Retrenched Indian workers of Saudia Arabia's Saad group will start coming back to India beginning today, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said. 

The health condition of Trinamool Congress MP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who was injured in a road accident two days back, showed no improvement today. 

In biggest-ever security breach affecting the Indian banking sector, 32 lakh debit cards of various public and private sector banks are feared to have been 'compromised' by cyber malware attack in some ATM systems, even as the government asked people not to panic. 

National Commission of Women Chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam today said triple talaq is a "highly misused" custom and there was a need for scraping it to protect the rights of Muslim women.

Social networking giant Facebook today said it is witnessing strong growth in the Indian market, adding users at a faster pace than in the US, and the country could become its largest base in coming years.

British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence may turn out to be "the worst thing ever to happen to humanity" despite its potential benefits.

RJ Shubham, the young radio jockey from Nagpur who entertained Radio Mirchi listeners in the city every morning, passed away this morning, soon after hosting show, nagpurtoday.in has reported.   

Reliance Industries today reported a 24 per cent drop in its second quarter consolidated net profit to Rs 7,833 crore as compared to Rs 10,314 crore in the same period a year ago.

As many as eight people, including six women, were killed in a fire cracker mishap at the fireworks hub of Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, today. 

The UK today said it will posthumously pardon thousands of gay and bisexual men convicted under now-abolished sexual offences law. 

The Gujarat high court today acquitted 14 persons out of 31 convicted by a lower court and confirmed life sentence of 17 others, in the 2002 post-Godhra Sardarpura massacre case in which 33 people were burnt alive. 

Just In: BSE Sensex climbs 145.47 pts to end the day at 28,129.84; Nifty gains 40.30 pts to 8,699.40.

A local court in Chennai today acquitted MDMK founder Vaiko of sedition charges and held him not guilty of supporting the banned terror outfit LTTE in a case dating back to 2008. 

Just In: Eight persons killed in fire cracker mishap in Sivakasi. Details soon.

A record 200 million people in the US have registered to vote in the November 8 presidential election, according to a Democratic political data firm which cited aggressive registration activity especially in key battleground states. 

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has cautioned the Narendra Modi government that she would not accept a repeat of New Delhi's chest-thumping violation of her country's territory last year, hours after junior home minister Kiren Rijiju publicly revived memories of that surgical strike. Read more

The internet never forgets and AAP leader Kumar Vishwas reminds BJP's new leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi of this 2014 tweet: Rita Bahuguna Joshi @RitaBJoshi  11 Dec 2014: "Traitors are those who call #Godse, the assasin of Mahatma,a Nationalist.#Mr Modi sack Sakshi Maharaj else accept you agree with him.

Congress spokesperson Raj Babbar hits out at Rita Bahuguna Joshi, who quit the party to join the BJP today.


"The BJP's agenda is to get all traitors together. Her joining the BJP won't affect us. This is 4th/5th time Rita Bahuguna Joshi has changed her family. Likely next election she might campaign for some other party. Ye itihaas ki professor thi, shayd yehi karan hai ki ye apne parivaar ke itihaas ko dohrane mei chook nahi rahi hai."


On being asked if the Congress will be retrospecting on Joshi's exit and her remarks on Rahul's inability to lead the party or the nation, Babbar said, "They are not against Rahul Gandhi. They are against what Rahul Gandhi represents. He is against satraps. He is for a party of the people. People who leave want to be satraps."

Addressing a press conference, Rita Bahuguna Joshi today said she had resigned from the Congress today and joined the BJP. "It was a well thought out decision, which I made considering the good of the nation and what is beneficial to the country.

She said she was pained when the Congress questioned the surgical strikes and Rahul Gandhi's use of words like Khoon ki dalali.

She said there was nobody listen to grass-root workers in the Congress anymore. She lambasted Prashant Kishor, the Congress campaign manager in UP, and said he can be a poll manager, but not a poll director.

