Police: 1 dead after shots fired at protesters in Detroit
One person was killed in downtown Detroit after someone in an SUV fired shots into a crowd of people protesting George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis custody, a Detroit police spokeswoman said Saturday. The shooting occurred about 11:30 pm on Friday near Detroit’s Greektown entertainment district as officers were confronted with...
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In unusual move, US embassies in Africa speak up on Floyd
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US, UK raise Hong Kong issue in Security Council
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US action on Hong Kong ‘doomed to fail’: China
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Trump bans entry of certain groups of Chinese students to US
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EU urges Trump to rethink cutting funding to WHO
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Merkel won’t attend G7 summit in person if US goes ahead
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Kenya police kill 2 children, fetus trying to catch father
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Israeli cops shoot unstable Palestinian in Jerusalem
Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian near Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday who they had suspected was carrying a weapon but turned out to be unarmed. The police say he was carrying “a suspicious object that looked like a pistol” and ran away when ordered to stop. The police say they...
Lanka fears 2nd virus wave after thousands gather to pay tribute to Tamil leader
A prominent doctors’ body in Sri Lanka warned of a second wave of COVID-19 infections in the country after thousands of people defying social distancing rules gathered to pay tributes to a prominent Tamil minister, who died earlier this week. Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) leader Arumugam Thondaman, who represented Tamils of...
South Korea has another 39 cases linked to warehouse
South Korea on Saturday reported 39 new cases of the coronavirus, most of them in the densely populated Seoul area where officials have linked scores of infections to warehouse workers. Figures from South Korea’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention brought national totals to 11,441 confirmed cases and 269 deaths. At...
New York City to begin re-opening on June 8
New York City, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, will begin reopening in a phased manner on June 8, bringing about 4,000,000 employees back to work, Governor Andrew Cuomo has said. New York City has been shut since mid-March as coronavirus ravaged the metropolis, which has reported over...
Vaccine will bring cricket back to normal: Ganguly
The world was in a “sheer shock” in the past few months due to the Covid-19 pandemic but BCCI president Sourav Ganguly is confident that life will be back to normal once the vaccine for the virus is developed. “This is something that has got the world in sheer shock. I...
IPL can’t happen without foreign stars: Wadia
The IPL is a tournament with global appeal and it does not make sense to host it without foreign stars, says Kings XI Punjab co-owner Ness Wadia, who also feels that it’s too early for the BCCI to decide on the fate of the T20 league, given the unpredictability caused...
Large part of me becoming captain has to do with Dhoni observing me: Kohli
Virat Kohli on Saturday said his elevation to captaincy has a lot to do with Mahendra Singh Dhoni keenly observing his cricket smarts for six-seven long years. During an Instagram chat with teammate Ravichandran Ashwin, Kohli spoke about how he was always keen on taking responsibility and becoming the India captain...
