Shahbaz Sharif arrested in money laundering case LAHORE: Pakistan's top Opposition leader and PML-N brother of three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, President Shahbaz Sharif was arrested by the country's was taken into custody from the Lahore High Court's anti-graft body on Monday after a court rejected his bail premises, where a large number of the PML-N workers WORLD 11 plea in a money laundering case. gathered ahead of the hearing in the Rs 700 crores (USD FREE PRESS Shahbaz, the Leader of the Opposition and the younger 41.9 million) money laundering case. INDORE | TUESDAY | SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 SUPER BOWL OF US DEMOCRACY Up to £10K fine for UK It’s time for Trump, Biden face-off quarantine POTUS suggests pre-debate drug test for ’sleepy’ Joe violators

PIC: LALIT K JHA / Washington The first ever general elections presidential ADITI KHANNA / London penalty for breaking quar- debates were held on September 26, 1960 at the antine after international Republican incumbent President Donald CBS studios in Chicago between the then-sen- People across England will travel. This could increase Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe ator John F Kennedy and then-vice president be required by law from to up to 10,000 pounds for re- Biden are all set to share the stage for the first Richard Nixon. The debate that was televised Monday to self-isolate if peat offences and the most time on Tuesday night when they will be going changed the nature of American politics and they test positive for the serious breaches, including head-to-head in the first of the three presiden- presidential elections for all times to come. coronavirus or face a 1,000- for those preventing others tial debates. Kennedy and Nixon debated four times that pound fine, which increases from self-isolating. Dubbed as the "Super Bowl of American year. Kennedy went on to win the 1960 elec- to 10,000 pounds for repeat The rules come in as in- Democracy", Trump, 74, and Biden, 77, would tions. offenders. fections continue to rise respond to questions on their track record, the In 1987, the non-partisan and non-profit CPD The government said that across the UK but only 18 Supreme Court, economy, race and violence in was established to "ensure for the benefit of as the infection is now per cent of people with cities and integrity of the elections at the Case the American electorate the general election spreading rapidly again symptoms of the deadly Western Reserve University and Cleveland debates between or among the leading candi- across the country, the virus going into isolation, Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio -- a key battleground dates for the officers of president and vice tougher measures are according to a study com- state. president of the United States or a permanent aimed at ensuring compli- missioned by the UK gov- Popular Fox news anchor part of the electoral process" The CPD does not ance and reducing the ernment. would moderate the first debate, which would receive any funding from the government or spread of COVID-19. "As cases rise it is impera- start at 9 pm EST (6:30 am IST). Steve Scully any political party or political action party "These new measures are tive we take action, and we from C-SPAN Networks and Kristen Welker committee or candidate. It has sponsored and about saving lives. Every- are introducing a legal duty from NBC News would moderate the other two produced all general election presidential de- one must take personal re- to self-isolate when told to presidential debates on October 15 in Miami bates since 1988. sponsibility and self-isolate do so, with fines for breach- (Florida) and October 22 in Nashville (Ten- Trump told reporters on Sunday that former New Jersey governor Chris Frank Fahrenkopf, Co-Chair of the CPD, told if they test positive or if es and a new 500 pounds nessee), respectively. reporters at the National Press Club on Sun- told to do so by NHS Test support payment for those Vice President Mike Pence, 61, and Demo- Christie and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani were helping him day that all precautions have been taken in and Trace," said UK Home on lower incomes who can't cratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Har- prepare for the debates. The two were seated in the press briefing room view of the coronavirus pandemic. Secretary Priti Patel. "For work from home while they ris, 55, will participate in the only vice-presi- "There's no clapping, there's no whistling and those who fail to do so, the are self-isolating," said UK dential debate, to be hosted by USA Today jour- along with the White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany during the so forth," he said. Between 50 and 150 million police will enforce the law. Health Secretary Matt Han- nalist Susan Page, in Salt Lake City in Utah on news conference by the president people are expected to watch the televised de- These new fines are a clear cock. "These simple steps October 7. bates. sign that we will not allow can make a huge differ- All the four debates are being organised by According to Kenneth Wollack, co-chair of those who break the rules to ence," he said. the Commission on Presidential Debates one also. His Debate performances have been "I'm willing to take a drug test. I think he CPD, as important as the presidential debate reverse the hard-won Local authorities will set (CPD). The debates would be of 90 minutes du- record setting UNEVEN, to put it mildly. Only should too because he's had a very has been in the US, debates have even a greater progress made by the law- up the Test and Trace Sup- ration. Earlier in the day, Trump in a tweet de- drugs could have caused this discrepancy???" uneven...You know, what I'm saying. If you impact overseas -- in new and emerging democ- abiding majority," she said. port Payment schemes by manded that Biden undergo a drug test before he tweeted. look at some of those debates, I said there's no racies, in particularly, in countries in post-con- Fines for a breach of self- October 12 but those told to the debate. Responding to a question at the news confer- way he could continue. He can't continue," flict political environments. isolation legal require- self-isolate from Monday "I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of ence, Trump reiterated his demand that Biden Trump said. Debates have played a very important role in ments start at 1,000 pounds, will receive backdated pay- Sleepy prior to, or after, the Debate should go for a drug test before the debate. He Biden is yet to respond to the president's the transition process in these countries for in line with the existing ments if they are eligible. on Tuesday night. Naturally, I will agree to take said he will also do the same. tweet. three reasons, Wollack said. Critical risks for fire weather in California

AGENCIES said both Northern and Southern San Francisco California would be exposed to "criti- cal risks for fire weather" until Mon- The US National Weather Service day. (NWS) has issued a red flag warning As a preventive measure, Califor- for nearly all of Northern California nia's biggest utility, PG&E, said it as a heatwave combined with gusty, planned to cut off power to some dry winds have heightened the risk of 65,000 customers through Monday wildfires in the already highly-devas- morning, mostly in the Northern and tated region. Central Sierra but also extending to On Sunday, new wildfires erupted parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. in the region,including the fast-mov- Northern California is also the lo- ing Zogg Fire that burned through cation of the enormous August Com- 7,000 acres in less than five hours plex Fire, which continues to burn near Redding, USA Today reported about 130 miles north of San Francis- citing California Department of co. Forestry and Fire Protection's (Cal The largest wildfire in state history Fire) latest update. has charred more than 873,000 acres Meanwhile, the Glass Fire, which so far since it erupted last month, erupted earlier in the day in the Napa USA Today reported. Valley wine country north of San Neither the August Complex nor Francisco, had scorched over 2,500 the Creek Fire, which has incinerated acres by Sunday evening, the Cal Fire more than 302,000 acres of a forest 60 update added. miles northeast of Fresno, were even ST. HELENA, CALIFORNIA In its forecast on Sunday, the NWS 50 per cent contained until now. Biden’s son Bar shooting kills 11 people in Mexico AGENCIES / Mexico City mation on a possible motive in the attack, is new target but it bore the signs of a drug gang Gunmen killed 11 people, including four killing. women, early Sunday in a bar in the cen- Guanajuato has been the most violent of US Prez tral Mexico state of Guanajuato. state in Mexico in recent years, but au- State prosecutors said the bullet-ridden thorities had hoped the detention of a bodies were found at a bar near the town leader of a local gang on Aug. 2 would POTUS says Hunter of Jaral del Progreso. The area is near the help stem the violence. made money from border with Michoacán state, which has The detained leader of the Santa Rosa de been a point of incursion for the Jalisco Lima gang, José Antonio Yépez Ortíz, was Russia and China cartel, which wants to move into Guana- better known by his nickname "El Mar- juato. Local media reported the four dead ro," which means "The Sledgehammer." women may have been employed as The authorities blamed him for much of LALIT K JHA / Washington dancers at the bar, located on the side of a the violence in the industrial and farming highway. There was no immediate infor- state. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son Hunter received a large • Virus curbs late-night drinking in UK Parliament sum of money from Russia and China, US President • Dubai to restrict nightlife amid virus increase has alleged and said that the main- • Singaporeans slowly return to work stream media is "under- • COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Canada playing" the story. "It's hard to believe, when • Mexico official: Definitive data on COVID-19 you see the kind of money that he (Hunter) has made toll will take 2 years from China, from Russia, • Iran experiences third COVID-19 wave, where the wife of the mayor of Moscow gives him three- identifies 32 provinces as red zones and-a-half million dollars and nobody even has any DASHBOARD question about it," Trump told reporters at a White House news conference on Sunday. According to a Senate Re- publican report released last week, during Biden's tenure as vice president, Hunter, 50, received a USD 3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Ba- turina, the widow of Moscow's former mayor Yury Luzhkov. The report further alleged that Chinese nationals lav- ished Hunter and other mem- Navalny thanks Merkel for her hospital visit bers of the Biden family with money, giving Hunter and AGENCIES / Moscow thorities determined was Biden's brother James credit nerve agent poisoning. cards for a USD 100,000 inter- Russian opposition leader "There was a meeting, but one national shopping spree. Alexei Navalny on Monday shouldn't call it secret," Navalny "If we had a media that confirmed reports that Ger- said in a tweet, referring to me- was fair -- even just reason- man Chancellor Angela dia reports alleging that Merkel able -- this would be the Merkel visited him in a Berlin made a secret visit to the biggest story for years and hospital where he was being Charite hospital where he re- years and years. treated for what German au- mained for 32 days.