- Minnesota deploys National Guard to quell riots after police kill handcuffed black man
Minnesota governor activates National Guard to respond to violence following the death of George Floyd, a black man in police custody.
read more ...3 hours ago - Trump signs executive order targeting social media giants’ legal protections
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday seeking to strip social media giants like Twitter of legal immunity for content they publish.
read more ...6 hours ago - The ICC says ex-Ivory Coast president Gbagbo can leave Belgium ‘under conditions’
The International Criminal Court on Thursday said former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo can leave Belgium under conditions following his acquittal last year over post-electoral violence that killed 3,000 people.
read more ...7 hours ago - The show will go on: Paris Fringe theatre festival goes online
The Paris Fringe theatre festival returns with its fourth programme in June. But this year, as a result of the coronavirus lockdown, it will all be streamed online and for free.
read more ...11 hours ago - Live: French PM Philippe unveils second phase in lifting of Covid-19 lockdown
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French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe is on Thursday presenting the details of phase two of France’s plan to lift its nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Philippe is expected to announce relaxed rules on travel and parks, as well as a time frame for when the country’s struggling restaurant industry might be able to open again after more than two months. Click on the player above
read more ...13 hours ago - Afghan security forces killed in first ‘Taliban attack’ since end of ceasefire
Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed Thursday in an attack officials blamed on the Taliban, the first deadly assault since the end of a three-day ceasefire.
read more ...16 hours ago - French cafés eye return to business as government prepares new lockdown easing
Bars, cafés and restaurants in parts of France may soon be reopening as the government announces new measures to ease the coronavirus lockdown on Thursday, though businesses in Paris and other hard-hit areas will have to wait longer.
read more ...17 hours ago - US death toll from Covid-19 passes 100,000 as Americans emerge from lockdown
The novel coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, according to a Reuters tally on Wednesday, even as the slowdown in deaths encouraged businesses to reopen and Americans to emerge from more than two months of lockdowns.
read more ...1 day ago - Cummings not going? UK PM Johnson stands by embattled adviser
No apology, no regrets from Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s top adviser, who refuses to resign over a 264-mile trip home to the north in March, at the height of lockdown in the UK. Why is the prime minister standing by Cummings in the face of a backbench revolt by Conservative MPs? Politicians and civil servants were already seething at a man
read more ...1 day ago - Special programme: Brazil, Latin America’s Covid-19 epicentre
With Brazil's Covid-19 death toll surpassing 25,000, sometimes at the rate of more than 1,000 per day, the World Health Organization has declared it the "most affected" country in South America, the new epicentre of the coronavirus. In this special edition of Inside The Americas, we see how the poorest and most isolated Brazilians are paying a heavy price, while President Jair Bolsonaro continues to downplay
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