Foreign Affairs

June 10, 2020
Cairo film festival’s art director resigns amid controversy

The controversial art director of Cairo's international film festival has resigned amid calls for his removal because of past inflammatory posts on social media, the festival said. The resignation of...

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June 10, 2020
British soap ‘Emmerdale’ leads in getting back to the set

After weeks of shutdown, British soap opera “Emmerdale” is back in production, leading the way when it comes to resuming regular filming during the coronavirus era. New health and safety...

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June 10, 2020
Tokyo Olympics talk of simplifying, but no specifics so far

One thing is certain: Tokyo organizers want to somehow simplify next year's postponed Olympics to keep costs down. Estimates in Japan say the delay alone could cost $2 billion to...

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June 10, 2020
Europe reopens borders amid worst global recession in memory

The world faces the worst global recession in nearly a century, a key economic body warned Wednesday, while in Europe, restrictions to fight the spread of coronavirus portend a bleak...

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June 10, 2020
London mayor seeks answers over Taser use on rapper’s father

London's mayor has called for an urgent investigation after rapper Wretch 32 released a video of his father being tasered in his home by a British police officer. The 36-second...

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June 10, 2020
Sweden halts probe into 1986 murder of PM Olof Palme

Sweden on Wednesday dropped its investigation into the unsolved murder of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was shot dead 34 years ago in downtown Stockholm. The case's chief...

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June 10, 2020
With suspect dead, Swedish premier Palme’s 1986 murder probe ends

A deceased Swedish man was named as the chief suspect in the 1986 murder of prime minister Olof Palme, a Swedish prosecutor said on Wednesday, meaning the probe into the...

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June 10, 2020
Gunmen kill more than 100 people in 2 Nigerian villages

Gunmen killed at least 100 people in attacks in northern and northeastern Nigeria, witnesses said on Wednesday. In the first attack, gunmen arrived on motorcycles and in cars to attack...

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June 10, 2020
Pope sends strong message to US Catholics after Floyd death

Pope Francis called George Floyd by name, twice, and offered support to an American bishop who knelt in prayer during a Black Lives Matter protest. Cardinals black and white have...

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June 10, 2020
COVID-19 just the latest epidemic in areas struck by disease

When Tariq Nawaz's daughter was born a year ago, he borrowed money to pay for his wife's cesarean delivery. Seven months later, they learned their baby had polio and sold...

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June 10, 2020
Were they worth it?: Key protest movements over the decades

The protests that left much of the world in a haze of tear gas last year were slowed by a pandemic – until the death of George Floyd sparked a...

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June 10, 2020
AP PHOTOS: Manaus indigenous struggle for care amid pandemic

They left their tribal lands in the Amazon for the city, many seeking a better life. But in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic they have neither the protective isolation...

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June 9, 2020
Confusion reigns as UN scrambles mask, virus spread advice

It's an issue that's been argued about for months, both by experts and by people strolling through parks all over the world: Can people who don't feel sick spread the...

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June 9, 2020
London may remove statues as Floyd’s death sparks change

London's mayor announced Tuesday that more statues of imperialist figures could be removed from Britain's streets after protesters knocked down the monument to a slave trader, as the killing of...

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June 9, 2020
London may remove statues as Floyd’s death sparks change

London's mayor announced Tuesday that more statues of imperialist figures could be removed from Britain's streets following the unauthorized felling of a slave-trader's monument, as the killing of George Floyd...

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June 9, 2020
UK drops plan to get all young children in school by summer

The British government on Tuesday backed away from plans to have all primary school children return to school in England before the summer holidays, following concerns by principals that they...

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June 9, 2020
Hay and Guadalajara book events honored with Asturias awards

The Hay Festival of Literature and Arts and the Guadalajara International Book Fair will be sharing this year's Princess of Asturias Awards of Communication and Humanities, the foundation named after...

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June 9, 2020
Israeli model Bar Refaeli signs plea bargain for tax evasion

Israeli top model Bar Refaeli signed a plea bargain agreement with authorities on Tuesday to settle a long-standing tax evasion case against her and her family. The deal will require...

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June 9, 2020
Still beside the queen at 99: Prince Philip to mark birthday

There certainly won't be fuss. Count on that. When Britain's Prince Philip reaches the grand age of 99 on Wednesday, he will spend it quietly and in much the same...

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June 9, 2020
North Korea cuts off contact with South Korea, dialing up tensions

After days of increasingly hostile rhetoric, North Korea on Tuesday said it was cutting off all communication with South Korea, renewing tensions after a lull during which both countries battled...

