way to present the list to the public and declares that he has no sympathy towards those he is about to unmask.“NOBODY STAYS ANONYMOUS,” was the message eventually sent to two million Belarusians. It came at the start of a post releasing the names, addresses, dates of birth, and car registrations of 12 senior OMON police officials, accused of violence against citizens in Belarus. OMON is a special unit of the police, seen unbadged, armed with sticks, batons and pepper spray, and regularly pictured brutalising and harassing citizens countrywide.Attempts had previously been made to unmask individual officers behind the attacks on citizens. Nina Bahiskaya, 73, a prominent activist in Belarus, has been pictured grasping at balaclavas worn by police to expose their faces. Before the hack, there was no way to do this on a wider scale.On Aug. 16, NEXTA, which is run out of the Polish capital, released the alleged identities of a dozen senior police officers via their channel NEXTA Live, on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. Since then, they have gone on to release the names of over 2,000 more. Yan said: “[Lukashenko] is not able to ensure the security of the data of his own minions.”NEXTA has played a huge role in the revolution. With a growing following of over two million people, they release hundreds of videos and images daily depicting police brutality towards citizens. Protestors also look to them for instructions on where to converge for major demonstrations. All the while, these protests are orchestrated remotely. Their efforts have been effective in coordinating protestors and spreading word of abuses, but more was required.The Cyber Partisans claim to have seized over 10,000 names of individuals involved in the security services taken directly from the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They have shared this information with NEXTA in the hope of forcing more and more of Lukashenko’s officials to quit.“We hope that the publication of the lists will encourage honest people who have remained in the system to leave it and join the people,” said Verbitsky. NEXTA say they have since received hundreds of police resignations, with more arriving every day.It is impossible to say what has inspired these resignations as many have already quit in response to the conduct of the government. There have also been cases of riot police putting down their shields and being embraced by protestors in thanks for their defiance.During an interview, conducted on a high-security encrypted messaging app, one of the hackers, using the pseudonym “Yura”, explained that after witnessing the violent clashes between police and since August and the continued harassment of civilians, they decided to act. “We have [the] chance to do something for our country right now and to change something,” he said.He explained that the government data security was weak, and it took just a few hours to retrieve the identities, but since then Yura said, they have gone into “paranoia mode.” Not only in the streets, but also in cyberspace—increasing their security measures to halt further compromises.The list of identities shared with NEXTA is a fraction of Belarus’s total police force, which is estimated anywhere between 200,000 and 300,000, but it is made up predominantly of senior officers and commanders across many branches of the internal security apparatus. Less attention is given to the foot soldiers, since NEXTA claim, “The security forces themselves also suffer in it, they are being turned into criminals—and many who, going to the service, did not subscribe to the crime.”The army of future hackers began to take shape in 2005 when Lukashenko signed a decree triggering the creation of Hi-Tech Park, in Minsk. Since then, it has flourished into one of the country’s most dominant economic powers. Software exports reached over a billion U.S. dollars in 2017, and more than 27,000 software developers and engineers were drawn to work in Hi-Tech Park alone.The tech industry was then built from the ground up by Valery Tshepkalo, a former aide to Lukashenko and Belarus’ former ambassador to the United States. After his success kickstarting a Belarusian tech revolution, Tshepkalo fell out with Lukashenko and stood against him to be president in 2008.When he was banned from running again and forced into exile earlier this year, his wife, Veronika Tshepkalo, took up the mantle and became one of a troika of female leaders at the head of a popular uprising against Lukashenko’s regime.Speaking from his apartment in Warsaw, Valery Tshepkalo told The Daily Beast that the tech industry and its highly trained workers have become “the strongest opponents to this regime.” He had no idea that a technological rebellion would be required to fight against Lukashenko when building this industry.Now that the Ministry of Internal Affairs database of officials has been breached, Tshepkalo accepted that members of the security services had a difficult decision to make but he called on them to stop following illegal orders and quit. “We call on them to resign,” he said.The total number of tech experts actively turning against the government is unclear. Yura said so far there were, “about 50-100 Cyber Partisans. Maybe more. It’s only just begun.”Dictator’s Gun-Toting Son, 15, Is Being Groomed as Belarus’ King JoffreyThe Cyber Partisans do not work alone. He mentioned there were other hacker groups, but there have been issues working collectively as they need to be able to trust each other. The police are attempting to infiltrate these networks and it is near impossible to confidently share information between groups without suspicion.Any type of anti-government activity holds heavy sentences in Belarus, so Yura and his group are taking major risks, “I understand my risks but I’m trying not to think about this. We are trying to be more careful,” he said.The Belarusian authorities have acknowledged the data breach and will not take it lightly. “The forces, means, and technologies at the disposal of the internal affairs bodies make it possible to identify and prosecute the overwhelming majority of those guilty of leaking personal data on the Internet," said Volha Chamadanava, a ministry spokeswoman.This risk and the threat of reprisal is not deterring the group from continuing their work.They intend to keep sourcing more information about police, including photographs, social media profiles, email addresses, home addresses and telephone numbers, any information that will name and shame the police. They were close to obtaining the entire police database but lost their chance and “are searching for a new one.” Yet data leaks are not their only method of agitation.Looking forward, Yura declared that he has no desire to become a full-time hacker and will continue his career in software engineering once Lukashenko is out for good. But, for now, this transfer of skills put to political use among the tech community appears to be yet another vital string in the bow of the revolution with the mission to remove Lukashenko from power.The security services on Belarus appear to be key in this revolution and keeping Lukashenko in power. They are well paid, well equipped and are highly effective in suppressing any anti-Lukashenko, or pro-free election sentiments, however minor or major, across the country.“We warned you: you won’t be able to hide under Balaclavas, Lukashenko,” affirmed NEXTA.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. 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Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:33:37 GMT

