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 - Michelle Obama said she was hurt and disappointed by the victory of Donald Trump in 2016

- The former first lady said it was hard for her to forgive but she knew she had to put the anger aside

- According to Michelle, the family of former president George Bush had done the same for her and Obama, and this enabled a smooth transition of power

Following Donald Trump's refusal to concede defeat, former US first lady Michelle Obama has joined her husband Barack Obama in urging the president to facilitate a smooth transition of power to projected president-elect Joe Biden.



Michelle made this known in a statement on her Instagram page on Monday, November 16. The former first lady painted a picture of how she felt four years ago when Trump won the 2016 presidential election, and by a bigger margin floored her preferred candidate. Hillary Clinton.

The mother of two said Trump's victory "hurt and disappointed" her but she was alive to the fact that "the Americans had spoken" and the presidency had to listen. 

According to Michelle, the then-president-elect (Trump) had "spread racist lies" about her husband Obama whose eight-years term at the helm of the US had just ended.

    "I was not ready to forgive. However, for the sake of our country, I had to find maturity to put anger aside," she wrote.

Just like ex-president George W. Bush and her wife Laura Bush ushered them (Obama and Michelle) at the White House in 2009, Michelle said, as a tradition, she invited Trump's wife Melania at her official residence and chatted with her on what to expect during her stay.

Among things she talked about with Melania include "how to raise children at the White House".

    "None of this was easy for me," she continued adding she knew in her heart it was the right thing to do since democracy is so much bigger than anybody’s ego.

The former first lady said Obama instructed his staff to brief Trump's team on the strides he had made to ease transition of power, just like George and Laura Bush had done.

It is in this light that Michelle urged Trump to put the country first and to respect results of an election.

    "The conspiracy theories put our country’s health and security in danger," Michelle said in reference to Trump's denial of Biden's victory.

Obama believes Trump should have accepted his fate even a day after the election was concluded.

He urged the president to put the nation first and be remembered as one who was humble enough to shelve his personal interests for the common good of all.

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Israel has demanded that CNN and it's International anchor, Christiane Amanpour apologize after she compared US President Trump’s four years in the White House to Kristallnacht - the deadly night at the start of the Holocaust .

During Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria on Nov. 9-10, 1938. They killed at least 91 people and vandalized 7,500 Jewish businesses. They also burned more than 1,400 synagogues, according to Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.
 

Amanpour said during a segment over the weekend, commemorating 82 years after Kristallnacht,  that the event “was the Nazis' warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity and, in that tower of burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history, and proof.”

She added “After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to normal.”

Israel did not take her comment lightly and the government has now asked her to apologize.

Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Omer Yankelevich said that CNN “should be a partner in the global effort to fight anti-Semitism and not fuel the fire,” The Jerusalem Post reported.

“Using the memory of the Holocaust for cheap headlines or a political agenda is concerning and distorts the historical and moral truth,” Yankelevich added.

In a letter sent to CNN executive vice president Rick Davis, Israeli Consul-General in Atlanta, Anat Sultan-Dadon detailed the historic significance of Kristallnacht before lambasting Amanpour for disrespecting those who perished by using the Holocaust for political means
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US President-elect Joe Biden has warned that more of Americans may die of Coronavirus if President Trump's administration continues to block a smooth transition, which would help his own incoming administration ''organize an effective vaccine distribution plan. ''

Trump has refused to concede the election, stating he won and would challenge Biden's electoral college victory in court.

Biden, who got over 270 electoral votes according to multiple US agencies, is moving on with plans with or without Trump's assistance with transitioning although he knows it'll be a Herculean task.

"More people may die if we don't coordinate," warned Biden, when asked by a reporter what would result of Trump's attempts to block the transition.

"How do we get over 300 million Americans vaccinated?" asked Biden, speaking in Wilmington, Delaware. 

"What's the game plan? It's a huge, huge, huge undertaking to get it done."

"...If we have to wait until Jan. 20, to start that planning, it puts us behind over a month ... So it's important that it be done, that there be coordination now," he continued. "Now or as rapidly as we can get that done."

Later, in a response to a question from another reporter, Biden said he had spoken with a number of Republican lawmakers and said that he sympathized with the difficult position the President had put them in.

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 Michelle Obama has weighed in on Donald Trump and Melania Trump's refusal to move forward with a transition of power to the incoming administration.



