MONTH XX (GMT) – MONTH XX (AEST), 2020 YOUR DAILY TOP 12 STORIES FROM FRANK NEWS FULL STORIES START ON PAGE 3 NORTH AMERICA UK AUSTRALIA Trump warns against ‘Sleepy Joe’ Satellites to launch from hub Funds to battle bushfires On the eve of the final presidential Aerospace company Lockheed Martin The NSW government will spend $192 debate of the 2020 campaign, President will transfer its satellite launch operations million on night-time aerial firefighting, Donald Trump has painted a dystopian from Space Hub Sutherland to Shetland new equipment and better mental picture of the United States under Joe Space Centre. Officials say the spaceport health supports for emergency services Biden and congressional Democrats, site could support a total of 605 jobs in as part of its response to the state’s saying “they’ll decide which businesses Scotland by 2024, including 140 locally bushfire inquiry. Premier Gladys can exist and which will be outlawed.” and 210 across the wider Shetland Berejiklian established the inquiry in “They will decide which rights you can region. A further 150 jobs will be created January in the midst of a catastrophic and keep and which are going to be revoked,” through wider manufacturing and unprecedented bushfire season in which Trump said. “They will reeducate your support services, according to the UK 25 people died, almost 2500 homes were children, which they tried and we Space Agency. razed and more than 5.5 million hectares stopped, but they will do it. were burned. NORTH AMERICA UK NEW ZEALAND Voting ‘makes things better’ Residents rescued amid flooding Fishing crew in good spirits Former President Barack Obama has Residents have been rescued from Hundreds of Russian fishing crew at a blasted President Donald Trump’s flooded properties and motorists from COVID isolation hotel in Christchurch are handling of the coronavirus pandemic, cars stranded in water following heavy said to be in good spirits and those who his response to racial unrest and his rain in the north east. The Scottish have the virus are doing well. Eighteen of fundamental unfitness for the job in his Fire and Rescue Service said it was the 237 foreign workers at the Sudima first in-person campaign pitch for Joe called to reports of flooding in Ellon, Hotel are infected with COVID-19. They Biden, his former vice president. With Aberdeenshire. Several appliances were will all be tested again with more positive less than two weeks until Election Day, sent to the scene and residents were cases expected. Sealord is one of the Obama urged voters not to sit out the rescued from six properties. three companies which brought the crew November 3 election. into the country to work on its deep-sea trawlers. 1 MONTH XX (GMT) – MONTH XX (AEST), 2020 YOUR DAILY TOP 12 STORIES FROM FRANK NEWS FULL STORIES START ON PAGE 6 NORTH AMERICA EUROPE AUSTRALIA FBI: Russia, Iran have voter info Hopes fade for missing dolphin Bosses want air travel back US officials are accusing Iran of Hope is fading in the search for Australian businesses are urging state being behind a flurry of emails sent missing Fungie, a celebrity dolphin and federal leaders to restart domestic to Democratic voters in multiple that transformed the economic life of travel by Christmas, warning border battleground states that appeared to a harbour town on the west coast of restrictions are costing $319 million a be aimed at intimidating them into Ireland over four decades. Boats and day. More than 34,000 local aviation voting for President Donald Trump. The a team of divers have been searching workers have been sacked or stood announcement at a rare, hastily called for Fungie after he disappeared off the down during the coronavirus pandemic. news conference just two weeks before coast of Co Kerry more than a week ago. The Business Council of Australia warns the election underscored the concern The resident dolphin has been part of many more jobs are at risk if state border within the US government about efforts the fabric of Dingle since 1983, after he restrictions remain in place. by foreign countries to undermine arrived in the harbour and never left. American confidence in the vote. NORTH AMERICA WORLD NEW ZEALAND Spacecraft collects samples Astronauts return to Earth safely Safety mission for lethal highway NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft crushed A trio of space travelers have safely Officials are launching a campaign rocks and sent rubble flying as it briefly returned to Earth after a six-month to reduce the fatalities on one of the touched an asteroid, a strong indication mission on the International Space country’s most lethal highways. Eight that samples were collected for return Station. The Soyuz MS-16 capsule people have died on the Napier-Taupō to Earth, officials. Scientists won’t know