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9 votes
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 7
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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One of Copenhagen Zoo's giant pandas escaped from its enclosure early on Monday and roamed the park before staff were able to sedate it and bring it back
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After a staff uproar, New York Times says that Senator Tom Cotton’s “Send In the Troops” op-ed it published yesterday did not meet its standards
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 6
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
18 votes -
Katri Kulmuni will step down as Finland's finance minister after admitting on Friday that she had used taxpayers' money to fund training on how to speak in public
12 votes -
The New South Wales Police Minister has labelled anyone who attends a protest during the coronavirus pandemic as "certifiably insane"
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 5
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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Bizarre scenes in tiny Western Australia town as 'sovereign nation' attempts to overthrow government
8 votes -
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells European Union workers to come back, but must quarantine
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 4
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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For the first time in modern Swedish history, an ex-ambassador has gone on trial and faces a possible jail term
6 votes -
Former US Secretary of Defence James Mattis denounces President Trump, describes him as a threat to the Constitution
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 3
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 1
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant news and updates in here, unless it's especially significant.
26 votes -
Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 2
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant news and updates in here, unless it's especially significant.
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Boris Johnson says three million people in Hong Kong will get path to British citizenship
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Colorado Democrats unveil sweeping police accountability bill in response to George Floyd’s death
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Protests over death of George Floyd disrupt Minneapolis, and beyond
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Andrew Yang has endorsed Mike Broihier, an asparagus-farming progressive, in his Democratic Senate primary contest
7 votes -
Thousands in New Zealand protest against George Floyd killing
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Trump says the USA will label Antifa as a terror organization amid unrest
34 votes -
After protests shake Brazil, Bolsonaro tries to rein in his backers
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Flint, MI police join protestors marching for George Floyd
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Police across the USA respond to protests with violence
34 votes -
UK may offer citizenship path to three million Hong Kong residents
9 votes -
Killer Mike addresses the people of Atlanta
18 votes -
Police chiefs in Dallas and Atlanta walked their cities' streets and talked directly with protesters, as demonstrations broke out over the death of George Floyd
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A Black CNN reporter and his crew were arrested live on air at the Minneapolis protests
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"Robodebt" class action to continue, despite the Australian government waiving outstanding debts and promising to repay anybody who paid an unsound debt
Yesterday, the Australian government announced it will pay back $721m as it scraps Robodebt for Centrelink welfare recipients. But the class action lodged against the robodebt scheme will...
Yesterday, the Australian government announced it will pay back $721m as it scraps Robodebt for Centrelink welfare recipients.
But the class action lodged against the robodebt scheme will continue, because "the Government still needs to answer to claims of compensation and claims of damages and inconvenience and distress that this system has caused".
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Minneapolis ex-officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck is in custody and faces charges of third-degree murder and manslaughter
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Ottawa man shocked to find moose in swimming pool
9 votes -
President Donald Trump said he would end Hong Kong’s special relationship with the US and withdraw from the World Health Organization
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Australia's High Court decides 'Palace letters' written during the Whitlam dismissal can be accessed by historian Jenny Hocking
6 votes -
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro could soon be toppled, analysts say, as coronavirus cases surge
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News Corp has announced a massive shakeup of its publishing businesses, moving almost all its community and regional newspaper titles to a digital-only format
8 votes -
Dominic Cummings' statement, a guided tour
6 votes -
Victoria did not consult the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade before signing a controversial infrastructure deal with the Chinese government last year
6 votes -
Australian Federal Police will not lay charges against Annika Smethurst over publishing of classified intelligence documents
6 votes -
US DOJ urges High Court to shield companies from slave labor suits citing 230 year old tort statute
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Chinese foreign minister warns US against taking the countries ‘to the brink of a new Cold War’
10 votes -
Boris Johnson's approval rating plunges twenty points in four days amid Dominic Cummings scandal
11 votes -
New Zealand opposition leader ousted as PM Ardern's popularity soars
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Taiwan will provide the people of Hong Kong with “necessary assistance”, after a resurgence in protests against newly proposed national security legislation from Beijing
10 votes -
Brazil's Supreme Court releases video of Bolsonaro discussing replacing security officials
9 votes -
Strategic hot spot Greenland sparks global tug-of-war – US has always seen Greenland under its sphere of influence, but the island's increasing independence is threatening that
9 votes -
Norway terror attack – prosecutors demand twenty-one year jail sentence for mosque shooting
6 votes -
Pakistan plane crash survivor: 'All I could see was fire'
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China drops word 'peaceful' in latest push for Taiwan 'reunification'
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Biden asks Amy Klobuchar to undergo vetting as possible running mate
9 votes