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US President Donald Trump recently retweeted a video of one of his supporters loudly shouting "white power". The supporter was among a group of senior citizens taking part in a pro-Trump rally at a retirement complex in Florida. The footage showed supporters and opponents of the president hurling abuse and swearing at one another

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According to the officially declared results, Malawi's opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera has won the country's rerun presidential vote. He defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of the vote in Tuesday's poll, the electoral commission announced late on Saturday. In February, Malawi's constitutional court annulled Mr. Mutharika's victory in the May 2019 election, citing vote tampering

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China opened an embassy on a tiny, remote Pacific island called Kiribati to grow influence in the pacific region,The total population of the island nation is 116,000. Just three other countries have embassies in the island state: Australia, New Zealand, and Cuba. Kiribati is the latest example of Beijing's growing influence in the Pacific, which consists of a string of resource-rich islands that control vital waterways between Asia and America

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in an Instagram post that she has postponed her wedding to attend the European Council meeting on COVID-19 next month. EU leaders are scheduled to meet face-to-face on July 17 for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic to discuss the European budget and the plans for recovery from the Covid-19 crisis

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According to the media reports, dozens of US secret service personnel have been told to self-isolate after two who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa on Sunday tested positive for Covid-19. The Washington Post reported that the six advance team members who tested positive before Saturday's rally included two Secret Service personnel. They both attended a planning meeting on Friday

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A new national Gallup poll finds that 39% of Americans approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as president, while 57% disapprove. That poll is in line with the average poll that shows Trump's approval rating is in the low 40s among all adults as well as voters specifically. Five months until the general election, which, in theory, is plenty of time for the race for president to change

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US President Donald Trump plans to hold his first re-election campaign rally for several months in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the date that African Americans celebrate the end of slavery. The rally will take place on 19 June. In 1921 the city of Tulsa was the site of one of the worst massacres of black people in US history. He faces re-election in November but is lagging Joe Biden in polls

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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has sharply increased spending on Facebook ads, splashing out $5.2 million over the last seven days, while Trump has spent $1.25 million, according to the Facebook Ad Library. The 2020 presidential campaign takes a turn with Biden pulling ahead in national polls. Since May 2018, Biden has spent $20.5 million while Trump has spent nearly $42.6 million on Facebook ads

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Several thousand Israelis demonstrated on Saturday in Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to annex the Jordan Valley and illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Authority wants an independent state in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, territories Israel captured in a 1967 war. Netanyahu wants to annex parts of Jordan Valley and illegal settlements in the West Bank.

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US President Donald Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest in the US over the death of a black man in police custody. He said if cities and states failed to control the protests and "defend their residents" he would deploy the army and "quickly solve the problem for them". Protests over the death of George Floyd have escalated over the past week

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US President Donald Trump told the nation's governors in a video teleconference Monday to aggressively target violent protesters. "You have to dominate or you'll look like a bunch of jerks, you have to arrest and try people," the President told the governors in a call from the basement White House Situation Room. Trump suggested to governors it was their responsibility, not his, to tamp down harshly on the continued unrest

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Michelle Obama expressed her grief over the death of George Floyd and said that it’s up to everyone in this country to help root out racism. "It just goes on, and on, and on. Race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with" she wrote. "It's up to all of us, Black, white, everyone, to help root out racism," she added

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US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he is postponing the G-7 summit until the fall and plans to invite four additional non-member nations, including Russia. New countries include Australia, India, Russia, and South Korea. "I don’t feel that as a G-7 it properly represents what’s going on in the world, “We want Australia, we want India, we want South Korea and Russia," Trump said

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US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the US will cut all ties with the World Health Organization after a dispute of handling the coronavirus crisis and favoring China. “China has total control over the World Health Organization despite only paying $40 million per year compared to what the United States has been paying, which is approximately $450 million a year,” Trump said during a White House news conference

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will end the state of emergency across the whole country tonight, he said in a briefing on Monday. Much of Japan entered the state of emergency on April 7, as the country tried to rein in the coronavirus pandemic. We were able to end the outbreak in about one month and a half with Japan’s own way," Abe said on Monday

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Protests erupted in Madrid as thousands of people in Spain are protesting against the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak. The far-right Vox party urged supporters to drive through major cities without leaving their vehicles in order to maintain social distancing. Protesters called for socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to resign after mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic in the country

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Beijing Government is set to present a controversial Hong Kong security law at its congress. This could be the biggest blow to the city's autonomy and civil liberties since its handover to Chinese rule in 1997. The law, which is expected to ban sedition, secession, and subversion of the central government in Beijing, will be introduced through a rarely used constitutional method that could effectively bypass Hong Kong's legislature

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The Chinese government has accused US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of "blackmailing" the Hong Kong government with the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. Chinese remarks came after Pompeo said on Wednesday the recent treatment of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong made it harder to assess whether the territory remains highly autonomous from China, a requirement for the special treatment afforded to the city under American law

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Prime Minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli criticized India over the coronavirus outbreak in the country. "Those who are coming from India through illegal channels are spreading the virus in the country and some local representatives and party leaders are responsible for bringing in people from India without proper testing," Mr. Oli said

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Speaking at the World Health Assembly, Chinese President Xi said that the country backs a detailed coronavirus investigation but the world must wait until the pandemic is contained. The president defended his country at the annual meeting of the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying Beijing had acted transparently about the origins of the virus, which was first detected late last year in the central Chinese city of Wuhan

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In an online address to graduating college students, former US President Barack Obama criticized Donald Trump over his coronavirus response. He said the pandemic had shown that many officials "aren't even pretending to be in charge". "More than anything this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing," he said

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French President Emmanuel Macron said that a coronavirus vaccine should not be subject to market forces, his comments came after an announcement by French drug giant Sanofi to prioritize the US market if it develops a Covid-19 vaccine. "For us, it would be unacceptable for there to be privileged access to such and such a country for financial reasons," Deputy Finance Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher told France's Sud Radio

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Donald Trump tweeted about China and its role in coronavirus pandemic. “As I have said for a long time, dealing with China is a very expensive thing to do,” Trump said, “We just made a great Trade Deal, the ink was barely dry, and the World was hit by the Plague from China. 100 Trade Deals wouldn’t make up the difference - and all those innocent lives lost” he added

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Indian Prime Minister Modi announced a massive $260 billion economic relief package to support the economy after a major hit from coronavirus. The amount is nearly 10% of the country's total GDP. "The package's main aim is to build a self-reliant India," Modi said in a televised speech on Tuesday adding that it will help the country compete globally

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US President Donald Trump left his coronavirus press briefing abruptly on Monday after clashing with a Chinese-American reporter who asked questions about America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. TV network CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang asked Trump why he continued to insist that the US was doing better than other countries when it came to testing for the virus. Trump replied. "Don't ask me, ask China that question, OK?"

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