In a stinging criticism of Rahul Gandhi, she also added, "There is nothing hidden about Rahul Gandhi's leadership qualities. His leadership is not accepted in UP, forget about the nation.  Sonia Gandhi at least used to listen to us, never mind whatever decisions she took later."

Former Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi joined the BJP  today in the presence of BJP president Amit Shah. A huge loss to the Congress ahead of the state elections due early 2017.


Addressing a press conference, Rita Bahuguna Joshi said, "I have resigned from the Congress today and joined the BJP. It was a well thought out decision, which I made considering the good of the nation and what is beneficial to the country.

"I have served the Congress for 24 years. I was pained when after the surgical strikes the Congress questioned the strikes and Rahul Gandhi used the words, Khoon ki dalali. The Modi government made a big contribution to national security by conducting the surgical strikes. How could the Congress ask for proof of the strikes? The army should get our support not be asked questions.

She said there was nobody listen to grassroot workers in the Congress anymore. She lambasted Prashant Kishor, the Congress campaign manager in UP, and said he can be a poll manager, but not a poll director. "He would direct our every move. Where we should sit, walk, eat...  "

In a stinging criticism of Rahul Gandhi, she said, "There is nothing hidden about Rahul Gandhi's leadership qualities. His leadership is not accepted in UP, forget about the nation.  Sonia Gandhi at least used to listen to us, never mind whatever decisions she took later."

"The SP, BSP is looting the nation and it is not possible for the Congress to stop it. I am a disciplined solider, I will do whatever is asked of me.

The Congress has so far denied that the 67-year-old Lucknow Cantonment legislator would follow her brother, former party leader and ex-Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna, to the BJP.

The Vice Chancellor of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and other officials were allowed to leave their office after over 20 hours as they spent the night surrounded by hundreds of students protesting over missing student Najeeb Ahmed. The police have announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for any information on Ahmed.

Vice-chancellor Jagadesh Kumar told ANI in a telephonic conversation this morning that it is wrong on the part of the students to gherao him and other officials. "We are also concerned that Najeeb Ahmad is missing. We have talked to police also but gheraoing me and other officials is wrong. Students have gheraoed us since 2.30 p.m. yesterday. We had to sleep on floor and there is no food to eat. Students are not even allowing wives of officials to meet," he added.


The protesters want the university to try harder to find Najeeb, who went missing after a brawl at his hostel on Friday night.


The Left-linked All India Students Association has alleged that before he vanished, Ahmed was beaten up by activists of the ABVP, which is linked to the ruling BJP.

'There is an effort of painting the entire problem as religious one.'That Jammu and Kashmir is the way it is because the valley has radicalised. I would be the first person to accept that there is a greater element of radicalism today than it was 25 years ago, but to suggest the entire valley of Kashmir is radicalised and everything you see on the ground is because radical Islam has suddenly taken over is not true."

Omar Abdullah, former J&K chief minister, explains why 'the situation in J&K is very worrisome.' Read Archana Masih/Rediff.com's report from the Kasauli Literature festival.

A man has been sentenced for pulling off a Muslim woman's hijab and shouting "this is America" on a flight. Gill Parker Payne, from Chicago, was fined 815 and ordered to a year's probation including two months of home detention. Read more

Slamming Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his refusal to commit that he will accept the results of the November 8 polls, top American newspapers today described his remarks as a "contempt" for democracy.


"Trump's breathtaking repudiation of American democracy," screamed The Washington Post in its lead editorial, while The New York Times described this as a "contempt" for democracy.


"Mr Trump's meltdown in the closing weeks could be dismissed as a sore loser's bizarre attempt at rationalising his likely defeat. But his trashing of the democratic process, in service of his own ego, risks lasting damage to the country, and politicians of both parties should recoil from him and his cynical example," The New York Times editorial board said.


"The presidential debate was another exercise in narcissism, bombast and mendacity by Mr Trump. One could only hope that this might be the last grand display of his gross unfitness to be president," the major US daily said.