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June 9, 2020
Burundian president dies of heart attack

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of a heart attack, the government announced on Tuesday. "Burundi has lost a worthy son of the country, a president of the republic, a...

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June 9, 2020
South Asia virus cases rise at fastest rate across the globe

South Asia coronavirus cases have increased at the fastest rate globally in the past week, as the region becomes one of the latest pandemic hot spots. Infections have risen by...

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June 9, 2020
WHO clarifies remarks on asymptomatic spread of coronavirus

The head of the World Health Organization's Outbreak Investigation Task Force on Tuesday clarified comments she made the day before that asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus is "very rare," saying...

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June 9, 2020
Colombia seizes 5 tons cocaine in biggest haul during pandemic

Colombian police have seized nearly 5 tons of cocaine in their biggest haul of the drug since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, local media reported on Tuesday. A sniffer...

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June 9, 2020
Trump is undermining Merkel as she tries to stand up to Putin

The reverberations from Donald Trump's latest broadside against Germany have reached all the way to Moscow. The president's decision to withdraw more than a quarter of the U.S. troops stationed...

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June 9, 2020
Trump is undermining Merkel as she tries to stand up to Putin

The reverberations from Donald Trump's latest broadside against Germany have reached all the way to Moscow. The president's decision to withdraw more than a quarter of the U.S. troops stationed...

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June 9, 2020
Anger, activism grow over police abuse amid French lockdown

With France confined to fight the virus, a video circulated online in April showing a young man lying on the bloody ground next to two police officers — and quickly...

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June 9, 2020
In poor regions, easing virus lockdowns brings new risks

As many countries gingerly start lifting their lockdown measures, experts worry that a further surge of the coronavirus in under-developed regions with shaky health systems could undermine efforts to halt...

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June 9, 2020
Hong Kong leader says all should learn from year of protest

A year on from the start of Hong Kong's anti-government protests, the leader of the semi-autonomous Chinese city said Tuesday that all sides should learn from the difficulties and challenging...

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June 9, 2020
Yemen’s rebels crack down as COVID-19 and rumors spread

In the darkness, the bodies of suspected victims of coronavirus are carried in silence, one after the other, to be buried in several cemeteries across northern Yemen. Flashlights flicker as...

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June 9, 2020
N. Korea says it will cut communication channels with South

North Korea said Tuesday it will cut off all communication channels with South Korea as it escalates its pressure on the South for failing to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang...

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June 9, 2020
N. Korea says it will cut communication channels with South

North Korea said Tuesday it will cut off all communication channels with South Korea as it escalates its pressure on the South for failing to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang...

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June 8, 2020
Miami-Broward Carnival is still on in spite of COVID-19, but who is willing to perform?

It's been awhile since controversy erupted inside the ranks of Miami's most colorful street parade and party celebrating Caribbean culture. And now thanks to the global COVID-19 pandemic, it seems...

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June 8, 2020
Russia rejects US drive for permanent Iran arms embargo

Russia's foreign minister is accusing the Trump administration of unleashing a politically motivated campaign against Iran and is calling for “universal condemnation” of the U.S. attempt to get the U.N....

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June 8, 2020
France to abandon police chokeholds amid Floyd death anger

French police will no longer be allowed to use chokeholds during arrests, the interior minister said Monday, banning the immobilization technique after it came under renewed criticism following George Floyd's...

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June 8, 2020
K-pop fans become an unexpected ally to American protesters

As American protesters took to the streets to mourn the death of George Floyd, they found an unexpected ally: K-pop fans. Floyd died May 25 after a police officer pressed...

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June 8, 2020
Lawyers: US not investigating Prince Andrew in Epstein probe

Attorneys representing Britain's Prince Andrew say they've been assured by the U.S. Department of Justice that he is not a target in the investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey...

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June 8, 2020
Lawyers: US not investigating Prince Andrew in Epstein probe

Attorneys representing Britain's Prince Andrew say they've been assured by the U.S. Department of Justice that he is not a target in the investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey...

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June 8, 2020
In Bristol, toppling of slave trader’s statue a major moment

In an English port city that once launched slave ships, an empty plinth has become the center of a debate about racism, history and memory. For over a century the...

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June 8, 2020
Tourist rescued after being trapped 6 days in well in Bali

A Ukrainian man who fell into an abandoned well and broke his leg while being chased by a wild dog on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali was rescued after being...

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