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Top News Stories for Today – Oct 3, 2018





 
Top News Stories for Today – Oct 3, 2018

   

FBI Kavanaugh investigation

The FBI indicated Tuesday that it will wrap up its supplemental background investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as early as Wednesday, leading Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to vow, “We’ll have an FBI report this week, and we’ll have a vote this week.” The FBI has finished interviewing several key witnesses named by women accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault in the early 1980s, but other potential witnesses have lamented that the FBI has not contacted them.

There is also disagreement over what parts of the FBI report will be made public, with McConnell saying it will be available only to senators, and colleagues in both parties insisting at least part of the findings be made public. The New York Times, The Washington Post

 

 

Canada revokes Suu kyi’s honorary citizenship

Canada’s Parliament formally stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship on Tuesday for complicity in the atrocities committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya people. The Senate voted unanimously to strip Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader, of the symbolic honor bestowed on her in 2007.

The upper house’s move follows a similar unanimous vote in the House of Commons last week. Suu Kyi is the first person to have her honorary Canadian citizenship revoked. VOA

 




 
 

Nobel Prize for Chemistry

On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to two Americans and one British chemist for research that has “taken control of evolution and used it for purposes that bring the greatest benefit to humankind.” Half of the award and $1 million prize goes to Frances H. Arnold at the California Institute of Technology for conducting “the first directed evolution of enzymes,” the academy said.

George P. Smith at the University of Missouri in Columbia and Sir Gregory P. Winter at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge were jointly awarded the other half for using “phage display” to help produce new pharmaceuticals. Arnold is just the fifth woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Nobel Committee

 

 

Ricin suspected in letters sent to Trump

An envelope addressed to President Donald Trump containing a substance thought to be the toxin ricin appears to be connect to two letters intercepted at the Pentagon. “The Secret Service can confirm receipt of a suspicious envelope addressed to the President on Oct. 1, 2018,” the Secret Service said in a statement. “The envelope was not received at the White House, nor did it ever enter the White House. ”

The letters sent to the Pentagon — one addressed to Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and the other to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson — have tested positive for ricin, defense officials told VOA Tuesday. The envelopes were taken by the FBI Tuesday for further testing, according to Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Rob Manning. VOA

 

 

Wife of former Malaysian leader arrested

The wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested Wednesday by the anti-graft agency and is expected to be charged in a scandal involving the 1MDB state investment fund, a government official said.

The official, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter, said Rosmah Mansor was arrested after she was questioned by the agency for a third time over alleged theft and money laundering at the fund. Rosmah’s lawyer, K. Kumaraendran, confirmed her arrest but declined to give details. The agency was expected to issue a statement soon. VOA

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One thought on “Top News Stories for Today – Oct 3, 2018

  • Chin khua khai

    Shame of you, Canadian. You honored her with a citizenship which she has nothing to do with and now you revokes your own work.
    You don’t seem to really understand the inside Rohingya problem. Sukyii alone can’t solve it.
    You should stand with her in such a time of crisis in the mid of building democracy in the country.

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