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On a karting track in southeast England, an eight-year-old Lewis Hamilton has the measure of his rivals. He is flying around the course. He is quicker than the other boys and, though these are supposed to be carefree years, is racing with the intensity of someone who is eager to make an impression.

"There's a downhill section on this track into a hairpin bend and there was little Lewis Hamilton, and he was small in those days, coming down, leading the pack of these little karts that sing along like bumblebees and he was just extraordinary even in those days," David Richards, chairman of Motorsport UK, tells CNN Sport of the first time he saw Hamilton -- who was on the same karting team as his son -- race.
"He was quite shy, but he and his father had an exceptional rapport with each other, and they just got down and did the job better than anybody else and it stood out even in those days. He went from class to class, from strength to strength, and I think it's easy to be flippant and say he was a future world champion at eight years old, but you could see he had standout talent that's for sure."
By now, the world is familiar with Hamilton's body of work. As a six-time world champion, he is the second most successful Formula One driver of all time, one title behind Michael Schumacher's seven which few would wager against him passing. The Englishman has won 83 races, again only Schumacher has more, and no driver has secured more pole positions than Hamilton's 87. Whatever he achieves in the years ahead, Hamilton's place in F1's pantheon is assured.
The 35-year-old has long been the face of F1, his domination of the sport and heart-on-sleeve personality has made him arguably the most recognizable British sportsman on the planet, but in the last few months especially, as one of British sport's leading voices supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, Hamilton has become, says Richards, the sport's conscience, too.

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The European Union will reportedly block most Americans from traveling to the bloc even as those countries reopen to other travelers, a policy that reflects the United States’s failure to fully control the coronavirus pandemic.

The European Union restricted nonessential travel to most of its member-states under rules in effect until at least June 30. But starting July 1, European countries are loosening some of those measures and allowing travel again from more than a dozen countries — including China (if Beijing allows EU travelers too) — that meet certain criteria, including their ability to contain the coronavirus.

Right now, the United States doesn’t make the cut.

This is not altogether surprising. Europe was once the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis, with Italy, Spain, and France some of the hardest hit countries in the bloc. Aggressive lockdown measures drove down cases, and many European countries have slowly reopened. And while there have been spikes across the continent, overall, Europe’s cases have declined.

The United States had long since overtaken Europe as the epicenter of the crisis. And, unlike its allies overseas, America is now seeing a massive surge in cases in some states. As of June 26, the United States has confirmed more than 2.4 million coronavirus cases and recorded more than 124,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. On Friday, the United States confirmed a record 40,000 new coronavirus cases nationwide.

The New York Times’s Matina Stevis-Gridneff first reported Friday that EU officials had finalized the list of acceptable countries Friday after what she described as “tortuous negotiations”:

The list was backed in principle by most E.U. ambassadors and does not require unanimous support, but still needs to be formalized in member states’ capitals as well as in the central European Union bureaucracy before taking effect July 1. Diplomats did not expect the list to change.

The United States is not alone in being excluded, and travelers from other countries, including Russia, are also barred from visiting.

Still, this is a dramatic decision from some of America’s closest allies, and it has serious implications for trade and travel, especially as both the US and Europe seek to rebuild their economies in the aftermath of the pandemic.

The EU ban should be a wake-up call for the US. But will it be?
On March 11, as the number of coronavirus cases began to tick up in the United States, President Donald Trump announced a travel ban on anyone arriving from the 26 Schengen zone countries of the European Union. (The ban was expanded a few days later to include Ireland and the United Kingdom.)


Trump touted the decision as a way to protect Americans, though some doubted its effectiveness in really slowing the spread of the virus, which was already circulating in communities around the US.

The abrupt policy change also caused confusion about who could and couldn’t return to the US, leading to chaos at airports and potentially backfiring as a rush of people returned to US airports.

The announcement also caught European leaders by surprise. They condemned the unilateral decision, adding yet another strain to the US’s transatlantic partnerships under Trump.

But, on March 17, EU states agreed to bar nonessential travel on its external borders, which included the United States. That has since been extended to the end of June. Tensions also existed within the European Union, as some member-states temporarily sealed off their borders to other EU members in an attempt to contain the virus. A hallmark of the Schengen zone is free and frictionless travel, and countries turning inward presented a real test for the EU during this crisis.

Since then, the EU has somewhat regrouped, including with a major pandemic recovery plan. And unified travel rules would also help; though individual EU countries can make their own rules on who can and can’t visit, embracing a consistent policy across member-states would eliminate the need for internal controls as the continent reopens for businesses and tourism.

Travel restrictions will be reevaluated every two weeks based on specific science and epidemiological criteria, according to the New York Times, which first reported on the possibility of a US ban earlier this week.

Even so, the EU extending a ban on American travel is a remarkable development. The expectation in a global pandemic would be to see allies like the US and Europe working together; instead, the coronavirus crisis has shown just how deeply the partnership has deteriorated — and how Trump’s “America First” foreign policy has diminished US standing.

Since the start of his administration, Trump has picked fights with European leaders on trade, NATO, the Iran deal, and random other things. That has worn on the friendship, and an unprecedented global crisis has damaged it even more. The US recently declined to participate in a global vaccine summit, a glaring absence as leaders from around the world pledged cooperation to find a vaccine. European leaders have also criticized Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the World Health Organization.

The US was supposed to host the G-7 summit at the end of June; Trump postponed it for obvious pandemic reasons but then tried to reschedule it in June as a sign of the US’s reopening. German Chancellor Angela Merkel swiftly rejected the invitation, and Trump had to postpone again until September.

Once seen as a leader, rallying other countries to respond and coordinate in response to virus outbreaks, the US took a backseat internationally during the coronavirus and floundered at home. That damaged the US’s reputation as a superpower. It also revealed a global leadership vacuum; this is what happens when the United States looks inward. Both have damaged the US’s global reputation.

And this will have real consequences for the United States. Business travel to Europe has all but fizzled, and it will be difficult to resume with a ban — which could have consequences as the United States and Europe seek to rebuild their economies. And while Europeans might be enjoying American-tourist-free zones, the decline of international travel has already hit countries like Italy and France quite hard. Travel restrictions could make that recovery even harder. And the US’s spiraling coronavirus outbreak will also hurt US tourism, as Europeans, and pretty much anyone else, will be unlikely to visit, presuming Trump lifts the current travel bans and they’re allowed to.

Trump has embraced travel bans since he took office, which he has justified as a way to defend the country and protect national security. Now, after its embarrassing coronavirus response, the US is on the receiving end, experiencing what it’s like to for everyone else to try to keep Americans out.

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After three months without proper football, fans need to recalibrate for quick turnarounds. With 35 days in which to play nine games, the coming months will be hectic, although much less stressful for the Reds and their supporters, since Liverpool had, mercifully, all but wrapped up the league well before the pandemic put the world in stasis.

Tomorrow’s opponents have it all to play for, as, with Manchester City facing a ban from European competition, a wildly improbable Champions League spot is only four points away, while qualification for the Europea League requires only an improvement in goal difference.
Naturally, these are both unlikely scenarios, but following a dominant win over Bournemouth on Saturday, an invigorated Roy Hodgson will undoubtedly set his side up to frustrate the Reds and hit them on the break tomorrow, with Wilfried Zaha, Jordan Ayew, and former Liverpool slayer and player Christian Benteke all capable of punishing moments of indecision or laziness.
Martin Kelly, Jeffrey Schlupp, and James Tomkins all miss out with injuries, however, and the aging quartet who featured on Saturday will likely feel the lay-off in their legs after such a quick turnaround.

