Australia to seal off 6.6 million people in virus-hit state as outbreak worsens
Updated 1125 GMT (1925 HKT) July 6, 2020
Australia will isolate 6.6 million people in the state of Victoria from the rest of the nation at 11.59 p.m. on Tuesday, as authorities take drastic action to control a coronavirus outbreak in the city of Melbourne.
The border between Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) -- Australia's two most-populous states -- will be closed for the first time since the pandemic began, Victorian State Premier Daniel Andrews announced Monday.
Military personnel and police will line the border, allowing very few people to cross, according to CNN affiliate 7NEWS.
Xu Zhangrun, outspoken critic of Xi Jinping, detained by police in Beijing
Professor had been under house arrest after writing an essay lambasting the president over his response to coronavirus
Chinese professor Xu Zhangrun, known for his scathing and public criticisms of China’s leader Xi Jinping, has been detained, according to friends of the legal scholar.
Two friends of Xu, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid reprisals, told the Guardian that he had been detained on Monday morning. According to one, around 20 police officers and 10 vehicles arrived at his home in Beijing and took Xu away.
According to a statement online, also by a friend of Xu’s, a dozen officers entered his residence, seizing his computer and other items before detaining him.
Biden tells teachers they have ‘the most important’ job on same day Trump says they teach children to ‘hate their country’
Presumptive Democratic nominee touts his education record, but president claims schools promote ‘far-left fascism’Valerie Strauss
Joe Biden told members of the largest teachers' union in the country during a virtual event that their profession is “the most important” in the United States.
On Friday, the same day Donald Trump said America's public schools teach students “to hate their own country”, Mr Biden addressed members of the National Education Association at its annual Representative Assembly and answered a few questions as he detailed his vision for education.
“You are, and I'm not joking about this, you are the most important profession in the United States,” Mr Biden said. “You are the ones that give these kids wings. You give them confidence. You let them believe in themselves. You equip them.
The rape of Colombia's indigenous children
Indigenous women are often the victims of sexual violence in Colombia, but the gang rape of a young girl by soldiers shocked the country. Unfortunately, it was not an isolated incident.
"In raping this girl, security forces abused our sister and abused Mother Earth. They have gravely injured Colombia's indigenous community," says Johny Onogama Queragama, leader of the indigenous Embera Chami group.
On June 23, seven soldiers from the Colombian army gang raped a young girl near the autonomous territory of the Ebera Chami, close to the city of Pereira at the base of the Andes.
On July 2, Colombian Army Commander General Eduardo Zapatiero was forced to publicly admit that since 2016 some 118 incidents of sexual violence against minors have been or are still being investigated. The incidents have taken place both within Colombia and abroad.
‘A more intimate experience’: Louvre museum reopens after 16-week shutdown
The world's most visited museum reopens on Monday after a 16-week coronavirus closure, but with nearly a third of its galleries still shut.
The vast palace that was once home to France's monarchs has lost more than €40 million ($45 million) in ticket sales during almost four months of lockdown, and director Jean-Luc Martinez admitted it could have a few more lean years ahead as the world adapts to the virus.
Although most of the museum's most popular draws, like the "Mona Lisa" and its vast antiquities collection, will be fully accessible, other galleries where social distancing is more difficult will remain closed.
Koike's Tokyo win may be springboard back into national politics
BY RYUSEI TAKAHASHI
STAFF WRITER
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike’s triumph in the gubernatorial election on Sunday was predictable, but the sheer size of her towering margin of victory could serve as a steppingstone in her road back to national politics.
While Koike has never said so herself, it’s an unspoken assumption in Tokyo politics that she has her sights set on one day returning to the Diet and becoming the country’s first female prime minister.
“Every politician wishes they could become prime minister,” said Kenneth McElwain, a professor of comparative contemporary politics at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Social Science. “Not everyone has the opportunity. Koike does.”
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