Rocketing Covid-19 infections expose Trump's callous claim pandemic is 'handled'
Updated 1005 GMT (1805 HKT) July 3, 2020
This is what President Donald Trump's "handled" pandemic looks like.
The United States, the world leader in Covid-19 infections and deaths, is reeling from an out-of-control resurgence of the virus that is racking up record numbers of 50,000-plus new infections each day now.
Texas, Florida and Arizona -- Republican-run states that most aggressively embraced Trump's impatient demands to get the economy open again -- are heading into what one expert warned is a viral threat that is approaching "apocalyptic" levels.
Hong Kong activists planning 'parliament in exile' after China brings in security law
Campaigner Simon Cheng, granted asylum in UK, says shadow parliament would send ‘clear signal’ to Beijing
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are discussing a plan to create an unofficial parliament-in-exile to preserve democracy and send a message to China that freedom cannot be crushed, campaigner Simon Cheng has said.
Hong Kong, a former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997, was convulsed by months of often violent, pro-democracy and anti-China demonstrations last year, resisting Chinese interference in its promised freedoms and posing the biggest political crisis for Beijing since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Journalist with The Independent arrested covering police clearance of Seattle protest zone
Andrew Buncombe held on charges of failure to disperse despite repeatedly identifying himself as a journalistPhil ThomasNew York
An Independent journalist was arrested while covering the police storming of a protest zone in Seattle, which has been criticised by Donald Trump.
Andrew Buncombe, chief US correspondent with The Independent, was detained on charges of failing to disperse shortly after 09.00 local time [GMT 01.00] on Wednesday, as police in riot gear dismantled the so-called Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (or Chop) zone close to the city centre.
Despite repeatedly identifying himself as a journalist, Mr Buncombe, 52, was taken to the King County Jail where he was put in handcuffs. He was eventually released after being finger-printed and spending almost 10 hours in custody.
Turkish court opens trial of Saudi officials in absentia over death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
A Turkish court will open the trial on Friday of 20 Saudi officials indicted over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a step his fiancee hopes will shed more light on the death and reveal where his body was hidden.
The indictment by Istanbul prosecutors accuses the former deputy head of Saudi Arabia's general intelligence, Ahmed al-Asiri, and former royal court adviser Saud al-Qahtani of instigating "premeditated murder with monstrous intent", the prosecutor's office said in March.
It says 18 other defendants carried out the killing by suffocating Khashoggi, who had grown increasingly critical of Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. All 20 defendants are expected to be tried in absentia.
Germany: Romanian workers reveal dire conditions at slaughterhouses
As Germany's meat industry faces scrutiny in light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak amid poor workplace conditions, seasonal workers are daring to speak out about their experiences.
"We work at Tönnies and we've been quarantined. Nobody is looking after us!"
DW has been inundated with calls from Romanian workers who feel they have been left in the lurch in the district of Gütersloh, in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, following a coronavirus outbreak at a Tönnies slaughterhouse.
Following a number of DW reports about the poor working and living conditions of short-term workers in Germany's meat-processing industry, they wanted to describe their experiences in recent years of low wages, threats and exploitation at the workplace.
MONTHS AGO, AN OFFICER IN LOUISIANA SHOT A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY. IT TOOK THE GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS FOR PEOPLE TO PAY ATTENTION.
ON THE EVENING of Friday, March 20, Tiffany McGee, a resident of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans, received a call from a nurse at the Tulane University Medical Center. Her 14-year-old son, Tre’mall, had been brought into the hospital with a gunshot wound. McGee rushed from her home in Terrytown in the West Bank over the Mississippi River to the hospital, where she was greeted by a deputy and a detective, who told her that Tre’mall was in their custody. “They wouldn’t allow me to see him,” said McGee. “They didn’t even try to explain to me what happened. They didn’t say what he was in custody for. They had me believing my child was shot in the street by someone and not an officer.”
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