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US President-elect Joe Biden has flipped five states from President Donald Trump's column  AFP: Biden wins White House with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232: US media   President-elect Joe Biden has won 306 votes in the state-by-state Electoral College that decides who wins the White House, against 232 for Donald Trump, US media projected on Friday.  Biden solidified his victory over Trump in the US election with a victory in traditionally Republican-leaning Georgia, called in his favor by CNN, ABC and other networks. Trump -- who also had 306 Electoral College votes when he beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 -- claimed victory in North Carolina, CNN and NBC projected, putting his final tally this time around at 232. Read more ....  MIDDLE EAST  ‘Countdown to catastrophe’ in Yemen as UN again warns of famine.   Saudis say they thwarted attack on oil facility near Yemen.   In Iran, a massive cemetery struggles to keep up with virus.  ...

  WNU Editor: A good explanation from Dick Morris on what is happening, and why many Trump supporters are still optimistic that he will win the election.  What is my take. I said it before. The outcome favors Biden. But at this moment in time anything is possible. This election is still very close, and the votes have not been certified in these swing states .... If 25,000 Votes Had Switched From Biden To Trump In Arizona, Georgia, And Wisconsin, President Trump Will Be On The Verge Of Being Re-Elected (November 10, 2020). Update: Contrary to the media narrative that President Trump is losing his legal challenges. President Trump has scored another major legal victory today .... Judge sides with Trump, barring Pennsylvania from extending voter ID deadline (Washington Examiner). from War News Updates https://ift.tt/3pllyrM

FOX News: Pentagon to arm F/A-18 Super Hornet with hypersonic missiles   The decades-old F/A-18 has gone through a large number of upgrades, adjustments, enhancements and service-life extension programs Could arming the F/A-18 Super Hornet with hypersonic missiles keep the aircraft relevant for the next decade or two as larger numbers of F-35s arrive and the service prepares for stealthy, highly networked, 5th-Gen empowered, longer-range war?  Possibly.  The decades-old F/A-18 has gone through a large number of upgrades, adjustments, enhancements and service-life extension programs to preserve its combat functionality in increasingly high-threat environments. The U.S. Navy has spent years reinforcing the airframes of F/A-18s, upgrading weapons, adding new avionics, sensors and electronics and even integrating carrier-landing enhancing software to the jets called “magic carpet.”  The U.S. Navy has also engineered conformal fuel tanks for the F/A-18 to exte...

  AFP: More than 800 held in Belarus as opposition reaches out to Biden   Police in Belarus on Sunday detained more than 800 people during the latest in weeks of unprecedented demonstrations against strongman Alexander Lukashenko, as the opposition reached out to US President-elect Joe Biden.  For three months running, tens of thousands have taken to the streets of Belarus on Sundays to protest against the disputed re-election of Lukashenko, who has been in power for more than two decades.  His opponents are demanding he hand power to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a political novice who ran for president against Lukashenko on August 9. Several thousand protesters, many carrying the red-and-white opposition flag, joined a march in central Minsk on Sunday.  Read more ....    More News On Today's Unrest In Belarus  Belarusian Activists Say More Than 800 Detained At Anti-Government Rallies -- RFE  Belarus security services detain hun...

    France 24: Ethiopia's Abiy replaces army chief as casualties mount in Tigray conflict   Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed replaced his army chief on Sunday, as reports of wounded soldiers continued to rise in a five-day-old conflict in the country's northern Tigray region.  Deputy army chief Berhanu Jula will take over the Ethiopian National Defence Force, a statement from Abiy's office said, without giving a reason or specifying the fate of Berhanu's predecessor, General Adem Mohammed.  The announcement came as a medical official told AFP that nearly 100 government soldiers had been treated for gunshot wounds at a hospital in the northern Amhara region, the latest indication that fighting has been intense.  Read more ....  WNU Editor : Ethiopia's Tigray region's president wants to negotiate .... Ethiopia's Tigray region's president says it is good to try to negotiate (Reuters).   More News On The Conflict In Ethiopia's Tig...

Flanked by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Army Gen. Mark Milley, U.S. President Donald Trump meets with senior military leaders at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 7, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque  NBC News: Long at odds with Trump, Defense Secretary Esper has prepared a resignation letter, say officials   Esper also plans to help Congress draft legislation to strip military bases of Confederate names, which could further alienate him from Trump.   WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark Esper has prepared a letter of resignation, according to three current defense officials.  It's not uncommon for Cabinet secretaries to prepare undated letters of resignation during a presidential transition, giving the commander in chief the chance to replace them for a second term. The president decides whether to accept the resignation letters, and the process usually occurs after the election results are clear.  But de...

  WNU Editor: If you think covering the Trump administration was an interesting ride, you can take this to the bank, the next few years are going to be even more interesting. from War News Updates https://ift.tt/34YztMs

Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today: Sorry, there will be no return to normalcy under Joe Biden   Biden becoming president will not make COVID-19 disappear and return the country back to normal. Just vote for whatever form of abnormal you prefer.   As the presidential campaign enters its final phase, one of the messages of the Biden campaign is that putting him, a 47-year veteran of national politics, into the White House will return us to something approaching normal.  With Biden in charge, all the Trump craziness will expire, and things will be safe, sane and familiar. In fact, there’s no chance of this happening. If Biden wins, things won’t go back to “normal.” You probably won’t even hear less from Donald Trump. And in a lot of areas, like foreign policy, it turns out the establishment’s version of normal wasn’t all that normal anyway.  Many of my lefty friends want Biden to win not so much over policy as because they have a visceral reaction to Presiden...

Flickr/US Air Force  ABC News Online: US Government approves drone sale to Taiwan, in arms deal expected to anger China The US State Department has cleared the potential sale of four "weapons-ready" aerial drones to Taiwan.  The $US600 million ($833 million) deal would be the first such sale since the Trump administration loosened US policy on the export of sophisticated and closely guarded drone technology.  The move is likely to infuriate China, which regards Taiwan as a renegade province and has reacted angrily to previous announcements about weapons sales to the island.  The US State Department's formal notification gives Congress 30 days to object to any sales, which is unlikely given broad bipartisan support for the defence of Taiwan.  Read more ....  WNU Editor: China's response has been quick .... China says U.S. sends out 'wrong signals' to Taiwan on proposed drone sale (NBC). More here .... China pledges 'proper and necessary r...

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  RCP: Scarborough: If Trump Declares Victory On Election Night, We Will Not Broadcast His Speech MSNBC's "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist said Monday that if President Trump declares victory on election night before all the votes have been counted, their show will not broadcast the video of him saying he has won.  "It is going to be a wild night," Willie Geist said. "He said we're going to flood the zone with lawyers, send them into Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and we are going to dispute this election, no matter what happens he's already saying that. Meanwhile, there are some reports that say he could go out and declare victory as early as he can on Tuesday night. Of course, he will not have won, but he'll try to say it anyway."  Read more ....  WNU Editor : Is Joe Scarborough talking for the network or for his show? Either way it is not a good sign when you say you will censure such a speech. ...

Antifa supporters marched to oppose the Trump rally, and violent clashes broke out between the groups as cops struggled to keep them separated and maintain the peace  Daily Mail: Election clashes erupt across the US: Antifa attacks Trump supporter in Beverly Hills while North Carolina BLM march ends with police pepper spray and eight arrests with the vote two days away    * Antifa supporters were seen attacking Trump backer with fists and pipe in Beverly Hills on Saturday   * Police declared an unlawful assembly after the black-clad attackers fled the scene   * In North Carolina, get-out-the-vote rally was met with police pepper spray during march to the polls   * Cops say the irritant was sprayed into the ground after rally participants failed to clear the roadway  Unrest has begun across the U.S. ahead of Tuesday's presidential election, with violent political clashes occurring in Beverly Hills and a get-out-the-vote Black Liv...

Study Finds: 2020 Election Day: Over half of Americans believe Nov. 3 will be most stressful day of their lives!   NEW YORK — As if the coronavirus pandemic wasn’t giving Americans enough anxiety already, you may have heard there’s a presidential election this November. With political divisions reaching historical highs, a survey finds a majority of the country believe their most stressful day of 2020 hasn’t even arrived yet. The poll examining mental health reveals 55 percent of Americans think Election Day 2020 will be the most stress-filled day of their lives.  The OnePoll survey examined the current mental health of 2,000 adults, focusing on the stress caused by COVID-19 and the presidential race. Nearly six in 10 people can’t imagine being more stressed than they already are this year, while 67 percent want the year to be over now.  The study, commissioned by Feelmore Labs and Cove, reveals Millennials (61%) and members of Generation X (58%) are feeling the E...

