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  Last update: 01:06 GMT 27.10.2020

  01:06 GMT 27.10.2020

  Latin America

  Tropical Storm Zeta Develops Into Hurricane, Heads Toward Mexico’s Yucatan Before US

  Tropical Storm Zeta has now strengthened into a hurricane as it moves towards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and is projected to hit the storm-battered US Gulf Coast later this week.

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  Last update: 22:02 GMT 26.10.2020

  22:02 GMT 26.10.2020

  Asia & Pacific

  China Imposes New Restrictions on US News Outlets in Retaliatory Move Against Washington

  As Washington steps up restrictive policies against Chinese owned media outlets, Beijing has periodically introduced rules which require US media outlets to register details with the authorities in a tit-for-tat response.

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  Last update: 22:13 GMT 26.10.2020

  22:13 GMT 26.10.2020

  World

  US, EU Doubling Up on Efforts to Limit Russia's Development, Russian Foreign Minister Says

  MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United States and a number of EU countries have been stepping up efforts to prevent Russia from developing further by imposing new sanctions, without providing any factual evidence to explain the anti-Russia sanctions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the Croatian Vecernji List daily.

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  Last update: 23:16 GMT 26.10.2020

  23:16 GMT 26.10.2020

  Europe

  Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline Edges Closer to Completion as Broader US Sanctions Come Into Effect

  The EU imported the highest ever volume of LNG in 2019 at 108 billion cubic meters, marking 27% of total gas imports and 22% of the EU's gas consumption, according to the European Commission. The gas market report showed that Qatar supplied 30 bcm of LNG to the EU in 2019, followed by Russia with 21 bcm and the US with 17 bcm.

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  Last update: 23:06 GMT 26.10.2020

  23:06 GMT 26.10.2020

  Opinion

  'Political Instrument': Erdogan Using French Row to Present Himself as 'Major Leader of Sunni Islam'

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged Turks to boycott French goods after French President Emmaneul Macron called for a tougher stance on radical Islam. Gilbert Mercier, editor-in-chief of News Junkie Post, joined Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits to discuss how Erdogan is using Islam as a “political instrument.”

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  Last update: 23:35 GMT 26.10.2020

  23:35 GMT 26.10.2020

  US

  Lawmakers, Telecom Operators Warn Trump Administration Against Nationalized 5G Network

  US President Donald Trump’s administration is receiving bipartisan, industrial and internal pushback amid whispers that Mark Meadows, his chief of staff, is spearheading a campaign to fast-track a communications technology firm’s possible government partnership in a nationalized 5G network.

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  Last update: 04:44 GMT 26.10.2020

  04:44 GMT 26.10.2020

  World

  Live Updates: Azerbaijan Intensifies Offensive Along Line of Contact, Armenia Says

  The US State Department announced on Sunday that a new humanitarian ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh was going to enter into force at 8:00 a. m. local time (4:00 GMT) on 26 October.

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  Last update: 04:35 GMT 26.10.2020

  04:35 GMT 26.10.2020

  World

  Live Updates: Merkel Reportedly Eyes 'Light Quarantine' Amid Surge in COVID-19 Cases in Germany

  The global death toll from the coronavirus infection has topped 1.15 million; almost 43 million cases have been detected, and over 28.8 million of those have recovered, according to Baltimore, Maryland's Johns Hopkins University, which tracks and compiles data from national and local authorities, the media and other sources.