दुल्हनिया को 500KM ड्राइव कर पहुंचा दूल्हा

लॉकडाउन में शादी (unique wedding in lockdown) भी नए-नए तरीके से हो रही है। जबलपुर में भी लॉकडाउन (marriage in lockdown) 4 के आखिरी दिन एक अनोखी शादी हुई है। यहां दूल्हा खुद ही 500 किलोमीटर गाड़ी ड्राइव कर शादी (groom drive car for marriage) के लिए पहुंचा था। लड़की पक्ष के चंद मेहमानों की मौजूदगी में शादी कर वह दुल्हन को अपने साथ ले गया।

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LPG सिलेंडर महंगे, चुकाना होगा इतना ज्यादा

अंतर्राष्ट्रीय बाजार में एलपीजी की कीमत में बढ़ोतरी को देखते हुए सरकारी आयल मार्केटिंग कंपनियों ने घरेलू बाजार में एलपीजी सिलेंडर रिफिल की कीमतों में बढ़ोतरी कर दी है। हालांकि इस बढ़ोतरी का प्रभाव गरीबों पर नहीं पड़ेगा, क्योंकि प्रधानमंत्री उज्ज्वला योजना के लाभार्थियों को इस महीने भी फ्री सिलेंडर ​रिफिल दिया जाना है।

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फ्लैट की बालकनी टूटी, 2 बहनों की मौत

हावड़ा (Howrah) के बेलूर (Belur)में एक दर्दनाक हादसा हो गया। बेलूर में एक आवासीय परिसर की तीसरी मंजिल पर स्थित फ्लैट की लटकती हुई बालकनी ढहने से दो बहनों की मौत हो गई। घटना शनिवार रात 9 बजे के आसपास हुई।

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अपार्टमेंट की छत से लटकी लड़की, यूं बची जान

प्राथमिक जांच में पता चला है कि लड़की का बैलेंस बिगड़ गया और वह छत की रेलिंग से लटक गई। उसने मदद के लिए चिल्लाना शुरू किया, जिसके बाद अपार्टमेंट में रहने वाले दो लोग आए और उसे ऊपर खींच लिया।

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बिहार में आज से चलेंगी बसें, और क्या-क्या बदला

कोरोना संकट के बीच बिहार में लॉकडाउन 5.0 (Lockdown 5.0 Bihar) का ऐलान कर दिया गया है। नीतीश कुमार सरकार (Nitish Kumar Government) ने प्रदेश में 30 जून तक लॉकडाउन (Lockdown) बढ़ाने का फैसला किया है। इसी के साथ बिहार में आज से बसों और सार्वजनिक वाहनों का परिचालन शुरू हो जाएगा। 8 जून से शॉपिंग मॉल, होटल, रेस्टोरेंट और धार्मिक स्थल भी खोले जा सकेंगे। बिहार सरकार ने केंद्रीय गृह मंत्रालय की ओर से लॉकडाउन 5 यानी अनलॉक-1 (Unlock-1 Guidelines in Bihar) के तहत जारी किए गए दिशा-निर्देशों को लागू करने फैसला लिया है। केंद्र की गाइडलाइंस का पालन ही बिहार में कराया जाएगा। प्रदेश सरकार लॉकडाउन 5.0 को लेकर अपनी ओर से कोई गाइडलाइन जारी नहीं करेगी। इसको लेकर गृह विभाग ने आदेश जारी किया है।

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UP में आज से क्या खुला, क्या नहीं जानें सबकुछ

यूपी सरकार (UP Government) ने भी केंद्र की 'अनलॉक 1.0' ('Unlock 1.0') गाइडलाइंस के मुताबिक बंदिशों को कम करने का निर्णय लिया है। प्रदेश में सोमवार से बाजार सुबह 9 से रात 9 बजे तक खुल सकेंगे। सुपर मार्केट भी खुलेंगी। राज्य के अंदर बस सेवाएं शुरू हो जाएंगी।

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मां थी बेबस, नर्स ने पिलाया बच्ची को अपना दूध

पश्चिम बंगाल के कोलकाता के आरजी कर मेडिकल कॉलेज ऐंड हॉस्पिटल (R G Kar Medical College and Hospital) के लेबर पोस्ट ऑपरेटिव वॉर्ड में तैनात नर्स उमा अधिकारी (Uma Adhikary) ने मानवती की नई मिसाल पेश की है। एक नवजात को उसकी मां दूध नहीं पिला सकती थी तो उमा ने उसे अपना दूध पिलाया।

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World Milk Day 2020: Date, Theme and Quotes to Celebrate the Occasion

To spread the awareness on the importance of milk on World Milk Day 2020, you can send these messages to your loved ones.

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न Unlock 1, न Lockdown 5.0 , 1 से 7 जून के बीच इसका रखें ध्यान

Unlock 1.0 or Lockdown 5.0 : लॉकडाउन को खोलने की दिशा में गृह‍ मंत्रालय ने पहल की है। 8 जून से Unlock 1 के तहत मॉल, होटल, रेस्‍तरां खोलने की अनुमति होगी।

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अश्वेत शख्स की मौत पर उबाल, बंकर में गए ट्रंप

George Floyd murder: अमेरिका में एक अश्वेत नागरिक की पुलिस हिरासत में मौत के बाद भड़की (Violence in US) हिंसा ने राजधानी वॉशिंगटन (White House Protest)) समेत कई शहरों को अपने चपेट में ले लिया है। वाइट हाउस के पास लगातार तीसरे दिन विरोध प्रदर्शन के बेकाबू होने के बाद राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रंप (Donald Trump) को अंडरग्राउंड बंकर में लेकर जाना पड़ा।

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यात्रीगण ध्यान दें, रेलवे स्टेशन पर बदले ये नियम

