BREAKING WORLD NEWS

SECURITY WARNING: JUSTIN TRUDEAU IN A UNTOUCHABLE VEST-

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared at a rally in the Greater Toronto Area wearing a bulletproof vest and followed by heavy security detail at a major election rally on Saturday. According to the Canadian Press, Trudeau wore a bulky protective vest under his suit as he addressed the crowd of nearly 2000 at the rally which began 90 minutes after its scheduled start. Trudeau was surrounded by officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted of Police, both, in plain clothes and in tactical gear. The RCMP detail shadowed the Liberal party leader on the stage and interacted with his supporters. That combined with the fact that his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, did not make a scheduled appearance at the event raised concerns. A source within the Liberal Party campaign told the Canadian Press that there security threat, though its nature has yet to be revealed. As the campaign for the Federal elections on October 21 gets closer, and rhetoric and attacks become shriller, the RCMP has been increasingly wary of potential violence on the campaign trail.

INDO-CANADIAN MINISTER SEEKS RE-ELECTION-

Four years after he was famously dubbed Canada's badass defense minister, Harjit Sajjan is locked in a close contest as he seeks re-election to the house of Commons. With less than ten days before the federal elections on October 21, Sajjan is ahead over his Conservative Party rival in Vancouver South but that lead falls within the margin of error, according to 338 Canada, which makes projections for every riding, as constituencies are called in Canada. Sajjan was part of the cohort of four Indo-Canadian ministers, all Sikhs, appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to his Cabinet in 2014. Two of his colleagues appear to have an easier path to victory while the last seems certain to lose his seat.

BREXIT DEADLINE APPROACHES-

OCT 14-

British parliament reconvenes, setting the stage for further attempts by lawmakers to ensure the October 31 deadline for withdrawal is extended in case of a no-deal. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's legislative agenda will be set out by the British monarch in the traditional Queen's Speech. French President Macron will meet European Council chief Donald Tusk in Paris to discuss issues including Brexit.

OCT 15-

European affairs ministers from the EU27 will discuss the state of play of Brexit with an update from EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.

OCT 17,18-

EU government leaders will meet in Brussels for a European Council summit. If a Brexit agreement is struck, it will have to be approved by the British Parliament.

OCT 19-

The British parliament will hold a special sitting on Saturday to decide what to do-or to vote on a deal. In the case of no-deal, a recently passed law makes it necessary for London to ask the EU to extend the deadline from October 31 to January 31-a period in which a national election may be held to try to break the Brexit deadlock. If parliament approves a deal, then it will rush to approve additional legislation needed for Brexit to occur in an orderly manner. Oppositions of Brexit will-march through central London to demand another referendum.

OCT 31-

Unless this deadline is extended, Britain will cease to be an EU member.

FACEBOOK EXPERTS UTILIZE MATH FOR SATISFACTORY TRANSLATIONS-

Originators of machine transfer tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make abroad language to be expected. But now there is a new way: numbers. Facebook researchers say rendering terms into figures and exploiting mathematical similarities between languages is a encouraging avenue- even if a universal communicator a la Star Trek remains a distant dream. Strong automatic translation is a big priority for internet giants. Allowing as many people as possible worldwide to communicate is not just an altruistic goal, but also good business. Google, Facebook, and Microsoft as well as Russia's Yandex, China's Baidu and others are constantly seeking to improve their translation tools. Facebook has artificial intelligence specialists on the job at one of its research labs in Paris. Up to 200 languages are currently used on Facebook, said, Antoine Bordes, European co-director of fundamental AI research for the social network. Automatic translation is presently based on having large databases of identical texts in both languages to work from. But for many language pairs, there just are not enough such parallel texts. That's why researchers have been looking for another method like the system developed by Facebook which creates a mathematical representation for words. Each term becomes a vector in a space of several hundred dimensions. Terms that have close associations in the spoken language also find themselves close to each other in this vector space. For example, if you take the terms cat and dog, semantically they are words that describe a similar thing, so they will be extremely close together physically in the vector space said Guillaume Lample, one of the originators of the system. If you take words like Madrid, London, Paris, which are European capital cities, it is the same scheme.

 A CALCULATED PLAN TO REBALANCE TIES-

The run-up to the second informal summit between India and China in the seaside temple town of Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, was anything, but propitious. It was catchy by angry exchanges between the two nations, mainly over China's perceived support for Pakistan on Kashmir. When President Xi Jinping flew into Chennai on Friday, the expectations of any significant outcomes from the unstructured meeting were not high. While the first day of the two-day summit initially appeared to focus largely on the optics of a televisioned walk through a 1,400-year-old temple complex by President Xi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it became clear later in the evening when the leaders spent more than two and a half hours in a private conversation over dinner-that the two sides were purpose on refashioning their relationship that had been returned to an even keel by the first informal summit in Wuhan previous year. Too much should not be read into a reference in the Indian statement about joint efforts to counter the training, financing, and support for terror groups, at least not until China shows it is willing to ask Pakistan to tackle this issue decisively. Mr. Xi's call for developing military-to-military relations to enhance trust and an invitation to the Indian defense minister to visit China, however, is significant. The biggest take-away was the creation of the economic and trade dialogue mechanism as it will allow the two sides to tackle a range of issues of concern, from India's ballooning trade deficit to the negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement. If nothing else, the two leaders have once again furnished some calculated guidance that can help both sides rebalance their ties, and get down to addressing the more contentious matters.