The former US First Lady reflected on where she was four years ago and how angry she felt that Trump had won.

She stated that despite the fact that he had spread racist lies about her husband and put her family in danger, she and Obama invited the Trumps to their office and shared all they've learnt with them to help make their transition smooth.

She wrote: "This week, I’ve been reflecting a lot on where I was four years ago. Hillary Clinton had just been dealt a tough loss by a far closer margin than the one we’ve seen this year. I was hurt and disappointed—but the votes had been counted and Donald Trump had won. The American people had spoken. And one of the great responsibilities of the presidency is to listen when they do. So my husband and I instructed our staffs to do what George and Laura Bush had done for us: run a respectful, seamless transition of power—one of the hallmarks of American democracy.

"We invited the folks from the president-elect’s team into our offices and prepared detailed memos for them, offering what we’d learned over the past eight years.

"I have to be honest and say that none of this was easy for me. Donald Trump had spread racist lies about my husband that had put my family in danger. That wasn’t something I was ready to forgive. But I knew that, for the sake of our country, I had to find the strength and maturity to put my anger aside. So I welcomed Melania Trump into the White House and talked with her about my experience, answering every question she had—from the heightened scrutiny that comes with being First Lady to what it’s like to raise kids in the White House.

"I knew in my heart it was the right thing to do—because our democracy is so much bigger than anybody’s ego. Our love of country requires us to respect the results of an election even when we don’t like them or wish it had gone differently—the presidency doesn’t belong to any one individual or any one party. To pretend that it does, to play along with these groundless conspiracy theories—whether for personal or political gain—is to put our country’s health and security in danger. This isn’t a game. So I want to urge all Americans, especially our nation’s leaders, regardless of party, to honor the electoral process and do your part to encourage a smooth transition of power, just as sitting presidents have done throughout our history."

Michelle Obama condemns Trump for refusing to respect the electoral process as she reflects on how she helped the Trump

Michelle Obama condemns Trump for refusing to respect the electoral process as she reflects on how she helped the Trump



Michelle Obama condemns Trump for refusing to respect the electoral process as she reflects on how she helped the Trump

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 - More projected results in the US presidential election have been reported by the media

- The latest projected result from Alaska is said to have favoured the Republican Party

- The official results of the US presidential election have not yet been announced

 


President Donald Trump is projected to have defeated the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden in Alaska, according to a CNN update of the US presidential results.

Meanwhile, the election commissioner for Philadelphia, Al Schmidt, has debunked claims that dead persons voted during the just-concluded United States (US) presidential election.

Schmidt noted that after a thorough investigation, it was discovered that there was no evidence to back up the allegations that deceased persons took part in the poll after their demise as claimed, NBC News reports.

The commissioner, therefore, described the report that has been spread on social media as ridiculous, saying the claims were void of evidence.

 

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Sarah McBride has won a seat in the Delaware state Senate, making history by becoming the first openly transgender state senator in the United States.

 

McBride, 30, will also be the nation's highest-ranking openly transgender elected official.

 

She defeated her Republican opponent, Steven Washington, 73% to 27%, with all precincts reporting.

 

McBride tweeted after her win on Tuesday night: "I hope tonight shows an LGBTQ kid that our democracy is big enough for them, too."

 

Sarah McBride makes history as first transgender woman to become a senator in the US

 

The Human Rights Campaign, for which McBride is a spokesperson, took to Twitter to congratulate her.

 

"We're so proud of you for this historic win," the group wrote.

 

Sarah McBride makes history as first transgender woman to become a senator in the US

 

This is not the first time McBride has made history.

 

She interned with President Barack Obama’s administration in 2012, becoming the first openly transgender person to work at the White House.

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Former US President, Barack Obama, is set to join Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on the campaign trail in their first joint appearance during the final weekend of the election season.

 

Biden and Obama will visit the key battleground state of Michigan on Saturday to "discuss bringing Americans together to address the crises facing the country," the Biden campaign announced on Wednesday October 28.

 

Most Michigan polls show Biden leading President Donald Trump in the state. However, Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes in 2016, and will return to Oakland County on Friday for his own campaign visit. 

