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Poll: Almost 80% of republicans want Trump to run for president

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Nearly 80 percent of Republicans want to see Trump wage a third White House bid in 2024, according to a new Quinnipiac University survey.

Seventy-eight percent of Republicans polled said they think Trump should run again, while 16 percent said he should sit out the 2024 race. Meanwhile, 94 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of independents said Trump should not run.

The poll underscores the stubborn support Trump enjoys among the GOP base, backing that may be growing. Sixty-six percent of Republicans said in the same poll in May that Trump should run for the White House in three years.

“While a majority of Americans say, ‘been there, done that’ about Trump, and half feel he has damaged the underpinnings of democracy, support for the former president within the GOP has grown,” stated Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy.

The survey comes as Trump presents increasingly strong signals that he plans to launch a 2024 campaign.

The former president has begun traveling at a more frequent clip, including to swing states such as Iowa, and has doled out a slew of endorsements, including in key House and Senate races. He also continues to fundraise, raking in millions from his extensive small-dollar donor network.

Republicans have debated the role of the former president in the GOP following the Jan. 6 insurrection, which was in support of his unfounded claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him. However, he appears to have bounced back, with more GOP figures, including in Washington, coalescing around him.

Still, his role in inciting the insurrection could impact him in a general election campaign, with 51 percent of Americans saying he has been undermining democracy since the 2020 presidential election.

Trump’s sway is looming large over would-be GOP presidential contenders, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence, who are expected to wait for an official announcement one way or another on the former president’s 2024 aspirations before declaring their own intentions.

The Quinnipiac University poll surveyed 1,342 adults and 1,168 registered voters from Oct. 15 to Oct. 18, with margins of error of 2.7 and 2.9 percentage points, respectively.

Trump on Wednesday announced the upcoming launch of his own social media network called “TRUTH Social.”

“I created TRUTH Social and TMTG to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech. We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced. This is unacceptable,” Trump said in a release.

“I am excited to send out my first TRUTH on TRUTH Social very soon. TMTG was founded with a mission to give a voice to all. I’m excited to soon begin sharing my thoughts on TRUTH Social and to fight back against Big Tech. Everyone asks me why doesn’t someone stand up to Big Tech? Well, we will be soon!” he added.

Trump was largely banned from major social media networks, including Facebook and his favored Twitter, at the beginning of the year after the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot. After leaving office, he operated a blog similar in style to Twitter before shutting it down about a month after it was started.

Earlier in October, Trump asked a federal judge to force Twitter into reinstating his account.

“Coerced by members of the United States Congress, operating under an unconstitutional immunity granted by a permissive federal statute, and acting directly with federal officials, Defendant is censoring Plaintiff, a former President of the United States,” the motion read.

A beta launch of the site for “invited guests” is expected in November, with a full launch in the first quarter of 2022.

The site’s upcoming launch was coupled with the announcement that Trump Media & Technology Group has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Digital World Acquisition Corp. that will allow it to become a publicly listed company.

According to MarketWatch, Digital World Acquisition Corp. is a blank-check company that was founded on Dec. 11, 2020. As a blank-check company, it has no specific business plan and was started for the purposes of acquiring or merging with other companies.

The Trump Media & Technology Group also announced plans to launch a subscription-based video service called TMTG+ that will feature “non-woke” programming. The new endeavor will be led by reality television producer Scott St. John, who has worked on shows such as “Deal or No Deal” and “America’s Got Talent.”

Syria base housing US forces hit by drone attacks

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Unidentified drones reportedly carry out a set of attacks against a controversial military base belonging to the US-led coalition occupying Syria.

The attacks were reported across various media outlets in late Wednesday.

The reports specified the target as the outpost located in the hugely-strategic al-Tanf area in southeastern Syria.

The United States has been trying to exercise control over the area, which hosts an intersection of the Syrian, Iraqi, and Jordanian borders.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported “the sound of explosion” had rung out of the base during the incident.
Sky News Arabia cited “an American official” as describing the incident as a likely “rocket attack.”
“Preliminary evaluations,” the official claimed, had shown that “Iraqi groups” had conducted the airstrikes.
Reuters also carried a report pointing to an incident involving the base that had not caused any casualties.

The garrison was used as a place to train Syrian opposition forces to patrol for militants, according to The Associated Press.

The United States led scores of its allies in an invasion of Syria in 2014.

The coalition that has allegedly been seeking to fight the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh sustains its illegal presence in the Arab country, although Damascus and its allies defeated the terror outfit in late 2017.

Iranian truck drivers released after months of detention in Azerbaijan

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Shahroud Norouzi and Jaafar Barzegar were released Thursday after unrelenting pursuit of their case by Iran’s Foreign Ministry and the Iranian embassy in Baku.

The two had been detained while carrying goods to Azerbaijan’s newly liberated areas during last year’s war with Armenia.

Iran’s Roads and Transportation Organization has issued guidelines to transportation companies to strictly observe the laws and sensitivities of other countries in light of new changes in borders of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan following their 44-day war.