Projected Liverpool Lineup (4-3-3)

Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, van Dijk, Robertson; Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Oxlade-Chamberlain; Mané, Firmino, Salah
As expected following the long lay-off, the Reds suffered a few knocks in their return to action on Sunday, and both Joël Matip and James Milner look set to miss out with an injured foot and hamstring, respectively.

On the bright side, Andrew Robertson should be cleared to start, and as such, there is a good chance Jürgen Klopp can put out his strongest back four tomorrow, with Joe Gomez partnering Virgil van Dijk in central defence, and Trent Alexander-Arnold rounding out the quartet at right-back. Appearances from Dejan Lovren and Neco Williams aren’t our of the question, but would, on recent evidence, likely spell disaster.
In midfield, Jordan Henderson and Fabinho both played 90 minutes on Sunday, and at least one is likely to be rested, while Naby Keïta, Georginio Wijnaldum and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain battle it out for the remaining two spots.
Up top, Mohamed Salah should be ready for action, while either Sadio Mané or Roberto Firmino are candidates for a rest, particularly considering Takumi Minamino’s impressive cameo on Sunday.

At any rate, and as in the previous fixture, Klopp is likely to use all of his five subs, in order to stave off injuries and maintain freshness in the squad as they power through the end of the season.

What the Managers Said

Jürgen Klopp: “It is a game against a very, very good side. Roy is doing an incredible job there. The organisation of the team is really, really, really highest level.”
Roy Hodgson: “Nothing changes in terms of that quality of the opposition. The quality Liverpool have and the way they play, their organisation and determination to keep going despite the fact they’ve had the title in their pocket for quite a while.”

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The Trump administration has finalized a Department of Health and Human Services administrative rule rolling back health care discrimination protections for LGBTQ people, according to an HHS press release. The rule was released Friday, June 12, the fourth anniversary of the Pulse shooting, which left 49 victims, including many queer and trans people, dead in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub.

First proposed in May 2019, the rule reverses an Obama-era interpretation that s*x discrimination under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act applied to discrimination against queer and trans people, as well as people who are seeking or have had an abortion.

“HHS will enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government’s interpretation of s*x discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘s*x’ as male or female and as determined by biology,” reads the agency’s press release.

Democratic lawmakers were quick to condemn the rule change, which is set to go into effect by mid-August. “No one should ever have to fear seeking health care because they may be discriminated against based on who they are or the care they seek,” said a joint statement by leaders of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, and Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus.

Trans people especially face overwhelming levels of discrimination from health care providers. According to a 2010 study, almost one in five trans people said they had been denied care by a medical provider because of their gender identity, and 28 percent were subjected to harassment in a medical setting. It was that reality the Obama administration attempted to address by including LGBTQ people under the definition of s*x discrimination, conforming to an increasing wave of state and federal court rulings.

The Obama-era rule made it illegal for doctors, hospitals, and other health care workers to deny care to someone whose s*xual orientation or gender identity they disapproved of. The new Trump administration rule allows health care providers to deny care to anyone they perceive as trans or g*y. It will allow hospitals to house trans women and men according to their birth-assigned s*x, or condition emergency treatment on the stoppage of cross-s*x hormones. It would also allow insurance companies to reinstate blanket bans on transition-related care like gender-affirming surgery or hormone replacement therapy.

The Human Rights Campaign has already announced its plan to sue the Trump administration over the rule. Meanwhile, National Women’s Law Center President and CEO Fatima Goss Graves said the organization has teamed up with the Transgender Law Center, the Harvard Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund to challenge the rule as well.

“This sanctioning of discrimination in health care is unlawful and immoral, and doing so while our country loses thousands of lives daily and health inequities across the board persist is especially egregious,” said Graves in a statement Friday. “No one should fear being turned away by a medical provider because of who they are or the personal health decisions they have made.”

In the age of Covid-19, the rule could also mean the life of a sick trans person is quite literally at the whim of a doctor’s personal beliefs about trans people. That fear was already permeating the trans community before news of the finalized rule was released. “I’m scared to say this out loud, but I’m afraid that trans people will face things like being deprioritized for ventilators or for care,” Bre Kidman, a nonbinary candidate for US Senate in Maine, told Vox in April.

Gillian Branstetter, a spokesperson for the National Women’s Law Center, criticized the administration’s timing for moving forward with the rule in the middle of a pandemic. “It’s egregious that we are losing 3,000 Americans a day to an unprecedented public health emergency and a top priority of the Trump administration is making sure doctors can turn away trans people,” she told Vox in April. “We already know that trans people face a patchwork of health inequities that leaves them at risk for any number of health concerns. This rule threatened the well-being of trans people before this pandemic. During this pandemic, it is beyond immoral to worsen any group’s access to health care.”

The Trump administration’s war on trans health care began more than a year ago
The fight over the rule began in December 2016 with a nationwide injunction on the Obama interpretation. It was issued by federal Judge Reed O’Connor, a conservative favorite who has issued numerous rulings overturning Obama-era rules regarding the Affordable Care Act, abortion access, and access to birth control. That ruling was finalized in October 2019 by O’Connor.

It’s that ruling, an HHS spokesperson told Politico back in April, with which the department is complying. HHS head of civil rights Roger Severino defended that agency’s treatment of marginalized communities to Politico. “As we have shown in our recent efforts to protect persons from disability and age discrimination during the pandemic, HHS will vigorously enforce civil rights laws as passed by Congress, before, during, and after any rulemaking,” he said in a statement.

Before his stint as HHS civil rights chief, Severino was a fierce critic of the Obama administration’s efforts to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. Proponents of the new rule have pushed the false notion that doctors were being forced to perform gender-affirming surgeries that they were uncomfortable with. In reality, transgender surgical care is highly specialized, and trans people are unlikely to go to a doctor who isn’t experienced in the procedure.

With the new rule, the US trans community is now looking at a possible return to a health care environment that allowed oncologists to deny cancer care to Robert Eads, a trans man who developed ovarian cancer and was never notified of his diagnosis. When he finally learned of it, his doctor said his first instinct was to send Eads to a psychologist rather than treating his cancer. Eads died in 1999. Or Tyra Hunter, who died in 1995 after an EMT discovered her trans status following a car accident and refused to touch her on the trip to the hospital, mere miles from the White House.

Aside from the new rule, the LGBTQ community also awaits two Supreme Court decisions on whether queer and trans people are protected under s*x discrimination provisions of federal civil rights law.


“Trans people are terrified of the [Supreme Court] case,” Branstetter said. “Behind a lot of that fear is the understanding that the Trump administration has been hard at work instilling long-term damage to LGBTQ rights. It’s not just the Trump administration, it’s an entire sphere of right-wing organizations who have made their primary goal the erasure of trans people from public life.”

Conservatives haven’t let the pandemic slow down their political agenda
In many ways, the coronavirus pandemic has provided convenient cover for conservatives to enact several political priorities while the nation’s attention is on the virus and gatherings are strongly discouraged.

At the state level, Idaho enacted two anti-trans laws in late March, while South Carolina held a hearing on a bill that would ban transition care for trans minors while the state was under a shelter-at-home order. Additionally, Trump’s DOJ filed a statement of interest in a federal lawsuit seeking to ban trans girls from high school girls’ sports in Connecticut.

The anti-trans moves join multiple state-level attacks on abortion access during the pandemic, with some conservative states moving to ban or restrict the procedure under bans on “nonessential surgeries.” Texas eventually eased its ban on nonessential surgeries, while three states saw most of the attempted bans stopped in federal court. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, only Arkansas’s partial ban remained in place as of May 19.

Flying a bit further under the radar have also been several attempts to use the pandemic to justify loosening environmental and business regulations, long a goal of the Trump administration.