 

US 2020: Barack Obama to join Joe Biden on campaign trail for final weekend push before election

 

Obama won Michigan in 2008 and 2012. Democrats hope Obama can help motivate Black men, Latinos and younger voters to turn out and vote for Biden and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

 

Obama has held three solo appearances over the past week campaigning Biden who was his former vice president, as they plan to unseat Obama's successor President Donald Trump.

 

Last week in Pennsylvania, Obama delivered his most direct attack against Trump to date, hitting him on everything from his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, to his behavior in office and jobs record.

 

Trump on Tuesday appeared to be watching Obama's rally in Orlando.
"Now @FoxNews is playing Obama's no crowd, fake speech for Biden, a man he could barely endorse because he couldn't believe he won," Trump tweeted Tuesday, referring to Obama's decision to sit out the Democratic primary.

 

Biden's campaign say they will hold drive-in rallies, in order not to attract large packed crowds that can spread the coronavirus disease..

 

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CNN chief legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin has been put on leave by the New Yorker media organization for exposing his manhood during a Zoom conference call with colleagues in what he says was an accident.

 

According to the New Yorker, the company has suspended Toobin following the incident, and will continue with its investigations.

 

A spokesperson for CNN speaking on Tuesday October 20, said "Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted."

 

Before Toobin's suspension, he was scheduled to cover the controversial Supreme Court confirmation and post electoral legal challenges.


 
An upcoming event relating to Toobin's recent book about Trump was also postponed on Monday.

 

Toobin speaking to VICE said;

"I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera," Toobin said

 "I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers."

"I believed I was not visible on Zoom," he added. "I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video."

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 Global Organization of Oriented Group Language of Earth (GOOGLE) has also thrown its weight behind the #EndSARS protest currently ongoing across the country. 

 

The international company which specializes in Internet-related services and products in a tweet shared on Thursday October 15, stated that it is against oppression, brutality and intimidation. 

 

Google also called for a speedy response and resolution to the current situation. The tweet read; 

 

We strongly oppose oppression, brutality & intimidation. We believe a fair and impartial police force is a critical element of a stable society, & that abuse of power infringes on people’s democratic & human rights. We urge a speedy resolution to the current situation. #EndsSARS

 

We strongly oppose oppression, brutality and intimidation - Google tweets in support of #EndSARS protest

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The FBI has charged six men over an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

 According to an FBI complaint Thursday, the alleged plot included plans to overthrow several state governments that the suspects "believe are violating the US Constitution," including the government of Michigan and Whitmer.

 

              FBI charge six men accused in plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer
Whitmer has been the target of multiple death threats after issuing stay at home orders to curb coronavirus. 
In April, protesters and militia gathered at the state capitol for a rally telling her to lift her stay-at-home order.

At one point in the spring, armed protesters entered the state capitol, where it is legal to openly carry firearms, and demanded an end to Michigan's state of emergency.

The FBI became aware of the plot to kidnap Whitmer in early 2020 through social media and have now listed the group of individuals.

The six individuals charged in the Western District of Michigan with conspiracy to kidnap are Michigan residents Adam Fox, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, Brandon Caserta, and Delaware resident Barry Croft.

According to Court documents released Thursday October 8, the FBI planted an undercover agent to travel to Dublin, Ohio, on June 6 for a meeting with Croft, Fox and about 13 others.

"They discussed different ways of achieving this goal from peaceful endeavors to violent actions ... Several members talked about murdering 'tyrants' or 'taking' a sitting governor," according to the complaint.

At a point during the meeting, the group discussed methods of increasing their members and Fox reached out to a "Michigan base militia group," according to the FBI complaint.

By June 14, a second confidential informant confirmed that Fox was introduced to the leader of the militia group and they met in Grand Rapids, Michigan ahead of the plot.

 The informant audio recorded conversations with Fox in which he allegedly said he needed "200 men" to storm the Capitol building in Lansing and take hostages, including governor Whitmer.

According to the FBI complaint, Fox explained they would try the governor of Michigan for "treason" and he said they would execute the plan before the November 2020 elections.

On June 20, Fox, Garbin and others met at Fox's business in Grand Rapids where attendees turned over their cell phones that would be placed in a trap door hidden under a rug on the main floor after they met in a basement.
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"The attendees discussed plans for assaulting the Michigan State Capitol, countering law enforcement first responders, and using 'Molotov cocktails' to destroy police vehicles.

