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Violent protests rock Minneapolis for 2nd straight night as angry crowds loot stores

Violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody rocked a Minneapolis neighborhood for a second straight night as angry crowds looted stores, set fires and left a path of damage that stretched for miles. The mayor asked the governor to activate the National Guard. The protests that began late Wednesday and […]

Trump to sign executive order after threatening to shutter social media

US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday after threatening to shutter social media platforms following Twitter’s move to label two of his tweets misleading. After long resisting calls to censure Trump over his truth-defying posts, Twitter on Tuesday accused the president for the first time of making false claims. Trump […]

China approves plan to impose Hong Kong security law

China’s parliament approved plans Thursday to impose a security law on Hong Kong that has ratcheted up tensions with the US and sparked new protests over fears the city is losing its special freedoms. The vote by the rubber-stamp National People’s Congress (NPC) came hours after the United States revoked the special status conferred on […]

Coronavirus reduces sparkle in Spain’s cava industry

Spain’s 1.2 billion euro cava sector has had a turbulent few years with a grape-farmers’ strike, foreign buyouts of family firms, and a sales hit from the Catalonia separatist crisis. And all that before the coronavirus came along. Spain’s lockdown, one of Europe’s strictest, crushed the tourism trade and closed restaurants for around two months, […]

Angry US protests for second night over police killing of black man

Demonstrators clashed with police, looted stores and set fires as a man was fatally shot during a second night of protests in the US city of Minneapolis Wednesday over the killing of a black man by a police officer. Police fired tear gas and formed a human barricade to keep protesters from climbing a fence […]

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