Mitt Romney joins thousands of evangelicals marching against racial injustice in DC
Washington DC, US RNS Utah Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney joined demonstrators against racial injustice on Sunday in a march to the US Capitol that was organized by evangelical Christian activists, telling reporters he was attending the demonstration to help “end brutality” before adding, “Black lives matter”. Romney, a member of the Church of […]
WHO head urges world not to drop guard as pandemic still growing
GenevaReuters The World Health Organization urged countries on Monday to press on with efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, noting the pandemic was worsening globally and had not peaked in central America. More than 136,000 cases were reported worldwide on Sunday, “the most in a single day so far”, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus […]
New Zealand to lift all coronavirus restrictions, barring border closures
Wellington, New ZealandReuters New Zealand has eliminated transmission of the coronavirus domestically and will lift all containment measures except for border controls, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, making it one of the first countries to do so. Public and private events, the retail and hospitality industries and all public transport could resume without […]
Postcards: New York, a city transformed in a nation looking for change
New Yorker MARCUS CHEONG reports on the transformation that he’s seen in the Big Apple over the past few months – and the hopes that there will be change for the better…
Workers to begin untangling charred metal web on Paris’ Notre Dame
Paris, FranceAP Workers suspended from ropes will be lowered into the charred remains of scaffolding that melted atop Notre Dame when the cathedral went up in flames and begin the delicate job of dismantling the 200 tons of metal. An announcement that the work will start Monday and last through the summer months came Sunday from the […]
World reaches 400,000 virus deaths as Pope urges caution
Barcelona, SpainAP The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities on Sunday, a day after the government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of the number of deaths and infections in the hard-hit South American country. Worldwide, at least 6.9 million people […]
In the US, emboldened protesters march again; worldwide protests roll on
New YorkReuters A relaxed confidence infused a new round of street protests in New York and other major cities on Sunday, a day after some of the largest demonstrations since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody unfolded with no major violence. The near-festive tone of many of the weekend’s major US rallies […]