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Sunday march for George Floyd to be held in Krakow

June 08, 2020

It should be noted that the world will be watching this one closely, as footage of Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for nine minutes has been sadly seared into many people's memories. "Police are trained that this type of restraint with a subject in a prone position is inherently risky", the complaint said. Floyd's family had been fighting for a first-degree murder charge against Chauvin.

‘Completely unacceptable’: Merkel ally slams United States decision to withdraw troops from Germany

June 08, 2020

The German government's coordinator for transatlantic relations has warned that reported plans by the U.S.to withdraw thousands of troops from the country could considerably damage German-U.S. Since the end of the Second World War, US troops have been stationed in Germany ostensibly to defend against a Soviet invasion, and remained there almost three decades after the Warsaw Pact was dissolved and the USSR collapsed in 1991.

US authorities seek to question Prince Andrew over Epstein

June 08, 2020

It was first reported in the Sun that the US Department of Justice had made a formal request to speak to Prince Andrew as part of its Epstein inquiry. Prince Andrew , 60, denies any wrongdoing. In early May, David Boies, an attorney and chairperson for the firm representing over a dozen victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein , said that the Duke of York had ignored at least three written requests to be legally interviewed about his relationship with the deceased wealthy ...

Trump losing ground to Biden amid chaotic week

June 08, 2020

Biden was criticized last month for suggesting during a contentious radio interview with host Charlamagne tha God that those having a hard time "figuring out" whether to support him or President Trump "ain't black". The president has received condemnations from his former secretary of defense, retired Gen. Jim Mattis, and his former chief of staff, retired Gen.

Ontario has just extended all emergency orders again

June 08, 2020

There were 673 people in hospital, including 117 in intensive care and 97 on ventilators. Public Health Ontario reports usually lag behind those of the ministry. The Porcupine Health Unit, which covers Timmins and the surrounding area, still has the highest rate of confirmed cases per 100,000 population. Some 23,947 of those cases are considered resolved.

Czech Republic declares two Russian diplomats persona non-grata

June 08, 2020

Babis cited intelligence as showing the hoax was the result of infighting at the Russian embassy. Moscow, suspected in the 2018 poisoning in Britain of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a nerve agent, has said the alleged poisoning plot against the three Czechs was part of a "disinformation campaign" aimed at discrediting Russia and threatened "serious consequences" to Czech-Russian relations.

New Zealand to lift all domestic COVID-19 restrictions from midnight

June 08, 2020

New Zealand pursued an explicit elimination strategy rather than seeking to merely suppress transmission of the virus. "We nearly certainly see cases here again", she said. The NZ Cabinet will likely move to alert level one following news of no new cases. The country's retail, hospitality sectors, transport and internal travel will also be reopened without limitations.

Five militants killed in encounter with security forces in J&K's Shopian

June 08, 2020

An official said that four militants have been killed in an exchange of fire. The operation, which went on for six hours, was launched after police officials received inputs about the presence of militants in the area, an unidentified officer told PTI.

COVID-19: China reports five new coronavirus cases

June 08, 2020

No deaths from the imported cases had been reported. The NHC also confirmed five new asymptomatic cases, or people who are infected with the virus but do not show symptoms, compared with two the previous day. Two new asymptomatic cases from overseas were also reported on Sunday, it said. However, they pose a risk of spreading the disease to others. Several preventive measures and movement restrictions have been relaxed in recent weeks, although the authorities have maintained a ban on the ...

US Senator Rick Scott accuses China of sabotaging vaccine development

June 08, 2020

What I really believe is whether England does it first or we do it first, we are going to share. He said Beijing "won't cheer" if the USA or the United Kingdom are first to develop a vaccine. US President Donald Trump's administration has accused China of cover-ups and lack of transparency regarding the pandemic. While scientists in China and overseas have kept up with mutual developments, China leads the world in the development of certain types of vaccines, the white paper said.

Delhi Reserves Hospitals For Residents, Opens Borders From Today

June 08, 2020

At a press conference, Kejriwal had also accused some private hospitals of being involved in "black-marketing" of beds, asserting that an order will be issued by the Delhi government stating that hospitals can not deny treatment to such people.

New Zealand eradicates coronavirus, no active cases of Covid-19

June 08, 2020

Suspicions of under-reporting by some countries, as well as differing testing rates and criteria means the true number of cases and deaths is considered likely to be much higher. Only citizens and residents, with some exceptions, are now allowed into the country. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern completely closed the country's borders in mid-March with Australia following suit shortly after.