‘We’re Not Afraid’: Complacency Is King as COVID-19 Retakes New York
On Tuesday, one day after Yom Kippur, and three before the start of Sukkot, shoppers vastly outnumbered masks along the central commercial corridor of Borough Park, Brooklyn. Here, in the heart of New York City’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, COVID-19 is surging, with positivity rates spiking to as high as 17 percent on Sunday.From what was visible along 13th Avenue just north of New Utrecht Avenue, whether at the outdoor stalls selling palm fronds and citrons, or through storefront windows of busy shops, or the dark glass of lumbering yellow yeshiva buses, even those who took some precautions often failed to cover both their mouth and their nose.That’s not unique to a neighborhood and a community leery of being singled out by authorities for what some allege is a double standard. Virtually any block in the five boroughs has complacent residents months after sirens wailed inescapably across New York, formerly the global epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, and more recently a sort of U.S. pandemic safe harbor.But with some experts fearing a second COVID-19 wave—or a backsplash of the first—misconceptions about immunity and social distancing have Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox in danger of getting soaked a second time. The surge threatens not just to help unravel local progress in containing the coronavirus pandemic, but to hamstring school reopenings across America’s largest city.“Most of the community had it already, so we’re not so worried,” 32-year-old Aron Brever told The Daily Beast in Borough Paark, his blue mask hanging around his beard. Brever said he, his wife, and his children all tested positive for the disease in March, but experienced little other than a loss of taste and smell.“We’re careful, but we’re not afraid,” he added.‘Zero Progress’: The Fall Coronavirus Surge Is Already HerePublic health experts and government agencies, the embattled Centers for Disease Control and Prevention among them, have said that past infection and attendant antibodies may offer only limited—if any—protection, especially six months later.“Anybody who’s had COVID in the past is probably at a lower risk for about three months,” said Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, chair of the Department of Medicine and chief of Infectious Diseases at Mount Sinai South Nassau, before warning, “We really don’t know. And there have been cases where people have gotten COVID a second time.”“My advice to people is that you can get COVID a second time,” he told The Daily Beast.On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a dire warning, citing that one-day 17-percent positivity rate in the 11219 zip code that covers Borough Park. Recent state and local figures also pointed to a spike in ultra-Orthodox communities in other neighborhoods, as well as in such areas north of the city, and in zip codes in southern Brooklyn with substantial non-Jewish populations. On Tuesday, with the city-wide positivity rate cracking 3 percent—which, over time, could force schools to close—Mayor Bill de Blasio teased new enforcement measures, fines for failing to wear masks among them. Some yeshivas have already been shut over fear of wider outbreaks as the city attempts to reopen the largest public-school system in the country.In Borough Park, Tzvi Rosenberg recalled his own experience with COVID-19 symptoms months ago. Then he suggested most members of the community were taking appropriate precautions, and that many had already conquered the plague.“Most people had it way back,” Rosenberg told The Daily Beast, enjoying a cigarette unmasked a few feet from a similarly unprotected friend. “In the synagogue, on Yom Kippur, it was all social distancing, masks. We’re not wearing right now, because we’re smoking.”Misperception is common in the neighborhood, according to local activist and podcaster Yosef Rapaport. The deluge of ultra-Orthodox deaths and funeral notices in the early months of the year, he argued, created an impression of ubiquitous and nearly universal infection. When cases fell as New York flattened the curve over the summer, Rapaport—who lost a brother and a brother-in-law to the disease—said many of his neighbors assumed the catastrophe had passed and that they were immune.Put together mixed messages from de Blasio and Cuomo, the popularity of President Donald Trump among the area’s socially conservative voters, and “crazy clips from [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s St. Petersburg basement,” as Rapaport put it, and the area has faced “a perfect storm” of misinformation.