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In Pennsylvania and other battlegrounds, both parties are succeeding in coaxing infrequent voters off the sidelines. The all-important question is who does it better.
Remnants of 19th-century Bushwick still exist at the William Ulmer Brewery. A castle-like, two-story office is on the market as residences, while other plans have been stalled by the pandemic.
Bernard Arnault, the chairman of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton and the richest man in Europe, is no stranger to public battles.
A generation of young women in Egypt who have found their voice on social media are challenging the old rules that blamed women when they were attacked by men.
The former vice president has been an intermittent consumer of the arts, but cultural leaders credit him as a key source of government financial support.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 2020, covering October 30, 2020.
Taylor Swift
Pop Smoke
21 Savage & Metro Boomin
Juice WRLD
Tom Petty
2020A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.[†]
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.0 occurred on 30 October 2020 about 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of the Greek island of Samos. Although Samos was closest to the epicentre, it was the large Turkish city İzmir, 70 km (43 mi) northeast that was heavily affected—more than 700 residential and commercial structures were seriously damaged or destroyed. One hundred and seventeen people died in İzmir Province while an additional 1,034 were injured. In Greece, there were two fatalities and 19 injured. The earthquake is the deadliest in the year 2020, and the third major earthquake to strike Turkey that year. It generated an unusually large tsunami. The event is called the Samos earthquake by the International Seismological Centre.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]