 The attendees also discussed plans for an additional meeting during the first weekend of July when they also would conduct firearms and tactical training," according to the criminal complaint.

The five defendants attended court today, Thursday afternoon.

 Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, a Republican, strongly condemned the threat against the governor.

"A threat against our governor is a threat against us all," Shirkey said in a statement. 
"We condemn the actions of the group of individuals that plotted against Governor Whitmer and state government. These people are not patriots. There is no honor in their actions. They are criminals and traitors, and they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

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A politician in Argentina has gone viral online after he was caught sucking a woman's breasts during a virtual congressional session with his fellow lawmakers on Thursday September 24.

Juan Emilio Ameri, who represents the northern province of Salta, was seen by his colleagues and members of the public committing the lewd act as they carried out a special meeting about the country's budget via Zoom.

In the footage, the father of three can be seen sitting down in front of a webcam with a woman on his lap. As another politician addresses his colleagues, Mr Ameri then puts his face to the woman’s chest, before pulling down her top to kiss her breast. Watch the video here.

Ameri was suspended immediately for committing the lewd act which was seen by his fellow MPs and the viewers at home.

Argentine lawmaker goes viral for sucking a woman

Following his suspension, Mr. Ameri said the woman was his partner and that he thought at the time he was not connected to the meeting.

“I’m very ashamed, [I feel] very bad,” Mr Ameri said, according to the Buenos Aires Times. “Here, throughout the interior of the country, the [internet] connection is very bad.”

Mr. Ameri also explained that he gave his partner “a kiss” because 10 days ago she underwent breast implant surgery.

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Mary Trump, US President Donald Trump's niece who recently wrote a book revealing unsavoury details about her uncle, has filed a lawsuit accusing the President and his siblings of committing fraud in order to deprive her of her interests in the family real-estate empire built by Fred Trump Sr, Trump's father .

In the Thursday September 24 lawsuit, filed in New York state court against the President, his sister Maryanne Trump Barry and the estate of their late brother Robert Trump, Mary states that to the Trumps, "fraud was not just the family business—it was a way of life."

She accuses her two uncles and her aunt, a retired federal judge, of conspiring amongst themselves and with several other parties, including a trustee appointed to act on Mary's behalf, to give her "a stack of fraudulent valuations" and force her to sign a settlement agreement that "fleeced her of tens of millions of dollars or more."

"Rather than protect Mary's interests, they designed and carried out a complex scheme to siphon funds away from her interests, conceal their grift, and deceive her about the true value of what she had inherited," the lawsuit says.

Donald Trump

In her new book,"Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.", she alleged she was cut out of her grandfather's will as a result of her father's death, with the now late Robert Trump allegedly explaining to her that she was excluded because her father died of alcoholism, and wasn't around to inherit a share of the fortune.

In the lawsuit Mary also accused Donald Trump of trying to "steal vast sums of money from his siblings" by secretly trying to change his ailing father's will to write his siblings out of control of the family's fortune.

    Donald Trump

Mary Trump was 16 years old when her father died in 1981 from alcoholism, and she and her brother, Fred Trump III, inherited minority interests in his really estate.

Due to the fact she was a teenager, the lawsuit says, a lawyer named Irwin Durben, who had been Trump Sr.'s attorney and an executive at Trump-related entities, was appointed to act as a trustee on her behalf.

But according to the lawsuit, Durben, who died in 2016, was "irredeemably conflicted," siding with Mary's family members over her own interests, "and ultimately acquiesced in Defendants' campaign to squeeze her out of the family business entirely."

By the 1990s, with Trump Sr. suffering from Alzheimer's, Mary Trump's lawsuit alleges, his sons Donald and Robert and his daughter Maryanne at first competed with each other, "with palace intrigue reminiscent of the HBO series Succession," but then worked together to advance their interests to the detriment of others.

In 1991, Donald secretly approached Durben, according to the lawsuit, to get him to draft a codicil to give Donald complete control of his father's estate, the lawsuit says. After his father rejected the codicil, Maryanne "finished the job," securing a revised will that named her, Donald and Robert the executors of their father's estate.

Mary Trump has previously sued the Trump family, but they reached a settlement including a non-disclosure agreement that Robert Trump, who died in August, tried and failed to enforce before her book was published.

