‘I allowed myself to feel guilty for a very long time’: the teenage cashier who took George Floyd’s $20 bill
Christopher Martin lived above a bricked grocery store in south Minneapolis, with a maroon awning and bold red signage that reads Cup Foods. So when a cashier’s position came up last year, he took it without thinking.
He quickly learned the regulars’ orders by heart, their specific tobacco preferences, their favored snacks. The job was more than just a paycheck. “A family, community base,” he remembered. “A lot of jokes and laughs.”
But on 25 May last year, he served a customer he had never met before, igniting a chain of events that rippled around the world and irreversibly changed Martin’s life.
Lukashenko critic held after Ryanair flight diverted to Belarus in ‘attack on democracy’
Roman Protasevich was arrested after the plane was forced down and could face the death penalty
A Belarusian journalist and vocal opponent of president Alexander Lukashenko has been detained after the Ryanair passenger jet he was on was forced to make an emergency landing in Minsk, according to his supporters.
The flight carrying Roman Protasevich – who reportedly could face the death penalty in Belarus – was diverted to the country’s capital during a routine flight from Greece to Lithuania, FlightRadar24 tracking data shows.
The British MP Tom Tugenhadt called the incident “an attack on democracy”, while the Lithuanian president, Gitanas Nauseda, said it was “unprecedented”, adding it was an “abhorrent action”.
Socialist UtopiaA City in Brazil Experiments with the Unconditional Basic Income
Like an island surrounded by the Brazil of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, the city of Maricá is testing a leftist totem: the unconditional basic income. It has proven its worth in the corona crisis.
By Jens Glüsing in Maricá, Brazil
When the cashier Agnes Marques Ferreira lost her supermarket job in January, the government of her hometown of Maricá saved her from plunging into misery by providing her with a monthly basic income worth around 900 reals, the equivalent of 140 euros ($171).
But if you turn off the main road into the town center, the image changes. Cycling paths run alongside the roads and bikes can be borrowed at no cost. Uniformed traffic guards help children and the elderly across the street. Just off the city’s main square, which is undergoing renovations, there is a brand new, bright red cinema, built by the city’s culture agency. The buses are also red, as are the loaner bikes and the city hall. The choice of color is no accident: Here, it proclaims, the leftists are in power.
Activists call for fresh probe into killings of Turkish journalists
Media rights groups on Sunday urged Turkish authorities to investigate explosive allegations by a mafia boss about the high-profile killings of two journalists in the 1990s.
Sedat Peker, an underworld mobster exiled abroad, has accused members of the government and the ruling AKP party of corruption and various crimes in a series of YouTube posts over the past three weeks.
In the latest, released on Sunday, he alleges former interior minister Mehmet Agar was the head of the "deep state" in Turkey -- and alleges Agar was involved in the 1993 murder of prominent investigative journalist Ugur Mumcu.
Backed by Israeli police, Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa compound
The incident comes as a fragile ceasefire holds in the besieged Gaza, days after the end of a 11-day Israeli bombing campaign.
Dozens of Jewish settlers, flanked by heavily armed Israeli special forces, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem in the early morning, hours after Palestinian worshippers were beaten and assaulted by Israeli police, according to the Islamic authority overseeing the site.
Citing witnesses, Palestinian news agency WAFA said Israeli police had earlier on Sunday assaulted Palestinian worshippers who were performing dawn prayers at the mosque and “excessively beat” them in order to make way for Israeli Jewish settlers to storm the compound – Islam’s third-holiest site.
WAFA added that at least six Palestinians had been arrested, including Fadi Alyan, a guard at the Al-Aqsa Mosque who tried to film the incident, and Ali Wazouz, an employee of the Islamic Waqf Council, the religious body appointed by Jordan to oversee the Al-Aqsa compound.
Mount Nyiragongo: DR Congo residents flee as volcano erupts
Thousands of people fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the night after a large volcano erupted.
As the sky turned red and rivers of lava streamed from Mount Nyiragongo, there were concerns that its past deadly tragedies would be repeated.
A mass evacuation was launched in the city of Goma, which has a population of about two million people.
However, the city was largely spared and some residents are now returning.
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