The detention of the two truck drivers and some other issues like the presence of the Zionist regime in Azerbaijan’s territory near the Iranian border caused tensions in ties between Tehran and Baku.

Iran recently held a military drill near the border.

The Azerbaijani president criticized the maneuver. However, tensions have abated now after several meetings between the Iranian and Azerbaijani officials.

Afghanistan summit calls for urgent assistance

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“Expressing deep concern over the deteriorating economic and humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, the sides expressed confidence in the need for the international community to mobilize consolidated efforts to provide urgent humanitarian and economic assistance to the Afghan people in the post-conflict reconstruction of the country,” the joint statement says.

The sides suggested that a collective initiative should be launched to convene a representative international donor conference under the auspices of the United Nations at the soonest possible time.

“Certainly with the understanding that the core burden of post-conflict economic and financial reconstruction and development of Afghanistan must be shouldered by troop-based actors which were in the country for the past 20 years,” the statement noted.

Participants in the meeting also called for the need of establishing relations with that country’s authorities “irrespective of the official recognition of the new Afghan government by the international community.”

Additionally, the sides reiterated their respect to the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Afghanistan and reaffirmed their commitment to Afghanistan “as a peaceful, indivisible, independent, economically developing State, free of terrorism and drug-related crime and respecting the basic norms in the human rights area.”

“Being concerned about the activities of proscribed terrorist organizations in Afghanistan, the sides reaffirmed their willingness to continue to promote security in Afghanistan to contribute to regional stability,” the statement adds.

The participating countries urged the current Afghan government to adopt additional measures aimed at improving governance and forming a truly inclusive government, which will properly reflect “the interests of all major ethno-political forces in the country.”

“This will be a fundamental prerequisite for the completion of the national reconciliation process in Afghanistan,” according to the statement.

“The participating countries were pleased to note the reaffirmation by the interim Afghan government of its previous commitments to prevent use of the Afghan territory against its neighbors, other States in the region and the rest of the world,” it reads.

Additionally, the countries participating in the Moscow Format Consultations called on the new Afghan leadership “to practice moderate and sound internal and external policies, adopt friendly policies towards neighbors of Afghanistan, achieve the shared goals of durable peace, security, safety, and long-term prosperity, and respect the rights of ethnic groups, women and children.”

The Taliban and the special representatives of Russia, China and Pakistan to Afghanistan held talks in Moscow, Spokesperson for the Afghan Foreign Ministry Abdul Qahar Balkhi said on Wednesday.

“Following participation in Moscow Format talks, a senior Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the name the Taliban call themselves) delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi partook in a quadlateral meeting in which comprehensive discussions were held with special representatives of Russia, China and Pakistan,” the spokesperson stated on his Twitter page.

According to the photo attached to the Twitter post, Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov, Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Mohammad Sidique Khan, Chinese Special Envoy for Afghanistan Yue Xiaoyong, as well as Russian Ambassador to this country Dmitry Zhirnov, took part at the meeting.

Mother Cheetah, 2 Cubs Sighted in Iran Natl. Park

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Experts and rangers had been concerned as they had not seen any animal of the species for quite some time before the latest sighting.

The female cheetah’s cubs had, after reaching maturity, separated from their mother last year.

However, the recent photos taken of the cubs allayed authorities’ concerns.

This species of the cheetah is called Harb, named after its habitat.

Meanwhile, another cheetah and her cubs have also been sighted on the other side of the park and their images recorded.

Spanish court agrees to extradite Venezuela’s ex-spy chief to US

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A Spanish court on Wednesday ordered the extradition of the retired Maj. Gen. to the United States where he is wanted on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to a terror organization.

Carvajal, who for more than a decade advised the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez before breaking with his successor, had been resisting extradition since he was arrested in Spain in April 2019.

Carvajal had avoided extradition to the US when he was picked up in Aruba in 2014 on the same New York indictment that Spanish authorities acted on. He returned to Venezuela after slipping the grasp of authorities and was received as a hero.

But he eventually broke with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, throwing his support behind the opposition to Maduro’s Socialist regime. He then left Venezuela for good.

Prosecutors in New York allege that Carvajal used his high office to coordinate the smuggling of approximately 5,600 kilograms of cocaine from Venezuela to Mexico in 2006.

Carvajal also allegedly provided weapons to armed FARC guerrillas in Colombia, according to the US Treasury Department, and helped fund the group’s activities by facilitating shipments of large amounts of US bound cocaine through Venezuela.

Spain’s National Court said police and Spain’s penitentiary services will be in charge of his transfer to the US. No date was given.

Last week the National Court ordered the extradition of Chávez’s former nurse, who is charged in Miami with money laundering.

Biden’s Iran envoy to discusses nuclear deal with E3 diplomats

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The nuclear talks have been stalled since June, and America’s Arab partners are extremely concerned by Iran’s nuclear advances in recent months. Several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, are engaging with Tehran to try to de-escalate regional tensions.

Malley and the State Department’s point person for the Gulf, Daniel Benaim, started their regional tour in Abu Dhabi and met Emirati national security adviser Tahnoun bin Zayed and presidential adviser Anwar Gargash. They also met Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.

