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Picture of the day for June 1, 2020

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Female southern plains grey langur (Semnopithecus dussumieri) in Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India. Kanha National Park was created on 1 June 1955.. Learn more .

Night of rage on Pennsylvania Avenue as protesters clash with Secret Service in front of the White House

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Hundreds of protesters marched through the nation’s capital and engaged in hours of violent clashes with Secret Service officers. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3eCQ7mL

Israeli forces shot and killed an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem as he walked to special needs school

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Israeli forces shot and killed an unarmed autistic Palestinian man on his way to a special needs school in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday, prompting comparisons to the police violence in the US and accusations of excessive force by Israeli forces. In a statement, Israeli police said they spotted a suspect “with a suspicious object that looked like a pistol” and opened fire on 32-year-old Iyad Halak, when he failed to stop. No weapon was found on him. Israel’s Channel 12 news station said members of the paramilitary border forces fired at Mr Halak’s legs and chased him into an alley. A senior officer was said to have called for a halt to fire as they entered the alley, but a second officer ignored the command and fired six or seven bullets from an M-16 rifle. Mr Halak’s father told AP that police later came and raided their home, but didn’t find anything. The shooting has caused widespread outcry on social media with many comparisons to the racially-charged shooting and killing of Geo

China's 'nervous' Xi risks new Cold War, last Hong Kong governor says

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Chinese President Xi Jinping is so nervous about the position of the Communist Party that he is risking a new Cold War and imperilling Hong Kong's position as Asia's pre-eminent financial hub, the last British governor of the territory told Reuters. Chris Patten said Xi's 'thuggish' crackdown in Hong Kong risked triggering an outflow of capital and people from the city which funnels the bulk of foreign investment into mainland China. The West, he said, should stop being naive about Xi, who has served as General Secretary of the Communist Party since 2012. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36GrOS7

'You're not going to out-concern me and out-care me': Atlanta's mayor makes a powerful plea against violence and destruction in George Floyd protests

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"This is not a protest," Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said. "This is chaos. A protest has purpose." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3exvsQQ

Police disperse anti-Bolsonaro protesters in Brazil

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Police say they used tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in Brazil's largest city on Sunday as groups protesting and supporting President Jair Bolsonaro neared a clash. The demonstration by several hundred black-clad members of football fan groups in Sao Paulo appeared to be the largest anti-Bolsonaro street march in months in a country that has become an epicenter of the spreading COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the protesters chanted “Democracy!” as they marched. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cmnVTk

MUSK MAKES HISTORY: SpaceX just launched 2 people into orbit for the first time, kicking off the rocket company's most important mission since its founding 18 years ago

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The launch won't be a success until NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley reach orbit, about 12 minutes after liftoff. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yNuzo9

Saudi Arabia reopens mosques with strict regulations for worshippers

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Saudi Arabia's mosques opened their doors to worshippers on Sunday for the first time in more than two months as the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, eased restrictions imposed to combat the coronavirus. "It is great to feel the mercy of God and once again call people for prayers at mosques instead of at their homes," said Abdulmajeed Al Mohaisen, who issues the call to prayer at Al Rajhi Mosque, one of the largest in the capital Riyadh. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cdeLbW

#JusticeForUwa trends in Nigeria after student murdered in church

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The hashtag JusticeForUwa is trending after the killing of the 22-year-old woman. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3clZ8yV

Labour whip resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet married boyfriend

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A Labour MP has stepped down from her front bench position as whip after admitting she broke lockdown rules to meet her married lover. Rosie Duffield met her boyfriend for a long walk in April, while it was still against the lockdown rules to meet people from different households, the Mail on Sunday reported. She resigned as a whip on Saturday night and said she was “attempting to navigate a difficult personal situation". Ms Duffield, 48, was living separately from married father-of-three James Routh, pictured below, a TV director, when they went for a long walk in her constituency and he visited her home, it was reported. The MP for Canterbury told the Mail on Sunday the pair observed the two-metre social distancing rules, but these incidents were before meetings between people from different households were allowed. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yPozet

Police act like laws don't apply to them because of 'qualified immunity.' They're right.