On March 26, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a directive saying it would “not expect to seek penalties for violations of routine compliance monitoring, integrity testing, sampling, laboratory analysis, training, and reporting or certification obligations in situations where the EPA agrees that Covid-19 was the cause of the noncompliance.” The move allows air polluters to flout federal law without fear of penalty, right when clean air is perhaps most important for the health and safety of everyday Americans.

Then, in early April, the administration finalized its rollback of Obama-era requirements for vehicle fuel efficiency.

Several conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation, also released plans for the administration to pursue deregulation of business and environmental rules. Among the Heritage plans the White House found intriguing was a call for the president to ask agencies not to enforce small business regulations altogether.

“A presidential call for a wide-scale policy of non-enforcement would send a very strong signal to businesses that the government is not going to come down hard on them as they try to get back up and running,” the Heritage plan said.

Left-leaning policy experts disagree. “This sounds exactly like the type of opportunistic political move that absolutely should not be attempted right now,” Jared Bernstein, a former adviser to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, told the Washington Post in April. “Correlations between regulations and economic activity are far shakier than they assume, and I don’t believe this idea will help at all.”

It’s been clear since the pandemic started that there is no bad time for the Trump administration to push their political agenda, even if that means costing Americans — LGBTQ or not — their lives.

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Three Indian soldiers were killed during a "violent face-off" with Chinese troops along the countries' de facto border in the Himalayas late Monday, the Indian army said in a statement.

The incident occurred during a "deescalation process" underway in the Galwan Valley in the disputed Aksai Chin-Ladakh area, where a large troop build up has reportedly been taking place for weeks now on both sides of the border, before senior military commanders began talks earlier this month.
According to the Indian army statement, there was loss of life "on both sides," including an Indian officer and two Indian soldiers. The statement did not specify the number of additional Chinese casualties. It added that senior military officials from both sides are currently meeting to defuse the situation.
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday held a meeting with senior Indian military officers, according to the Indian army. He "reviewed the current operational situation in Eastern Ladakh" with the Chief of Defense Staff, and the chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force, the army said. The country's External Affairs Minister was also present.
At a regular news conference Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that on Monday "Indian troops seriously violated our consensus and twice crossed the border line for illegal activities and provoked and attacked Chinese personnel which lead to serious physical conflict between the two sides."
"China has lodged strong protest and representation with the India side, and we once again we solemnly ask the India side to follow our consensus and strictly regulate its front line troops and do not cross the line and do not stir up troubles or take unilateral moves that may complicate matters," Zhao added. "We both agreed to resolve this issue through dialogue and consolation and make efforts for easing the situation and upholding peace and tranquility in the border area."
Zhao did not comment on whether there had been any Chinese casualties. Chinese military officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) released a statement Tuesday night calling on the Indian army to immediately stop what it described as "provocative actions" and to "resolve the issue through the correct track of dialogue and talks."
"The sovereignty of the Galwan Valley region has always belonged to China," Zhang Shuili, the spokesman of the Western Theater said in a statement on China's Ministry of Defense website. "Indian troops violated its commitment, crossed the borderline for illegal activities and deliberately launched provocative attacks."
Zhang added that the "serious physical conflict between the two sides" had "resulted in casualties."
"We solemnly ask the India side to strictly regulate its front line troops, immediately stop all infringement and provocative actions, go toward the same direction with China, and return to the correct track of dialogue and talks to resolve differences," the statement read.
Monday's deaths are the first military casualties along the disputed border for more than four decades, Indian defense experts told CNN.
"We have not had casualties on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) for at least 45 years," said Happymon Jacob, an associate professor and political analyst at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. "This is perhaps a game-changer. This is perhaps the beginning of the end of the rapport that India has enjoyed with China for 45 years."
Former Indian Chief of Army Staff, General Bikram Singh, also confirmed to CNN this is the first such deadly incident in the last 45 years.
Tensions have been growing in the Himalayas along one of the world's longest land borders since last month, with New Delhi and Beijing both accusing the other of overstepping the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that separates the two nuclear armed neighbors. The territory has long been disputed, erupting into numerous minor conflicts and diplomatic spats since a bloody war between the two countries in 1962.
The LAC runs between Chinese-controlled Aksai Chin and the rest of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region.
The rough border line was the result of the India China border dispute in 1962, but neither side agrees exactly where it is or how long it is.
Aksai Chin is administered by China as part of Xinjiang, but is also claimed by the Indian government as part of Ladakh.
An Indian military banner post is seen next to a road in Ladakh in 2012. The region shares a border with both China and Pakistan.
An Indian military banner post is seen next to a road in Ladakh in 2012. The region shares a border with both China and Pakistan.
The reported troop build up had left many worried about the potential for a confrontation, particularly as both Chinese and Indian media have published jingoistic calls for action.
Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have built public support in large part on nationalism and a promise of future greatness. This often translates into aggressive rhetoric, particularly when playing to a domestic audience.
Such an approach was evidenced in Chinese coverage of the PLA maneuvers in the Himalayas. Equally, despite Delhi's public calls for easing tensions, leading Indian government figures have struck an aggressive tone, with Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah telling a rally of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) earlier this month that "any intrusion into the the borders of India will be punished."
"Some used to say that US and Israel were the only countries which were willing and capable of avenging every drop of the blood of their soldiers," Shah said. "(Modi) has added India to that list.''
Writing for CNN this month, retired Indian general Singh said that part of the problem is that the de facto border, the LAC, is so ill defined.
"At strategic and operational levels, both militaries have exercised restraint," he said. "However, at the tactical level, face-offs occur due to differing perceptions of where the actual border is as the LAC is not delineated on the ground. While face-offs get resolved locally, those related to the building of infrastructure, such as roads and defence fortifications, invariably take longer and require a combination of military and diplomatic initiatives."
Speaking before the most recent clash, former Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said she hoped the current crisis won't lead to an abandonment of long-standing diplomatic negotiations over the disputed territory.
"Even if tensions rise and tempers fray, they would do well to remember that they have to continue to manage their differences in a grown-up way because armed clashes and military combat can have extremely serious repercussions for the stability of the region going beyond the ambit of the purely bilateral relationship between the two countries," she said.

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On January 28, at around one in the morning, Dr. John Nkengasong's cellphone rang in Addis Ababa.

Nigerian officials told Nkengasong, the Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that a recently arrived Italian businessman had tested positive for Covid-19.
He later recovered. But the force of infection, mostly coming from Europe, seeded the virus in countries throughout the continent, say health officials.
As imported cases increased, and community transmission began, the World Health Organization began sounding the alarm in press conferences and statements about an unfolding crisis on the continent. They said Covid-19 patients could quickly overwhelm the weak health infrastructure.
Melinda Gates, in an interview with CNN, went even further in April -- predicting that there would be bodies on the streets.

CDC Africa and WHO officials say that the warnings were important. Very little was, and still is, known about Covid-19 and nations needed to urgently prepare. But nearly five months on, across Africa, those catastrophic scenarios just haven't happened.
"The countries in the Africa region are not where they had predicted they would be by now. I think a lot of earlier predictions had painted a picture that by this time it would be quite overwhelming," said Dr. Humphrey Karamagi, the leader of the WHO Africa region's data, analytics and knowledge team.
Why it didn't happen, and whether the worst still could happen, is one of the most consequential public health questions facing officials on the continent at this stage of the pandemic.
Winning the early battle
One thing that does seem certain, says Nkengasong, is that many African leaders got it right in the early stages of the fight.
"The leadership on the continent was extraordinary in responding in a coordinated way," he said.
He says the swift action by many African leaders to close down their economies should get significant credit for slowing community spread in the early months.
South Africa led the way by closing its borders to high risk travelers and shutting its schools in mid-March before reaching 100 confirmed cases. A strict lockdown swiftly followed.
A city worker disinfects a market in Accra, Ghana in March, as the virus begins to spread around the world.
A city worker disinfects a market in Accra, Ghana in March, as the virus begins to spread around the world.
Health experts say that these tough decisions, and the long experience dealing with diseases like Ebola and yellow fever, made a significant impact on transmission rates.
But Karamagi and a group of leading African scientists now believe that socio-ecological factors, the complex way that humans and their environment interact, could be playing an important role.
"We are expecting that the rate of transmission in Africa is lower. It could take a longer time to get to people who are susceptible. And the deaths, the severity of the outbreak will be less severe than we have seen in other countries," he said.