carrying NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Rd (State Highway 5) since December last until next week how much was gathered and Roscosmos’ Anatoly Ivanishin and year, including 37-year-old Tino Tagiilima at asteroid Bennu – they want at least a Ivan Vagner landed on the steppes of just three days ago. RNZ went out on the handful of the cosmic rubble. But close- Kazakhstan southeast of the town of road with police to learn about the issues up pictures and video of the touch-and- Dzhezkazgan at 2:54 GMT Thursday. After on the dangerous road. go operation raised hopes that goal was a brief medical checkup, the three will achieved. be taken by helicopters to Dzhezkazgan from where they will depart home. 2 MONTH XX (GMT) – MONTH XX (AEST), 2020 President Donald Trump. - AP Former President Barack Obama. - AP NORTH AMERICA NORTH AMERICA Trump warns against Obama urges voters ‘Sleepy Joe Biden’ to cast Trump out On the eve of the final presidential debate of the 2020 Former President Barack Obama has blasted President campaign, President Donald Trump has painted a Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, dystopian picture of the United States under Joe Biden his response to racial unrest and his fundamental and congressional Democrats, saying “they’ll decide unfitness for the job in his first in-person campaign which businesses can exist and which will be outlawed.” pitch for Joe Biden, his former vice president. “They will decide which rights you can keep and which are With less than two weeks until Election Day, Obama urged going to be revoked,” Trump said. voters not to sit out the November 3 election. He cast Trump “They will reeducate your children, which they tried and we as uninterested in leading America through the unprecedented stopped, but they will do it. challenges the country is facing. “If you want your children to grow up in a free nation where “He hasn’t shown any interest in doing the work or helping they can speak their minds and practice their religion and live anybody but himself and his friends,” Obama said at a drive-in by their values, then you must defeat Sleepy Joe Biden and the rally of about 300 cars. “This is not a reality show. This is reality, radical left,” Trump told the crowd in Gastonia, North Carolina. and the rest of us have had to live with the consequences of Biden, who has stepped off the campaign trail in favor of him proving himself incapable of taking the job seriously.” debate prep, expects Trump to get personal. The former vice Obama’s visit to Philadelphia underscores the significance of president and his inner circle see the president’s approach Pennsylvania, the swing state that Biden himself has visited the chiefly as an effort to distract from the coronavirus, its most this campaign season. Trump has prioritized the state as economic fallout and other crises. well, and his aides acknowledge that his path to victory would With less than two weeks until Election Day, Biden is leading narrow considerably without the state’s 20 electoral votes. most national polls and has a narrower advantage in the The president was in Erie, one of a handful of Pennsylvania battleground states that could decide the race. counties that Obama won twice before it flipped to Trump. More than 42 million people have already cast their Obama offered a defense of the nation’s decency and ballots. ■ personal validation that Biden and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, can live up to it. “America is a good and decent place, but we’ve just seen so much nonsense and noise that sometimes it’s hard to remember,” he said. “I’m asking you to remember what this country can be … I’m asking you to believe in Joe’s ability and Kamala’s ability to lead this country out of these dark times and help us build it back better.” During his speech and at an earlier roundtable with black men, Obama talked up the Democrats’ plans to confront the coronavirus while dealing with the country’s social and economic tensions, including disparities deeply rooted in racism. ■ 3 MONTH XX (GMT) – MONTH XX (AEST), 2020 An artist’s impression of the future Lockheed Martin UK Pathfinder Launch from Shetland - PA Space Centre. - PA UK UK Satellites to launch Residents and motorists from Shetland hub rescued amid flooding Aerospace company Lockheed Martin will transfer its Residents have been rescued from flooded properties satellite launch operations from Space Hub Sutherland and motorists from cars stranded in water following to Shetland Space Centre. heavy rain in the north east. Officials say the spaceport site could support a total of 605 The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) said it was called to jobs in Scotland by 2024, including 140 locally and 210 across reports of flooding in Ellon, Aberdeenshire.