In his third debate, Trump said he would "look at the time" when asked if he would accept the results of the November 8 presidential elections. The Washington Post said though Clinton made some gaffs during the debate, but "they fade to the status of trivia in the face of an opponent who will not accept the basic rules of American democracy.


"Mr Trump's biggest mistake was his refusal to say he would accept the election results if he loses," The Wall Street Journal said. "Mr Trump made it worse by saying 'I will keep you in suspense'," the daily said.


"Voters on the right and left want to have faith in the electoral system. Mr Trump's statement makes us wonder if Mr Trump and adviser Steve Bannon are planning to blame everyone else if he does lose," The Wall Street Journal said. Trump's vice presidential running mate Mike Pence said that he is taking a wait-and-see approach before deciding to accept the results of the elections. "He'll take a wait-and-see approach," he told MSNBC in a post-debate interview.

The President of the Producers Guild Mukesh Bhatt met Home Minister Rajnath Singh today over the threats to the release of Karan Johar's Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Bhatt said he felt relieved after meeting the Home Minister. "I feel relieved after meeting Rajnath-ji. The Home Minister told us 'you will have a great Diwali'. I feel I am protected, I am safe. The law and order machinery will look after us.


Bhatt said Rajnath said he would speak to every single chief minister to ensure law and order is maintained. "The govt will see to it that Ae Dil is released without violence. It's a Diwali release, everybody needs to be entertained," Bhatt said.


On the reports that Pakistan had banned Indian films and TV serials, Bhatt said, "We don't know politics. All this makes no difference if Pakistan bans our films. Our films have a global release."


He said he had a message for the MNS, which was to let bygones be bygones.

Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has threatened to attack cinemas in Mumbai that show the film.

Reacting to the cornering of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar and other officials by the varsity students protesting over a missing student Najeeb Ahmad, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Thursday said "It seems that some students go to JNU not for studying, but for doing politics only."


"It is very wrong to confine the vice-chancellor and other officials of the university. JNU is a big institution. Students should concentrate on studies. They should carry all their activities within the frameworks of law and order," Rijiju told reporters. "I have spoken to Rajnath Singh about the incident," he added.


Vice Chancellor Kumar in the meanwhile has issued an ultimatum to students to let the administration work and said that he is determined to conduct the scheduled academic council, the highest policy making body, meeting at 2.30 p m on Thursday at a different venue.The top brass of JNU, including the VC, rectors and chief proctor have been "illegally confined" in the building for over 22 hours now. Kumar said that if they are stopped from performing their duty (attending the AC meeting) "law will take its own course."


"We have been confined illegally in the administration building since 2.30pm yesterday (Wednesday). We had a series of meeting with the students explaining the number of steps that we have taken in search of the missing student. However the students are very adamant and not letting us go out of this building. They said they have several demands and the administration has to concede those," he said addressing a press conference.


"One of the demands is that we should contact the police which we have already done. We have written several letters to the police and our officials are in regular touch with the police in search for Najeeb Ahmed. The other demand that was made is that the entire incident should be investigated.


The chief proctorial office is already investigating and if anyone is found guilty we have assured the agitating students that they will be punished as per the university rules. Students also demanded from the administration to make an appeal to Najeeb to return which we already have done," he added.


Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today spoke to Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Kumar Verma and asked him to submit a report on the whole episode.Meanwhile, Delhi Police has announced a cash reward of Rs 50,000 on any information on the missing JNU student.Meanwhile, no trace of Najeeb Ahmad was found even on the sixth day after he went missing on October 15.


Ahmad was allegedly assaulted by ABVP activists on October 14 during a mess election campaign at Mahi-Mandvi hostel. From the next day, he was nowhere to be found.According to students, he left the hostel without his wallet, mobile and even his footwear.

Pakistan's media regulatory authority decides to enforce complete ban on Indian TV & radio contents from tomorrow.