Tourists lined up to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing on Sunday.Credit...Andy Wong/Associated Press  New York Times: U.S. Says Virus Can’t Be Controlled. China Aims to Prove It Wrong.   China’s approach to keep Covid-19 at bay has helped restore confidence and allowed businesses to reopen.   But it is a strategy steeped in authoritarianism.  The United States is hitting records in daily coronavirus cases. But China, the country first afflicted with the scourge, is having a different experience.  Unlike the Trump administration, which has said it is prioritizing opening the economy while essentially giving up on controlling the pandemic, China moved aggressively to stop the virus. The result: China’s economy is growing and life there is returning to a semblance of normal, while the United States is struggling with a third wave of infections and the prospect of new restrictions.  Economic growth in China has surged, hitting 4.9 percent in the l...

US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and their wives Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan at the Mar-a-Lago estate. (AFP)  Ben Westcott, CNN: How China's Xi Jinping blew a golden opportunity with US President Donald Trump   Hong Kong (CNN) At the first meeting between Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, held over chocolate cake and sorbet at the US President's vast Mar-a-Lago private club in Florida, the two leaders seemed on the brink of establishing an unlikely and potentially special relationship.  Trump, less than three months into his first term, had spent his election campaign denouncing the Chinese government for undermining the United States, through a wide trade imbalance and cheap labor. "We can't continue to allow China to rape our country," Trump said in May 2016.  But when Trump was standing alongside Xi at Mar-a-Lago the following April, his tone changed dramatically. The two leaders exchanged compliments during a news c...

The logo of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is seen at the company's Sagamihara plant in Sagamihara, Japan, July 4, 2016. REUTERS/Maki Shiraki/File Photo  Reuters: Japan picks Mitsubishi Heavy to lead development of new stealth jet fighter   Japan on Friday said it had picked Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 7011.T (MHI) to lead the development of a new stealth fighter jet that Japan wants operational by the mid-2030s to counter advanced Chinese aircraft.  “We awarded the prime contract to Mitsubishi Heavy,” a ministry of defence spokesman said. The fighter jet project, which is expected to cost about $40 billion, comes at an opportune time for MHI, as the company is pulling back from plans to build its SpaceJet regional passenger aircraft as coronavirus travel curbs leave airlines with little cash to buy new planes.  The decision was expected because MHI is Japan’s only jet fighter manufacturer, and no other company bid for the contract. Other suppliers and partner...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (file photo)  NBC: Top U.S. officials were briefed on an active threat against Pentagon leaders, say five officials Some officials said the briefings suggested the threat may be potential retaliation for the U.S. military's killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.  WASHINGTON — U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement officials were briefed late last month on a threat against the Pentagon's most senior leaders while they are on American soil, not just traveling overseas, according to five senior U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the matter.  Some officials said the briefings suggested the threat, which remains active, may be potential retaliation for the U.S. military's assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January, although the information provided did not draw a definitive link. Read more ....    Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 29, 2020  Biden White House Seen...

ZEE News: China illegally occupies Nepal's land at several places; Indian intelligence agencies sound alert China has illegally occupied Nepal`s land at several places spreading over seven bordering districts and Indian intelligence agencies have sounded an alert in New Delhi.  New Delhi: China has illegally occupied Nepal`s land at several places spreading over seven bordering districts and Indian intelligence agencies have sounded an alert in New Delhi.  The agencies have flagged that Beijing is fast moving forward and further pushing Nepali boundaries by encroaching more and more landmass.  "The actual scenario could be worse as the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) is trying to shield the expansionist agenda of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)," an internal intelligence agency report pointed out.  The report also talked about the Survey Department of Nepal flagging China`s attempts to grab land before Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli which was ignored. ...

Leopoldo Lopez had been holed up at the Spanish ambassador's residence in Caracas since a failed military uprising he led in April 2019 against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro [File: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters]  BBC: Venezuela opposition figure Leopoldo López leaves Spanish embassy   Leading Venezuelan opposition figure Leopoldo López has left Spain's embassy in Caracas after seeking refuge there in April 2019 and secretly fled the country, his family says. His father said Mr López had gone to Colombia and was now heading for Spain.  Mr López took shelter in the embassy after appearing with opposition leader Juan Guaidó and calling for a rebellion to oust President Nicolás Maduro.  He was arrested in 2014 accused of inciting violent political protests. Mr López, who has repeatedly denied the charges, received a 14-year jail sentence in a military prison.  But in 2017, Mr López - a Harvard-educated former mayor who has been prevented by the gov...