Thomas Waltower, a computer coding trainer in Minneapolis, had hoped that outrage over the killing of African American George Floyd in the city in May would force an overhaul of the police. But “it started off with a big push; and now it’s quiet,” he said, as political parties fight shy of the issue ahead […]

Algerians are set to vote Sunday in a constitutional referendum the government touts as heralding a “new republic”, but a long-running protest movement rejects the exercise as window-dressing. Observers see the constitution as the centrepiece of now-hospitalised President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s strategy to neutralise the Hirak movement, which staged vast demonstrations last year and forced his […]

Algeria’s president underwent medical tests in a German hospital and is in a stable condition, officials said Thursday, days after suspected coronavirus cases were reported among his aides. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 74, was transferred Wednesday to Germany for treatment from an Algerian hospital. His office said he “underwent thorough medical tests in one of Germany’s […]

Religious and political leaders in much of the Muslim world have slammed what they see as insults to Islam in a row about depictions of the prophet Mohammed in France. Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi and the influential al-Azhar religious institution on Wednesday condemned the satirical cartoons. “Abusing prophets and messengers is contempt for noble religious […]

A city in western China finished testing 4.7 million people for coronavirus in four days after workers at a factory tested positive, state media reported on Wednesday. Kashgar, in the far-western Xinjiang region, had tested its entire population by Tuesday after a coronavirus cluster emerged last week, according to the People’s Daily. A total of […]