लॉकडाउन को खत्म करने की तैयारियों के साथ ही ट्रेनों के परिचालन को बढ़ाने की भी पूरी तैयारी कर ली गई है। 200 नई ट्रेनें शुरू की जा रही हैं और इसको देखते हुए दिल्ली के रेलवे स्टेशनों पर खास इंतजाम भी किए जा रहे हैं।

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दिल्ली से नोएडा, गुड़गांव जाने वाले ध्यान दीजिए

अनलॉक 2.0 (unlock 2.0) में दिल्ली से सटे बॉर्डर खुले या नहीं इसकी लोगों को चिंता है। उत्तर प्रदेश से सटे दिल्ली बॉर्डर यानी नोएडा और गाजियाबाद फिलहाल नहीं खुले हैं। वहीं हरियाणा सरकार ने बॉर्डर खोलने की बात कही है।

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नक्शे पर नेपाल को चीन की चाल से घेरेगा भारत!

नेपाल ने भारत के तीन इलाकों को अपने नए राजनीतिक नक्शे (Nepal’s new political map) में शामिल किया है और इससे संबंधित संविधान संशोधन विधेयक रविवार को संसद में पेश कर दिया गया। भारत ने इस पर सख्त नाराजगी जताई है और नेपाल को कड़ा संदेश के लिए अब नेपाल को चीन की ही चाल से घेरने की तैयारी कर रहा है।

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SpaceX लॉन्च में लखनऊ गर्ल की चर्चा क्यों?

एमआईटी से मास्टर्स कर रहीं कनिका ने पहले इंटर्न के तौर पर काम किया और अब अगस्त में वह SpaceX जॉइन करने के लिए तैयार हैं। उन्होंने लैंडिंग लेग्स के मुख्य कॉम्पोनेंट मेन एक्चुएटर पर काम किया। ग्राउंड सपॉर्ट टीम का हिस्सा रहीं कनिका का काम यह सुनिश्चित करना था कि रॉकेट सुरक्षित तरीके से वापस आ जाएं।

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7 दिन में सड़क, सोना लूटने की तैयारी में चीन

tension between india and china in ladakh: लद्दाख सीमा पर चीन की कारस्तानियां जारी हैं। पेइचिंग ने पिछले तीन हफ्ते में ही एक 4 किलोमीटर लंबी पक्की सड़क बनाकर कई दुर्गम इलाकों में अपनी पहुंच आसान बना ली है। कहा जाता है कि इन इलाकों में खनिजों का भंडार छिपा है।

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जानिए हैंसी क्रोन्ये की मौत की पूरी कहानी

हैंसी क्रोन्ये क्रिकेट के इतिहास के सबसे चर्चित या यूं कहें विवादित कप्तानों में शामिल रहे। उनकी दमदार कप्तानी, क्रिकेट की गहरी समझ और हमेशा विपक्षी टीम से आगे रहने की उनकी जिद ने उन्हें दुनिया का सर्वश्रेष्ठ रेकॉर्ड वाले कप्तानों में शामिल किया। वहीं दूसरी ओर, मैच फिक्सिंग प्रकरण ने उस शानदार करियर पर ऐसा दाग लगाया जिसे आज भी आज किया जाता है।

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Antifa explained: All you need to know about the movement Donald Trump wants to declare a 'terrorist organisation'

Seeking to assign blame for the protests that have convulsed cities across the country, President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States would designate antifa, the loosely affiliated group of Far-Left anti-fascism activists, a terrorist organisation.

The president’s critics noted, however, that the United States does not have a domestic terrorism law and that antifa, a contraction of “anti-fascist,” is not an organisation with a leader, a defined structure or membership roles.

Rather, antifa is more of a movement of activists whose followers share a philosophy and tactics. They have made their presence known at protests around the country in recent years, including the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

Who are the members of antifa?

It is impossible to know how many people count themselves as members. Its followers acknowledge that the movement is secretive, has no official leaders and is organised into autonomous local cells. It is also only one in a constellation of activist movements that have come together in the past few years to oppose the Far Right.

Antifa members campaign against actions they view as authoritarian, homophobic, racist or xenophobic. Although antifa is not affiliated with other movements on the Left — and is sometimes viewed as a distraction by other organisers — its members sometimes work with other local activist networks that are rallying around the same issues, such as the Occupy movement or Black Lives Matter.

What are its goals?

Supporters generally seek to stop what they see as fascist, racist and far-right groups from having a platform to promote their views, arguing that public demonstration of those ideas leads to the targeting of marginalised people, including racial minorities, women and members of the LGBTQ community.

“The argument is that militant anti-fascism is inherently self-defence because of the historically documented violence that fascists pose, especially to marginalised people,” said Mark Bray, a history lecturer at Dartmouth College and the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.

Many antifa organisers also participate in more peaceful forms of community organising, but they believe that using violence is justified because of their views that if racist or fascist groups are allowed to organise freely, “it will inevitably result in violence against marginalised communities,” said Bray, whose defence of the anti-fascist movement has incited criticism and generated support at Dartmouth.

File image of protesters with antifa symbols on their shields. By Hilary Swift © 2020 The New York Times

When did the movement begin?

Although the Merriam-Webster dictionary says the word “antifa” was first used in 1946 and was borrowed from a German phrase signalling opposition to Nazism, more people began joining the movement in the United States after the 2016 election of Trump to counter the threat they believed was posed by the so-called alt-right, Bray said.

One of the first US groups to use the name was Rose City Antifa, which says it was founded in 2007 in Portland, Oregon. It has a large following on social media, where it shares news articles and sometimes seeks to dox, or reveal the identities and personal information of, figures on the Right.

