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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast but militant group al-Shabab has struck civilian and military targets before in a similar fashion
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A death from the coronavirus was recorded on Wednesday in the governorate of Kebili, taking the death toll in the region to 129 people since the outbreak of the pandemic, said health programmes officer in Kebili Ali Haddad. In addition, 17 further infections have been reported in the region, bringing the count to 3,006 since the outbreak of the pandemic, he specified to TAP.
The body of an elderly resident of Martindale, Lower Pomeroon, was found floating in a trench on Tuesday afternoon, several hours after he had left his residence to purchase ice in the area.
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MOSCOW, (Reuters) - More than 9,500 runners competing in Moscow’s annual half-marathon yesterday wore masks and gloves in the starting area, had their temperature checked and were told to observe social distancing rules because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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By MATT OTT, TED SHAFFREY and LISA MARIE PANE, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks surged on Wall Street to their highest levels since the business shutdowns took hold in the U.S. over two months ago, climbing on optimism Tuesday about the reopening economy even as the nation’s official death toll from the coronavirus closed in on 100,000, a number President Donald Trump once predicted the country would never see.
In a largely symbolic move, the New York Stock Exchange trading floor in Manhattan reopened for the first time in two months, with plexiglass barriers, masks and a reduced number of traders to adhere to 6-foot (2-meter) social distancing rules.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has presided over the state with the highest death toll from the scourge, rang the bell to set off trading at the NYSE.
In hard-hit New York, Cuomo reported a one-day total Tuesday of 73 deaths, the lowest figure in months, and down from a peak of nearly 800.
Brazil has about 375,000 coronavirus infections — second only to the 1.6 million cases in the U.S. — and has counted over 23,000 deaths, but many fear Brazil’s true toll is much higher.
The mayor of Minneapolis says four Minneapolis Police Department officers involved in the death of a black man in police custody have been terminated.
A 10-minute video widely circulated on social media and referenced by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey shows a police officer using his knee to pin the man's neck to the ground for multiple minutes.
Frey and Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo noted at the news conference that the officers involved were wearing body cameras.
\"We are incensed that nearly six years after Eric Garner uttered 'I can't breathe' as he was killed by the New York Police Department, police officers still don't seem to have learned to listen to a person's call for help,\" Amnesty's Kristina Roth said in a release.
Nearly four years ago, another police department in the area faced criticism for an incident in which an officer killed black motorist Philando Castile.
Hlengiwe Msimango was buried in KwaZulu-Natal after her spouse, Mosa Ntsibande, allegedly shot and killed her at her Norkem Park home on 3 August.
Morocco, about one-tenth larger than California, lies across the Strait of Gibraltar on the Mediterranean and looks out on the Atlantic from the northwest shoulder of Africa. Algeria is to the east and Mauritania to the south. On the Atlantic coast there is a fertile plain. The Mediterranean coast is mountainous. The Atlas Mountains, running northeastward from the south to the Algerian frontier, average 11,000 ft (3,353 m) in elevation.
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Morocco has been the home of the Berbers since the second millennium B.C. In A.D. 46, Morocco was annexed by Rome as part of the province of Mauritania until the Vandals overran this portion of the declining empire in the 5th century. The Arabs invaded circa 685, bringing Islam. The Berbers joined them in invading Spain in 711, but then they revolted against the Arabs, resenting their secondary status. In 1086, Berbers took control of large areas of Moorish Spain until they were expelled in the 13th century.
The land was rarely unified and was usually ruled by small tribal states. Conflicts between Berbers and Arabs were chronic. Portugal and Spain began invading Morocco, which helped to unify the land in defense. In 1660, Morocco came under the control of the Alawite dynasty. It is a sherif dynasty—descended from the prophet Muhammad—and rules Morocco to this day.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Morocco was one of the Barbary States, the headquarters of pirates who pillaged Mediterranean traders. European powers showed interest in colonizing the country beginning in 1840, and there were frequent clashes with the French and Spanish. Finally, in 1904, France and Spain concluded a secret agreement that divided Morocco into zones of French and Spanish influence, with France controlling almost all of Morocco and Spain controlling the small southwest portion, which became known as Spanish Sahara. Morocco grew into an even greater object of European rivalry by the turn of the century, almost leading to a European war in 1905 when Germany attempted to gain
An otherwise peaceful Tuesday morning was interrupted by a video showing a Minneapolis police officer placing his knee with all of his weight on the neck of a man laying prone on the ground.
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“He had a big heart,” said Floyd’s nephew Morr’Quem Hobson.
However, the police statement omits the period of time (several minutes) recorded on video, in which one officer had his knee on Floyd’s neck, which was apparently the cause of his “medical distress.”
“For five minutes, we watched a White officer press his knee into a Black man’s neck.
As we go to press we have been informed that four Minneapolis police officers have been fired as a result of the killing of George Floyd.
A suicide bomb explosion in central Somalia has killed at least five people including a regional governor on Sunday, officials told VOA Somali.
The governor of Puntland administration's Mudug region, Ahmed Muse Nur, his brother, and two bodyguards, were killed after a suicide bomber driving a rickshaw rammed into his vehicle in the town of Galkayo, 600 kilometers north of Mogadishu.
“It was a suicide vehicle filled with explosives that hit the governor’s car,” Ali said.
Nur is the second governor from Puntland administration assassinated by suicide bombers within two months.
On March 29, the governor of Nugal region Abdisalam Hassan Hersi was killed after he was fatally injured in a suicide bombing in the town of Garowe.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City, one of the world's largest cities and the epicentre of the country's novel coronavirus epidemic, will begin a gradual reopening June 1, its mayor said yesterday, even as daily new infections continue to set records.
Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum called on the city's nine million residents to continue social distancing measures through June 15, but said some sectors of the economy would be allowed to resume operations at the start of June.
As of Tuesday night, Mexico City reported more than 15,000 confirmed coronavirus infections and nearly 1,500 deaths.
Sheinbaum has acknowledged that the real number of deaths in Mexico City is surely higher, but says an independent panel will have to review suspected cases and make a determination.
City death records reported by an anti-corruption watchdog group suggested the death toll could be three times as high in the capital.
[Nation] The continued stay of Jubbaland army in Mandera town has left the local leadership and residents worried.