The next stop was Doha where they met Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who had spoken a day earlier to his Iranian counterpart.

Malley then moved on to Saudi Arabia — the most important stop on the trip considering the strained US-Saudi relationship and the ongoing Saudi-Iranian dialogue. He discussed Iran’s nuclear program and regional activity with Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, per the official Saudi news agency.

Malley also spoke by phone with the Foreign Minister of Bahrain.

Meanwhile back in Washington, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Tuesday with the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stated on Monday that Tehran has never left the negotiating table and is serious about the nuclear talks. 

“For the other side, a readiness to lift sanctions can be a sign of their seriousness,” he noted.

The US and its European allies have accused the Iranians of wasting time and warned that their patience is not unlimited.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told the UN secretary-general in a phone call on Tuesday that Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri, would travel to Brussels next week for talks with EU political director Enrique Mora, who is coordinating the nuclear negotiations. 

It’s unclear if and when the sides will return to Vienna.

Iran, Russia Discuss Closer Military Cooperation

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Major General Mohammad Baqeri, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, further said Iran-Russia military and defense cooperation has been growing in recent years.

He said relations between Iran and Russia, as two important partners on the international stage, is expanding.

General Baqeri touched upon an Iranian armada having crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time recently and having participated in a Russian naval parade, calling for closer cooperation between the two sides in military and defense areas. 

He made the comment in the Russian port city of St. Petersburg where he arrived as part of his Russia visit to meet officials of the Russian Navy, namely Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Vice-Admiral Vladimir Lvovich Kasatonov.

Upon arrival, general Baqeri was officially received by admiral Kasatonov and a number of high-ranking Russian generals.

After the welcoming ceremony, the two top generals inspected the guard of honour before taking part in talks where Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Kazem Jalali and military top brass from both countries were also present.

In the meeting, general Kasatonov said Iranian and Russian navies had had close cooperation in recent years and held numerous war games.

He said the two sides will continue their cooperation.

Putin shuts down Russia citing COVID pandemic

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The Russian leader has warned coronavirus situation in the country is becoming complicated. Russia has registered over 8 million cases and more than 226,000 Covid fatalities.

Putin has signed a decree declaring paid non-working days from October 30 to November 7, according to the document posted on the Kremlin’s website on Wednesday.

At a meeting with members of the government earlier on Wednesday, Putin approved a corresponding proposal from the cabinet. According to him, it is now of paramount importance to curb the peak of the new epidemic wave.

“I order to declare non-working days with preservation of employees’ salaries from October 30 to November 7, 2021, in order to prevent the further spread of novel coronavirus infections,” the decree says.

Regional heads have the right to declare additional paid non-working days before October 30 and to extend them after November 7, taking into consideration the epidemiological situation and specific features of the spread of COVID-19 in their regions.

The Russian government has been instructed to determine how federal cultural and health institutions will be operating on the non-working days, while the heads of the subjects of the Russian Federation should do the same for corresponding regional institutions. The public authorities along with other bodies and agencies are instructed to determine the numbers of staff ensuring their functioning on the non-working days.

“At the expense of the corresponding funds of the budgetary system of the Russian Federation, the government and top officials of the subjects of the Russian Federation shall provide measures of support for small and medium businesses and socially oriented non-profit organizations operating in the sectors of the Russian economy, which are most affected by the worsening situation caused by the spread of COVID-19 and by the non-working days declared in October-November, 2021,” the decree adds.

The presidential decree comes into force on the day of its official publication.

The coronavirus situation in Russia is getting complicated, vaccination rates in the country remain low, Putin said.

“Really, the situation with coronavirus is getting complicated nationwide, recently vaccination rates increased significantly in many regions,” Putin stated on Wednesday at a meeting with members of the government. He added that unfortunately, the citizens’ vaccination rate remains low. 

According to Putin, the low vaccination rate “predetermines the rapid spread of infection in many ways.”

COVID infection rates in Russia are getting worse mostly because vaccination rates are too low and restrictive measures are often neglected. 

The anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Wednesday the number of coronavirus cases in Russia increased by 34,073 over the past day to 8,094,825 total cases. The number of COVID-19 fatalities in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 1,028 compared to 1,015 the day before. In all, 226,353 patients died of the infection. This is a new record high since the beginning of the pandemic.

Iran receives 29th shipment of Covid vaccine

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The shipment contains 6 million doses. 

The head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society said efforts at the Health and Foreign Ministries to import vaccine will continue. According to Karim Hemmati, as a result of the efforts, 36 million doses of Sinopharm jab have been delivered to Iran in only two weeks. 

He added the from mid-spring, Iran has imported 88 million and 390 thousand doses of Covid vaccine. He added that in the last month alone, 42 million shots arrived in Iran and 30 million more will be imported in the next two weeks. 

Meanwhile, the downward trend in Covid deaths, infections and hospitalizations has continued across Iran in the past weeks. The number of cities marked red, the highest level of risk from Covid, has fallen considerably. Authorities attribute this to the rising rate of vaccination across Iran. 

But officials keep warning people against relaxing health protocols. They say a sixth peak of the disease could be around the corner.

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