Not one thing, but many
Karamagi's team bases that assessment on disease modelling published in late May in the open source journal BMJ Global Health.
Their modeling assumes no significant health measures by governments and plugs in the known characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and multiple factors known to affect respiratory viral transmission.
One key factors, say the authors, is the relative population movements across the continent. With sparse road networks and largely rural populations in some regions, the virus may have fewer opportunities to travel.
Climactic factors, like weather and precipitation, also can impact the viral spread, according to the modelling.
One clear advantage across the continent, say public health experts, is based on the makeup of the population itself. More than 70% of people living in sub-Saharan Africa are under 30, and on other continents, Covid-19 has had more severe effects on the elderly.

Karamagi also says that the lower rates on the continent of what he calls 'lifestyle' conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity -- important comorbidities for this coronavirus -- should lead to fewer severe cases in many countries.
But Covid-19 is a confounding virus. Japan, for example, has one of the world's oldest populations and hasn't seen the devastating deaths of the United States or Italy. Brazil is hot and wet, and it is now the epicenter of the disease.
"It is not a single factor. It is how these factors work together to create a pattern that we see in a country. We created this model to understand this," said Karamagi.
An accelerating burden
Last week, the WHO announced that the overall number of confirmed cases in Africa had doubled in less than 20 days, to more than 200,000 infections -- still less than 3% of the global total. But it is unclear just how many cases there really are because of inadequate testing rates.
Nkengasong said that the Africa CDC's member states have only conducted about a quarter of the number of tests needed to stay ahead of the virus.
"This virus took everyone by surprise, and everyone was affected, so the competition for diagnostics has been acute," he said.

There have been indications of hotspots, like the rise of unexplained deaths in Kano, in northeast Nigeria, where the health minister recently admitted that more than half of April's unexplained deaths were due to Covid-19.
But even as the Africa CDC works with countries to increase testing capacity and hotspots in urban centers emerge, WHO officials say there is little evidence yet of an exponential surge in severe cases, or a surge in deaths across much of the continent. They have said much of the continent will see a 'smoldering' outbreak.
"We believe that large numbers of severe cases and deaths are not being missed in Africa," said WHO Africa director Dr. Matshidiso Moeti at a press conference in Brazzaville, though she added that case counts can be expected to continue to rise.
"Until such time as we have access to an effective vaccine, I'm afraid we'll probably have to live with a steady increase in the region, with some hotspots having to be managed in a number of countries," she said.
WHO modeling estimates that a handful of countries like South Africa, Algeria and Cameroon are driving the increasing rates.
With Africa's most advanced economy, South Africa has a large and mobile population with higher rates of conditions, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, that lead to more severe infections.
Public health officials see the peak coming in July or August. Most of the increase is coming from just three of the country's eight provinces: Gauteng, the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape. Right now, Cape Town appears to be the continent's current epicenter.
"We had early seeding because of tourism and travel, we have high density populations, and we have high comorbidities like diabetes and hypertension," Alan Winde, premier of the Western Cape province, told CNN.
He said that the province has worked to rapidly increase the number of hospital beds by converting the city's convention center and community centers.
"Your biggest fear is people waiting in parking lots of your hospitals," said Winde. He added that it's impossible to predict with 100% certainty whether they will weather the surge.
It's just a model
And predictions in this pandemic have been hazardous.
In the early months, the United Kingdom abandoned its herd immunity plan when infection rates soared. The architect of Sweden's no-lockdown strategy recently admitted they didn't do enough to protect the elderly.

One thing does seem more certain. The pandemic has shown that different countries and even different regions within countries see very different transmission rates.
Public health officials say that Africa, a continent of 54 countries and more than a billion people, will see that wide degree of variance.
And even as much of Karamagi and his team's modelling seems broadly accurate at the moment, he says it is unwise to use it as a crystal ball.
"What is key is that the less severe outcomes need to be balanced against the capacity to respond to those outcomes," he said.
The WHO fears that even a moderate rise in severe infections in some countries could overwhelm their health facilities.
"We don't yet know what the intensity of the spread of this virus will be. While it seems that we have already lived with it for five years, we have only lived with it for about five months. There is a lot we have yet to learn as a continent," said Nkengasong.

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President Donald Trump just said his administration “will not even consider the renaming” of 10 US Army facilities named after Confederate leaders, even though top Pentagon leaders said earlier this week that they were open to discussing such a change.

On Monday, Army spokesperson Col. Sunset Belinsky told Politico that “The secretary of defense and secretary of the Army are open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic.”

That opened the door for the Army to potentially reverse its long-held position on keeping the names honoring Confederate officers. The Army defended that stance as recently as February, with a spokesperson telling Task & Purpose, “The Army has a tradition of naming installations and streets after historical figures of military significance, including former Union and Confederate general officers.”

But the Army has come under renewed pressure in recent months to change its position. In February, the Marines signaled that Confederate-related items — including the Confederate battle flag — would no longer be permitted on its bases and officially followed through last week.

More recently, the protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd have prompted states like v*rg*nia and Florida to announce plans to remove Confederate statues. Now, some of the Army’s most revered retired generals and former top civilian leaders have come out in support of the Pentagon’s seemingly more open stance.

But despite the growing movement recognizing the explicitly racist history behind the naming of Army installations after Confederate officers, the president remains intransigent.

“The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these Hallowed Grounds, and won two World Wars,” he wrote in short Twitter thread Wednesday. “Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations.”

Trump’s stance here is consistent with past comments he’s made on similar issues. After a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, v*rg*nia, Trump said the removal of Confederate statutes was “so foolish.” It’s consistent with his history of racist comments and actions. And it’s consistent with his 2016 campaign strategy of using racist and xenophobic rhetoric to capitalize on deep-seated white racial resentment in America.

That white racial resentment is still alive and well in America, and Trump clearly seems to see it as a winning strategy for the 2020 election, too.

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"In a president, character is everything," wrote the renowned speechwriter Peggy Noonan. And therein lies President Donald Trump's inability to meet this American moment.

Noonan referred, in an essay commemorating her old boss Ronald Reagan, to the human qualities behind successful leadership in the White House. Empathy, courage, vision, decency, candor -- these traits have yielded the presidential moments that resonate through history.
The evident absence of those qualities in Trump leaves him uniquely ill-equipped to handle the intertwined challenges of a public health pandemic, economic collapse and racial conflict that the nation now faces. The results have inflamed enmity, division and hardship across the nation.
Consider some of the signature events that helped define chief executives over the last century. They etch an unflattering contrast with today's incumbent.

After Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt girded Americans for the struggle ahead by leveling with them: "It will not only be a long war, it will be a hard war." Trump has misled Americans about many aspects of the current crisis -- downplaying the coronavirus threat, exaggerating chances for rapid economic recovery, distorting the nature of protests by describing participants as "arsonists, looters, criminals and anarchists wanting to destroy ... our country."

