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Amy Dorris told Britains The Guardian that Trump sexually assaulted her in his VIP suite at the US Open tennis tournament in New York -- claims he denied via his lawyers.(Image: Twitter@IndefiniteHD)

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Former model alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in 1997

Amy Dorris told Britain's The Guardian that Trump sexually assaulted her in his VIP suite at the US Open tennis...

18 Sept 2020 11:21 AM IST

US President Donald Trump.Trump has been nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize following his efforts to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). (AFP)

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India in Trump's list of top drug transit and drug producing nations

Trump also named Bolivia and the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela in the list

17 Sept 2020 6:55 PM IST

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Rich nations snap up vaccine stocks in global race for jab

The remaining 2.6 bn have been bought by or promised to developing countries like India, Bangladesh, China, Brazil,...

17 Sept 2020 11:30 AM IST

Britains Queen Elizabeth II speaks to guests in the garden of Buckingham Palace in London as up to 8,000 guests attend the first royal garden party of the year on May 10, 2016. - Barbados has announced its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and become a republic by November next year, as the Caribbean island nation seeks to move fully beyond its colonial past. (AFP)

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Barbados makes new push to become republic, leave colonial past behind

The Caribbean island nation said it wants to remove Britain's Queen Elizabeth as its head of state

17 Sept 2020 9:23 AM IST

$A man stands on the broken dock to check his boat during Hurricane Sally in downtown Pensacola, Florida on September 16, 2020. - Hurricane Sally barrelled into the US Gulf Coast early Wednesday, with forecasts of drenching rains that could provoke \historic\ and potentially deadly flash floods.The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the Category 2 storm hit Gulf Shores, Alabama at about 4:45 am (0945 GMT), bringing maximum sustained winds of about 105 miles (165 kilometers) per hour. (AFP)$ World

Sally drenches US Southeast after hitting Gulf Coast as hurricane

The storm was expected to weaken as it moved further inland and become a tropical depression overnight Wednesday to...

17 Sept 2020 8:54 AM IST

Signs are held up showing Breonna Taylor during a rally in her honor on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. The city of Louisville will pay several million dollars to the mother of Breonna Taylor and install police reforms as part of a settlement of a lawsuit from Taylors family, The Associated Press has learned. (AP)

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Louisville to pay $12 million settlement over Breonna Taylor's death

Taylor's death, alongside that of George Floyd, gave rise to one of the largest anti-racism protest movements in US...

16 Sept 2020 4:09 PM IST

The Bobcat Fire burns on a hillside on September 15, 2020 in Monrovia, California. Californias national forests remain closed due to wildfires which have already incinerated a record 2.5 million acres this year. The Bobcat Fire, burning in the San Gabriel Mountains, has grown to over 40,000 acres. (AFP)

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Satellite data shows smoke from US fires has reached as far as Europe

Estimates show that the blazes have spewed out more than 30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide since mid-August this year

16 Sept 2020 3:49 PM IST

$Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden. Biden responded by telling a Florida radio station \Im looking forward to the debate and hes a fool. The comments are just foolish.\ (AFP)$ World