How Indian and Chinese media reported the deadly Ladakh clash
China admits casualties, but its media plays down the worst clash in decades, while Indian newspapers urge a push back.
While Chinese state media has downplayed a deadly military confrontation with India in the Indian-administered Ladakh region, Indian newspapers called for a "steely resolve" over the killing of at least 20 soldiers.
Indian news agency ANI on Tuesday night claimed that 43 Chinese soldiers had died in Monday's clash, without giving further details. Chinese media did not reveal casualties on its side.
British Muslims held for two months in India claim religious persecution
Exclusive: men accused of violating coronavirus lockdown in case targeting 2,500 foreign Muslims
Eight British Muslims detained in India for more than two months face criminal charges after getting caught up in a court case in which thousands of foreign Muslims are accused of violating the coronavirus lockdown.
The men allege they are victims of religious persecution by the Indian government, which is led by the rightwing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), known for its anti-Muslim agenda. According to a petition filed to Delhi high court on 20 May, their treatment is “tantamount to illegal detention”.
More than 2,500 foreign Muslims, from 35 different countries, are being charged in the case. Last week, the Indian government agreed to release and deport detained foreign Muslims but only if they accepted guilt for visa violations and “wilfully” disobeying lockdown orders.
Opinion: Let's topple statues to decolonize
In the midst of worldwide protests in the name of Black Lives Matter, the removal of statues in the United States and Europe has drawn scrutiny. DW's Waafa Albadry says pulling them down doesn't mean erasing history.
When I saw protesters tear down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, I felt that it wouldn't be the last in this wave. It reminded me of a similar swell of anger when, in 2015, students at the University of Cape Town took down the statue of the imperialist Cecil Rhodes.
Since then, further protests at South Africa's universities have defaced more colonial-era statues. At Oxford, in his home country, thousands are protesting peacefully to remove another Cecil Rhodes statue.
Indian govt maintains silence following deadly China border clashes
As some commentators clamored for revenge, India's government was silent Wednesday on the fallout from clashes with China's army in a disputed border area in the high Himalayas that the Indian army said claimed 20 soldiers' lives.
Indian security forces said neither side fired any shots in the clash in the Ladakh region late Monday. China accused Indian forces of carrying out “provocative attacks” on its troops and did not disclose if any of its soldiers died.
It was the first deadly confrontation on the disputed border between India and China since 1975, and while experts said they were unlikely to head into a war, easing tensions quickly would be difficult.
She walked hundreds of miles with her daughters to the Amazon to escape Covid-19
Updated 0652 GMT (1452 HKT) June 17, 2020
Maria Tambo had reached a breaking point. She was scared and desperate. Her children were hungry. They had to leave Lima.
Tambo and her daughters had first came to the Peruvian capital from a remote village in the Amazon rainforest, so that her oldest, Amelie, could become the first member of the family to attend university.
The 17-year-old had won a prestigious scholarship to study at Lima's Universidad Científica del Sur, and the family had big dreams. They would rent a small room, help Amelie get started and Maria would scrape together some money working in a restaurant.
GEO GROUP’S BLUNDERING RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC HELPED SPREAD CORONAVIRUS IN HALFWAY HOUSES
THE WOMEN WERE the first to get sick. “It was like flu symptoms,” recalled a resident of the women’s dorm at the Grossman Center, a federal halfway house in Leavenworth, Kansas, run by the private prison company GEO Group. Two women began coughing, getting cold sweats, and running a fever around mid- to late April. By the end of the month, they had been taken to the hospital and tested positive for the coronavirus. “And that’s when they started testing all of us.”
In the women’s dorm, a half-dozen residents had been working at Triumph Foods, a pork processing plant in St. Joseph, Missouri, some 40 miles north of the halfway house. “Honestly, it was horrible,” said one woman who had a job cutting meat on an assembly line. The space was crowded, and she was constantly cold even beneath layers of protective gear, which required her to arrive early in order to get dressed. The locker rooms would get so full, another worker said, that she had to wait for others to exit before she could go in.
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