Harry Truman demonstrated presidential accountability by avowing "The buck stops here." Trump dodges the buck, insisting in the White House Rose Garden that, "I don't take responsibility at all" for coronavirus failures.
Dwight Eisenhower used the extraordinary powers of his office for paramount national purposes by sending federal troops to protect black students integrating Arkansas schools. Trump sent federal officers to forcibly disperse Americans peacefully protesting the police killing of an unarmed black man.
John F. Kennedy summoned the nation to shared purposes: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." When the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba on his watch turned into a fiasco, Kennedy accepted personal responsibility.

Trump makes self-aggrandizement his constant theme, telling Americans "I alone can fix it" and publicly thanking himself for positive developments. Unerringly, he responds to setbacks on coronavirus, civil unrest and anything else by blaming others.
Lyndon Johnson advanced the American ideal of equality with civil rights legislation, even as he predicted accurately that it would undercut his political party in the South. The white voters repelled by that decision helped Republicans dominate presidential elections for a generation.
Now that a transformed national electorate prefers Democrats, Trump joins fellow Republicans in opposing efforts to ease voting during the pandemic threat. He acknowledges that higher voting levels hurt Republicans.
Ronald Reagan inspirited a beleaguered nation with the vision of America as a "shining city on a hill." His first inaugural placed "idealism and fair play" at the core of the country's strength.
Trump defended the Russian autocrat whose intelligence services aided his campaign by deriding America itself, telling an interviewer, "You think our country's so innocent?" His inaugural accused predecessors of inflicting "carnage" on constituents for their personal gain.
George W. Bush sought to shield Muslim Americans from bigotry by visiting a mosque after al Qaeda's 9/11 attacks. Trump places racial division at the heart of his political strategy, using the pandemic as a pretext to restrict visas for new entrants and expel asylum-seekers.
Barack Obama used religious faith to comfort a nation shaken by the 2015 Charleston church massacre, delivering a eulogy and leading his audience in "Amazing Grace." Trump, once protesters in his path had been forcibly removed, walked a block from the White House simply to be photographed in front of a church, holding a Bible aloft.
Richard Nixon, who as a result of Watergate crimes, became the only president ever to resign, styled himself a "law and order" commander-in-chief, defending America's "silent majority." Trump invokes those slogans as he emulates Nixon's polarizing tactics.
But even Nixon, however awkwardly, once left the White House in the middle of the night to talk with anti-war protesters at the Lincoln Memorial, no cameras present. Last week, troops were sent to block the memorial's steps.
Leadership void
George W. Bush on George Floyd protests: 'It is time for America to examine our tragic failures'
George W. Bush on George Floyd protests: 'It is time for America to examine our tragic failures'
Without naming him, Trump's predecessors in both parties have sought to fill the leadership void they see by speaking out. George W. Bush answered Trump's blasts against Democrats on coronavirus this spring by asserting "we rise or fall together."
After Monday's violent crackdown on protesters outside the White House, Bush declared that "those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America." Separately, Obama offered a reminder that "this country was founded on protest -- it's called the American Revolution."
Trump responds to such criticism with personal attacks. But the president's sagging poll numbers show most Americans judge his leadership harshly.
So do some of his former top aides. In a withering blast last week, Trump's first Defense Secretary James Mattis cast Trump's purposeful division as fundamentally antithetical to the nation's Constitution and its values. Former White House chief of staff John Kelly agreed.
"I think we should look at people who are running for office and put them through the filter," Kelly said on Friday. "What is their character like?"
More than three years as president have made the holes in Trump's character unmistakable. They render other flaws, such as his ignorance of history and public policy, trivial by comparison.
"A president doesn't have to be brilliant," Noonan wrote 25 years ago. "He doesn't have to be clever. You can hire clever.
"But you can't buy courage and decency, and you can't rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him."


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Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Donald Trump has "drifted away" from the Constitution, adding to a growing list of former top military officials who have strongly criticized the President's response to the nationwide protests surrounding the police killing of George Floyd.

"We have a Constitution. And we have to follow that Constitution. And the President has drifted away from it," Powell, a retired general who served under President George W. Bush, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
The comments from Powell, the first African American secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, add to a growing list of rebukes made in recent days by former top officials who have expressed discontent with Trump's strongman approach to the protests sparked by the death of Floyd, a black man who was killed in late May by a white police officer in Minneapolis.

Powell said he's "proud" of what a number of former generals, admirals and diplomats have said about Trump's response last week to the widespread protests, adding that he hadn't released a public statement denouncing Trump's response because he felt he had demonstrated his displeasure with Trump in 2016 when he voted against him.
"I think what we're seeing now, this massive protest movement I have ever seen in my life, I think it suggests the country is getting wise to this and we're not going to put up with it anymore," the retired general told Tapper.

The former Republican official also said he is he is planning to vote for Democrat Joe Biden for president in November, again voting against Trump as he had done in 2016.
"I'm very close to Joe Biden on a social matter and on a political matter. I worked with him for 35, 40 years, and he is now the candidate and I will be voting for him," Powell said.
Asked why it was so important to him that Trump not be reelected, Powell said that he thinks Trump has not been an effective president and that he lies "all the time."
"What we have to do now is reach out to the whole people, watch these demonstrations, watch these protests, and rather than curse them, embrace them to see what it is we have to do to get out of the situation that we find ourselves in now," he told Tapper. "We're America, we're Americans, we can do this. We have the ability to do it, and we ought to do it. Make America not just great, but strong and great for all Americans, not just a couple."
Trump attacked Powell on Twitter shortly after his interview Sunday, blasting the former Bush official as "a real stiff" and Biden as "another stiff." The President also lashed out at the former secretary of state for his role in presenting the US' case against Iraq to the United Nations in 2003.
Nation's moral standing 'demonized' under Trump
Last week, Trump's former Defense Secretary, James Mattis, said in a blistering statement that Trump "does not even pretend to try" to unite the country and is instead engaged in a "deliberate effort" to divide the country, while lacking "mature leadership." And former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Friday that he agreed with Mattis' assessment and that he thinks there's an "awful big concern that the partisanship has gotten out of hand, the tribal thing has gotten out of hand."
Asked by Tapper if he agreed specifically with Mattis' comments, Powell doubled down on his criticism of Trump.
"You have to agree with it. I mean, look at what he has done to divide us," he said. "I agree with all of my former colleagues."
"I'm proud of what they're doing. I'm proud that they were willing to take the risk of speaking honesty and speaking truth to those who are not speaking truth," he said.
The former secretary of state told Tapper he thinks the United States' moral standing on the world stage has been "demonized" under Trump's leadership.
"They're looking at these demonstrations. They see that these are demonstrations that are justified. And not to be criticized. They see that George, as the President called him, was murdered and the President comes out and says, 'Well, George is looking down from heaven and blessing what I'm doing.' How can you expect anybody to believe things like that?" Powell asked.

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President Donald Trump is facing an unprecedented revolt from the elite corps of ex-military leaders and presidents over his brazen response to mass protests and inflaming of racial divides.

In a true Washington bombshell on Wednesday evening, former Defense Secretary James Mattis, a warrior revered by his troops, told Americans they must come together without the President.
"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people -- does not even pretend to try," said Mattis, who has kept silent since resigning in 2018.
"Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership," said the retired Marine general in a statement, criticizing Trump for threatening to deploy regular troops to quell unrest in a flagrant threat to US political stability.
The statement will come as a body blow to Trump, who although he latterly turned against his ex-defense secretary, idolizes generals and loved referring to Mattis as "Mad Dog."