The antifa movement gained more visibility in 2017 after a series of events that put a spotlight on anti-fascist protesters, including the punching of a prominent Alt-Right member; the cancellation of an event by a right-wing writer at the University of California, Berkeley; and their confrontation of white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville who turned violent.

What distinguishes antifa from other protest groups?

Bray said antifa groups often use tactics similar to anarchist groups, such as dressing in all black and wearing masks. The groups also have overlapping ideologies, as both often criticise capitalism and seek to dismantle structures of authority, including police forces.

How have politicians and others reacted?

The movement has been widely criticised among the mainstream Left and Right. After the protests in Berkeley, California, in August 2017, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decried “the violent actions of people calling themselves antifa” and said they should be arrested.

Conservative publications and politicians routinely rail against supporters of antifa, who they say are seeking to shut down peaceful expression of conservative views. These critics point to moments when purported antifa members have been accused of sucker-punching Trump supporters.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history at New York University who studies fascism, said she worried that antifa’s methods could feed into what she said were false equivalencies that seek to lump violence on the Left with attacks by the Right, such as the killing of a protester in Charlottesville by a man who had expressed white supremacist views.

“Throwing a milkshake is not equivalent to killing someone, but because the people in power are allied with the Right, any provocation, any dissent against right-wing violence, backfires,” Ben-Ghiat said.

Between 2010 and 2016, 53 percent of terrorist attacks in the United States were carried out by religious extremists — 35 percent by right-wing extremists and 12 percent by left-wing or environmentalist extremists, according to a University of Maryland-led consortium that studies terrorism.

Militancy on the Left can “become a justification for those in power and allies on the right to crack down,” Ben-Ghiat said. “In these situations, the Left, or antifa, are historically placed in impossible situations.”

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मौसम LIVE: इन शहरों में हो सकती है बारिश

देश के कई हिस्सों में बारिश के बाद गर्मी से थोड़ी राहत मिली है। मौसम विभाग के मुताबिक, आज भी बारिश का अनुमान है। कल दक्षिण के कई राज्यों में हल्की और मध्यम बारिश हुई। आज भी दक्षिण और उत्तरपूर्व में बारिश का अनुमान है....

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देश में कहां कितने कोरोना के मरीज, पूरी लिस्ट

covid-19 patient in india latest updates: महाराष्ट्र, दिल्ली और तमिलनाडु में कोरोना के बढ़ते मामलों ने देश को टेंशन में डाल रखा है। आज से लॉकडाउन खत्म हो रहा है। ऐसे में देश में कोरोना के नए मामले बढ़ने की आशंका है।

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LIVE अपडेट्सः लॉकडाउन-4 खत्म, देश का हाल

दुनियाभर में अब भी कोरोना वायरस (Coronavirus) के केसों में लगातार बढ़ोतरी हो रही है। भारत (Coronavirus in india) में भी अब 5-6 हजार औसतन केस रोजाना सामने आ रहे हैं। रविवार को 8 हजार से भी ज्यादा केस आए। हालांकि, अच्छी बात यह है कि हमारा रिकवरी रेट काफी अच्छा है। भारत में अब तक 1,82,143 केस सामने आ चुके हैं। इनमें से 86,984 लोग ठीक भी हो चुके हैं। अब तक कोरोना ने देश में 5,164 लोगों की जान ली है। आज से लॉकडाउन 4 खत्म हो गया है। कोरोना के हर लाइव अपडेट्स (Coronavirus Live Updates) के लिए जुड़े रहें हमारे साथ...

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ट्रेनों पर फिर भिड़े उद्धव-गोयल, यूं निकला रास्ता

श्रमिक ट्रेनें चलाने के मुद्दे पर भिड़ चुके रेल मंत्री पीयूष गोयल और महाराष्ट्र के मुख्यमंत्री उद्धव ठाकरे रविवार को एक बार फिर आमने-सामने आए। दरअसल रेलवे ने रविवार को कहा कि 200 स्पेशल पैसेंजर ट्रेनों के परिचालन शुरू होने से कुछ घंटे पहले ही महाराष्ट्र ने इन सेवाओं के बारे में आपत्ति जाहिर की। 'रेलवे बोर्ड के चेयरमैन विनोद कुमार यादव ने महाराष्ट्र के मुख्य सचिव अजय मेहता को एक पत्र लिखा। देर रात लंबी बातचीत के बाद हल निकल आया और 1 जून से तय शेड्यूल के हिसाब से ट्रेनें चलेंगी।

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As protests and violence following the killing of George Floyd spill over, Donald Trump shrinks back

Washington: Inside the White House, the mood was bristling with tension. Hundreds of protesters were gathering outside the gates, shouting curses at President Donald Trump and in some cases throwing bricks and bottles. Nervous for his safety, Secret Service agents abruptly rushed the president to the underground bunker used in the past during terrorist attacks.

The scene on Friday night, described by a person with firsthand knowledge, added to the sense of unease at the White House as demonstrations spread after the brutal death of a Black man in police custody under a White officer’s knee. While in the end officials said they were never really in danger, Trump and his family have been rattled by protests that turned violent two nights in a row near the Executive Mansion.

After days in which the empathy he expressed for George Floyd, the man killed, was overshadowed by his combative threats to ramp up violence against looters and rioters, Trump spent Sunday out of sight, even as some of his campaign advisors were recommending that he deliver a nationally televised address before another night of possible violence. The building was even emptier than usual as some White House officials planning to work were told not to come in case of renewed unrest.

But while some aides urged him to keep off Twitter while they mapped out a more considered strategy, Trump could not resist blasting out a string of messages Sunday once again berating Democrats for not being tough enough and attributing the turmoil to radical leftists.