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There's a legal obstacle that's nearly impossible to overcome when police officers and government officials violate our constitutional and civil rights. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yJd0W6

Tropical storm Amanda leaves 9 dead in El Salvador: officials

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Tropical storm Amanda, the first named storm of the season in the Pacific, lashed El Salvador and Guatemala on Sunday, leaving nine people dead amid flooding and power outages. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency, announcing it on his Twitter account. "We have nine dead," Salvadoran Interior Minister Mario Duran said, adding that the toll could rise. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cfLBJ3

Thirteen years later, mother of Fort Drum soldier found dead after disappearing from bar seeks answers

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Patrick Rust, 24, was last seen on March 16, 2007, at a bar in Watertown, New York, called “Clueless.” The soldier had just finished two tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was stationed in New York at Fort Drum and had just received news he was being assigned to Fort Lewis, Washington, where he'd be trained to become a staff sergeant. Six months later, a farmer found Patrick’s skeletal remains in a field about five miles from the bar. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is inves from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XeN6TK

Trump warns protesters as unrest sweeps America

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In cities across the country, protests turned violent as local authorities called for calm. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cn8xGF

Symbol of N.Y.C. Unrest: A Burning Police Car

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By BY AZI PAYBARAH AND NIKITA STEWART from NYT New York https://ift.tt/3gGd9L9

Destructive Power of Despair

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By BY CHARLES M. BLOW from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3gzWNDX

What Trump and Toxic Cops Have in Common

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By BY JENNIFER SENIOR from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/36MQrfT

As Protests and Violence Spill Over, Trump Shrinks Back

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By BY PETER BAKER AND MAGGIE HABERMAN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2Xktg9N

What Is Antifa, the Movement Trump Wants to Declare a Terror Group?

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By BY NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS AND SANDRA E. GARCIA from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2XhUCNz

Police Cars Rammed Protesters. What de Blasio’s Response Tells Us.

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By BY DANA RUBINSTEIN AND JEFFERY C. MAYS from NYT New York https://ift.tt/3evWbgC

Record Ratings and Record Chaos on Cable News

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By BY BEN SMITH from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2TYwddR

Many Claim Extremists Are Sparking Protest Violence. But Which Extremists?

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By BY NEIL MACFARQUHAR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2BkEFha

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By Unknown Author from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/2XfPJ7C

Trump Hopes for His Own Booster Shot from SpaceX Rocket Launch

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By BY PETER BAKER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3gJZF1d

Photos From the Protests in 29 Cities Over Racism and Police Violence

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By BY WEIYI CAI, JULIETTE LOVE AND JUGAL K. PATEL from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3dkl3aW

Picture of the day for May 31, 2020

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Altar island in the St. Paul's Cathedral in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Learn more .

Former Justice Department official says Trump is 'basically calling for the shooting of protesters'

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Vanita Gupta, head of the department's Civil Rights Division in the Obama administration, said the Minneapolis Police Department was on her “radar” during her tenure. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TOJK7W

Minnesota Riots Hurt Klobuchar’s VP Nomination Prospects, According to Biden Ally

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The ongoing riots in Minnesota hurt Senator Amy Klobuchar's prospects for Democratic nomination as vice president, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) said on Friday.Klobuchar declined to bring charges against multiple Minneapolis police officers involved in shootings over the course of her seven-year tenure as attorney for Hennepin County. Minneapolis has seen four days of riots after resident George Floyd, an African-American man, died following his arrest at the hands of white officers."We are all victims sometimes of timing….This is very tough timing for Amy Klobuchar, who I respect so much," Clyburn told reporters. When asked directly if Klobuchar's chances at the nomination were diminished, Clyburn said, "that is the implication, yes,” although he added that Klobuchar "absolutely is qualified" to be vice president.Clyburn is the highest-ranking African American member of Congress, and was instrumental in Biden's victory over Senator B

Trudeau: Canadians watching US unrest and police violence in ‘shock and horror’

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Prime minister condemned racism and called on Canada to ‘stand together in solidarity’ against racial hate as protests continue in US * George Floyd killing – follow live updatesCanadians are watching unrest and police violence in the United States in “shock and horror”, Justin Trudeau said on Friday – but the prime minister cautioned that his country also has entrenched problems with racism. The city of Minneapolis has been rocked by a third night of violent protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, after a white police officer knelt on his neck as he lay on the ground following arrest. “Many Canadians of diverse backgrounds are watching, like all Canadians are, the news out of the United States with shock and with horror,” Trudeau told reporters at a daily briefing.“Anti-black racism – racism – is real. It’s in the United States but it’s also in Canada and we know people are facing systemic discrimination, unconscious bias and anti-black racism every single day,”