“We’re being buffeted by outside forces,” said the 66-year-old, describing how many in the community believed in the Trump-touted but medically dubious treatment of hydroxychloroquine, and how a friend approached his wife in synagogue and warned her, falsely, that masks cause COVID-19 infection. “People were lulled into a false sense both from the president and from experience.”Still, Rapaport maintained the situation had improved dramatically in recent days, thanks to the exhortations of local press and political leaders. He admitted many fail to wear their masks properly, but argued that was hardly unique to Borough Park.“That you see all over town,” he said.David Schwartz, a 26-year-old local Democratic Party official, agreed. Having himself tested positive for the disease, he complained his community had been scapegoated for what were really institutional failures."It’s not a secret that this is more Republican than other parts of the city,” said Schwartz, who reported having quarantined himself for a full two months as the pathogen coursed through his entire family. “If we’re being failed on information, the city needs to step up.”De Blasio and Cuomo have held meetings with ecclesiastical and elected authorities in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. And some medical experts defended the local government’s efforts at engagement.“The de Blasio administration was well aware of the issues there, and have had outreach by people recruited from the community to spread the word, and that’s been going on for a long time,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative at Columbia University and an adviser to the mayor. “The mayor and the governor are right to clamp down on any group that is intentionally defying what we need to sustain the public’s health and control this COVID-19 outbreak.”Redlener warned that those who fail to comply with social distancing and masking rules risk spreading the disease beyond their own neighborhoods, and suggested an even more “forceful” response might be necessary.On Tuesday, The Daily Beast encountered employees of the city hospital system distributing leaflets at the 55th Street D Train station, which serves the core of Borough Park. They pointed passersby to a free testing center set up on an empty lot a few blocks south and east.But when The Daily Beast visited, the facility seemed all but empty.On approaching a station of the Hatzolah of Borough Park, the volunteer ambulance corps that serves the community, The Daily Beast spotted an unmasked man shutting the gate and climbing behind the steering wheel of a van. The vehicle sported an EMS sticker in the window and several other unmasked individuals in the backseats.“I don’t talk! I don’t talk to nobody!” the driver shouted before speeding away.Some messaging, however, seems to be getting through, if sporadically: a number of 13th Avenue shops have taken the precaution of putting up a “Please Wear a Mask” sign. Eli Babio, owner of Black Velvet shoes, hastily raised his mouth and nose guard when a reporter from The Daily Beast entered.“Of course I’m worried. I’m worried for my health,” he said, despite also reporting having experienced the disease once already.Babio said he stayed home from services during the High Holidays for the first time in his life, and has his kids taking their religious lessons remotely. He even endorsed the mayor’s suggestion that the city may need to again shut down schools, which could be authorities’ fail-safe for COVID-19 enforcement here.“If he feels it’s scientifically correct, he should do it,” Babio said.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.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:32:42 GMT