In addition to alleging the elder Trumps committed fraud, Mary Trump's lawsuit accuses them of breaching their fiduciary duty and committing negligent misrepresentation.
"Through each of these schemes," the lawsuit says, "Defendants not only deliberately defrauded Mary out of what was rightfully hers, they also kept her in the dark about it—until now."
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A former traffic cop who now leads a sect in Siberia, claiming he is Jesus Christ, has been detained.Russian special forces in the early hours of today, September 22, staged a special operation to detain him, Daily Mail reports.

 

Sergei Torop - known as Vissarion - and his closest aide Vadim Redkin, a former rock musician, were reportedly detained and flown away under armed guard.  

 

Russian cult leader who claims he is the reincarnation of Jesus is detained by special forces in Siberia?

 

Torop, 59, is a former Red Army conscript and traffic policeman who claimed he was reborn in 1990 as the literal reincarnation of the son of God.  

 

Russian agents carried out a large military-style operation with four helicopters and dozens of heavily armed troops storming the remote compound called Sun City. 

 

The operation appeared to involve the Russian National Guard, a force under the command of Vladimir Putin, but also involved the FSB security service. 

 

The Russian Investigative Committee said the sect was being probed for using "psychological violence" causing some followers "serious harm to their health."

 

Sergey Torop and two other sect leaders Vadim Redkin and Vladimir Vedernikov were detained in the raid, said a statement.

 

They are also being investigated on suspicion of "causing grievous bodily harm to two or more persons."

 

Footage showed masked special forces with combat machine guns at the group's territory in remote Kuraginsky district of Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia.

 

Russian cult leader who claims he is the reincarnation of Jesus is detained by special forces in Siberia?

 

The group - who are banned from smoking and alcohol - has been in Siberia for years and it is unclear why the Russian authorities acted now in an early morning raid.

 

Torop claims to have 5,000 followers of whom several hundred live in wooden huts in the remote "Sun City" camp at Petropavlovka, some 2,600 miles east of Moscow.

 

One estimate said there were 90 families at the site raided today by the authorities. Other followers of the "messiah" live in villages nearby.

 

He heads what is known as the Church of the Last Testament, and he has written a ten volume "sequel to the Bible".

 

Three years ago the cult leader told the BBC: "We have a school of noble maidens here.

 

"We're preparing girls to become future wives, future brides for worthy men.

 

"She has to understand not to rise above the man, not to be proud of her independence but to be shy, inconspicuous and weak."

 

Torop is reported to have two wives with six children, having at one stage married a 19-year-old who had lived with him since the age of seven.

 

He lives in a comfortable chalet while his followers reside in wooden huts in one of Russia's coldest regions with temperatures sinking to minus 50C in winter.

 

Torop had an awakening after he was fired as a night shift traffic cop in the Siberian town of Minusinsk, he has claimed.

 

God had sent him to Earth to teach mankind about the evils of war and the havoc we were wreaking on the environment, he claimed.

 

The cult leader abolished Christmas, replacing it with the anniversary of the date of his own first sermon, August 18.

 

He claims that Mary, mother of Jesus, is his own mother. Official records show his biological mother was called Nadyezhda.

 

He has followers in Germany and several other European countries.

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Seven days after school resumption, six year old girl contracts COVID-19 and dies




A six-year-old girl has reportedly died of COVID-19 just seven days after resuming school.

Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mohamed Saka, shared the sad story on his Twitter handle. He stated that the little girl contracted the virus when she resumed school and later died from the disease. However did not state where the unfortunate incident happened.
''Heartbreaking. 6 year daughter started school last week. Got Covid-19 in school and just passed away. Killed her in 7 days.
To those who are so afraid that kids are going to miss a year of school. Missing a year of school is better than losing a future. How about using this time to teach them how to plant, cook, basic first aid, creative and critical thinking... Not all learning is done in a classroom'' he tweeted

Seven days after school resumption, six year old girl contracts COVID-19 and diesSeven days after school resumption, six year old girl contracts COVID-19 and dies
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The Department of Commerce has announced that TikTok and WeChat will be banned from app stores in the U.S. from Sunday, September 20, amid national security concerns.