Ai Weiwei says new security law is the end of Hong Kong

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Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei believes the newly passed national security law for Hong Kong augurs the end for the semi-autonomous city. Ai was arrested at Beijing's airport in April 2011 and held for 81 days without explanation during a wider crackdown on dissent that coincided with the international ferment of the Arab Spring. In an interview with The Associated Press, Ai said he identifies with Hong Kong’s democracy movement and has been working on a documentary about protests that began a year ago, at times erupting into tear gas-shrouded combat between police and demonstrators. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TQQDWc

SpaceX's Crewed Launch Restores America's Status Among an Elite Group of Spacefaring Nations

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With Wednesday's launch, the nation that for generations led the world in the exploration of space is now poised to reclaim that mantle. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XhN2Ta

Pompeo demands Russia free ill American accused of spying

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday demanded that Russia free a former US marine accused of spying in Russia after the man underwent urgent surgery in a Moscow hospital. Fifty-year-old Paul Whelan had emergency hernia surgery late Thursday after suffering "severe abdominal pain," his brother David Whelan said in a statement Friday. Paul Whelan, who also holds Canadian, Irish and British citizenship, was detained in Moscow in December 2018 for allegedly receiving state secrets. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3chul6u

Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket launches into space

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A Falcon 9 rocket with two U.S. astronauts aboard lifted off Saturday en route to the International Space Station. It had been nine years since NASA astronauts had been sent into space. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MdlO9V

India announces major easing of coronavirus lockdown

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A Tennessee police chief had a message for fellow law enforcement: turn in your badge if 'you don't have an issue' with George Floyd's death

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David Roddy's tweet about police brutality has garnered over 159,000 retweets. He has been part of the Chattanooga Police Department for 24 years. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AsKHeY

China home-built aircraft carrier conducting sea trials

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China’s Defense Ministry said the navy’s only entirely home-built aircraft is carrying out sea trials to test weapons and equipment and enhance training of the crew. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3dicAFc

The U.S. Might Revoke Hong Kong's 'Special Status.' Here's What That Means for Business in the Global Financial Hub

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Hong Kong risks becoming a casualty in the emerging cold war between Washington and Beijing from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3esaenq

Letters to the Editor: People who insist on going to church should quarantine themselves

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One's right to attend church ends at the tip of another person's nose. People who flout social distancing rules by going to church should quarantine. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3gCo74p

Afghan reporter killed as govt says ready for Taliban dialogue

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A roadside bomb killed a television journalist in Kabul on Saturday, soon after a top Afghan official appointed to lead peace talks with the Taliban said his team was ready for the long-delayed dialogue. The blast, which targeted a minibus carrying 15 employees of private television channel Khurshid TV, was claimed by the Islamic State group, according to SITE Intelligence which monitors jihadist activity. The attack, which the government called "heinous", claimed the lives of a reporter and a driver, and punctuated an overall reduction in violence that has followed on from a three-day ceasefire the Taliban instigated May 24. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2BiI0NN

France, Britain, Germany 'regret' U.S. end to Iran nuclear waivers

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France, Germany and Britain on Saturday criticised a U.S. decision to end sanctions waivers allowing work on Iranian nuclear sites designed to prevent weapons development. "We deeply regret the U.S. decision to end the three waivers," the three European countries said in a joint statement. "These projects, endorsed by U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, serve the non-proliferation interests of all and provide the international community with assurances of the exclusively peaceful and safe nature of Iranian nuclear activities." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3dhqEPb

Coronavirus began spreading in the US in January — predating President Trump's travel restrictions and the detection of community transmission, CDC says

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CDC Director Robert Redfield said that the virus first circulated at low levels in the US so diagnostic tests would've missed it. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XLy8Dz

Draw a Self-Portrait

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By BY CARSON ELLIS from NYT At Home https://ift.tt/36LkuVb

George Floyd Protests: A Timeline

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By BY DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2XhWhmk

Here’s What You Need to Know About Breonna Taylor’s Death

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By BY RICHARD A. OPPEL JR. from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3eAuQdj

इरफान खान के को-एक्टर सोहम शाह ने दोहराए यादगार किस्से , बोले- 'वो खुदको लगातार बेहतर बनाने की तलाश में थे'

