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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Minority officers allege discrimination over Chauvin booking

12:00 am June 22, 2020

Minneapolis: Eight minority corrections officers who work at the jail holding a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd allege that they were barred from guarding or having contact with the officer because of their race. Floyd died on May 25 after Derek Chauvin, who is white, used his knee to pin […]

Shooting in Seattle protest zone leaves 1 dead, 1 injured

12:17 am June 21, 2020

Seattle: One person was killed and another was in critical condition in a pre-dawn shooting in Seattle’s protest zone, authorities said Saturday. The shooting happened at about 3 a.m. in the area near downtown known as CHOP, which stands for “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” zone, police said in a statement on Twitter. Seattle Police Sgt. […]

Top US diplomat calls UN rights body ‘a haven for dictators’

11:59 pm June 20, 2020

Frankfurt: US Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo said the decision by the UN’s top human rights body to commission a report on policing and race amid international protests spurred by George Floyd‘s death “marks a new low” and confirmed the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Human Rights Council in 2018. The council agreed Friday in Geneva to commission […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Thousands headed to indoor Trump rally, raising virus fears

11:50 pm June 20, 2020

Washington DC: Tens of thousands of people from many states are converging on Tulsa for an indoor rally and other campaign events Saturday for President Donald Trump, raising concerns that the gatherings could help fuel nascent spikes of coronavirus cases in many places. State and city health department officials were already bracing for a possible […]

DC protesters pull down, burn statue of Confederate general

8:05 pm June 20, 2020

Washington DC: Protesters toppled the only statue of a Confederate general in the nation’s capital and set it on fire on Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the United States, amid continuing anti-racism demonstrations following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11-foot (3.4-meter) statue of Albert Pike wrapped with chains wobbled […]