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President Donald Trump on Sunday demanded that his Democratic rival Joe Biden take a drug test for their first debate, which will bring them face to face for the first time in the volatile US presidential campaign.
Tuesday’s clash, coming as Biden leads the charge against Trump’s bid to install conservative Amy Coney Barrett in the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lifetime seat on the Supreme Coart, will thrust the nail-biting contest into a fierce new stage.


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Mali's State television on Sunday announced that transitional President Bah Ndaw has named a new civilian prime minister.
Mr Ndaw appointed former diplomat Moctar Ouane to the position.


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France’s top medical figures on Sunday warned that France will face a months-long coronavirus epidemic that will overwhelm its health system if something does not change.
Patrick Bouet, head of the National Council of the Order of Doctors, told the weekly Journal du Dimanche that the second wave is arriving faster than we thought.


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The special UN envoy for West Africa has urged peaceful elections in Ivory Coast at the end of a week-long visit.
Mohamed Ibn Chambas met President Alassane Ouattara who is running for a third term after his preferred successor died. The elections are scheduled for 31 October.


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The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has announced the agency’s readiness to eliminate substandard and falsified medicines in the country through partnership with pre-shipment agents in China and India.


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The Nigerian equities market gained a record N350 billion last week as investors swooped on stocks in search of higher returns following a cut in the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The CBN’s MPC last week had resolved to reduce the MPR by 100 basis points to 11.5 per cent from 12.5 per cent.


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Nigerian labour Congress has suspended its strike scheduled for Monday after a meeting between labour leaders and the Federal Government.
This was contained in a communique read by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, after a technical session that started late on Sunday and lasted till the early hours of Monday morning.


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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed 126 new cases of coronavirus in the country. This brings the total number of COVID-19 infections recorded in the country so far to 58,324.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in a tweet on its official handle, tweeted on Sunday evening that the new cases were confirmed from eleven states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).


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The United States, China and Russia fought on Thursday during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the coronavirus pandemic as United Nations chief Antonio Guterres told the body that they had failed in their handling of COVID-19.


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The United States on Thursday said it would provide more than $720 million in humanitarian assistance in response to the crisis in Syria, plus nearly $152 million for Africa’s Sahel region and almost $108 million for South Sudan.
Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun made the announcement on Syria at an event on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. He said the money would go both for Syrians inside the country and for those in desperate need across the region.


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