New York police union reps hold press conference
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Magnitude 5.7 quake strikes southern Iran
(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Fars province in southern Iran on Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported. There was no immediate information about possible casualties or damage from the quake, which hit near the town of Beyram. Reporting by Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing by Leslie Adler Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles….
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Heavy Rain, Flooding in China Force Evacuation of Nearly 80,000
Residents stand on a bank of a river as they look at the rubble of a bridge damaged by flood following heavy rainfall in Nanjing, Fujian province, China, July 9, 2019. BEIJING – The heaviest average rainfall to lash a swathe of southern and eastern China in more than half a century brought torrential rain…
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Applications for asylum in EU plummet during pandemic
(Reuters) – Asylum applications in Europe fell to the lowest level in April for over a decade as borders closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, European Union figures show, compounding the challenges of people fleeing conflict and persecution. The number of asylum applications declined to 8,730 during April, an 86% drop from 61,421…
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How South America became the new centre of the coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus cases are rising sharply in South America, made worse by inequality, reports Luke Taylor from Bogotá, Colombia. A demonstrator’s placard reads “30,000 deaths, ‘so what?’” at a pro-democracy protest in Manaus, Brazil, on 2 June – BRUNO KELLY/Reuters/PA Images CONFIRMED cases of COVID-19 have surged in South America in recent weeks. As daily infections surpassed…
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European countries face biggest economic hit from COVID-19: OECD
Countries like Italy have taken a massive economic hit thanks to the coronavirus pandemic | Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images Spain, France, Italy, and UK stand to fare worst with the US also hit harder than average. Spain, France, Italy, and the U.K. face the world’s roughest economic hits this year from the coronavirus, the…
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Boris Johnson Warned Of ‘Appalling’ Record On Social Mobility – Even Before COVID-19 Crisis
There are 600,000 more children living in relative poverty than in 2012. Boris Johnson has been warned to make social mobility a central plank of his response to the coronavirus crisis, as the scale of government failure even before the pandemic was laid bare in a new report. The Social Mobility Commission (SMC) has underlined that coronavirus…
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UK needs four more weeks of intense lockdown, says expert
Michael Baker advised New Zealand, where lockdown restrictions have now been lifted ( REUTERS ) Britain could quickly beat coronavirus but needs at least another four weeks of intense lockdown, according to a professor who advised New Zealand on defeating the infection. Michael Baker, a public health expert at the University of Otago, also told how New Zealand switched in the…
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‘Gone With The Wind’ temporarily pulled from HBO Max
The film has previously been criticized for its romanticized depiction of US slavery. Gone With The Wind Gone With The Wind has been temporarily removed from HBO Max, but it will eventually return with added context to address its racially insensitive scenes. The 1939 Oscar-winning epic is considered an early classic of cinema, but it has…
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India is waging the wrong war and that’s bad for Europe
China and India are locking horns: literally. Border guards got involved in a scuffle in recent weeks and threw stones at each other. Fighter planes and helicopters were then dispatched to the border. In the race for power between the two Asian giants, China is winning When two nuclear powers fly into each other’s heads,…
