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With 11 days remaining before the election, the debate represented perhaps the last opportunity for Mr. Trump to shake up the presidential campaign and claw his way into closer contention against Mr. Biden, who continues to outstrip him in the polls. Hot-button issue: In a year when live broadcasts have shifted online in response to coronavirus concerns, the mute button became even more important.
Under pressure to take a stand on expanding the court, Mr. Biden said he would create a commission to study broad changes to the court system. As new coronavirus cases began to increase again across Europe last month, hospitals were initially spared the mass influx of patients they had weathered this spring.
Some suggested that the virus had become less deadly, or that older, more vulnerable people would be shielded.
But a second wave of serious illness makes it clear: The pandemic is still dangerous and adherence to control measures over the next few weeks will be crucial in preventing hospitals from becoming overrun for a second time this year. Already, Poland has turned its largest stadium into an emergency field hospital.
The numbers of Covid patients in Belgium and Britain have doubled in two weeks. And doctors and nurses in the Czech Republic are falling ill at an alarming rate. What to watch: Some experts worry that countries that let their guard down did not increase hospital capacity during a reprieve from the virus and are not prepared. Deaths in most of Europe have ticked up slowly, and experts say increases in deaths are likely over the next couple of weeks.
Here are the latest updates and maps of the pandemic. Germany reported 11, new cases of the virus on Thursday, the first time it has broken the 10, mark.
Four students at a university in Britain were fined a total of 40, pounds for holding a house party with more than 30 people. But four years of America-first policies have changed the dynamic in ways that will not be reversed easily, our chief diplomatic correspondent writes.
In light of the U. Analysis: A fundamental trust has been broken, and many Europeans believe that U. Three years into the global MeToo movement, women who say they were sexually assaulted by men are going public in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The internationally acclaimed artist Aydin Aghdashloo, who has ties to the ruling elite, is among those accused.
The bank will pay billions in penalties in Malaysia, the U. Copenhagen mayor: Frank Jensen resigned and admitted to harassing numerous women over decades. Maxwell is charged with conspiring with Mr. Epstein in his abuse of minors. Snapshot: A protest against abortion restriction in Krakow, Poland, above, on Wednesday. Lives Lived: Be it spoon bending, mind reading, fortunetelling, ghost whispering, water dowsing, faith healing, U. Randi died at 92 on Tuesday.
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As a member of the UKB, a consortium of 13 university libraries and the National Library in the Netherlands, Utrecht University is a proponent of the benefits of sharing data through WorldCat. WorldCat is the data foundation for WMS. The savings and workflow efficiencies offered by the WMS cloud-based system helps to streamline the Library's back-office processes, improves the management of digital and physical materials and acquisitions, and provides staff with reporting facilities to track key metrics.
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