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The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain became the third and fourth Arab states to agree to normalise ties with Israel, following Egypt's peace deal with Israel in 1979 and a 1994 pact with Jordan.

The U.N. also linked Iran to a 2019 attack on Saudi Arabia's main crude oil refinery, though Tehran denies any links and Yemen's rebel Houthis claimed responsibility.

No group has claimed responsibility, but fighting between the Taliban and government has surged in recent weeks.

On Saturday, Prime Minister Ardren had secured a landslide victory in New Zealand's general election and is now set to serve a second term.

The result will give Labour an outright majority in Parliament, the first time any party has achieved that since New Zealand implemented a proportional voting system 24 years ago.

Trump likes to say that his packed rallies are evidence of strength not reflected in "fake" election polls.

Outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people from two households will be allowed and golf and tennis can resume.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 7,432,680, while the country's death toll soared to 112,998.

It is part of the financial hub's drive to harness technology, from ramping up the use of electronic payments to research on driverless transport.

Facebook has been increasing its efforts to avoid a repeat of events leading up to the 2016 US presidential election, won by Donald Trump, when its network was used for attempts at voter manipulation.

According to the Electoral Commission, opposition centre-right National Party, currently on 27 per cent, has admitted defeat in Saturday's poll

The Auckland outbreak also prompted Ardern to postpone the election by a month and helped increase the early voter turnout.

It will measure with a mass spectrometer how much ice in the sample is lost to sublimation as the ice turns from a solid to a vapor in the vacuum of the lunar environment.

Visibly moved, the president said that "the entire nation" stood ready to defend teachers and that "obscurantism will not win".

"Police had arrived at the scene after receiving a call about a suspicious individual loitering near the school."

Project Jonah general manager Darren Grover told reporters they were trying to keep the whales cool and healthy and would try to refloat them on the evening high tide.

A survey by the Speedtest site in August ranked the South American country 169 out of 174 countries in broadband speed. 

Melting Alpine glaciers yield archaeologic troves

"The Chinese are literally shaving the heads of Uygur women and making hair products and sending them to the United States."

Trump later said that the US had the 'greatest economy ever' before the COVID-19 outbreak hit the country further. He also termed the virus "as an artificial horrible situation".

"Receiving the flu vaccine will not only provide personal health protection, it will also help reduce the burden of respiratory illness on our already very overstretched healthcare system."

Biden, as per the latest opinion polls, leads against Republican incumbent President Donald Trump by over nine points on an average.

"The secretary-general welcomes the further release of detainees by the Yemeni parties on Oct. 15 and 16, in line with the agreement reached on Sept. 27 for the release of over 1,000 people who had been detained in connection with the conflict."

The curfew measure, just ahead of the start of a two-week school holiday, contains no travel restrictions, raising the prospect that huge numbers of families will flee cities for the country.