In a press release on Friday September 18, the department stated: 'In response to President Trump's Executive Orders signed August 6, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) today announced prohibitions on transactions relating to mobile applications (apps) WeChat and TikTok to safeguard the national security of the United States. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has demonstrated the means and motives to use these apps to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and the economy of the U.S. Today's announced prohibitions, when combined, protect users in the U.S. by eliminating access to these applications and significantly reducing their functionality.

The following transactions will be prohibited:
  1. Any provision of service to distribute or maintain the WeChat or TikTok mobile applications, constituent code, or application updates through an online mobile application store in the U.S.
  2. Any provision of services through the WeChat mobile application for the purpose of transferring funds or processing payments within the U.S.

The statement further says that as of September 20 for WeChat and November 12 for TikTok, the following transactions will be prohibited:

  1. Any provision of internet hosting services enabling the functioning or optimization of the mobile application in the U.S.;
  2. Any provision of content delivery network services enabling the functioning or optimization of the mobile application in the U.S.;
  3. Any provision directly contracted or arranged internet transit or peering services enabling the function or optimization of the mobile application within the U.S.;
  4. Any utilization of the mobile application's constituent code, functions, or services in the functioning of software or services developed and/or accessible within the U.S.

These measures ensure TikTok and WeChat will be removed from iOS and Google Play starting Sunday, preventing users from downloading the apps or updating them in the future.

It was also stated that TikTok has until November 12 to resolve the national security concerns it poses. If this is done, the ban may be lifted.

President Trump has repeatedly said that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance, poses a national security threat because of its Chinese ties. He advised that TikTok’s US operations be sold to an American company.

The new development comes days after American computer technology giant, Oracle Corporation reportedly won the bidding for TikTok's US operations after the Chinese app rejected Microsoft.
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Thai Daily News photographer reportedly took a picture of an MP looking at porn on his smart phone during the reading of the fiscal 2021 budget in parliament on Wednesday, September 16.

 

According to their report, "the MP was getting some light relief from the stressful meeting"

 

Daily News said this was not the first time similar thing had happened. They claimed that another MP was once caught watching porn during a constitutional amendment meeting.

 

Lawmaker caught looking at porn during "stressful" reading of budget bill

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- UK government has threatened to sanction with visa ban those found guilty of electoral malpractices
- In a statement on Tuesday, September 15, the UK government also vowed to seize electoral offenders' overseas assets
In its effort to help Nigeria get rid of electoral malpractices, government of the United Kingdom has threatened to ban anyone guilty of electoral malpractice in the forthcoming Ondo and Edo governorship elections. The guber polls in Edo and Ondo state have been scheduled for September 19 and October 10 respectively by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
There is palpable anxiety in the two states over possible election rigging but the UK government, in a statement on Tuesday, September 15, through its embassy in Nigeria said election riggers will face severe punishments.
UK government has threatened to sanction with visa ban those found guilty of electoral malpractices. Credit: Twitter (UK embassy) Source: UGC The UK goverment also threatened to seize overseas assets of people found to have been involved in the election rigging. The action was taken after the US government announced that it imposed the visa restriction on some people as a warning that the country would never recognise malpractices in Nigeria. "As a friend and partner of Nigeria we are closely following the lead up to the off-cycle governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states scheduled for September 19 and October 10 respectively.


“We will be deploying observation missions to both the Edo and Ondo elections and supporting civil society led observation. “The UK takes a strong stand against election-related violence and, just as we did in the general election in 2019, will continue to take action against individuals we identify as being responsible for violence during the elections. “This could include restrictions on their eligibility to travel to the UK, restrictions on access to UK based assets or prosecution under international law," part of the statement read.

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Bill Gates Sr., father of Microsoft co-founder, dies at 94

Bill Gates Sr., father of Microsoft co-founder, dies at 94

SEATTLE (AP) — William H. Gates II, a lawyer and philanthropist best known as the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has died at 94.
Gates died peacefully Monday at his beach home in Washington state from Alzheimer's disease, the family announced Tuesday.
In an obituary the family credited the patriarch with a “deep commitment to social and economic equity,” noting that he was responsible for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's first efforts to improve global health as well as his advocacy for progressive taxation, especially unsuccessful efforts to pass a state income tax on the wealthy in Washington.
“My dad’s wisdom, generosity, empathy, and humility had a huge influence on people around the world,” Bill Gates wrote in a tribute.
Born in 1925, Gates Sr. grew up in Bremerton, Washington, where his parents owned a furniture store. He joined the Army following his freshman year at the University of Washington and was en route to Japan when it surrendered in 1945.
He served a year in war-torn Tokyo before returning to the United States and resuming his education, his family said. After earning his law degree in 1950, he began working in private practice and as a part-time Bremerton city attorney.
He formed a Seattle law firm with two other partners that eventually became Preston Gates and Ellis — now known as K & L Gates, one of the world's largest law firms. The firm was one of the first to work with the region's technology industry.

