4 Minneapolis officers fired, protest held after black man dies in police custody
Demonstrators gathered Wednesday for a second night of protests over the killing in the US city of Minneapolis of a handcuffed black man by a policeman who held him to the ground with a knee on his neck. As dusk fell, police formed a human barricade around the Third Precinct, where the officers accused of […]
Trump threatens social media after Twitter fact-checks him
US President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that he may regulate social media platforms after Twitter for the first time acted against his false tweets. Trump will sign an executive order “pertaining to social media” on Thursday, aides to the president said, without offering more detail about its contents. Twitter tagged two of his tweets […]
India wilts under heatwave as temperature hits 50 degrees Celsius
NEW DELHI: India has witnessed its hottest May day in nearly two decades with temperatures in places reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). Scorching weather is a growing menace in the world’s second-most populous nation, and the United Nations warned this week that the coronavirus pandemic increased the associated health risks. Indian meteorological officials […]
White woman fired after calling police on black man in NYC’s Central Park
NEW YORK: Denouncing “racism of any kind,” a global investment firm has fired a white woman after a viral video showed her calling police to say she felt threatened by an African-American man who asked her politely to leash her dog in New York’s Central Park. The video drew outrage on social media where it […]
Minnesota police arrest entire CNN TV crew covering George Floyd protests live on-air
WASHINGTON: The Minnesota State Patrol arrested a CNN reporter reporting live on television early Friday morning while covering the Minneapolis protests, without giving any reason, and led him and three crew members away in handcuffs. Black reporter Omar Jiminez had just shown a protester being arrested when about half a dozen white police officers surrounded […]
Twitter flags and hides Trump’s tweet that ‘glorified violence’
WASHINGTON: Twitter hid another tweet of US President Donald Trump on Friday after it violated their rules by”glorifying violence” in a message that stated that the Minneapolis protest looters would be shot. Twitter’s decision to step in, at a time of racially charged civil unrest in cities across the United States, escalates a feud between […]
PM Modi had no conversation with Trump over border standoff with China: Officials
NEW DELHI: An Indian government source said on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not established contact with US President Donald Trump about its military standoff with China, after Trump suggested Modi was upset about border tension. The neighbours’ troops have been facing off along the disputed border in the western Himalayas since early […]
George Floyd death: Ex-officer charged with murder in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS: The white Minneapolis policeman who pinned an unarmed black man with a knee to the neck before the man later died was arrested and charged with murder, a prosecutor said on Friday, after three nights of violent protests rocked the Midwestern city. Derek Chauvin, the officer seen on a bystander’s cellphone video kneeling on […]
Trump cutting U.S. ties with World Health Organization over virus
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has announced that the United States was cutting all ties with the World Health Organisation over the organisation’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The move to quit the Geneva-based body, which the United States formally joined in 1948, comes amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over the coronavirus outbreak. The […]
George Floyd Live Updates: Many Cities Under Curfew as Protests Sweep U.S.
The death of African American citizen George Floyd has sparked nationwide protests across the United States with many taking to the streets to demonstrate against police brutality. Floyd, 46, who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, has become a fresh symbol of police brutality against blacks and sparked […]