It is particularly extraordinary since it appears to imply that an order by Trump for troops to deploy against protesters would be a breach of their constitutional oath. And since former top military brass remain highly loyal to their comrades and plugged into the Pentagon, one of the most political of power centers, Mattis' broadside will spark speculation as to whether he is conveying the thoughts of serving senior officers who are unable to speak out.
Trump's initial reaction was to discredit Mattis, who served in combat roles in two Iraq wars and in Afghanistan but who the President described on Twitter as "the world's most overrated General."
But, he notes, "His primary strength was not military, but rather personal public relations. I gave him a new life, things to do, and battles to win, but he seldom 'brought home the bacon'. I didn't like his 'leadership' style or much else about him, and many others agree. Glad he is gone!"

Also on Wednesday evening, retired Gen. John Allen, the former commander of American forces in Afghanistan, took his own turn at attacking Trump's response in a commentary published by Foreign Policy.
"It wasn't enough that peaceful protesters had just been deprived of their first-amendment rights—this photo-op sought to legitimize that abuse with a layer of religion," wrote Allen.
He was referring to the order given to federal security forces on Monday to clear protesters from Lafayette Square before the President emerged from the White House to stand in front of St. John's Church and hold a Bible aloft.
Allen winds up hoping this will all lead to a more enlightened America.
But, he notes, "it will have to come from the bottom up. For at the White House, there is no one home."
The blasts from Allen and Mattis, who is far more cerebral than his nickname may imply, escalated a broadening front against Trump by Washington establishment elites outside the congressional Republican Party. They came after Jimmy Carter completed the roster of living ex-presidents who have stepped into a leadership void left by Trump as the nation experiences mass protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a pandemic that has killed 107,000 Americans and a consequent economic meltdown.
Other senior military and political figures, including former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, have also felt compelled to speak out as they perceive core American values threatened by an unchained commander in chief.
No modern President has faced such opprobrium from his predecessors or the men who have won their public respect in the heat of battle and served presidents of both parties.
Trump's presidency is now slipping ever closer to an existential crisis, five months before he faces judgment from voters after a campaign that is threatening to tear at social and racial wounds as never before during his turbulent term.
But Trump -- who made a political career out of bashing the establishment and torching presidential norms -- is showing no sign of backing down. On Wednesday he lambasted "looters," "hoodlums" and "terrorists" he claims are behind nationwide unrest. His aides, meanwhile, concocted ever more outrageous propaganda to justify his behavior, comparing his divisive stunt at a Washington church on Monday to Winston Churchill in World War II and President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks.
Trump is now furious with the current defense secretary, Mark Esper, who spoke out against the President's threat to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy troops inside the US.
The Pentagon chief is on thin political ice, as Trump's conservative media enablers egg him on. One ally, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, demanded an "overwhelming show of force" in a New York Times op-ed in defiance of "delusional" local leaders.
Wednesday brought another confusing whirl of fearful imagery with soldiers in combat fatigues on the streets of Washington and more looting in New York, though most protests across the country were increasingly peaceful. There were also inspirational acts as Capitol Police knelt before protesters and stories emerged of some white Americans perceiving for the first time the prejudice experienced by their black compatriots.
There is a palpable feeling that the country is at a signature moment in its racial journey after the death of Floyd last week with a policeman's knee on his neck, the latest sign of brutality toward African Americans that has shocked all races.
There was also a glimpse of the politics of hope, as former President Barack Obama implied that the answer to the tumultuous events of recent days was not the "domination" ordered by Trump but new motivation to turn protests into meaningful political change. Obama also dismissed the idea that America has plunged into the misery of a 1968-style race and political nightmare, noting that the multi-ethnic crowds of protesters thronging US streets were themselves a sign of dynamic progress.
"For those who have been talking about protests, just remember, this country was founded on protest. It is called the American Revolution," Obama said in a Zoom call with his youth organization, in an apparent indirect reference to Trump.
"And every step of progress in this country, every expansion of freedom, every expression of our deepest ideals, has been won through efforts that made the status quo uncomfortable. And we should all be thankful for folks who are willing in a peaceful, disciplined way to be out there making a difference," he added.

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The police killing of George Floyd has resonated around the world. In London — some 4,000 miles from where Floyd died in Minnesota — thousands of protesters gathered on Wednesday to show solidarity with mourning Americans.

It was a peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration in Hyde Park, where protesters of many different racial and cultural backgrounds chanted Floyd's name through their face masks, demanding justice. Several protesters shared their outrage over the killing to CNN, drawing parallels with their own experiences, and expressed dismay about US President Donald Trump's reaction to the protests.

"There's racism everywhere, and we have to fight it. I don't just mean white people against black people. Racism is racism, and that's what we have to fight. We have to be just one, human beings, we just need to be one. We all breathe the same air, we all bleed the same color.
"When I saw what happened to George Floyd, I cried. Man, I cried, because someone is being killed for just looking like me. He did nothing wrong, absolutely nothing wrong, and even if he did, there's ways to deal with that. Why do other people get ways to deal with that but we don't? The only way to deal with us is through violence. Why? We are not savages, we are not animals — we are people, like everyone else, and we deserve to be free.

"We can't have people being scared when reaching for their wallets in their car. We can't have people being scared when they are raided at home by the police and being killed. We can't have people being scared of being on the street, not doing nothing, just standing on the street and the police come and finds a reason to shoot you and to kill you and to take your breath. (...)

"It's not the first time. Five years ago we were yelling the same thing — 'I can't breathe.' Why do we still have to do it today? It makes no sense. How can this still be? Why can't people understand we are one? Why so much hate?
"This is way bigger than just America, it's way bigger than George Floyd. It's way bigger than just one cop killing a black man — it's about injustice."

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A lawyer for the family of George Floyd, whose death sparked unrest across the US, has accused a police officer of "premeditated murder".

Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder, but lawyer Benjamin Crump told CBS news it was a case of first-degree murder.

"We think that he had intent... almost nine minutes he kept his knee in a man's neck that was begging and pleading for breath," he said.

Several US cities have imposed curfews.

The Floyd case has reignited US anger over police killings of black Americans. It follows the high-profile cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York and others that have driven the Black Lives Matter movement.

"The fact that officer Chauvin kept his knee on his neck for almost three minutes after he was unconscious. We don't understand how that was not first degree murder. We don't understand how all these officers haven't been arrested," lawyer Crump said.

Three other officers present at the time have also since been sacked.

For many the outrage over George Floyd's death also reflects years of frustration over socio-economic inequality and segregation, not least in Minneapolis itself.


In video footage, Mr Chauvin, 44, can be seen kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck for several minutes on Monday. Mr Floyd, 46, repeatedly says that he is unable to breathe.

There have been five nights of arson and looting in Minneapolis and the adjacent city of St Paul. Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz said on Saturday he was deploying the full Minnesota National Guard for the first time since World War Two.

Governor Walz said racism in his state had created the conditions for Mr Floyd's death.

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The US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.

George Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Footage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.

Mr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.

The key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.

It began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.

A report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.

Believing the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.

Mr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Why has a US city gone up in flames?
Mr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.

But Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.

In a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but "he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that", according to a transcript released by authorities.

The employee said the man appeared "drunk" and "not in control of himself", the transcript says.

Shortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.

After approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.

Mr Lane, prosecutors said, "put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car". Then Mr Floyd "actively resisted being handcuffed".



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President Donald Trump and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke on the phone Friday, a source familiar with the call told CNN Sunday.

