Foreign Affairs

June 5, 2020
OAS head gets Haiti constitutional lesson after entering fight on end of president’s term

Human rights and opposition leaders in Haiti are taking the secretary general of the Organization of American States to task, accusing him of overstepping his role and wrongly supporting an...

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June 5, 2020
EU wants borders free of virus restrictions by end of June

Europe could have its free travel zone up and running again by the end of this month, but travelers from further afield will not be allowed in before July, a...

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June 5, 2020
Spain: Composers Williams, Morricone honored for film scores

A Spanish foundation on Friday awarded one of the country's most prestigious awards to composers Ennio Morricone and John Williams for their film work. The jury that decides the Princess...

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June 5, 2020
Court rules against planned Sydney protest due to virus fear

An Australian court sided with police in ruling Friday that a Black Lives Matter protest planned for Sydney poses too much risk for spreading the coronavirus and cannot be held....

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June 5, 2020
Biden isn’t the statehood backer many Puerto Ricans want. Will he lose Florida votes?

Cassandra Santiago, a hospitality worker who relocated from Puerto Rico to Central Florida two years ago, knows very little about Joe Biden. She knows that he's a Democratic candidate for...

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June 5, 2020
Growing food crisis in Cuba is churning profits for some businesses in Miami

There is no rice or oil at supermarkets. Buying soap or detergent is only accomplished after standing in long lines that seem to never end. The last time she stood...

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June 5, 2020
Venice flooded by unusual high tide, 3rd highest for June

A quarter of Venice has been submerged by a near-record high tide for June, a time of year when such flooding is rare. The water level in Italy's lagoon city...

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June 5, 2020
Post-lockdown Mideast shows signs of more virus trouble ahead

Saudi Arabia had barely inaugurated a slogan for loosening its coronavirus restrictions – "Return carefully" – when health officials looking at the numbers started to threaten another lockdown. The number...

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June 5, 2020
LA Galaxy despide a futbolista por comentarios racistas de su esposa

Los Angeles Galaxy ha anunciado la desvinculacion del equipo del centrocampista serbio Aleksandar Katai, dias despues de que su esposa, Tea Katai, hiciese comentarios racistas y violentos sobre los manifestantes...

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June 5, 2020
Negros y latinos se unen contra el racismo

Latinos y negros de Chicago se organizaron el miercoles en el suroeste de la ciudad para condenar reportes de violencia contra negros en vecindarios latinos durante y despues de las...

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June 5, 2020
–Por qu– Chicago tema m–s contagios de covid-19 entre latinos?

Como tantos inmigrantes mexicanos, los padres de Melissa Martinez Zepeda no tienen el privilegio de trabajar desde casa. Sus lugares de trabajo, un almacen y una fabrica, continuaron funcionando incluso...

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June 5, 2020
DiCaprio sobre Black Lives Matter: Escuchar, aprender y actuar

Leonardo DiCaprio ha hecho publico su apoyo al movimiento Black Lives Matter desatado tras la muerte de George Floyd a manos de la policia durante una detencion. El protagonista de...

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June 5, 2020
Miguel Bos–: el coronavirus es ‘la gran mentira de los gobiernos’

Miguel Bose ha compartido en su cuenta oficial de Twitter un video supuestamente grabado en la ciudad suiza de Ginebra este 1 de junio y en el que se puede...

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June 5, 2020
Nicaragua did nothing to stop the coronavirus. Now one activist is fighting what he calls a COVID-19 cover-up

As nations around the world locked down this spring to help contain the coronavirus, Nicaragua's president assured his country there was nothing to worry about. Schools and businesses remained open...

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June 5, 2020
George Floyd’s death an American tragedy with global echoes

When black men died at the hands of U.S. police in recent years, the news made international headlines. The name of George Floyd has reached the world's streets. Since his...

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June 5, 2020
On sad anniversary, few to mourn the D-Day dead in Normandy

At least the dead will always be there. All too many have been, for 76 years since that fateful June 6 on France's Normandy beaches, when allied troops in 1944...

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June 5, 2020
Sri Lankan cafe owner feeds and shelters stranded tourists

The tourists came to see the magical waterfalls and mountain views of the lowland jungle and rainforest. But then the pandemic hit, and they were stranded in Sri Lanka. When...

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June 5, 2020
Police try to stop Floyd rally in Sydney due to virus fears

Police challenged whether a Black Lives Matter protest planned for Saturday in Australia's largest city is too much of a virus risk, as demonstrators in the capital reminded the country...

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June 4, 2020
Killing of Palestinian man with autism draws Floyd parallel

Eyad Hallaq liked to watch cartoons. He loved dressing up and wearing cologne. He even dreamed of getting married. But his favorite activity was walking to school, where he volunteered...