“Get tough Democrat Mayors and Governors,” he wrote. Referring to his presumptive Democratic presidential opponent, former vice-president Joe Biden, he added: “These people are ANARCHISTS. Call in our National Guard NOW. The World is watching and laughing at you and Sleepy Joe. Is this what America wants? NO!!!”

The president said his administration “will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organisation,” referring to the shorthand for “anti-fascist.” But antifa is a movement of activists who dress in black and call themselves anarchists, not an organisation with a clear structure that can be penalised under law. Moreover, US law applies terrorist designations to foreign entities, not domestic groups.

File image of Donald Trump at a Ford plant in Michigan last month. By Doug Mills © 2020 The New York Times

By targeting antifa, however, Trump effectively sweeps all the protests with the brush of violent radicalism without addressing the underlying conditions that have driven many of the people who have taken to the streets. Demonstrations have broken out in at least 75 cities in recent days, with governors and mayors calling the National Guard or imposing curfews on a scale not seen since the aftermath of the assassination of the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr in 1968.

While Trump has been a focus of anger, particularly in the crowds in Washington, aides repeatedly have tried to explain to him that the protests were not only about him, but about broader, systemic issues related to race, according to several people familiar with the discussions. Privately, Trump’s advisors complained about his tweets, acknowledging that they were pouring fuel on an incendiary situation.

“Those are not constructive tweets, without any question,” Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican in the Senate, said in an interview Sunday. “I’m thankful that we can have the conversation. We don’t always agree on any of his tweets beforehand, but we have the ability to sit down and dialogue on how we move this nation forward.”

Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor and supporter of Trump, said the president, with election looming in five months, is focused on catering to his core supporters rather than the nation at large. “Trump is far more divisive than past presidents,” Eberhart said. “His strength is stirring up his base, not calming the waters.”

Robert O’Brien, the president’s national security advisor, said the president would continue “to take a strong stand for law and order” even as he understood the anger over Floyd’s death.

“We want peaceful protesters who have real concerns about brutality and racism. They need to be able to go to the city hall. They need to be able to petition their government and let their voices be heard,” O’Brien said on State of the Union on CNN. “And they can’t be hijacked by these left-wing antifa militants who are burning down primarily communities in the African-American sections and the Hispanic sections of our city, where immigrants and hardworking folks are trying to get a leg up.”

But Trump’s absence rankled the Democrats he was criticising.

“What I’d like to hear from the president is leadership,” Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta said on Meet the Press. “And I would like to hear a genuine care and concern for our communities and where we are with race relations in America.”

Some officials were urging Trump to hold events intended to show Black voters enraged over the latest videotaped act of brutality that he heard their views. But others have counselled that the president should take a hard line, one that is not quite as aggressive as his tweets but that sends a message to business owners whose property has been destroyed that he is willing to defend them.

Some in the president’s circle see the escalations as a political boon, much in the way Richard Nixon won the presidency on a law-and-order platform after the 1968 riots. One advisor to Trump, who insisted on anonymity to describe private conversations, said images of widespread destruction across the country could be helpful to the law-and-order message that Trump has tried to project since his 2016 campaign.

The advisor said that it could particularly appeal to older women at a time when Trump’s support among seniors has eroded amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately affected them. The risk, this advisor added, is that people are worn out by the president’s behaviour.

Other advisors said most top aides were unhappy with Trump’s 1 am tweet on Friday invoking a 1967 quote from a Miami police chief about “shooting” black people during civil unrest. Those advisors said it was far from certain that Trump could use the violent outbreaks in cities to improve his weak standing with suburban women and independent voters.

The election was clearly on the president’s mind on Sunday. In response to questions about what he was doing to address the tumult, Trump forwarded a reply through an aide that focused on the upcoming campaign.

“I’m going to win the election easily,” the president said. “The economy is going to start to get good and then great, better than ever before. I’m getting more judges appointed by the week, including two Supreme Court justices, and I’ll have close to 300 judges by the end of the year.” (So far he has confirmed about 200.)

An administration official said Trump met Sunday with generals to discuss a variety of matters and talked with world leaders as he considered how to restructure the annual Group of 7 international summit that he decided to postpone. Vice-President Mike Pence is scheduled to hold a conference call with governors on Monday as part of the coronavirus response, and the unrest seems likely to be discussed.

Most of the president’s top advisors were not around for the weekend, including Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor.

Some campaign advisors were pressing for a formal address to the nation as early as Sunday. But White House officials, recalling Trump’s error-filled Oval Office address in March about the spread of the coronavirus, cautioned that it was not necessary.

Trump already tried to recalibrate by ripping up his speech at the Kennedy Space Centre on Saturday after the launch of the new crewed SpaceX rocket and adding a long passage about Floyd. In the speech, Trump repeated his calls for law and order, but in more measured terms and leavened by expressions of sympathy for Floyd’s family, whom he had called to offer condolences.

Aides were disappointed that the remarks, delivered late on Saturday afternoon as part of a speech otherwise celebrating the triumph of the space programme, did not get wider attention, but they said they hoped they would break through. Several administration officials said Trump was genuinely horrified by the video of Floyd’s last minutes, mentioning it several times in private conversations over the last few days.

Trump and his team seemed taken off guard by the protests that materialised outside the White House on Friday night. Hundreds of people surged toward the White House as Secret Service and US Park Police officers sought to block them. Bricks and bottles were thrown, and police responded with pepper spray. At one point, an official said, a barricade near the treasury department next door to the White House was penetrated.

It was not clear what specifically prompted the Secret Service to whisk Trump to the Presidential Emergency Operations Centre, as the underground bunker is known, but the agency has protocols for protecting the president when the building is threatened. Former vice-president Dick Cheney was brought to the bunker on 11 September, 2001, when authorities feared one of the planes hijacked by Al-Qaeda was heading toward the White House. President George W Bush, who was out of town until that evening, was rushed there later after a false alarm of another plane threat.