Barr accuses media of lying about peaceful protesters outside White House

June 08, 2020

When he gave that order, Barr said Sunday, he didn't know Trump would later be speaking. Bernhardt said he made the request to the Defense Department at the request of the Park Police. The next day, a tall black fence was erected around on the north edge of Lafayette Square, and by Thursday, all entrances to Lafayette Park, the Ellipse and other open spaces near the White House had been closed, according to DCist .

World Health Organization warns: 'It's not over'

June 08, 2020

On public transport or other areas where social distancing is hard to maintain, the public should also wear non-medical masks. "People can potentially infect themselves if they use contaminated hands to adjust a mask, or to repeatedly take it off and put it on, without cleaning hands in between", Tedros said.

Tacoma Police killed a Black man. Now his family demands answers

June 08, 2020

Investigators with the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, the agency tasked with conducting an independent investigation into Ellis' death , insisting it was not like the death of Floyd. About 50 seconds later, as an officer relays a message to the sender, a male voice can be heard in the background exclaiming, "I can't breathe". "We heard this on the scanner".

Minneapolis Schools & Universities Sever Ties With Local Police

June 08, 2020

But on Friday morning, she retweeted a thread posted on Twitter by " Reclaim the Block ", a local organization launched in 2018 that calls for divesting from the Minneapolis Police Department and reallocating funds into community health and safety programs.

Global COVID-19 cases top 6.7 mn: Johns Hopkins #100433

June 07, 2020

Critics called the move an extraordinary attempt to hide the true toll of the disease rampaging through Latin America's largest nation. Its case numbers are the second highest in the U.S., with just 1.9 million cases and 108,211 deaths. The independent Worldometer website put the number of fatalities worldwide at 402,678, with 7,005,822 cases around the world. After the USA, the hardest-hit countries are Britain with 40,465 deaths from 284,868 cases, Brazil with 35,930 deaths and 672,846 ...

Europe could be free-travel zone again by July — EU Commissioner

June 07, 2020

The governments did not determine on Friday which nationals from non-Schengen and non-EU countries would be allowed in first. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union but is part of Europe's usually passport check-free Schengen travel area.

World hits 400,000 coronavirus-related deaths; pope speaks out

June 07, 2020

Globally, deaths from the novel coronavirus are approaching 4,00,000. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday (local time) defended his government's move to partially withhold official data on the scale of the world's second-largest coronavirus outbreak.

26-year-old woman deceased following incident involving Edmundston Police Force

June 07, 2020

Moore, an Indigenous woman from the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation on Vancouver Island, reportedly told her boyfriend in Toronto that she was being harassed by someone, which led to him requesting the wellness check. "This is a pattern that keeps repeating itself". "I don't understand how someone dies during a wellness check", Miller said. "I can't process that".

Protesters pull down statue of slave trader and push it into harbour

June 07, 2020

Several petitions have failed to get the statue removed, but the BLM crowd would not be denied and massive cheers went up - from white people too - as it sunk to the bottom of the river. "He was a slave trader and a murderer". The statue was erected in the centre of Bristol in 1895 to commemorate Colston's philanthropy. He is a controversial figure as a big part of his death was accumulated through the trade and exploitation of slaves.

Washington DC mayor emblazons 'Black Lives Matter' on road near White House

June 07, 2020

A " Black Lives Matter " sign is painted on a street, during nationwide protests against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd , in Washington, D.C., June 5, 2020. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has ordered that active duty troops in the Washington, D.C. area should return to their home base of Fort Drum in NY.

Colin Powell Calls Trump a Liar, Says He "Drifted Away" From Constitution

June 07, 2020

And we have to follow that Constitution. "I've worked with him for 35, 40 years". Powell, a moderate who has distanced himself from the Republican party in recent years and did not vote for Trump in 2016, said he would cast his ballot for Biden in November.

230 new COVID-19 cases in Assam, count at 2,473

June 07, 2020

The total number of non-residents testing positive since March is nine, with four transferred to their home counties for isolation, one isolating in Dare County and four recovered or asymptomatically cleared. Cases have been reported at 613 facilities in 45 counties. While the total cases in Ahmedabad rose to 13,968, the number of cases in Surat went up to 2,033 and 1,258 in Vadodara.

Iran dismisses Trump’s offer for talks

June 07, 2020

As he was flying home Thursday, a United States federal judge issued an order to free an Iranian-American doctor, Majid Taheri. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which has been in jeopardy ever since the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018, set a limit of 300kg (661 pounds) of enriched uranium in a particular compound form, which is the equivalent of 202.8kg (447 pounds) of uranium.