Rocky Yadav, son of suspended JD(U) MLC Manorama Devi and accused of killing teenager Aditya Sachdeva was granted bail by the Patna High Court.

In the Gaya road rage case, accused Rocky Yadav, son of JD(U) MLC Manorama Devi and dreaded gangster Bindi Yadav, had gunned down 16-year-old Aditya Sachdeva who had allegedly overtaken Rocky's SUV while he was coming back home from a birthday party.

When Aditya and his friends had overtaken Rocky's SUV, an angry Rocky chased them and then gunned down Aditya.

Shyam Sundar, Aditya's father reacted saying, "Very bad day for Bihar, I appeal to the government to take some measures to save Bihar from jungle raj."

Rocky Yadav's MLC mother Manorama Devi and gangster father Bindi Yadav were also arrested, but were also released on bail earlier.

Adityas mother, Chand Sachdeva told Mohammed Khan/Rediff.com: "How can a murderer, who confessed to his crime and was denied bail by a lower court be granted bail?  The Patna High Court should explain on what basis Rocky was granted bail."


File pic of Rocky Yadav (face covered)

Militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen has asked migrant Kashmiri Pandits, who were forced to flee the Valley in early 1990 after the eruption of militancy, to return to their homes, assuring protection to them, and also said it was planning to raise a group of Sikh youths.


"We request Kashmiri Pandits to return to their homes. We take responsibility of their safety," Zakir Rashid Bhat alias 'Musa', the self-styled commander of the militant outfit, said in a brief video message released yesterday.


Thousands of Kashmiri Pandits were forced to flee the Valley after they were targeted by militant groups during the outbreak of militancy and have been living in Jammu and other parts of the country.


"They should look at those Pandits who never left Kashmir. Who has harassed or killed them?" asked slain militant Burhan Wani's 'successor'.


Dressed in military camouflage and fiddling with a grenade in the video, Bhat, who dropped out of engineering course from a Punjab college and joined Hizbul Mujahideen some years back, also gave a bizzare argument that Pandits were forced out of the Valley under a planned strategy to target Muslims.


He claimed that the government was planning to take action in the Valley in an operation similar to 'Operation Blue Star' in Punjab. Bhat revealed in the 1.38 minute video that the militant was planning to raise an exclusive group of Sikh youths in the outfit.


"Our Sikh brothers are requesting us to join Hizbul Mujahideen'. We are with them on every front and God willing, we will try and make an exclusive group for Sikhs in the outfit," he said.


About the latest trend of weapon snatching in the Valley, especially in south Kashmir districts, he said, "Many youths have taken to Jihad, snatched the weapons and joined our ranks."


Two green banners with religious slogans and as many weapons on both sides behind him could also been seen in the video which was shot at an unknown location.


Image: A group of Kashmiri Pandits performs prayers at the mountainous North East Harmukh Range at Ganderbal.

Just in: Karan Johar will not be in delegation to meet HM Rajnath Singh, Dharma Productions's Apurva Mehta and Fox Star's Vijay Singh will be there, Mukesh Bhatt tells ANI.

In yet another incident of ceasefire violation, Pakistani forces resorted to heavy firing and shelling in Poonch District along the LoC and Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir last night.


"Detail checking revealed that the firing at International Border in Kathua was an attempted forced infiltration bid by a group of six terrorists, foiled," Border Security Force (BSF) official said.


The Pakistani forces also started unprovoked firing on Indian posts in Bobiya area of Hirangar sector along the International Border in Kathua around 11:30 p.m. yesterday.The troops guarding the borderline retaliated the firing and the exchange of fire lasted for about four hours. There is no report of any casualty or injury on the Indian side.


Representational picture

As protest in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) turns volatile with students blocking the administrative building and locking up the vice-chancellor and other officials over the missing student, varsity vice-chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar on Thursday said the move by the protesting students was 'unfortunate and illegal'.