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अभिनेता सोहम शाहमेघना गुलजार की बहुप्रशंसित फिल्म "तलवार" में इरफान खान के साथ नजर आ चुके हैं। हाल ही में सोहम ने इरफान के साथ काम करने के अपने अनुभव को शेयर करते हुए उन्हें याद किया है। तलवार में इरफान खान के साथ काम करने पर सोहम शाह ने कहा, "मुझे उनके साथ काम करने का बहुत अच्छा अनुभव मिला। वह सेट पर सबसे अधिक चिल्ड-आउट अभिनेता थे। वह शॉट्स के बीच सुझाव देते थे इसलिए मुझे उनसे बहुत कुछ सीखने को मिला। वह कैमरे के पीछे एक अलग व्यक्ति होते थे। एक चीज जो मैंने उनसे सीखी है वह है इस क्षण में रहना। वह आराम से रहते थे और चीजों पर चिंता या तनाव नहीं करते थे। उन्हें लगता था कि एक बार जब आप आराम कर लेते हैं तो आप स्थिति पर नियंत्रण रखते हैं। उनका अपने दिमाग पर अद्भुत नियंत्रण था।” सोहम इरफान खान से फिल्म लंच बॉक्स की पार्टी में पहली बार मिले थे, जहां उन्होंने एक दूसरे के काम की तारीफ की थी। सोहम आगे कहते है"सबसे प्रतिभाशाली और बहुमुखी अभिनेताओं में से एक होने के बावजूद, वह खुद को बेहतर बनाने के तरीकों की तलाश में थे । वह एक अभिनेता के रूप में ही नहीं बल्कि एक इंसान के रूप

मजदूरों को घर पहुंचाने के लिए सोनू सूद ने छोड़ दी नींद और फिटनेस की फिक्र, वाइफ सोनाली बोलीं- '18 घंटे लगातार काम करके, 5 घंटे नींद लेते है'

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सोनू सूद लगातार प्रवासी मजदूरों को घर पहुंचाने के काम में लगे हुए हैं। हाल ही में उन्होंने एक पोस्ट के जरिए बताया कि उन्हें तेजी से लोगों के मैसेज आ रहे हैं। इस नेक कदम के चलते सोनू खुद दिन रात एक कर चुके हैं जिसके चलते वो महज 4 से 5 घंटे ही सो रहे हैं। हाल ही में भास्कर से बातचीत के दौरान सोनू की पत्नी सोनाली ने उनके रूटीन को लेकर कई बातें शेयर की हैं। इन दिनों जाहिर तौर पर सोनू बहुत बिजी हैं। आम दिनों में भी शूट के चलते बिजी रहते हैं , मगर इस टाइम पर उन्होंने जिस काम का बीड़ा उठाया है, वह बहुत बड़ा है। मैं उन पर बहुत गर्व महसूस करती हूं कि वह यह काम कर पा रहे हैं। मैं लकी समझती हूं कि हमें मौका मिला। 18 घंटे काम कर रहे हैं सोनू उनका रूटीन बहुत अनुशासित रहा है। सोनू इतना बिजी रहने के बावजूद भी अपने रूटीन को बरकरार रख रहे हैं। वह सुबह जल्दी उठ जाते हैं। मुश्किल से 4 से 5 घंटे ही उनकी नींद होती है। दिन के 18 घंटे काम करते हैं वह। लगातार आते हैं लोगों के फोन शुरू में जब उन्होंने यह काम शुरू किया था तो पहल में 350 माइग्रेंट्स को भेजा था तब तो वह अकेले ही सब कुछ संभाल रहे थे। मगर अब

Picture of the day for May 30, 2020

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Dulmen Ponys in the Merfelder Bruch at sunrise, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyOn the last Saturday in May, the Wildpferdefang takes place every year.. Learn more .

Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck had 18 previous internal complaints against him

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The Minneapolis police officer who was filmed kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for several minutes even as he said “I can’t breathe” has previously been the subject of multiple complaints filed to the Minneapolis Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division, it has emerged.Mr Chauvin, who has been fired along with the other three police officers who apprehended Mr Floyd, was reported to the division 18 times. According to a police summary, only two of the complaints were “closed with discipline”. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TT2pPY

It looks like Trump's draft executive order targeting Facebook and Twitter got leaked online

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President Donald Trump is expected to sign such an order on Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XcVZgF