Buffalo police officers accused in fall of elderly man plead not guilty

June 07, 2020

The western NY state city saw pockets of looting after dark like many cities across the United States , where countless otherwise peaceful protests were staged in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.

PM Imran Khan warns of more challenges ahead

June 07, 2020

He said Allah Almighty had showered His great blessing on Pakistan by protecting it against the much apprehended bad times, for which, he lauded the role of the people as well as his team for assessing the situation and making right decisions.

'It's complicated', German minister says of ties with U.S.

June 07, 2020

Senior lawmakers from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling conservative bloc on Saturday criticised President Donald Trump's decision to order the US military to remove 9,500 troops from Germany . "Washington should pay more attention to that". Johann Wadephul, a senior member in Merkel's conservative CDU party, said the plan showed that the Trump administration was "neglecting an elementary leadership task: involving alliance partners in the decision-making process".

Michel Barnier insists still no progress in Brexit trade talks

June 07, 2020

Speaking from the European Commission - the EU's powerful unelected executive - in Brussels, Belgium, he continued: "I don't think we can go on like this forever". The EU's insistence on sticking to the political declaration has irked London, which argues that since it is not a legal text, it should be viewed more flexibly.

Family member calls for end to racism, police brutality — George Floyd memorial

June 07, 2020

Pictures from inside George Floyd's memorial service in North Carolina . Chants of "black power" and "no justice, no peace" rang out as the hearse bearing Floyd's coffin arrived at around 9 a.m., according to NBC affiliate WRAL in Raleigh .

George Floyd outrage draws thousands to march on Washington

June 07, 2020

Large anti-racism rallies also took place in a number of other countries. In Australia , there were major protests in the cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. history. "I feel something different about this protest... We want to breathe!" Six buses unloaded several hundred uniformed military personnel, most wearing body armor and carrying shields, at the White House grounds early on Saturday, a Reuters photographer said.

Surfer dies after shark attack in northern NSW

June 07, 2020

The man was surfing at Salt Beach, South Kingscliff when he was bitten by the shark on Sunday shortly after 10am. The surfer, who the Herald said was from the Gold Coast, died at about 10:40. "We found out there was a fatal shark attack on the south side of the rock wall". In April, a shark fatally mauled a 23-year-old wildlife worker on the Great Barrier Reef.

Hundreds fill streets during Prince George Black Lives Matter protest

June 07, 2020

On Saturday, both Dortmund and Bayern continued to speak out against the killing prior to their games against Hertha Berlin and Bayer Leverkusen respectively, Bayern choosing to take to the field wearing black armbands sporting the words " Black Lives Matter ".

Brazil is considering leaving the World Health Organization

June 07, 2020

Brazil reported another 1,005 deaths on June 5 night, while Mexico reported 625 additional deaths. The death toll rose to 1,205 while the number diagnosed surpassed 38,000 with 1,392 new cases. "Other actions are underway to improve the reporting of cases and confirmation of diagnoses". Few days ago, when asked about Brazil's growing number of daily death rate and plans of resuming economy World Health Organization (WHO) spokeswoman Margaret Harris said, " The epidemic , the outbreak , in ...

Demonstrators invoke Black Lives Matter drive to point out racism

June 07, 2020

Demonstrations across the Asia-Pacific, however, were limited by social distancing curbs amid the coronavirus pandemic. Black Lives Matter protests in all the major cities and some regional towns were held on Saturday in solidarity with those in the United States, sparked by the death of African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Landslides in Norway cause houses to be washed into the sea

June 07, 2020

Jan Egil Bakkedal had just prepared himself a sandwich when he heard a huge noise and realized that it was a landslide after which he ran out and filmed it from a nearby hill in Arctic Norway. Being a water resource and energy directorate engineer, his responsibility was to offer guidance to police and provide directions to the rescue team.

George Floyd full autopsy released with family's permission

June 07, 2020

What happened to George Floyd? Floyd's death has sparked huge protests across the U.S. against racism and the police killings of black Americans. George Floyd, the African-American man killed in police custody in the United States, had COVID-19 before his death, an autopsy has revealed.

Donald Trump issues memorandum to protect US investors from Chinese companies

June 07, 2020

Trump also compared the US's testing rate to Germany, which he said had tested four million samples, and South Korea, which he claimed had done about three million so far. The Labor Department reported the country gained 2.5 million jobs in May and the unemployment rate dropped to 13.3 per cent after extremely high job losses the previous months due to coronavirus lockdowns.