In a public Facebook (FB) post Friday, Zuckerberg explained why Facebook didn't take action on Facebook and Instagram posts in which Trump threatened "looting" in Minneapolis would lead to "shooting."
"I've been struggling with how to respond to the President's tweets and posts all day. Personally, I have a visceral negative reaction to this kind of divisive and inflammatory rhetoric," Zuckerberg said. "But I'm responsible for reacting not just in my personal capacity but as the leader of an institution committed to free expression."
Axios was first to report the phone call took place.

Twitter had labeled the same post as a glorification of violence.
"Unlike Twitter, we do not have a policy of putting a warning in front of posts that may incite violence because we believe that if a post incites violence, it should be removed regardless of whether it is newsworthy, even if it comes from a politician. We have been in touch with the White House today to explain these policies as well," Zuckerberg wrote in Friday's post.
Testifying before Congress in October, Zuckerberg said, "If anyone, including a politician, is saying things that can cause, that is calling for violence or could risk imminent physical harm ... we will take that content down." He was answering questions from Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when he made the claim.
On Thursday, Trump tweeted approvingly of Zuckerberg after the Facebook CEO went on Fox News to criticize Twitter's decision to fact-check the president's tweets about mail-in ballots in California.

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Brazil appears to be entering another dark week, as coronavirus cases grow by the thousands and controversy swells around President Jair Bolsonaro.

On Sunday, the Ministry of Health announced 15,813 new cases of coronavirus had been confirmed over the last 24 hours, bringing its total number of cases to over 363,000. More than 22,000 Brazilians have died so far.
It followed a grim milestone Saturday, when Brazil overtook Russia to become the country with the most confirmed cases of Covid-19 after the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University figures.
That was the night that Bolsonaro and his security team left Brasilia's presidential palace and made an impromptu stop at a hot dog stand. While local media captured the president eating his snack, people could be heard yelling "killer" and "trash" and banging pots and pans from their windows. The President at one point turned and wagged his finger at the crowd.
While the country's number of confirmed cases and death rate soar, Bolsonaro has referred to the virus as a "little flu" and frequently downplayed its risks. Two health ministers have left his cabinet in the past few weeks -- one was fired and the other resigned -- after disagreements over how to handle the pandemic.

Bolsonaro has repeatedly expressed concern about the financial impact of the virus, warning it will be worse than the virus itself. He has been outspoken against preventive measures, like lockdowns and quarantines, imposed by governors and mayors of some of the most impacted places in Brazil.
His supporters seem to agree. On Sunday, crowds gathered outside Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia waving banners and flags in support of Bolsonaro and protesting the lockdown measures. The rallies have been happening nearly every weekend and are usually broadcast live on Bolsonaro's personal Facebook account.
In video footage of the latest rally, Bolsonaro could be seen with and without a mask as he greeted excited supporters cheering behind a barrier. At one point, a young girl slipped past the barrier and hugged him, while he wasn't wearing a mask.
National Security Adviser Gen. Augusto Heleno, who was with Bolsonaro at the event, could be heard saying, "We will win this war."
"This is a calculated risk and everything will work out," he added.


However, Bolsonaro's critics have slammed the government for how things are working out. During an interview with CNN Sunday, Manaus Mayor Arthur Virgilio Neto said the president was "co-responsible" for the country's coronavirus deaths and called fo the president's resignation.
"Shut up, stay home and resign," Virgilio Neto said.
Manaus, a city of 2 million known as the gateway to the Amazon, has been devastated by the virus More than 13,000 cases and 1,182 deaths have been registered in Manaus. On Saturday alone, there were 51 burials.
Virgilio Neto's attack was not unprovoked -- in a video of an April cabinet meeting released last week by the country's Supreme Court as part of an unrelated probe, Bolsonaro was revealed calling the Manaus mayor a "piece of shit," referencing the city's mass graves.
The explosion of cases in Brazil is part of a new rise across Latin America that worries health experts. Peru, Chile and Mexico have also seen steep rises in new cases over the past week.
"We don't have the situation under control and particularly in many of the poorer areas of the world, it's really spiraling upward," Dr. Keiji Fukuda, former World Health Organization assistant director-general for health security told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Friday.
And while Brazil's so-called "Trump of the Tropics" has been accused of failing to take Covid-19 seriously enough, his counterpart in the United States is starting to signal concern.
On Sunday, US President Donald Trump -- a vocal ally of Bolsonaro who has also faced criticism for his handling of the pandemic -- suspended entry for foreign nationals who have been in Brazil within 14 days immediately preceding their attempt to enter the United States.

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Israeli's media has for weeks been publishing pics of red, blood-filled water gushing into Alexander River - loved for its wildlife and beauty.

Blood, feathers and other animal body parts are pouring out of slaughterhouses "from one or more Palestinian slaughterhouses in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem", reports the Times of Israel.

The Society for the Protection of Nature warned last month that "Israel's lax laws have enabled the Alexander River - one of Israel's most ecologically important - to turn into blood.

"Polluted runoff from slaughterhouses and other industries have polluted this river and turned it red in the middle of Passover.

"And it's not the first time!"

With the blood pollution coinciding with the coronavirus crisis, the campaign group urged leaders to "realise how vital nature is to our mental wellbeing and act to make sure ecological plagues like this don't happen again."

It's called upon the Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin to deal with the issue.

The Alexander River runs the width of Israel, from the hills of the Nablus on the West Bank to the sea.

Tourist Israel says that "until ten years ago, the river was heavily polluted" before a major joint effort by the regional council and their Palestinian counterparts to transform it.

But, according to the Daily Star a local photographer, Amberto, said it now “looks like the plague of blood in Egypt.”

Although the blood and animal waste would normally be cleaned by a purification plant, heavy rainfall has swamped the system, and it wasn't cleared before washing into Nahal Alexander.

The deluges coincide with last month's heavy demand for chicken to supply to Israelis marking Passover, as well as Muslims before the month-long Ramadan festival.

Hareetz news said blood-contaminated water oozing from slaughterhouses in the Palestinian Authority, through the Nablus and Nahal streams, had been treated via filtration networks and separation tanks.

Water from the river, which flows from mountain aquifers, is used for "the entire population of the region, both Israeli and Palestinian", reports Globes news.

The coordinator of activities in the Occupied Territories said officials from both the "Palestinian side and on Israeli side are carrying out works to clean the Alexander River [of animal parts] illegally dumped by Tulkarm area factories.

"The Civil Administration has been working for months to prevent the waste from entering the river."

Source: www.thesun.co.uk/news/11637903/israel-river-red-blood-like-biblical-plague-egypt/

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Oil Price Rises To Two-month High of $35

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies reached a deal in April to cut oil production by 9.7 million barrels per day in May and June in a bid to prop up the price of the commodity.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKMAY 18, 2020

The international oil price benchmark, Brent crude, rose to its highest level since March on Monday as major oil producers cut their output levels and countries eased lock-downs.

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies reached a deal in April to cut oil production by 9.7 million barrels per day in May and June in a bid to prop up the price of the commodity.

Brent, against which Nigeria’s oil is priced, increased by $2.88 to $35.38 per barrel as of 6:05pm Nigerian time on Monday, ThePUNCH reports. 

OPEC said last Friday that the total effective global production adjustments could reach 20.1 million bpd, noting that some of its members, namely Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, had agreed on an additional 1.2 million bpd adjustment.

The Chief Market Analyst at Avatrade, Naeem Aslam, was quoted by Business Insider as saying that Monday was turning out to be a “remarkable day” for both Brent and the US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate.

He said, “The global economy is reopening and the oil glut has eased off.

“It is still unclear if the prices can continue their upward journey at the current pace, and especially if we have a valid reason for the crude price to top the $35.”

Energy Intelligence reported on Monday that OPEC might extend the cuts to the rest of the year, citing an unnamed OPEC delegate.
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President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja met with the former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen Theophilus Danjuma rtd, behind closed doors in the State House.

