G7 summit: Infrastructure plan to rival China adopted
G7 leaders seeking to rival China have adopted a plan to support lower- and middle-income companies in building better infrastructure.
President Joe Biden said he wanted the US-backed Build Back Better World (B3W) plan to be a higher-quality alternative to a similar Chinese programme.
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has helped finance trains, roads, and ports in many countries.
But it has been criticised for saddling some with debt.
Agnes Chow: activist leaves jail as China says Hong Kong ‘pawn in geopolitics’
The Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow has been released from jail after serving more than six months for taking part in unauthorised assemblies during 2019 anti-government protests that triggered a crackdown on dissent by mainland China.
Chow, 24, was greeted by a crowd of journalists as she left the Tai Lam women’s prison on Saturday. She got out of a prison van and into a private car without making any remarks.
A small group of supporters were on the scene – the government has threatened to jail those it deems in violation of a sweeping national security law that Beijing imposed on the territory a year ago.
Fears for LGBT woman after her abduction by police in raid on refuge in Dagestan
Security forces from the Russian region of Chechnya have reportedly abducted an LGBT woman following a Thursday evening raid on a women’s shelter in neighbouring Dagestan.
Khalimat Taramova fled Chechnya to the safe house in Makhachkala following death threats from her family. As the daughter of Ayub Taramov, a close associate of Chechnya’s tyrannical leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Ms Taramova’s sexual identity meant she had reason to fear for her life.
In messages to a crisis hotline on 28 May, shared with The Independent, Ms Taramova said she was "in danger and very nervous". People like her were being murdered, she said.
Extinction Rebellion climate protesters march at G7 summit
Activists "Sound the Alarm" on the climate and ecological emergency as G7 leaders meet in Cornwall. The environmental campaigners are staging a series of demonstrations throughout the three-day summit.
Hundreds of protesters streamed through the narrow streets of the seaside town of St. Ives on Friday, just a short distance from the tightly secured Carbis Bay resort, where theleaders of the world's biggest economies were gathering for the opening day of the Group of Seven summit.
The demonstration was organized by Extinction Rebellion — which describes itself as a "non-violent civil disobedience" activist movement — known globally for its creative, but sometimes disruptive actions.
Gunmen kill dozens of villagers in northern Nigeria
Armed cattle thieves have killed 53 people in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, police and local residents said Saturday, the latest violence to hit the restive region.
Scores of motorcycle-riding gunmen called bandits by locals on Thursday through Friday, invaded the villages of Kadawa, Kwata, Maduba, Ganda Samu, Saulawa and Askawa in the Zurmi district, shooting residents, they said.
The gang attacked farmers in their fields and pursued others who fled to escape the assaults.
Thousands march in support of Muslim family killed in Canada
Thousands of people have marched in support of a Canadian Muslim family run over and killed by a man driving a pick-up truck last Sunday in an attack the police described as a hate crime.
The four victims, spanning three generations, were killed when Nathaniel Veltman, 20, ran into them while they were out for an evening walk near their home. A fifth family member, a nine-year-old boy, survived.
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