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A lawyer for George Floyd has told a memorial service that a “pandemic of racism” led to his death. Those gathered at Thursday’s tribute stood in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Floyd was alleged to be on the ground under the control of police in …

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is expected to speak in the coming hours about the death of unarmed black resident George Floyd, whose death last week triggered protests across the US. Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin, who had his knee pressed on Floyd’s neck, has already been charged with third-degree murder …

White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany is speaking now, in the first briefing since Trump walked through a dispersed protest to visit a church. “The First Amendment doesn’t give anyone the right to riot,” she says, adding nor does it give anyone the right to “loot”, “burn down buildings”, or “assault …

Mr Trump has come in for criticism after police dispersed mostly peaceful protesters on Monday, to clear a way for him to stand outside the nearby St John’s Church clutching a Bible.“Officers had no other choice but to take that action for their safety,” McEnany says, defending the decision to …

Protesters returned to the streets on Tuesday from California to Pennsylvania, while the nation’s capital sizzled with tension a day after a highly criticized episode outside the White House in which law enforcement officers used tear gas on peaceful protesters in order to clear a path for President Trump.The public …

Democratic of Congo (DRC) declared their tenth outbreak of Ebola in 40 years on 1 August 2018. The outbreak is centred in the northeast of the country, in North Kivu and Ituri provinces; cases have also been reported in South Kivu. With the number of cases having surpassed 3,000, it is now by …

The billionaire founder of the Cirque du Soleil is ending efforts to recover millions of dollars paid to Canadian tax authorities relating to his 2009 stay on board the International Space Station.Quebec businessman Guy Laliberté says he won’t seek leave to appeal a Federal Court of Appeal decision to dismiss the …

George Floyd, the African-American man whose death has sparked civil unrest, died from asphyxia (lack of oxygen), a private post-mortem examination found.He died due to compression on his neck and back by Minneapolis police officers, medical examiners hired by the Floyd family said.The findings differ from an official preliminary autopsy …

Another Ontario nursing home has been hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging negligence over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged long-term care facilities.The families of elderly residents who died after contacting COVID-19 at the Altamont Care Community filed a $20-million case against the facility on Monday.The suit alleges the …

US President Donald Trump has criticised the World Health Organization (WHO) for not responding strongly to reports of racism and discrimination against Africans living in southern Chinese city of Guangzhou in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Mr Trump has also called the WHO a “puppet of China” and is …