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WikiLeaks 'reveals' President Obama's personal emails

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October 22, 2016

Washington, Oct 22: WikiLeaks has revealed US President Barack Obama's private email address by publishing hacked emails, in another potentially embarrassing document dump targeting the Democrats, a media report said.

obama"WikiLeaks reveals first batch of US President Barack Obama emails sent via secret address," WikiLeaks, the Julian Assange-founded open secrets site, tweeted on Thursday — implying that even more of Obama's private communications would be released.

According to the New York Post, the site published seven messages involving an email address purported to be that of the commander-in-chief: [email protected].

One exchange was dated the evening of November 4, 2008 — Election Day. John Podesta, co-chair of Obama's transition team, urges Obama not to accept an invitation to a G-20 meeting in November 15 on the global financial crisis should outgoing President George W. Bush invite him that night after Obama is officially elected.

Podesta attached a memo the transition team prepared weighing the pros and cons of going to the summit.

"On the chance that President Bush would raise this with you tonight, I wanted you to be aware that it is the unanimous recommendation for your advisors that you NOT attend," Podesta said.

When the G20 convened in Washington, Obama was absent.

An email message sent on Thursday to Obama's alleged address didn't bounce back immediately — signalling it could still be a working account.

The White House declined to comment. The US intelligence authorities believe Russia orchestrated the widespread cyber attacks into Democratic Party-related emails.

The Obama messages were among some 23,000 emails stolen from Podesta, who now serves as Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, the New York Post reported.

The alleged Obama emails were from 2008 when the young Illinois senator was about to win his historic White House bid and was assembling a transition team. The emails largely address staffing a transition economic team and adding diversity to a future Obama administration.

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March 4,2020

Tokyo, Mar 4: Takeda Pharmaceutical Co said on Wednesday it was developing a drug to treat COVID-19, the flu-like illness that has struck more than 90,000 people worldwide and killed over 3,000.

The Japanese drugmaker is working on a plasma-derived therapy to treat high-risk individuals infected with the new coronavirus and will share its plans with members of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, it said in a statement.

Takeda is also studying whether its currently marketed and pipeline products may be effective treatments for infected patients.

"We will do all that we can to address the novel coronavirus threat...(and) are hopeful that we can expand the treatment options," Rajeev Venkayya, president of Takeda's vaccine business, said in the statement.

Takeda said it was in talks with various health and regulatory agencies and healthcare partners in the United States, Asia and Europe to move forward its research into the drug.

Its research requires access to the blood of people who have recovered from the respiratory disease or who have been vaccinated, once a vaccine is developed, Takeda said.

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February 10,2020

New Delhi, Feb 10: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah's sister on Monday moved the Supreme Court to challenge his detention under the Public Safety Act.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the petitioner, mentioned the matter for urgent listing before a bench headed by Justice N V Ramana.

Sibal told the bench that they have filed a habeas corpus petition challenging the detention of Abdullah under the PSA and the matter should be heard this week.

The bench agreed for urgent listing of the matter.

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February 4,2020

Kolkata, Feb 4: A Thailand national on Tuesday gave birth during a flight from Doha to Bangkok.

The unnamed woman passenger went into labour and delivered the baby with the help of a cabin crew of Qatar airways at around 3 am.

The aircraft made the emergency landing in Kolkata and the woman was admitted to a private hospital here. Both the mother and the baby are doing fine.

"An unscheduled flight from Doha to Bangkok QR-830 landed around 03:09 am at Kolkata airport in medical priority landing. The pilot of Qatar flight had asked SOS to ATC for medical priority landing. The flight landed safely, the airport team with the doctor was attending the concerned." Kolkata Airport official said while speaking to news agency.

More details in this regard are awaited.

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