Vice-chancellor Jagadesh Kumar told ANI in a telephonic conversation that it is wrong on the part of the students to gherao him and other officials. "We are also concerned that Najeeb Ahmad is missing. We have talked to police also but gheraoing me and other officials is wrong. Students have gheraoed us since 2.30 p.m. yesterday. We had to sleep on floor and there is no food to eat. Students are not even allowing wives of officials to meet," he added.


Yesterday, also at around 1.30 a.m., the VC tweeted, "Since the students did not let us go home inspite our appeal, we have no other option but be confined to the administration building".


Meanwhile, no trace of missing Najeeb Ahmad was found even on the sixth day after he went missing. Ahmad was allegedly assaulted by ABVP activists on October 14 during a mess election campaign at Mahi-Mandvi hostel. From the next day, he went missing. According to students, he left the hostel without his wallet, mobile and even his footwear.


Representational picture of students protesting outside JNU

When I last spoke to Rick Perlstein, the historian of modern conservatism, Donald Trump had shocked the country by rising to the top of Republican primary polls. He hadn't yet won a single state, however, and the thought of him as the GOP nominee still seemed absurd. Now, with three weeks until the election, Trump's unprecedented candidacy has upended American politics. It has also riven the Republican Party, an organization that Trump ostensibly leads and quite clearly has no use for. Read more

Malik Obama is exactly the kind of man that Donald Trump says he'd like to keep out of the United States. He's a Muslim. He comes from Kenya, a country that has been racked by unrest in recent years and has been the target of terrorists from Somalia, who have fashioned themselves as Islamists. He currently has between three and 12 wives -- he won't say exactly how many -- and, clearly, doesn't adhere to traditional American family values, however you might define them.


But Malik Obama is a naturalized U.S. citizen, and he's the half brother of the current U.S. president. Most importantly, however, he is an ardent supporter of Donald Trump. At the Trump campaign's request, Malik Obama will be in the audience of tonight's presidential debate in Las Vegas, allowing Trump and his faithful to collectively thumb their nose at President Obama and his favored successor, Hillary Clinton.  Read more

Karan Johar has a supporter in  Vineet Jain, MD of the Times of India, who tweeted yesterday, "This is ridiculous.why just stop films? What about 20000 cr business between India and pak. shall we stop that too?"

Filmmaker Karan Johar on Tuesday released a video statement in which he said that "he will not engage with talent from Pakistan."

After various attacks and call for boycotts by various political parties on Karan Johar's 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil', the film's release seems to have been jeopardized.

On to other news: Filmmaker Karan Johar to meet home minister Rajnath Singh today to discuss the Ae Dil Hai Mushkil controversy. A delegation from the Producers Guild will also be accompanying Johar.


The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has vowed to ratchet up its campaign to intimidate and vandalise cinema halls against the screening of Karan Johar's Ae Dil Hai Mushkil featuring Pakistan actor Fawad Khan.


Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Wednesday sought to send out a message that the state would firmly deal with the protests.


Johar has issued a video statement that he would not "engage talent from neighbouring country given the circumstances."

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump today cited India and China's high growth rates to compare them with America's economy, which he said is "dying", as he slammed his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's plans to boost the economy and called her tax plan a disaster.


As the two candidates came face-to-face for the third and final presidential debate at the University of Nevada, just three weeks before the elections, they sparred on issues concerning the economy, nuclear weapons, Russia and their fitness to be US President.


"So I just left some high representatives of India. They are growing at eight per cent. China is growing at seven per cent, and that for them in the catastrophically low number. We are growing our last report came out, it's right over from the one per cent level. And I think it's going down," Trump said in response to a question on the economy asked by moderator Chris Wallace of the Fox News.


He said America's job reports is "anemic"and "terrible" and the country is losing its businesses. "Last week, as you know, the end of last week, they came out with an anemic jobs report.