The bunker has not been used much, if at all, since those early days of the war on terrorism, but it has been hardened to withstand the force of a passenger jet crashing into the mansion above. The president and his family were rattled by their experience Friday night, according to several advisors.

After his evening in the bunker, Trump emerged on Saturday morning to boast that he never felt unsafe and vow to sic “vicious dogs” and “ominous weapons” on intruders. Melania Trump, anxious about the protests, opted at the last minute not to travel to Florida for the rocket launch Saturday.

After Trump returned to the White House from Florida on Saturday, he found a White House again under siege. This time, security was ready. Washington police blocked off roads for blocks around the building, while hundreds of police officers and National Guard troops ringed the exterior perimeter wearing helmets and riot gear and holding up plastic shields.

Protesters shouted “no justice, no peace,” and “black lives matter” as well as a chant targeting Trump with an expletive while a phalanx of camouflage-wearing troops marched through Lafayette Square to reinforce the police lines. Crowds surged toward the riot troops, and some threw objects. Fires were set in a dumpster and a sport-utility vehicle, while glass windows were shattered at Washington icons like the Hay Adams Hotel and the Oval Room restaurant.

Graffiti was spray-painted for blocks, including on the historic Decatur House a block from the White House: “Why do we have to keep telling you black lives matter?”

By morning, the damage was being swept up, clearly contained to a couple of blocks and nothing like the 1968 riots that devastated Washington. Inside the White House, the president waited for nightfall to see what would happen.

Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman c.2020 The New York Times Company

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Aboard Air force One: President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will postpone until the fall a meeting of Group of 7 nations he had planned to hold next month at the White House despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. And he said he plans to invite Russia, Australia, South Korea and India as he again advocated for the group's expansion.

Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he returned to Washington from Florida that he feels the current makeup of the group is “very outdated" and doesn't properly represent "what’s going on in the world.”

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“Now that our Country is ‘Transitioning back to Greatness’, I am considering rescheduling the G-7, on the same or similar date, in Washington, DC, at the legendary Camp David,” Trump tweeted. “The other members are also beginning their COMEBACK. It would be a great sign to all - normalization!”

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“Russia has yet to change the behavior that led to its expulsion in 2014, and therefore should not be allowed back into the G7,” he said at a news conference.

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George Floyd killing: Tear gas, burning police cars and curfews as protests erupt in cities across United States

Minneapolis: Tense protests over the death of George Floyd and other police killings of black men grew Saturday from New York to Tulsa to Los Angeles, with police cars set ablaze and reports of injuries mounting on all sides as the country lurched toward another night of unrest after months of coronavirus lockdowns.

The protests, which began in Minneapolis following Floyd's death Monday after a police officer pressed a knee on his neck for more than eight minutes, have left parts of the city a grid of broken windows, burned-out buildings and ransacked stores. The unrest has since become a national phenomenon as protesters decry years of deaths at police hands.

The large crowds involved, with many people not wearing masks or social distancing, raised concerns among health experts about the potential for helping spread the coronavirus pandemic at a time when overall deaths are on the decline nationwide and much of the country is in the process of reopening society and the economy.

After a tumultuous Friday night, racially diverse crowds took to the streets again for mostly peaceful demonstrations in dozens of cities from coast to coast. The previous day’s protests also started calmly, but many descended into violence later in the day.

In Philadelphia, at least 13 officers were injured when peaceful protests turned violent and at least four police vehicles were set on fire.

Other fires were set throughout downtown.

In the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of a 1921 massacre of black people that left as many as 300 dead and the city’s thriving black district in ruins, protesters blocked intersections and chanted the name of Terence Crutcher, a black man killed by a police officer in 2016.

In Tallahassee, Florida, a pickup truck drove through a crowd of protesters, sending some running and screaming as the vehicle stopped and started and at one point had a person on its hood, police said, but no serious injuries were reported. Police handcuffed the driver but did not release his name or say whether he would face charges.

In Los Angeles, protesters chanted “Black Lives Matter,” some within inches of the face shields of officers. Police used batons to move the crowd back and fired rubber bullets. One man used a skateboard to try to break a police SUV's windshield. A spray-painted police car burned in the street.

In Washington, growing crowds outside the White House chanted, taunted Secret Service agents and other law enforcement officers and at times pushed against security barriers. President Donald Trump, who spent much of Saturday in Florida for the SpaceX rocket launch, landed on the residence's lawn in the presidential helicopter at dusk and went inside with speaking to journalists.

And in New York City, video posted to social media showed officers using batons and shoving protesters down as they made arrests and cleared streets. Another video showed two NYPD cruisers driving into protesters who were pushing a barricade against a police car and pelting it with objects, knocking several to the ground.

'Look deeper'

“Our country has a sickness. We have to be out here,” said Brianna Petrisko, among those at lower Manhattan’s Foley Square, where most were wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. “This is the only way we’re going to be heard.”

Back in Minneapolis, the city where the protests began, 29-year-old Sam Allkija said the damage seen in recent days reflects longstanding frustration and rage in the black community.

“I don’t condone them,” he said. “But you have to look deeper into why these riots are happening.”

Minnesota governor Tim Walz fully mobilised the state’s National Guard and promised a massive show of force.

“The situation in Minneapolis is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd,” Walz said. “It is about attacking civil society, instilling fear and disrupting our great cities.”

More than a dozen major cities nationwide imposed overnight curfews ranging from 6 pm in parts of South Carolina to 10 pm around Ohio. People were also told to be off the streets of Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle and Minneapolis: where thousands ignored the same order the previous night.