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June 4, 2020
As coronavirus deaths surge in Brazil, calls for Bolsonaro’s impeachment intensify

On Sunday, the day Brazil hit the half-million mark in confirmed COVID-19 cases and inched closer to 30,000 deaths, President Jair Bolsonaro flew in a camouflaged military helicopter over a...

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June 4, 2020
Prince Charles misses hugging his family amid virus lockdown

Prince Charles says he has missed giving his family members a hug during the long weeks of lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The Prince of Wales also acknowledged in...

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June 4, 2020
With ‘Succession’ shut down, Brian Cox takes on other roles

“Succession” may be temporarily shut down, but star Brian Cox is still finding projects to keep him busy. Not that he's a fan of being an actor working from home....

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June 4, 2020
Meghan speaks out on racial divisions in US

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has shared her sadness about racial divisions in the United States, telling students at her former high school that she felt moved to speak out...

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June 4, 2020
McCann family seeks closure as Germany presumes girl is dead

Madeleine McCann's family is hoping for closure in the case after a key suspect was identified in Germany and as authorities there say they believe the missing British girl is...

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June 4, 2020
Postponed Tokyo Olympics could be downsized and simplified

The Japanese public is being prepared for the reality of next year's postponed Olympics, where athletes are likely to face quarantines, spectators will be fewer, and the delay will cost...

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June 4, 2020
Rivera is the tip of the iceberg; Citgo had ‘multiple’ lobbying contracts, sources say

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez's fingerprints are all over the $50 million lobbying contract that former Congressman David Rivera signed with a U.S. affiliate of the state-run oil company, Petroleos...

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June 4, 2020
Hong Kong outlaws insulting China’s national anthem

Hong Kong's legislature approved a contentious bill Thursday that makes it illegal to insult the Chinese national anthem. The legislation was approved after pro-democracy opposition lawmakers tried to disrupt the...

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June 4, 2020
Hong Kong protesters defy police and the ban on their Tiananmen vigil

What was supposed to be a banned event commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre instead became one of Hong Kong's most unifying vigils in 31 years, as the old themes...

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June 4, 2020
In prisoner swap, Iran releases US veteran in exchange for scientist

A U.S. military veteran, Michael White, who had been held by Iran for two years, has been released and is on his way home, his family and President Donald Trump...

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June 4, 2020
New Hong Kong law bans ‘insults’ about China’s national anthem

Hong Kong passed a law Thursday banning ridicule of China's national anthem. Of those who voted for the new legislation – most of whom are supporters of Beijing – 41...

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June 4, 2020
German prosecutors assume missing girl Madeleine McCann is dead

German prosecutors said Thursday that they assume Madeleine McCann, the British girl who went missing while on holiday in Portugal with her parents in 2007, is dead. The prosecutor's office...

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June 4, 2020
For the first time, Mexico records more COVID-19 deaths in a day than the US

Mexican authorities sought to calm an anxious public after the nation's coronavirus death toll grew by 1,092 on Wednesday – more than doubling the daily record and for the first...

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June 4, 2020
As America rages, the Middle East watches with surprise – and some schadenfreude

Police vehicles crashing through crowds. Journalists shot at or arrested. Officers and self-appointed militiamen threatening protesters. As images of America's rage explode on screen, people across the Middle East –...

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June 4, 2020
Europe’s contagion rate under control sets path for more easing

Europe's coronavirus infections remain under control after weeks of looser restrictions on daily life, paving the way for further steps to lift economies out of deep recession. Officials in Germany,...

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June 4, 2020
Amid virus, those in India’s largest slum help one another

There are no secrets in the tightly packed lanes of Dharavi, India's largest slum. Everyone knows when an alcoholic husband turns violent, when children are scolded, or when a family...

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June 4, 2020
Seoul vows to stop border protests after Pyongyang’s threat

South Korea said Thursday it planned to push new laws to ban activists from flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the border after North Korea threatened to end an inter-Korean military agreement...

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June 4, 2020
Tropical Storm Cristobal drenching Mexico’s Gulf coast

Tropical Storm Cristobal is creeping along just inland over Mexico's Gulf coast state of Campeche, threatening to cause flooding the next few days before a predicted turn northward toward the...

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June 4, 2020
Tropical Storm Cristobal drenching Mexico’s Gulf coast

Tropical Storm Cristobal is creeping along just inland over Mexico's Gulf coast state of Campeche, threatening to cause flooding the next few days before a predicted turn northward toward the...

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June 4, 2020
Star Wars actor gives speech at Hyde Park Black Lives Matter protest

Actor John Boyega told the crowd at a Black Lives Matter protest at London's Hyde Park on June 3, “I need you to understand how painful it is to be...

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June 4, 2020
Tiananmen anniversary marked by crackdown, HK vigil ban

China tightened controls over dissidents while pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and elsewhere sought ways to mark the 31st anniversary Thursday of the crushing of the pro-democracy movement centered on...

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