Sterling falls after Brexit bill opposed by EU passes UK parliament

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:30:16 GMT

U.N. nuclear watchdog inspects second Iranian site as agreed with Tehran

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:28:32 GMT

Sheikh Nawaf sworn in as Kuwait's new ruling emir
Kuwait’s Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah was sworn in Wednesday as the ruling emir of the tiny oil-rich country, propelled to power by the death of his half-brother after a long career in the security services. The late Sheikh Sabah was set to make his final journey to Kuwait later on Wednesday, his coffin flying back from Rochester, Minnesota, home of the flagship campus of the Mayo Clinic where he had been receiving medical treatment after surgery. Although his funeral would typically draw tens of thousands of mourning Kuwaitis and scores of foreign leaders and dignitaries, because of the coronavirus pandemic the burial will be a private service restricted to relatives, said Kuwait’s state-run news agency, KUNA.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:22:36 GMT

Germany's Merkel defends government record during pandemic
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday defended her government's record during the coronavirus pandemic, telling lawmakers that the country had fared well compared to many of its peers. The far-right Alternative for Germany, the largest opposition party, accused Merkel during a budget debate in Parliament of using the crisis as an excuse to spend taxpayers' money and promote what it described as “corona socialism.” Merkel rejected the charge, noting that despite putting together an unprecedented stimulus package and breaking its previous borrowing rules, Germany continues to have the lowest public debt ratio of all countries in the Group of Seven industrialized nations.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:20:50 GMT

Japan's military seeks record bn budget
Japan's defence ministry on Wednesday unveiled a record -billion budget request in a push to maintain military readiness under pressure from China and North Korea.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:16:43 GMT

Nigeria's independence: Six images from six decades
Africa's most populous country is set to mark 60 years of independence from British rule.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:14:42 GMT

Germany moves to toughen Huawei oversight: sources
The German government is planning tougher oversight of telecoms network vendors that, while stopping short of a ban on Huawei, will make it harder for the Chinese company to keep a foothold in Europe's largest market. The Handelsblatt daily reported earlier that, after two years of wrangling, Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition had agreed on a formula for how to handle so-called high-risk vendors in a proposed IT security law. European governments have been reviewing market leader Huawei's role in the building of their networks following pressure from the United States, which says it poses a security threat because, among other concerns, Chinese companies and citizens must by law aid the state in intelligence gathering.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:49:29 GMT

Germany to discuss EU response to Navalny poisoning after OPCW report - Merkel

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:37:39 GMT

Huawei lawyers to respond to prosecution arguments in CFO's U.S. extradition case
Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou will have a chance on Wednesday to respond to arguments made by the Canadian government, as Huawei pushes to add an allegation of abuse of process to block her extradition to the United States. The hearings, which will finish on Wednesday, are the latest in Meng's extradition case taking place in the British Columbia Supreme Court. Meng, 48, was arrested in December 2018 on a warrant from the United States charging her with bank fraud for misleading HSBC about Huawei's business dealings in Iran and causing the bank to break U.S. sanction law.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:09:02 GMT

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Huawei lawyers to respond to prosecution arguments in CFO's U.S. extradition case

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:00:00 GMT

UN meeting that began with unity concludes with divisions
This year's U.N. General Assembly meeting began with calls for multilateralism and cooperation — a declaration that the urgency for countries to unite “has rarely been greater.” An Iranian diplomat accused Israel of disregarding U.N. resolutions on negotiating a two-state solution with the Palestinians, and countered that Israel “poses the most serious threats to the security of the states in the Middle East” because of its widely reported nuclear program, which Israel has never acknowledged.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 06:18:45 GMT

Gazans left stranded abroad by Israeli-Palestinian standoff
For the last four months, Ahmed al-Kurdi, his wife and three children have been stranded in Jordan, where they traveled from their home in the Gaza Strip for life-saving medical treatment for his 2-year-old daughter. At a time when the coronavirus pandemic has led to border closures and travel restrictions, they find themselves stuck, not because of quarantine measures, but because of a dispute between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinians had hoped to pressure Israel by forcing it to assume more of the burden of its half-century occupation of the territory.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 06:11:12 GMT

Israel approves law to curb protests during virus lockdown
Israel's parliament on Wednesday passed a law that would allow the government to curtail public protests during the country's nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a measure that drew fierce opposition a day earlier. The law allows the government to declare a special week-long state of emergency if the coronavirus spreads out of control. If such a state is declared, the government would be able to limit participation in assemblies, including protests, to 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from a person's home, effectively putting a halt to large weekly demonstrations outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 06:09:13 GMT

Debate Takeaways: An acrid tone from the opening minute
After more than a year of circling each other, Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met on the debate stage Tuesday night in Ohio. Trump’s supporters may have been cheered by his frontal assault.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 05:31:19 GMT

Chaotic first debate: Taunts overpower Trump, Biden visions
The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into bitter taunts and near chaos Tuesday night as Trump repeatedly interrupted his opponent with angry — and personal — jabs that sometimes overshadowed the sharply different visions each man has for a nation facing historic crises. In the most tumultuous presidential debate in recent memory, Trump refused to condemn white supremacists who have supported him, telling one such group known as Proud Boys to “stand back, stand by.” There were also heated clashes over the president's handling of the pandemic, the integrity of the election results, deeply personal attacks about Biden's family and how the Supreme Court will shape the future of the nation’s health care.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 05:29:53 GMT