The unrest comes at a time when most Americans have spent months inside over concerns surrounding the coronavirus, which the president has called an “invisible enemy.” The events of the last 72 hours, seen live on national television, have shown the opposite: a sudden pivot to crowds, screaming protesters and burning buildings, a stark contrast to the empty streets of recent months.

Hundreds were arrested Friday, and police used batons, rubber bullets and pepper spray to push back crowds in some cities. Many departments reported injured officers, while social media platforms were awash in images of police using forceful tactics, throwing people to the ground, using bicycles as shields and in one instance trampling a protester while on horseback.

Authorities vow  crackdown

“Quite frankly, I’m ready to just lock people up," Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields said at a news conference. Demonstrations there turned violent Friday, and police were arresting protesters Saturday on blocked-off downtown streets. “Yes, you caught us off balance once. It’s not going to happen twice.”

This week's unrest recalled the riots in Los Angeles nearly 30 years ago after the acquittal of the white police officers who beat Rodney King, a black motorist who had led them on a high-speed chase.

The protests of Floyd's killing have gripped many more cities, but the losses in Minneapolis have yet to approach the staggering totals Los Angeles saw during five days of rioting in 1992, when more than 60 people died, 2,000-plus were injured and thousands arrested, with property damage topping $1 billion.

Many protesters spoke of frustration that Floyd’s death was one more in a litany.

It came in the wake of the killing in Georgia of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was shot dead after being pursued by two white men while running in their neighborhood, and in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic that has thrown millions out of work, killed more than 100,000 people in the US and disproportionately affected black people.

The officer who held his knee to Floyd’s neck as he begged for air was arrested Friday and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. But many protesters are demanding the arrests of the three other officers involved.

Trump stoked the anger, firing off a series of tweets criticizing Minnesota's response, ridiculing people who protested outside the White House and warning that if protesters had breached its fence they would "have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen.”

Leaders in many affected cities have voiced outrage over Floyd's killing and expressed sympathy for protesters' concerns. But as the unrest intensified, they spoke of a desperate need to protect their cities and said they would call in reinforcements, despite concerns that could lead to more heavy-handed tactics.

Minnesota has steadily increased to 1,700 the number of National Guardsmen it says it needs to contain the unrest, and the governor is considering a potential offer of military police put on alert by the Pentagon.

Governors in Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio and Texas also activated the National Guard after protests there turned violent overnight, while nighttime curfews were put in place in Portland, Oregon, Cincinnati and elsewhere.

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मन की बात आज, अनलॉक-1 पर बोलेंगे मोदी?

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गर्मी की छुट्टी और यूं क्रिकेटर बन गए गांगुली

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लॉकडाउन 5.0: हरियाणा में क्या छूट, जानें सब

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भारत में कोरोना के कितने मरीज, देखिए लिस्‍ट

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G7 में भारत को शामिल करेंगे ट्रंप! टाली समिट

G7 Donald Trump अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रंप (Donald Trump) ने G7 Summit को सितंबर तक के लिए टाल दिया है। ट्रंप ने कहा है कि वह इसमें भारत (India in G7) समेत कई अन्य देशों को शामिल करना चाहते हैं।

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LIVE: बीते 24 घंटे में अमेरिका में 960 मौतें

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दिल्ली में जोरदार बारिश, आपके जिले में कब

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मोदी 2.0 के एक साल LIVE: हर अपडेट यहां

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2022 में योगी Vs प्रियंका की तैयारी में कांग्रेस?

उत्तर प्रदेश में कांग्रेस नई रणनीति पर काम कर रही है। इसमें वह लगातार मायावती और अखिलेश यादव से किनारा कर सीएम योगी आदित्यनाथ पर हमलावर है। माना जा रहा है कि कांग्रेस का इरादा है कि साल 2022 का चुनाव योगी बनाम प्रियंका दिखाई दे।

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एक साल में क्या-क्या किया, पीएम ने बताया

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6.6 फीट के इस बोलर का चोट के बाद रहा 'खौफ'

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Donald Trump says US to cut ties with WHO over COVID-19 response, end Hong Kong's special status and suspend Chinese student visas

Washington: President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would withdraw funding from the World Health Organisation, end Hong Kong’s special trade status and suspend visas of Chinese graduate students suspected of conducting research on behalf of their government, escalating tensions with China that have surged during the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump has been expressing anger at the World Health Organisation for weeks over what he has portrayed as an inadequate response to the initial outbreak of the coronavirus in China’s Wuhan province late last year.

The president said in a White House announcement that Chinese officials “ignored” their reporting obligations to the WHO and pressured the organisation to mislead the public about an outbreak that has now killed more than 100,000 Americans.

“We have detailed the reforms that it must make and engaged with them directly, but they have refused to act,” the president said. “Because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, we will be today terminating the relationship.”

The US is the largest source of financial support for the WHO, and its exit is expected to significantly weaken the organisation. Trump said the US would be “redirecting” the money to “other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs,” without providing specifics.

He noted that the U.S. contributes about $450 million to the world body while China provides about $40 million.

Congressional Democrats said in April, when the president first proposed withholding money from the WHO, that it would be illegal without approval from Congress and that they would challenge it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday called the move “an act of extraordinary senselessness.”

Other critics of the administration’s decision to cut funding called it misguided, saying it would undermine an important institution that is leading vaccine development efforts and drug trials to address the COVID-19 outbreak.

“Severing ties with the World Health Organisation serves no logical purpose and makes finding a way out of this public health crisis dramatically more challenging,” said Dr Patrice Harris, president of the American Medical Association.

The WHO declined to comment on the announcement. Officials of the UN agency have not directly addressed a letter that Trump sent to the general director on 18 May warning that he would make permanent a temporary freeze on US funding and reconsider U.S. membership unless it committed to “major substantive improvements within the next 30 days.”

Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate health committee, also warned that the president’s decision could interfere with vaccine trials and international cooperation during future outbreaks.

“Certainly there needs to be a good, hard look at mistakes the World Health Organisation might have made in connection with coronavirus, but the time to do that is after the crisis has been dealt with, not in the middle of it,” said Alexander, echoing a point made by others, including the head of the United Nations.

At an event later Friday, Trump was asked about relations with China, and he repeated his earlier suspicions about how the country managed to apparently contain the virus in Wuhan while it spread to Europe and the United States.

“Well, we’re certainly not happy with what happened with respect to China,” he told reporters.

Tensions over Hong Kong have increased over the past year as China has cracked down on protesters and sought to exert more control over the former British territory.

Trump said the administration would begin eliminating the “full range” of agreements that had given Hong Kong a relationship with the US that mainland China lacked, including exemptions from controls on certain exports. He said the state department would begin warning US citizens of the threat of surveillance and arrest when visiting the city.

“China has replaced its promised formula of one country, two systems, with one country, one system,” he said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo notified Congress on Wednesday that Hong Kong is no longer deserving of the preferential trade and commercial status it has enjoyed from the US since it reverted to Chinese rule in 1997.

It’s not yet clear what impact the decision will have on US companies that operate in Hong Kong or on the city’s position as Asia’s major financial hub, or how China will react to the decision.

“The downward spiral in the bilateral relationship has now reached lows not seen since the 4 June, 1989, Tiananmen massacre, and there is little reason to expect things to get better soon,” said Dexter Tiff Roberts, an Asia expert at the Atlantic Council, which publishes nonpartisan policy analysis.

Representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican who is a commissioner of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, praised the decision on Hong Kong as an overdue response to the government of President Xi Jinping for human rights abuses, including against religious minorities in the Xinjiang region.

“After years of human rights admonishment and cheap rhetoric devoid of any meaningful penalties, Xi has concluded that the West is all talk, no action,” Smith said. “President Trump, however, is today beginning to change that and is doing what previous presidents have failed to do.”

The president also said the US would be suspending entry of Chinese graduate students who are suspected of taking part in an extensive government campaign to acquire trade knowledge and academic research for the country’s military and industrial development.

Allowing their continued entry to the country would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States,” Trump said in an order released after the White House announcement.

Revocation of the visas has faced opposition from US universities and scientific organizations that depend on tuition fees paid by Chinese students to offset other costs and fear possible reciprocal action from Beijing that could limit their access to China.

The president's order includes an exemptions for students whose work was not expected to benefit the Chinese military.

China seemed to signal in recent days that it was hoping to ease tensions. Premier Li Keqiang told reporters on Thursday that both countries stood to gain from cooperation and to lose from confrontation because their economies have become so interconnected.

“We must use our wisdom to expand common interests and manage differences and disagreements,” Li said.

Still, the country has insisted that its control of Hong Kong is an internal matter, and it has disputed that it mishandled the response to the virus.

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गुड न्यूज: बढ़ तो रहा कोरोना, पर अब हो रहा कम जानलेवा

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LIVE: 24 घंटे में 7,964 नए केस और 265 मौतें

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लॉकडाउन बढ़ाने की तैयारी में है उद्धव सरकार

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George Floyd death: Ex-Minneapolis cop charged with murder, authorities impose curfews as protesters clash with police

The white former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck was arrested Friday and charged with murder, as authorities imposed overnight curfews to try to stem violent protests over police killings of African-Americans that have spread from Minneapolis and other US cities.

Protesters smashed windows at CNN headquarters in Atlanta, set a police car on fire and struck officers with bottles. Large protests in New York, Houston and other cities were largely peaceful, even in Minneapolis, where thousands marched downtown as the city's 8 pm curfew ticked past and encircled a police precinct station.

“Prosecute the police!” some chanted, and "Say his name: George Floyd!” There was no violence, but some protesters sprayed graffiti on nearby buildings. Elsewhere in the city, forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to drive back crowds of protesters.

It wasn’t clear if — or how — authorities would enforce the curfew, amid sharp questions about city and state leaders mishandling the crisis. The curfew came one night after protesters burned a police precinct station, and barriers were erected around at least two police precincts before nightfall.

Cop faces more than 12 years in prison

Derek Chauvin, 44, was charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He also was accused of ignoring another officer who expressed concerns about Floyd as he lay handcuffed on the ground, pleading that he could not breathe as Chauvin pressed his knee into his neck. Floyd, who was black, had been arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit bill at a store.

Chauvin, who was fired along with three other officers who were at the scene, faces more than 12 years in prison if convicted of murder.

An attorney for Floyd’s family welcomed the arrest but said he expected a more serious murder charge and wants the other officers arrested.

Prosecutor Mike Freeman said more charges were possible, but authorities “felt it appropriate to focus on the most dangerous perpetrator.”

Meanwhile, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey declared a curfew from 8 pm to 6 am Friday and Saturday, with exceptions for emergency responders, the homeless and those seeking medical care.

“I know that whatever hope you feel today is tempered with skepticism and a righteous outrage," Frey said in a statement. “Today’s decision from the County Attorney is an essential first step on a longer road toward justice and healing our city.”

Protests spread across US

Protests also spread across the US, fuelled by outrage over Floyd’s death and years of police violence against African-Americans. Demonstrators clashed with officers in New York and blocked traffic in Houston and San Jose, California. In Atlanta, demonstrators jumped on police cruisers, set one police car ablaze and broke windows at CNN’s headquarters, where hundreds were confronting police.

On Monday, police were trying to put Floyd in a squad car when he stiffened and fell to the ground, saying he was claustrophobic, a criminal complaint said. Chauvin and Officer Tou Thoa arrived and tried several times to get the struggling Floyd into the car.

