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MINNEAPOLIS,  (Reuters) – The white former Minneapolis police officer shown in video footage using his knee to pin an unarmed black man’s neck to the street was charged with murder yesterday in the man’s death, an incident that has unleashed four nights of violent protests.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong said yesterday it was “a sad day” for the global financial centre, hours after U.S.

WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United States will end its relationship with the World Health Organization over the body’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Coronavirus deaths in Brazil reached 27,878, the Health Ministry said yesterday, surpassing Spain to become the fifth ranking nation in the number of dead.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Police in Minneapolis released a CNN reporter who was led off in handcuffs along with his film crew while reporting live on television early this  morning during violent protests in the city.

(Reuters) – Twitter hid a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump behind a warning on Friday, accusing him of breaking its rules by “glorifying violence” in a message that said looters at protests in Minneapolis would be shot.

(De Ware Tijd) The opposition VHP and Abop have started negotiations to form a new coalition government even as the final results of Suriname’s elections which show defeat for the incumbent Desi Bouterse are still being awaited.

MINNEAPOLIS, (Reuters) – Minnesota’s governor activated the National Guard yesterday to help police restore order following two days of violent protests in Minneapolis city over the death of a black man seen in graphic video footage gasping for breath as a white officer knelt on his neck.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook, in an extraordinary attempt to regulate social media platforms where he has been criticized.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong told the United States to keep out of the internal debate over new national security laws being imposed by China, and warned that withdrawal of the financial hub’s special status under U.S.

CARACAS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is preparing to charge the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in coming months with crimes that could include drug trafficking and corruption, four people familiar with the case told Reuters.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Norway’s Equinor ASA , Brazil’s Dommo Energia SA and Anglo-French firm Perenco are among at least six oil producers that have registered coronavirus cases among employees or contractors at facilities off the coast of Brazil, according to industry and regulatory sources.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said France was “very concerned” by the spreading of COVID-19 in French Guiana, an overseas administrative region of France, notably in view of the way the crisis is being handled in neighbouring Brazil.

MARACAIBO, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuelans struggling to cope with chronic fuel shortages are jury-rigging vehicles to run on cooking gas cylinders, a practice industrial safety experts describe as dangerous and which has led to at least one explosion.

MONTEVIDEO,  (Reuters) – Leonardo Silveira, a bookstore owner in Montevideo, is hopeful about the future as Uruguay begins a gradual reopening.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies today, White House officials said after Trump threatened to shut down websites he accused of stifling conservative voices.

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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Job cuts by U.S. state and local governments whose budgets have been crushed fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and more second-wave layoffs in the private sector likely contributed last week to a 10th straight week of more than 2 million Americans seeking unemployment benefits.

MINNEAPOLIS,  (Reuters) – Protesters clashed with riot police firing tear gas for a second night in Minneapolis yesterday in an outpouring of rage over the death of a black man seen in a widely circulated video growing limp and lifeless as a white officer knelt on his neck.

 (Reuters) – U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 100,000 today even as the daily average death toll declines, businesses reopen and Americans emerge from lockdowns across the country.