Although the agenda of meeting was unknown, but it generated interest because both men were believed not to be best of friends in recent times.

Danjuma has been very critical of the government of Buhari following rampaging killings of suspected Fulani herdsmen in Taraba and some other states.

In March 2018, for instance, Danjuma asked Nigerians to defend themselves against what he described as ethnic cleansing by the herdsmen.
He had made the call while speaking at the maiden convocation of Taraba State University, Jalingo, as well as the 10th anniversary of the institution.
He had said: “There is an attempt at ethnic cleansing in the state and of course, some rural states in Nigeria. We must resist it. We must stop it. Every one of us must rise up.

“Our Armed Forces are not neutral. They collude with the bandits to kill people, kill Nigerians. The Armed Forces guide their movements; they cover them. If you are depending on the Armed Forces to stop the killings, you will all die one by one.

“This ethnic cleansing must stop in Taraba State and other rural states of Nigeria otherwise Somalia will be a child’s play.

“I ask every one of you to be alert and defend your country, defend your territory and defend your state. Defend yourselves because you have no other place to go. God bless our country.”

Danjuma who was obviously bitter had made the call two days after residents of the Takum and Ussa Local Government Areas of Taraba State accused the Army Operation Ayem Akpatuma (Cat Race) of protecting suspected killer herdsmen who allegedly attacked and killed villagers.

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ussia hit a grim Covid-19 milestone this week: According to Johns Hopkins University, the country now ranks second in the world for confirmed coronavirus cases.

The Russian capital has been hardest hit. Of Russia's total of 281,752 confirmed cases, over half -- 142,824 -- are in Moscow, the country's coronavirus headquarters said Sunday. But the virus is now spreading across Russia's regions, an enormous landmass that covers 11 time zones and includes some of the country's most remote and impoverished places.

In a video conference meeting on Monday with Russia's 85 regional heads, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the burden would fall to local leaders to decide whether to continue lockdown measures or to begin cautiously lifting restrictions to reopen the economy.
"We have a big country," he said. "The epidemiological situation varies across the regions. We factored this in before, and now at the next stage, we have to act even more specifically and carefully."
According to official statistics, the pandemic has reached all of Russia's constituent parts, from the Kaliningrad exclave between Poland and Lithuania to the remote Chukospam blocked by admina autonomous okrug, across the Bering Strait from Alaska. Russia's regions are also starting to report their own numbers, sometimes showing a disparity between the nationally published statistics on mortality and infections published on the stopcoronavirus.rf portal and on local government websites.
Kaliningrad region, for instance, reported 13 deaths as of Friday, while the nation's coronavirus headquarters reported 11. The contrast between national and local mortality figures was even more stark in Chelyabinsk region in the Ural mountains: Local authorities there reported 10 Covid-19-related deaths in addition to the six deaths attributed directly to coronavirus on the national portal.
Russian Vice-Premier Tatiana Golikova told Russian news outlets this week that the Russian government has not manipulated statistics, but Russia's mortality figures have become a political football. Observers have noted the comparatively low overall number of deaths in Russia -- a total that currently stands at 2,631, according to the country's coronavirus headquarters -- even as the country takes second place in the world for the number of confirmed cases, behind the United States.

In a video conference meeting on Monday with Russia's 85 regional heads, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the burden would fall to local leaders to decide whether to continue lockdown measures or to begin cautiously lifting restrictions to reopen the economy.
"We have a big country," he said. "The epidemiological situation varies across the regions. We factored this in before, and now at the next stage, we have to act even more specifically and carefully."
According to official statistics, the pandemic has reached all of Russia's constituent parts, from the Kaliningrad exclave between Poland and Lithuania to the remote Chukospam blocked by admina autonomous okrug, across the Bering Strait from Alaska. Russia's regions are also starting to report their own numbers, sometimes showing a disparity between the nationally published statistics on mortality and infections published on the stopcoronavirus.rf portal and on local government websites.
Kaliningrad region, for instance, reported 13 deaths as of Friday, while the nation's coronavirus headquarters reported 11. The contrast between national and local mortality figures was even more stark in Chelyabinsk region in the Ural mountains: Local authorities there reported 10 Covid-19-related deaths in addition to the six deaths attributed directly to coronavirus on the national portal.
Russian Vice-Premier Tatiana Golikova told Russian news outlets this week that the Russian government has not manipulated statistics, but Russia's mortality figures have become a political football. Observers have noted the comparatively low overall number of deaths in Russia -- a total that currently stands at 2,631, according to the country's coronavirus headquarters -- even as the country takes second place in the world for the number of confirmed cases, behind the United States.
People wearing face masks and gloves on a subway escalator in Moscow on Tuesday.
People wearing face masks and gloves on a subway escalator in Moscow on Tuesday.
In Moscow, health officials hit back at media reports that it was underreporting Covid-19 fatalities, saying its data was "absolutely open." But the city's health department also acknowledged that it only counts deaths that were found through post-mortem autopsy to have been caused directly by coronavirus complications.
And the capital is proceeding with caution. Earlier this week, Putin announced a gradual easing of restrictions around the country, at the discretion of local leadership. But Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin subsequently made clear he was in no rush to end lockdown.
"Premature removal of restrictions carries a real risk of a second pandemic," he said in a statement Thursday. "Unjustified delays will also hit people in the strongest way."
Sobyanin, in many respects, has been the public face of Russia's fight with coronavirus, as Putin shelters at his residence of Novo-Ogaryovo.
President Putin takes part in a video conference call from his Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, on May 14.
President Putin takes part in a video conference call from his Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, on May 14.
As cases began to pick up pace in April Moscow authorities opened a new coronavirus hospital, built in around a month. And Sobyanin's government oversaw the introduction of electronic passes to enforce lockdown measures, controversial measures ahead of the rest of the country. The city is also launching a large coronavirus screening program that will be free to the public.
Healthcare system in crisis
Moscow, in many ways, is better equipped to deal with the crisis than Russia's less well-off regions. It has a concentration of wealth and budgetary resources that is the envy of the rest of the country.
Under Sobyanin, the Russian capital, which in pre-coronavirus days was transforming itself into an Instagram-friendly landscape of refurbished parks, hip restaurants and high-end real estate, has enjoyed a municipal spending spree.
The leading business daily Vedomosti reported last year that the city's budget on beautification projects over the past decade -- more than 1.5 trillion rubles ($20.5 billion), according to Moscow budget data -- was nearly equivalent to the total amount spent on similar projects around the country.
People in protective gear disinfecting Red Square in Moscow.
People in protective gear disinfecting Red Square in Moscow.
Grave diggers bury a COVID-19 victim as relatives and friends stand at a safe distance, at a cemetary in Kolpino, outside St. Petersburg, on Friday.
Grave diggers bury a COVID-19 victim as relatives and friends stand at a safe distance, at a cemetary in Kolpino, outside St. Petersburg, on Friday.
One doesn't have to travel far outside of Moscow to see the disparities in living standards and the decrepitude of the healthcare system.
A viral YouTube video recently posted by the popular Russian journalist Irina Shikhman showed a visit to the town of Ivanteyevka, a town just over 10 miles outside the city limits of Moscow of a local clinic as it receives a delivery of personal protective equipment. As Shikhman begins the formal interview, a masked doctor says she had "no complaints" about the supplies and had enough personnel to handle patients.
But the images in the video, which has had more than 3,327,000 views, shows the peeling paint and poorly lit interior of the facility, and underscores the shocking condition of Russia's provincial healthcare system. It seems that in this sprawling country, time is not the only thing that differs between the capital and the regions.

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