North Korea threatens to shut liaison office with South

June 07, 2020

North Korea yesterday promised to abolish the Inter-Korean Liaison Office in retaliation for the launch of defamatory flyers from the South, transported with balloons, into its territory. While Seoul has occasionally sent police officers to obstruct these actions during sensitive times, it'd resisted North Korea's calls to fully ban them saying the activists were still exercising their liberty.

D.C. renames street where Trump held bible 'Black Lives Matter Plaza'

June 07, 2020

Planet Labs shared a stellar photo Friday on Twitter of the mural that spans two blocks of 16th Street. On Monday, Trump militarized the police and used excessive force to gas protesters at Lafayette Park near St. Rose Jaffe, one of the artists in the collective that painted the BLACK LIVES MATTER sign, told AFP it was "about reclaiming the streets of DC".

UK PM Hosts Global Vaccine Summit Virtually

June 07, 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson , who recently recovered from a life-threatening bout of Covid-19 and hosted the summit virtually, said in his closing speech that the world needed a NATO-like worldwide alliance for surveillance and information sharing to "underpin a global alert system so we can rapidly identify any future outbreak".

Egyptian President Announces Cairo's New Peace Initiative for Libya Including Ceasefire

June 07, 2020

He says that Turkey's military intervention in Libya has increased polarization both among Libyans and among countries which are involved in the conflict and have opposing interests. Egypt's president has announced an initiative to end almost a decade of civil war in Libya, backed by the main commander in the oil-rich country's east, whose siege of the capital, Tripoli collapsed this week.

United States accuses China of using Floyd death for propaganda

June 07, 2020

But Johnson's riposte will still wound: If the law goes ahead, he says, he'll offer visas and potential citizenship to all 3 million Hong Kongers who qualify for British National (Overseas) passports, not just the 300,000 who now hold them.

COVID-19: India among 5th worst-hit countries

June 07, 2020

However, India's case fatality rate (CFR) or the proportion of deaths to the total number of cases has been steady at 2.8 per cent, much lower than the global mortality rate of 5.8 per cent, even as the number of cases has continued to see an upward trend.

Coronavirus: Taoiseach announces reopening roadmap acceleration

June 07, 2020

Shops will be allowed to open from Monday with staggered hours, in order to minimise congestion on public transport. He said that the tourism and hospitality sectors will return on 29 June and bars can reopen if they serve food and provide a table service.

Serena Williams Reacts To Husband Alexis Ohanian Stepping Down From Reddit Board

June 06, 2020

He closed out his statement by saying, "I believe resignation can actually be an act of leadership from people in power right now". Ohanian and Williams married three years ago and they have one child. Huffman wrote in a post on the site that "the unacceptable gap" between Reddit's content policy and values has reduced the company's effectiveness in combating hate and racism, and slowed down its response to problems.

Australia Unveils A$680 Mln Package For Housing Market

June 06, 2020

The Australian Government's new HomeBuilder grant will provide eligible owner-occupiers with a $25,000 grant to help build new homes or make substantial renovations to existing homes. Owners won't be able to receive the payment if they intend on building or renovating on their own. The program is demand-driven, but the price tag suggests the government expects about 27,500 people to take up the offer.

Biden clinches Democratic ticket to face Trump in election

June 06, 2020

Asserting that the USA is a nation of values, Biden said that the freedom to speak is a cherished knowledge that lives inside every American nearly from the time one was a kid. But I do know what it's like to be humiliated. "I am used to bullies". But it could also undermine Biden's attempts to rebuild the Obama coalition, which is often loosely defined as minorities and young people, as well as educated Americans and some working-class voters.

Man arrested in India's Kerala over death of pregnant elephant

June 06, 2020

The wild elephant, thought to be 15 years old, died in a river in Silent Valley National Park in Kerala's Palakkad district last week from fatal injuries inside her mouth caused by the explosive-laden fruit. He also demanded her to apologise for making a false statement. "This has resulted in excruciating pain and distress in the region and prevented the animal from taking food and water for almost two weeks".

New advice on wearing face masks issued by WHO

June 06, 2020

The UK largely followed the same line until the transport secretary, Grant Schapps, announced on Thursday that face masks on public transport would be compulsory in the UK, with fines for those who disobeyed. Tedros warned that while masks help protect people from contracting the virus, they can also be an avenue for infection if not handled properly. People can potentially infect themselves if they use contaminated hands to adjust a mask or to repeatedly take it off and put it on without ...

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