Analysis: Trump leans on tone that turns off voters he needs
President Donald Trump needed to make the first general election debate about his rival, Democrat Joe Biden. Instead, as he so often does, Trump made it about himself. The president set the tone from the start for one of the ugliest general election debates in recent memory, badgering Biden and repeatedly interrupting him.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 05:11:43 GMT

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Trump to far-right extremists: 'Stand back and stand by'
President Donald Trump on Tuesday didn’t condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a “left-wing” problem and telling one far-right extremist group to “stand back and stand by.” “Almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing," said Trump, whose exchange with Democrat Joe Biden left the extremist group Proud Boys celebrating what some of its members saw as tacit approval. Wallace specifically mentioned Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a white teenager was charged with killing two protesters during demonstrations over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:32:58 GMT

David Attenborough leads call for world to invest 0 bln a year to protect nature

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Wed, 30 Sep 2020 02:59:00 GMT

AP FACT CHECK: False claims flood Trump-Biden debate
President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabrications and fear-mongering in a belligerent debate with Joe Biden, at one point claiming that the U.S. death toll would have been 10 times higher under the Democrat because he wanted open borders in the pandemic. Biden preached no such thing. Biden stumbled on the record at times as the angry words flew from both men on the Cleveland stage.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 02:05:58 GMT

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Debate Takeaways: An acrid tone from the opening minute
After more than a year of circling each other, Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met on the debate stage Tuesday night in Ohio. Trump’s supporters may have been cheered by his frontal assault.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 01:55:42 GMT

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Pompeo due in Asia for talks on China, N.Korea
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will head next week to Japan, South Korea and Mongolia, the State Department said Tuesday, on a trip expected to focus heavily on China and North Korea.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:42:43 GMT

Intel Chief Releases Russian-Sourced Clinton Claims
The director of National Intelligence on Tuesday declassified information from a Russian intelligence report that claimed Hillary Clinton during the 2016 race approved a plan to "stir up a scandal" tying Donald Trump to Putin and the hacking of the Democratic National Committee. In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham, director John Ratcliffe acknowledged the U.S. intelligence community “does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.” A spokesman for Clinton told Politico the claim was "baseless" and the publication cited sources saying that Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee had earlier rejected the claim as not factual.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:25:00 GMT

U.S. Intel Chief Releases Russian-Sourced Clinton Claims
The director of National Intelligence on Tuesday declassified information from a Russian intelligence report that claimed Hillary Clinton during the 2016 race approved a plan to "stir up a scandal" tying Donald Trump to Putin and the hacking of the Democratic National Committee. In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham, director John Ratcliffe acknowledged the U.S. intelligence community “does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.” A spokesman for Clinton told Politico the claim was "baseless" and the publication cited sources saying that Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee had earlier rejected the claim as not factual.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:25:00 GMT

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Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:39:00 GMT

UN council urges speedy halt to Nagorno-Karabakh fighting

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:28:44 GMT

Politics latest news: Minister accuses BBC of acting like a 'quiz show' over Boris Johnson's Covid confusion
Watch live today: PMQs at 12pm, Boris Johnson's briefing at 5pm PM's confusion over coronavirus rules quickens Tory revolt Coronavirus latest news: Boris Johnson to brief nation after UK records highest daily rise in infections Jeremy Warner: Even Theresa May looks a paragon of competence against this lot Priti Patel 'asked Home Office to explore sending asylum seekers to island in the south Atlantic' Subscribe to The Telegraph A Cabinet minister has accused the media of turning the Prime Minister's confusion over restrictions into a "gotcha" moment. Alok Shama, the Business Secretary, defended Boris Johnson's inability to explain the rules yesterday, pointing to his rapid clarification and apology. But pressed repeatedly over why the public should be expected to understand rules that ministers did not, Mr Sharma said: "There is an element of slightly 'gotcha' about this in terms of this line of questioning. You are a flagship programme when it comes to serious news and it is not a quiz show." Mr Johnson’s confusion during yesterday’s press conference has quickened the rebellion on the Conservative benches, ahead of a key debate today. Steve Baker, the former Brexit minister, said: “When you get such a large and shifting body of law, you find even ministers and the Prime Minister cannot keep up with it, what possible hope can the public have?” Read the latest updates below

