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A cemetery worker puts a cranium into a bag while exhuming the body of a person buried three years ago at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo. (AP)World
Cemeteries cleaned up' to bury more in Brazil as virus deaths spike up

Brazil's biggest metropolis is digging up the bones of people buried in the past to create space for new bodies

13 Jun 2020 12:52 PM IST

A long shot of Paris. (AFP)World
Protesters dislodge artwork from Paris museum to return it to Africa

The five protesters were stopped before they could leave the Quai Branly Museum with the artwork

13 Jun 2020 12:13 PM IST

Police move in to disperse protesters that had gathered in Sydney, Friday, June 12, 2020, to support U.S. protests over the death of George Floyd. Hundreds of police disrupted plans for a Black Lives Matter rally but protest organizers have vowed that other rallies will continue around Australia over the weekend despite warnings of the pandemic risk. (AP)World
BLM rallies hit Australia for 2nd weekend, some banned

Thousands of people protested in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane against racism and the deaths of Indigenous Australians...

13 Jun 2020 11:43 AM IST

North and South America currently have 4 of the 10 worst hit countries in the worldWorld
North and South America currently have 4 of the 10 worst hit countries...

The disease is 'highly active in Central and South America, says WHO's emergency expert, highlighting problems in Brazil...

13 Jun 2020 11:17 AM IST

Activists from the Brazilian NGO Rio de Paz (Peace Rio), stand next to 100 mock graves on Copacabana beach symbolizing deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AFP)World
Brazil now unenviably the second in virus deaths

Brazil's health ministry recorded 909 deaths in the past 24 hours, putting the total at 41,828, and has now surpassed...

13 Jun 2020 10:37 AM IST

People gather on the street outside the closed Jingshen seafood market in Beijing on June 12, 2020. - Beijings Xinfadi meat wholesale market and Jingshen seafood market were closed for disinfection and environmental sample collection after it emerged both were visited by two newly identified coronavirus patients, local media reported. (AFP)World
Beijing wholesale market temporarily shut after new coronavirus...

Authorities had earlier halted beef and mutton trading at the Xinfadi market, alongside closures at other wholesale...

13 Jun 2020 10:20 AM IST

Demonstrators pass a gay pride flag as they walk during a protest billed as Justice for Tony McDade, Sunday, June 7, 2020, in Atlanta. McDade, a black transgender man, was shot and killed by police in late May in Tallahassee, Fla., two days after George Floyds death in Minneapolis. (AP)World
Trump administration reverses transgender health care protection

Sex discrimination protections will be enforced according to the plain meaning of the word sex' as male or female, as...

13 Jun 2020 9:05 AM IST

Bomb explosion in Kabul mosque kills at least 4 peopleWorld
Bomb explosion in Kabul mosque kills at least 4 people

Violence has spiked in recent weeks in Afghanistan with most of the attacks claimed by the Islamic State group affiliate

12 Jun 2020 8:10 PM IST

French police unionists fire blue flares as they demonstrate with a banner reading\ No police, no peace\ down the Champs-Elysee avenue, Friday, June 12, 2020 in Paris. (AP)World
Police rally for government support in France after chokehold ban

French police opine that new restrictions have gone too far, and have taken issue with any implication of systemic...

12 Jun 2020 4:18 PM IST

In this July 31, 1980, file photo, Rhodesians beat a statue as they celebrate the removal of Rhodesias founder, Cecil Rhodes, after Rhodesia, became independent in April, ending nine decades of British colonial rule and becoming Zimbabwe. (AP)World
Pulling down statues of racists? Africa's done it for years

To be fair, new campaigns in the USA and Europe are now following Africa's lead

12 Jun 2020 2:10 PM IST

A damaged Christopher Columbus statue stands in a waterfront park near the citys traditionally Italian North End neighborhood, in Boston, USA. (AP)World
Not set in stone: Statues fall as Europe reexamines its past

Memorials erected in honour of historical figures have become a focus of protests around the world

12 Jun 2020 11:55 AM IST

US President Donald Trump (R) gestures as he meets with North Koreas leader Kim Jong Un at the start of their historic US-North Korea summit in 2018. (AFP)World
North Korea says little reason to maintain ties with Trump

On Thursday North Korea criticized the United States for commenting on inter-Korean affairs

12 Jun 2020 11:41 AM IST

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