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News brief: Big stories of the day

WION Web Team
New Delhi, Delhi, IndiaUpdated: Oct 03, 2018, 08:46 AM IST
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Read the five big stories of the day.

Donald Trump helped his parents dodge millions of dollars in taxes and received far more money from his father's real estate empire than he has claimed in the past, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

The death toll from the powerful earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has crossed 1,300 people, news reports citing the country's disaster management agency officials said Wednesday.

The 'Kisan Kranti Padyatra', which was begun on September 23 by the Bharatiya Kisan Union, finished at the Kisan Ghat in the national capital on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday the reaction to decades-old allegations of sexual assault against his Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh makes it "a very scary time" for young men in the United States.

A United Nations legal expert has voiced concern over India's plan to deport on Wednesday seven Rohingyas to Myanmar where the army is accused of ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority.