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Bolsonaro threatens WHO exit as COVID-19 kills ‘a Brazilian per minute’ Brasilia

Bolsonaro threatens WHO exit as COVID-19 kills ‘a Brazilian per minute’

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus. A new Brazilian record for daily…
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June 6, 2020
Trump Backs Drew Brees, Insists Americans Shouldn’t Protest The Flag Colin Kaepernick

Trump Backs Drew Brees, Insists Americans Shouldn’t Protest The Flag

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees urged President Donald Trump on Friday night to stop describing NFL players’ silent actions during the national anthem as disrespect for the U.S. flag as he walked back his own comments earlier this week about patriotism and protests. In an Instagram post addressed directly to…
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June 6, 2020
Kashgar’s Old City Destruction Emblematic of Beijing’s Cultural Campaign Against Uyghurs: Report Kashgar

Kashgar’s Old City Destruction Emblematic of Beijing’s Cultural Campaign Against Uyghurs: Report

By Joshua Lipes 2020-06-05 -- China's government has destroyed much of Kashgar's Old City in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) precisely because of its cultural significance for Uyghurs, according to a new report, which called the campaign key to understanding how Beijing seeks to control the ethnic group. In…
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June 6, 2020
Week in pictures: 30 May SpaceX

Week in pictures: 30 May

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week. Image copyright Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images Image caption A woman at a demonstration in Atlanta, Georgia. Across the US, protests erupted following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. Police vehicles were set…
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June 6, 2020
A bishop in El Paso kneeled in prayer for George Floyd. Two days later, Pope Francis called Pope Francis

A bishop in El Paso kneeled in prayer for George Floyd. Two days later, Pope Francis called

(CNN)Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz had no idea that his act of solidarity in El Paso, Texas, would be met with a phone call of gratitude from his boss, Pope Francis.With eyes closed, masks covering their faces, white roses in hand and handwritten signs that read "Black Lives Matter," Seitz and…
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June 6, 2020