Gaza mourns its dead as the specter of an endless cycle of conflict looms
Updated 1436 GMT (2236 HKT) May 22, 2021
It's over. The bombs and rockets no longer fall; on Friday night families in Gaza City ventured out to stroll around the main square, or sit on the benches.
One year on, how George Floyd’s murder has changed the world
The killing of Floyd by a white officer reflected a common history of violence against Black people that united protesters in a renewed global movement
by Deborah Douglas, Angelique Chrisafis and Aamna Mohdin
George Floyd’s murder felt like everything was the same and nothing was the same, said Miski Noor, an activist in Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed by a white police officer a year ago on 25 May.
“How many times have we seen Black death go viral?” asked Noor, the co-founder of Black Visions, which advocates for abolition, an approach to public safety that does not involve the police.
Noor, who helped found the group in 2017, knows that to abolish policing you also must confront systemic racism and the weight of history. And Noor also knows as the child of Somali immigrants, that the issues are global.
Coronavirus digest: Latin America passes 1 million deaths
The region, which includes hard-hit Brazil, has recorded almost 30% of all global fatalities. Meanwhile, US states are lifting lockdown restrictions as the rate of vaccination increases.
Latin America and the Caribbean passed 1 million coronavirus deaths on Friday. Since the virus was first detected in Sao Paulo in late February 2020, the region has recorded over 1,001,400 fatalities, or almost 30% of the global total, and more than 31.5 million cases.
Nearly 90% of those deaths have been recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Peru.
‘Revival of the occult’: French youth turn to tarot, astrology during Covid-19
Young people in France are increasingly turning to tarot, astrology and other forms of esoterism, a trend that accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a recent poll.
When French President Emmanuel Macron announced France’s first lockdown on March 16, 2020, Theotime Sorgato, 22, left Paris for Brittany with a couple of his friends. He packed his computer, some clothes and books, a deck of tarot cards, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s celebrated guide to the Tarot de Marseille.
Every day he studied a new card, using the tarot as a “psychological tool” rather than for divination.
Nigeria’s army chief, 10 others killed in plane crash
The incident occurred as the plane was landing at Kaduna airport ‘due to inclement weather’, the army says.
Nigeria’s top-ranking army commander Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and other military officers have been killed when their plane crashed in the country’s north, according to officials.
The incident on Friday occurred “due to inclement weather” as the plane was landing at the Kaduna International Airport, the armed forces said in a statement, adding that the crash “claimed the lives of 10 other officers including the crew”.
Princess Latifa: Dubai photo appears to show missing woman
A photograph posted this week on two public Instagram accounts purports to show Princess Latifa, the daughter of the ruler of Dubai, who has not been seen or heard from in months.
In mid-February, BBC Panorama broadcast secret video testimony from her in which she said she was being held as a hostage and feared for her life.
The BBC is unable to verify the photo, and no further information has been provided.
However, a friend of Latifa's confirmed that it is the princess in the picture.
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