Anger, grief and exhaustion: A city is left raw after George Floyd's death
Crowds pray, meditate and pay respects at intersection where he died
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"Momma! Momma! Momma!"
The anguished cries rang out at the Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd died.
Those were among Floyd's final words as he was dying, gasping for breath, with the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, pressed into his neck.
But more than a week later, they were repeated by NFL Super Bowl champion Tyrone Carter. He was yelling the very same words as he walked among the piles of flowers left by the grief-stricken who have come to the site by the thousands.
St Petersburg death tally casts doubt on Russian coronavirus figures
City issues 1,552 more death certificates in May than last year, but Covid-19 toll was 171
New mortality data from Russia’s second-largest city has reignited questions about whether the country’s official tally has discounted thousands of deaths tied to the coronavirus outbreak.
St Petersburg issued 1,552 more death certificates this May than in the previous year, a nearly 32% rise indicating that hundreds of deaths tied to the pandemic are not reflected in the city’s official coronavirus death toll for the month of 171.
China school stabbing: Security guard attacks at least 39 people at kindergarten
Two badly hurt, while 37 suffer minor injuries in knife attack
At least 39 children and teachers have been injured in a knife attack at a nursery school in Guangxi, southern China.
The local government said 37 students and two adults suffered injuries of varying degrees in the stabbing, which took place at about 8.30am local time on Thursday.
Chinese state media identified the alleged attacker as a security guard at the school in Wangfu township, in the city of Wuzhou.
Press freedom — we will not stop reporting
DW reporters often face police aggression in African countries or Russia. But being under police fire in the motherland of modern democracy is a novelty, says DW Editor-in-Chief Manuela Kasper-Claridge.
Recent images of police violence directed at free and independent journalists in the US are extremely disturbing. We journalists, however, are not intimidated. Take my colleague Stefan Simons, who was apparently shot at with a rubber bullet from within a group of police officers, and who went on air live immediately afterward, commenting on the incident. The Bellingcat investigative research website says more than 100 journalists have fallen victim to police violence in the US over the past few days. One of them was Linda Tirado, a photographer, who lost an eye to a rubber bullet.
Libya's GNA says it regained full control of the capital, Tripoli
The announcement comes after a year-long siege by forces of eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar.
Forces fighting for Libya's internationally recognised government said they regained full control over Tripoli after being besieged for more than a year by militias loyal to an eastern-based renegade commander.
The Government of National Accord (GNA) military operations room said in a statement on Thursday its forces captured all areas surrounding the Tripoli city administrative area.
Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests
Updated 1120 GMT (1920 HKT) June 4, 2020
Benjamin Ryan Teeter was at his home in Hampstead, N.C., when the call to action came. It was an alert from the heart of the raging protests in Minneapolis, posted on an online forum by a fellow member of the Boogaloo movement, a loosely knit group of heavily armed, anti-government extremists.
The "alert" was from a man who had a run-in with the Minneapolis police while on the frontline of the police-brutality protests set off by the death of George Floyd.
"He caught mace to the face," said Teeter, and "put out a national notice to our network."
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