A terrible jobs report," he said. "We are not making things any more, relatively speaking. Our product is pouring in from China, pouring in from Vietnam, pouring in from all over the world," he said. Trump also blamed Clinton's husband former president Bill Clinton for putting in place the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) agreement, saying it "is one of the worst deals ever made of any kind of signed by anybody."

The tweet from a plane from a San Francisco-based writer that's taking Twitter by storm.

Caroline paul @carowriter "Democracy." October 20, 2016 8:37am.

Things Donald Trump has called rigged when the results don't go his way. 

Back in India, Manoj Nayak, trustee of Sikshya O Anusandhan Charitable Trust, surrenders in connection with SUM Hospital fire that killed 21 people in Bhubaneshwar: Police Commissioner Y B Khurania.

Hillary Clinton won the final presidential debate.

52% to 39% for Donald Trump, according to a CNN/ORC poll of debate watchers. There was a plus or minus 4 percentage point margin of error.


The sample of debate watchers were 36% Democratic and 29% Republican, making them slightly more Democratic than an average poll of all Americans.Trump did outperform expectations, however.

Nearly 6 in 10 viewers said he did better than expected, whereas 44% said the same of Clinton.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was in the debate hall with his running mate, Donald Trump. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine was campaigning in North Carolina while Hillary Clinton debated.


Senator Tim Kaine @timkaine Hillary just showed us why she'll make such a great president. I couldn't be prouder to be her running mate.


Mike Pence @mike_pence When @realDonaldTrump becomes president, we are going to repeal and replace Obamacare lock, stock and barrel.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump tweets the end of the debate with inanity: "That was really exciting. Made all of my points. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, says Trump WILL accept the results of the election. 

Former Republican veep nominee Sarah Palin, says when asked about accepting the results of the election, "If they're legit results then of course they'll be accepted."

It's going to be a shoo-in for Clinton, but let's wait for the CNN poll results of the third debate. 

Two Republican senators have condemned Trump's refusal to say he will accept the result of the election. Arizona's Jeff Flake and now Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. This is what he says. 

Trump has departed the debate venue, his campaign tells his assigned media pool. Clinton is also leaving the debate hall.


Disaster for the Republican candidate and the possible death knell when he said he won't commit to accepting the election results and when he called Clinton, "Nasty woman." That's a disgrace. 

CNN commentator says Trump has displayed an appalling  lack of patriotism and says you can't polish a turd. What brought that on is Trump's statement that he will keep in suspense if he will accept the election results.

@PGourevitchnothing in this debate, nothing in this campaign, nothing in this country matters as much as Trump rejecting USA's 240 year democratic order.


Lois Beckett @loisbeckett The five words that matter most in this debate: "I'll keep you in suspense."


Jennifer Senior @JenSeniorNY "You are such a nasty man"'"Something Hillary could never, in a thousand years, say on a stage.


southpaw @nycsouthpaw Not only is the man a menace to our democracy, he can't even stay on the same page with his campaign and his immediate family.

The biggest takeaway from this last and final debate is Trump saying he would keep the country in suspense as to whether he will accept the election result!


And the most retweeted tweet: Donald J Trump @realDonaldTrump Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow - if so, will he become my new best friend? 8:47 AM - 19 Jun 2013.


Clinton called Trump Putin's puppet tonight.

Clinton: I'm reaching out to all Americans because we need everybody. Let me speak directly to the camera. We need your talents. I've seen the presidency up close. Responsibility and opportunity. I have made the cause of children and families my life's work. That will be my mission. Families against corporate interests. Give me a chance.



Trump: She's raising the money from the people she wants to control. Doesn't work that way. We're going to make America great again. We have a depleted military. Take care of our veterans. Policemen and women disrespected. Inner cities.. shot walking to the store. All she's done is talk to the African Americans and the Latinos. We are going to make America strong again... it has to start now. "We cannot take four more years of Barack Obama and that's what you get when you get her.


