Trump chooses distraction politics over leadership
Updated 1209 GMT (2009 HKT) July 11, 2020
President Donald Trump headed into the hot zone of Miami-Dade County, Florida, on Friday intent on creating an alternate reality as the coronavirus ravages the United States. He wore no mask, showed no sense of remorse about the rushed reopening that has plunged the nation's health care system back into chaos, and barely mentioned the virus.
By the time he returned to the White House that night, Trump had commuted the sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, who'd been pleading for relief, arguing the coronavirus would be a death sentence if he had to report to prison (as he was scheduled to next week).
In thumbing his nose at justice -- intervening on behalf of a former political adviser who was convicted of crimes that included lying to Congress in part, prosecutors said, to protect the President -- Trump continued turning a blind eye to the Americans for whom coronavirus has actually been a death sentence.
Hong Kong pollster raided by police amid security law crackdown
Police say independent pollster may have been hacked but there are fears of link to pro-democracy opposition’s primary election
Hong Kong police have searched the office of an independent political pollster days after Beijing imposed sweeping national security legislation on the former British colony.
The raid came ahead of weekend primary elections for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition, for which pollster Robert Chung’s Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute is a co-organiser.
Chung said authorities arrived at his office and he “negotiated” with police to try to understand the basis for their search warrant. He said police copied some information from computers.French bus driver dies after being attacked by passengers ‘who refused to wear face masks
Philippe Monguillot, 59, was left brain dead by alleged assault in southwestern town of BayonneChiara Giordano
A French bus driver has died after being attacked by passengers during an alleged row over masks.
Philippe Monguillot, 59, died in hospital on Friday, five days after he was left brain dead by the assault in Bayonne, in southwest France.
His daughter, Marie, said his family and doctors had made the decision to “let him go”, Agence France-Presse reported
Remembering the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims
In 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica. Men who were directly or indirectly involved in the massacre hold key positions in Serbia's political and economic spheres.
In July 1995, forces from Bosnia's breakaway Republika Srpska and paramilitary allies killed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica. International tribunals later classified the killings as a genocide.
Young people in Bosnia-Herzegovina are working to keep the massacre in the global consciousness. "You must never forget what happened," the journalist Lamia Bravo told DW. "If you do, they can happen again: There must never be a second Srebrenica."
World reacts to Turkey reconverting Hagia Sophia into a mosque
UNESCO, Greece, Cyprus and church leaders among others express concern about changing status of the sixth-century site.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship on Friday after a top court ruled the building's conversion to a museum by modern Turkey's founding statesman was illegal.
Erdogan made his announcement, just an hour after the court ruling was revealed, despite international warnings not to change the status of the nearly 1,500-year-old monument, revered by Christians and Muslims alike.
Pac-Man: How a faceless character based on eating changed video game history
BY RUSSELL THOMAS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The nationwide release of the arcade version of Pac-Man in July 1980 marked a pioneering moment in the history of video games, introducing a rare nonviolent character for players to control and sowing the seeds for a cultural and commercial legacy that continues to endure to this day.
Pac-Man is believed to be one of the most influential video games ever made. Not only did Pac-man establish the maze chase genre, it was one of the first games to give characters individual personalities, it appealed to female audiences in a way that hadn’t been seen before and was one of gaming’s first licensing success stories.
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