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:22:29 GMT

Ratcliffe shares Russian allegation that Clinton 'stirred up' Trump-Russia scandal, admits it could be 'fabricated'
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe just shared the opposite of intelligence with the Senate Judiciary Committee.In a Tuesday letter, Ratcliffe let Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) know he'd declassified some Russian intelligence alleging Hillary Clinton may have launched President Trump's Russia scandal. Not that Ratcliffe, a Trump appointee who has defended the president on Russia before, had any idea if the allegation was true or not.In July 2016, U.S. intelligence picked up Russian intelligence alleging the Democratic presidential nominee "had approved a plan to stir up a scandal against" Trump by "tying him to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russian's hacking of the Democratic National Committee." Former CIA Director John Brennan apparently briefed then-President Barack Obama on the intelligence. But Ratcliffe noted the intelligence community "does not know the accuracy of this allegation," or if it contains "exaggeration or fabrication" -- probably a reason it wasn't shared earlier.> Ratcliffe just declassified to Graham a claim that Russian intel alleged that Clinton "approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against [Trump] by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the DNC."> > ...but says "the IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation." pic.twitter.com/tpqGmhXUMY> > -- Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) September 29, 2020Meanwhile, Ratcliffe has declined to release the U.S. intelligence community's annual global threat assessment -- something Trump's former anti-ISIS envoy Brett McGurk said is more important than "sketchy Russia intel chatter." > Put another way: the DNI thinks the American people should be aware of sketchy Russian intel chatter while keeping from the American people the considered USG intelligence assessment on current threats to our country--including from Russia.> > -- Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) September 29, 2020More stories from theweek.com The worst presidential debate of all time Trump pummels Biden — and America Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Trevor Noah unhappily recap the chaotic Trump-Biden debate

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:17:00 GMT

Who thought political ads featuring Deepfake Putin and Kim trashing the US was a good idea?
A not-for-profit called RepresentUS, working with creative media agency Mischief @ No Fixed Address, recently used the popular Deepfake AI system to create a pair of political ads featuring actors digitally manipulated to look like Vladmir Putin and Kim Jong Un mocking the current state of US politics. Who is the target audience for this faux-deception?

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:10:36 GMT

UN: Libya rivals reach preliminary pact on prisoner exchange
The United Nations says talks between Libyan rivals in Egypt have concluded with preliminary agreements to exchange prisoners and open up air and land transit across the country's divided territory. The face-to-face military talks, which started Monday in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, came amid international pressure on both sides of the war and their foreign backers to avert an escalation. The U.N. support mission in Libya said in a written statement that the two days of talks, conducted in “a spirit of responsibility, transparency and mutual trust," had resulted in progress on several of the lingering issues between the war's two parties.

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:01:08 GMT

They said it: Leaders at the virtual UN, in their own words
Here, The Associated Press takes the opposite approach and spotlights some thoughts you might not have heard — the voices of leaders speaking at the first all-virtual U.N. General Assembly leaders meeting who might not have captured the headlines and the airtime on Saturday, the fifth day of the 2020 debate.

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:46:37 GMT

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Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:55:39 GMT

Liberty disputes reports about Falwell severance payment
Liberty University said it paid its recently resigned president, Jerry Falwell Jr., the two years' base salary owed under his employment contract Tuesday. The Lynchburg, Virginia-based Christian university issued a brief statement about the compensation that did not provide an exact figure but said previous “media reports regarding the size and terms" of Falwell's severance were incorrect.

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:42:30 GMT

North Korea on virus threat: 'Under safe and stable control'
Kim Song, the country's U.N. ambassador, said a tightly administered anti-pandemic effort in his nation had been working. “A series of state measures are now being taken to block the virus inflow into the country, and all people adhere strictly to anti-epidemic regulations while maintaining the highest alert,” he said. Until Tuesday, all speeches at the U.N. General Assembly over the past week were virtual, delivered by world leaders in prerecorded videos from their home nations.

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:36:10 GMT

Judge allows US suit against Libyan commander to move ahead

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:24:41 GMT

Defying EU ultimatum, British MPs approve post-Brexit bill
British lawmakers on Tuesday adopted a bill to regulate the UK's internal market after Brexit, defying a looming EU ultimatum as the two sides entered a final week of tense talks.

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:13:40 GMT

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