Gates Sr. met his first wife, Mary Maxwell, at the University of Washington. They had two daughters and a son — Gates Jr. — and remained married until her death in 1994. Two years later he married Mimi Gardner, then the director of the Seattle Art Museum, with whom he spent the last quarter-century of his life.
“When I was a kid, he wasn’t prescriptive or domineering, and yet he never let me coast along at things I was good at, and he always pushed me to try things I hated or didn’t think I could do (swimming and soccer, for example),” Gates Jr. wrote in the tribute. “And he modeled an amazing work ethic. He was one of the hardest-working and most respected lawyers in Seattle, as well as a major civic leader in our region.”
That civic work included serving as a trustee of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Planned Parenthood and United Way. He also served as the president of the state and local bar associations and in the leadership of the American Bar Association, helping create diversity scholarships and promoting legal services for the poor.
Gates Sr. was a towering figure by reputation and in person — he stood 6-foot-7 (2 meters) tall — and his counsel was often sought. Former Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz has said that when he was struggling to raise the money to buy the six-store coffee chain in 1987, Gates Sr. stepped in to rescue him from a rival buyer — not only by investing, but by personally taking Schultz to visit the rival, demanding as he loomed over the rival's desk: “You are going to stand down and this kid is going to realize his dream. Do you understand me?”
Gates retired from law in 1998 and took on prominent roles with the Gates Foundation, helping launch its work in global health.
The family said that due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, a memorial service would be held later.


 

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Israel has announced it will be going into a national lockdown for the second time amid a new surge in Coronavirus cases.

Israel fighting off a major death toll, now records over 4000 cases of the deadly virus daily.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement in a televised speech on Sunday, September 13 saying from Friday, the eve of the Jewish New Year, schools, restaurants, shopping centres and hotels will shut down and restrictions on movement will be imposed.
‘Our goal is to stop the increase (in cases) and lower morbidity,’ Mr Netanyahu said.
‘I know that these steps come at a difficult price for all of us. ‘This is not the holiday we are used to.’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a briefing today

The tightening of measures marks the second time Israel has gone into a lockdown. The lockdown will remain in place for at least three weeks, at which point officials are expected to relax measures if cases decline.

Israel has had more than 150,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases and more than 1,100 deaths amongst its population of nine million.
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American computer technology giant, Oracle Corporation has reportedly won the bidding for TikTok's US operations after the Chinese app rejected Microsoft.

According to Bloomberg, a Wall Street Journal reported that Oracle would be announced as TikTok’s trusted tech partner in the United States. The Journal also added that the eventual deal would not be structured as an outright sale.

A statement from Redmond reads, “ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft.”

This comes after ByteDance disclosed that they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft.

According to a source, Microsoft, which was working with Walmart Inc, had initially been recognized as the most likely winner earlier in the process, until more firms including Oracle Corporation showed interest.

Microsoft earlier said in a statement that it was prepared to make changes aimed at protecting national security interests. It said, “To do this, we would have made significant changes to ensure the service met the highest standards for security, privacy, online safety, and combating disinformation, and we made these principles clear in our August statement. We look forward to seeing how the service evolves in these important areas.”

Back in August, President Donald Trump signed executive orders banning social media apps TikTok and WeChat from operating in the US in 45 days if they are not sold by their Chinese-owned parent companies.

In the executive order, which declares TikTok a "national emergency", Mr Trump claims the app "automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users," such as location data and browsing and search histories, which "threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information -- potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage."

For WeChat, which allows its users to transfer funds to each other, the order states it will ban financial transactions with Tencent, a Chinese based company.

The order read: "any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with Tencent Holdings Ltd. (a.k.a. Téngxùn Kòngg? Y?uxiàn G?ngs?), Shenzhen, China, or any subsidiary of that entity, as identified by the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) under section 1(c) of this order."