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Police back off as peaceful protests push deep reforms

Police back off as peaceful protests push deep reforms

Minneapolis:  Calls for deep police reforms gained momentum as leaders in the city where George Floyd died at the hands of police pushed to dismantle the entire department. Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests demanding a reckoning with institutional racism that have sometimes resulted in clashes with police, but many officers took a less aggressive stance […]

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UN headquarters preparing for three-phase reopening to ‘new normal’ amid COVID-19

UN headquarters preparing for three-phase reopening to ‘new normal’ amid COVID-19

United Nations:  The sprawling United Nations headquarters, which has remained largely closed since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is preparing to re-open in three phases with new workplace measures being put in place for staff, diplomats and journalists that will include maximum two-person occupancy in elevators and wearing masks in common areas. As New […]

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Business economists expect worst slump since 1940s

Business economists expect worst slump since 1940s

Washington: Business economists expect the United States to suffer its worst downturn this year in more than seven decades before growth resumes sometime next year. Overhanging that forecast, though, is the risk that a second wave of the coronavirus could threaten the economy once again. A survey released Monday by the National Association for Business […]

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Thousands rally in Europe against racism, police brutality

Thousands rally in Europe against racism, police brutality

Berlin: Thousands of people took to the streets of Barcelona, Madrid and Rome on Sunday in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has drawn large protests against racism and police brutality around the world. The rally in Rome’s sprawling People’s Square was noisy but peaceful, with the majority of protesters wearing masks to […]

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Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 400,000

Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 400,000

London:  The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 400,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University that health experts say is still an undercount because many who died were not tested for the virus. The milestone was reached Sunday, a day after the Brazilian government stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths […]

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Killing of Palestinian with autism a “tragedy”: Israeli PM

Killing of Palestinian with autism a “tragedy”: Israeli PM

Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called the deadly police shooting of an unarmed Palestinian man with autism a “tragedy,” although he stopped short of apologizing for the incident. Netanyahu’s remarks were the first he’s made since police in Jerusalem’s Old City shot and killed Eyad Hallaq last week. The 32-year-old Palestinian with […]

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Biden clinches Democratic presidential nomination to challenge Trump in November polls

Biden clinches Democratic presidential nomination to challenge Trump in November polls

Washington: Former vice president Joe Biden, a votary for strong US-India relations, has formally become the Democratic presidential nominee to run for the White House against President Donald Trump in the elections in November. Biden, 77, on Friday night took his tally of pledged delegates over the halfway mark of 1,991 from a total of […]

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Trump’s response to Floyd protests has language associated with racial segregationists: UN experts

Trump’s response to Floyd protests has language associated with racial segregationists: UN experts

United Nations:  US President Donald Trump’s response to protests against the killing of African-American George Floyd has included language “directly associated with racial segregationists” from America’s past, a group of UN human rights experts have said. There have been widespread protests across the United States as Floyd, 46, was killed by a white police officer […]

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UK’s rapid-fire changes on face coverings advice criticized

UK’s rapid-fire changes on face coverings advice criticized

London:  The British government faced criticism Saturday for another sudden change in its advice on face coverings that has left those running hospitals in England scrambling to work out how they will be able to meet the new requirements. On Friday, as the World Health Organization broadened its recommendations for the use of masks, Health […]

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EU, UK still at loggerheads in post-Brexit negotiations

EU, UK still at loggerheads in post-Brexit negotiations

Brussels:  With the deadline for a possible extension of the Brexit transition period looming, a fourth round of talks on a future trade deal between the European Union and the UK ended Friday without result. Following four days of video discussions between officials from the two teams of negotiators, the sides remained at loggerheads on […]