Clinton does what she does at the end of every debate: Smiles broadly 

Clinton: We need to add to the social security trust fund by raising taxes on the wealthy. We want to...


Trump interrupts her: Such a nasty woman.

Trump on the debt: I'm going to create a bunch of jobs and hit 6% growth with my tremendous economic machine. I'm going to create the kind of country that we were from the standpoint of industry. We have the greatest business people in the world... we use political hacks. We have to use our great people. Will there be closing statements? This all seems to be ending so... irresolutely.


Clinton: When I hear Donald talk like that I wonder when he thought America was great. He says before me and Obama. But "He has been criticizing our country for decades. In 1987 he took out a $100,000 ad in the New York Times, when Ronald Reagan was president, and said exactly what he said just now.

Clinton: If you look at the debt, I pay for everything I'm proposing... we'll have what economists call middle-out growth... I want to invest in you, I want to invest in your family... he started off as a millionaire...

Trump: I've heard that before.

Wallace wants to talk about the national debt. This is the final segment.

Topic: Foreign hot spots (No-fly zone for Syria)

Clinton: I am not going to let anyone into this country who is not vetted... but I am not going to slam the door on women and children... that picture of that little 4-year-old boy with blood coming down his face... that is haunting.


Clinton says that the Pulse Nightclub shooter "was born in Queens, the same place Donald was born. Let's be clear about the threat. 

ISIS, Syria, Iraq, Aleppo on the agenda.

Wallace: Would you use US troops in Syria or Iraq?

Trump: Mosul's so sad. We had Mosul. About three months ago, I started reading, that they're going to attack... whatever happened to the element of surprise... these people have all left.


Trump says the only reason Iraq is going into Mosul is because Clinton is running for president. She wanted to look tough.


Clinton says she's "encouraged" by the special forces helping Iraqi troops but will not support putting troops on the ground, adding that it's not in US interests.

Trump: Syrian refugees in the US are a Trojan horse, see where it gets us. Lots of luck Hillary. Thanks a lot, you're doing a great job.

Clinton beams.

Campaigning in Colorado a few days ago, Trump hinted at a "now or never" approach. "We've only just begun to fight, believe me," he said. "This is our final shot, folks. In four years it's over. You're never going to be able to win. It's tilting. It's going to be a one-party system. This is your final shot."

Clinton says Trump began complaining that the Emmy awards were rigged when he didn't win one.


Trump interjects with a smile saying, "Should've got it."

Trump: What I've seen is so bad, the media is so bad... the pile-on is so amazing, and they've poisoned the minds of the voters, but unfortunately for them the voters have seen through them.


Wallace asks him if he will accept the results: I will tell you at the time... I will keep you in suspense.


What Trump is saying in fact is that he has no faith in the US electoral system or the voters or the peaceful transition of power, a hallmark of every democracy.

Wallace: Will you accept the result of the election?

Trump: I will look at it at the time.

Trump says the Trump foundation money goes to charity. He denies foundation funds were used to pay a penalty to Palm Beach County for a zoning-violating-flagpole.


Clinton: "He hasn't released his tax returns. He's the first candidate... everything he says about charity or anything else, you can't prove it... what we have learned... he has not paid a penny in federal income tax.

Clinton: He went after Mr and Mrs Khan. He went after John McCain... a federal judge born in Indiana...because his parents are Mexican.

Trump believes offence is the best form of defence so he digresses from sexual misconduct to the Clinton email scandal. "Nobody has more respect for women than I do. And frankly those stories have been debunked. I want to talk about something slightly different -- the 33,000 deleted emails. She's lied hundreds of times. And she gets away with it? That's what you should really be talking about, not fiction.


Clinton: Every time Donald is pushed, he immediately goes to denying responsibility, and it's not just women. He never apologizes... he also went after a disabled reporter...

Trump: Wrong.

Clinton: At the last debate, we heard Donald talking about what he did to women. And we had a number of women coming forward saying that's what he did to them.

