Queensland state police community liaison officers hand out face masks to people gathering for the Black Lives Matter protest in Brisbane on Saturday, June 6, 2020. Black Lives Matter protests across Australia proceeded mostly peacefully Saturday as thousands of demonstrators in state capitals.... |
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korea on Sunday reported 57 additional cases of the coronavirus, marking a second day in a row that its daily jump is above 50 as authorities struggle to suppress a spike in infections in the densely populated Seoul area. The new cases took the country’s total to 11,776 with 273 deaths. |
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At the heart of our retelling of the events that occurred in Salisbury in 2018, is a story about the internal mechanisms of a public health crisis response. It follows the work of a public servant called Tracy Daszkiewicz, the Director of Public Health of Wiltshire Council, as she works with.... |
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Protesters were driven out of the area by force to clear a path for the President, their bodies bruised by police batons and eyes burning from irritants in the air. It was a stunning intervention by the authorities; the sort of outrageous, heavy-handed treatment of protesters we’re not used to seeing in a liberal democracy. |
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Local religious leaders, who got no heads up about Mr Trump’s hastily arranged jaunt, were understandably furious. “The President just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as a backdrop for a message.... |
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Hennepin County. Voting by mail touted for fall elections. Hennepin County will encourage voting through the mail this year rather than in person to keep voters and election workers safe from COVID-19, Ginny Gelms, the county's election manager, said last week. |
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NDANGWA MWITTAH, Livingstone BORN and bred in Mongu, Monde Mbanga has gone on to become a household name in her native town – thanks to her role in entertainment and media. Who is she? Monde is one of the most acclaimed rappers in the town who goes by her stage name of MoMo DiVa. |
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WASHINGTON – The day after President Donald Trump declared himself "your president of law and order," Democratic rival Joe Biden began a speech by reciting the final words of George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police has sparked nationwide protests. |
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BBC solipsism. SIR – On Friday afternoon I tuned in to the one o’clock news on Radio 4. Was the top story coronavirus? Brexit negotiations? Racial unrest in America? No. The top story was that the BBC had appointed a new director-general. I would estimate that the BBC talks about itself on its news programmes 100 times a year. |
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Inside a Free Will Baptist church in tiny Raeford, N.C., Mr. Floyd’s body had been returned to the state of his birth for a public viewing Saturday morning. His coffin was surrounded by floral arrangements, left by mourners despite a Floyd family request for no flowers. |
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Inside a Free Will Baptist church in tiny Raeford, N.C., Mr. Floyd’s body had been returned to the state of his birth for a public viewing Saturday morning. His coffin was surrounded by floral arrangements, left by mourners despite a Floyd family request for no flowers. |
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