Clinton says Trump said that he could not have possibly done that because they weren't attractive enough.


Trump says he did not say that.

Clinton: Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger... I don't think there's a woman out there who doesn't know what that feels like.

Clinton says that's who Donald is and the country has to stand up and declare its own identity. America is great because America is good, and it really is up to all of us to make that true.'

Wallace asks Trump about the nine women who have accused him in recent weeks of groping and or kissing them. "Why would they do that?"

Trump: The stories were all totally false, and I didn't even apologize to my wife, who is sitting right here, because I didn't even do anything.



Image: Summer Zervos, a former contestant on the TV show The Apprentice, is embraced by lawyer Gloria Allred (left) while speaking about allegations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Reuters

The gossipy part of the debate: Trump's sex scandal.

Wallace asks Trump about his history of sexual abuse and asks Clinton about her husband.

Trump says stories of women who have accused him of inappropriate sexual assault have been largely debunked. "Those stories have been largely debunked... I dont know those people. I have a feeling it was her campaign that did it."

Hillary Clinton comes back with: Donald Trump "used undocumented labor to build Trump Tower."

Trump: The one thing you have over me experience, but it's bad experience. You talk , but you don't get anything done. When you were secretary of state, $6 billion was missing. How can it go missing. If we could run my country the way I run my company, we would have a country we could be proud of.

"If you become president this country is going to be a mess, believe me."

Wallace: How will you create more jobs and growth?

Clinton: When the middle class thrives the country thrives. Biggest jobs program since WWII. New jobs. Clean energy. Clinton says Trump could cost the country 3m jobs because his whole plan is to cut taxes on the wealthy. She calls it "trickle-down economics on steroids.'


Wallace tells Clinton her jobs plan was like the Obama stimulus plan which did not produce strong growth.


Trump interrupts saying, "Right!"

Trump is basically telling the American people to vote for him because Vladimir Putin doesn't respect Hillary.

Trump: Hillary Clinton has been proven to be a liar, this is just another lie. Putin has outsmarted Clinton every step of the way. She doesnt like Putin coz he has outsmarted her in Syria.

Hillary: Trump is a person who has been very cavalier about the use of nuclear weapons...which I think is terrifying. He'd rather believe Putin than intel agencies of our country.


Moderator Chris Wallace from Fox News asks Trump: Do you condemn any interference by Russia?

Trump: By Russia or anybody else? Of course I condemn. I don't know Putin... Let me tell you Putin has outsmarted her and Obama every single step of the way.

Trump points out that Barack Obama has increased deportations. "We even have a country or we don't. ... Now you can come back in and you can become a citizen."

Russian president Vladimir Putin up for debate.

This is a particularly important debate. After the first two vitriolic presidential debates, much of which were spent trading insults and discussing sexual assault allegations rather than policies, the third could top the lot as Trump battles to make up lost ground on his rival.

Trump says that Hillary Clinton wanted the wall. (Trump has said he will put up a wall on the US-Mexico border if he comes to office.)

Clinton asked to comment says, "I voted for border security and there are some limited places where that was appropriate.. but it is clear when you look at what Donald has been proposing... that he has a very different view about what we should do. We will not have open borders, we will have secure borders."

On immigration: Nothing divides the two as much as immigration.

Trump: Clinton wants to "give them amnesty.' He says four mothers in the crowd have children who were killed by "illegal immigrants.' "You have no borders you have no country.'


I was up in New Hampshire..many of the problems caused by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama...heroin. We have to have strong borders. I'm going to build a wall. We need a wall... we stop the drugs. .. one of my first acts would be round up all of the drug lords ... and we're going to get them out.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have taken to the stage in Las Vegas for the third and final debate in an increasingly bitter race for the United States presidency.

Jihadist leaders are fleeing Mosul, a top US general in the coalition battling the Islamic State group said on Wednesday as Iraqi forces closed in on the northern city.