At one point, Chauvin pulled Floyd out of the car’s passenger side, and Floyd, who was handcuffed, went to the ground face down. Officer JK Kueng held Floyd’s back and Officer Thomas Lane held his legs while Chauvin put his knee on Floyd’s head and neck area, the complaint said.

When Lane asked if Floyd should be rolled onto his side, Chauvin said, “No, staying put is where we got him.” Lane said he was “worried about excited delirium or whatever.”

An autopsy said the combined effects of being restrained, potential intoxicants in Floyd’s system and his underlying health issues, including heart disease, likely contributed to his death. It revealed nothing to support strangulation as the cause of death.

There were no other details about intoxicants, and toxicology results can take weeks. In the 911 call that drew police, the caller describes the man suspected of paying with counterfeit money as “awfully drunk and he’s not in control of himself.”

After Floyd apparently stopped breathing, Lane again said he wanted to roll Floyd onto his side. Kueng checked for a pulse and said he could not find one, according to the complaint.

In all, Chauvin had his knee on Floyd's neck for 8 minutes, 46 seconds, including nearly three minutes after Floyd stopped moving and talking, the complaint said.

Chauvin's attorney had no comment when reached by The Associated Press.

The prosecutor highlighted the “extraordinary speed” in charging the case just four days after Floyd’s death and defended himself against questions about why it did not happen sooner. Freeman said his office needed time to gather evidence, including what he called the “horrible” video recorded by a bystander.

It was not immediately clear whether Chauvin's arrest would quiet the unrest, which escalated again Thursday night as demonstrators burned a Minneapolis police station soon after officers abandoned it.

'World is watching'

News of the arrest came moments after Minnesota governor Tim Walz acknowledged the “abject failure” of the response to the protests and called for swift justice for the officers. Walz said the state had taken over the response to the violence.

“Minneapolis and St. Paul are on fire. The fire is still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard,” Walz said. “Now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world — and the world is watching.”

President Donald Trump threatened action, tweeting “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” which prompted a warning from Twitter for “glorifying violence.” Trump later said he was referring to shooting that had happened during the protests.

Later, the president said he'd spoken to Floyd’s family and “expressed my sorrow.”

Trump called video of the arrest “just a horrible thing to witness and to watch. It certainly looked like there was no excuse for it.”

The governor faced tough questions about the National Guard's slow response, saying city leaders were in charge. But Walz said it became apparent as the 3rd Precinct station burned Thursday night that the state had to step in.

“You will not see that tonight, there will be no lack of leadership,” Walz said Friday.

A visibly tired and frustrated Frey, the Minneapolis mayor, took responsibility for evacuating the police precinct, saying it had become too dangerous for officers.

'Pure hell'

Nearly every building in a shopping district a couple blocks from the abandoned police station had been vandalised, burned or looted. National Guard members carrying assault rifles lined up at some intersections, keeping people away from the police station. Dozens of volunteers swept up broken glass in the street.

Dean Hanson, 64, who lives a nearby subsidised housing apartment, said his building lost electricity overnight. Residents were terrified as they watched mobs loot and burn their way through the neighborhood, he said.

“I can’t believe this is happening here,” Hanson said. “It was pure hell."

Dozens of fires were also set in St Paul, where nearly 200 businesses were damaged or looted.

Attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Floyd's family, asked to take custody of Floyd's body for an independent autopsy.

The doctor who will do the autopsy is Michael Baden, former chief medical examiner of New York City, who was hired to do an autopsy for Eric Garner, a black man who died in 2014 after New York police placed him in a chokehold and he pleaded that he could not breathe.

State and federal authorities also are investigating Floyd's death.

The owner of a popular Latin nightclub said Floyd and Chauvin both worked as security guards there as recently as last year, but it’s not clear whether they worked together. Chauvin served as an off-duty security guard at the El Nuevo Rodeo club for nearly two decades, and Floyd had worked there more recently for about a dozen events featuring African-American music, Maya Santamaria told the AP.

Santamaria, who recently sold the venue, said Chauvin got along well with the regular Latino customers but did not like to work the African-American nights. When he did, and there was a fight, he would spray people with mace and call for police backup and half-dozen squad cars would soon show up, something she felt was “overkill.”

Governor apologizes for arrest of CNN crew

Following the arrest of a CNN crew on live television by police on Friday, an apologetic Walz promised that journalists would not be interfered with in reporting on violent protests following the death of George Floyd.

CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and two colleagues were released within an hour after network chief executive Jeff Zucker called Walz to demand answers about why they were led away and held in a police van.

“We have got to ensure that there is a safe spot for journalism to tell this story,” Walz said.

Jimenez and colleagues Bill Kirkos and Leonel Mendez were doing a live shot for CNN's “New Day” shortly after 5 am Central Time, describing a night of fire and anger in the wake of Floyd's death after a Minneapolis police office knelt on his neck. Fired officer Derek Chauvin was charged with murder in that case later Friday.

When first approached by officers, Jimenez, who is black, told them, “put us back where you want us. We are getting out of your way.”

After being told he was being arrested and his hands were tied behind his back, Jimenez asked why he was being arrested. He did not get an answer.

The Minnesota State Patrol said on Twitter that the journalists were among four people arrested as troopers were “clearing the streets and restoring order” following the protests. The patrol said the CNN journalists “were released once they were confirmed to be members of the media.”

It’s not clear why they were confused: Jimenez was holding what appeared to be a laminated ID card before his hands were secured, and his fellow crew members told police that they were from CNN and showing the scene live on the air.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” CNN “New Day” co-anchor John Berman said.

After being released, Jimenez said that he was glad that his arrest was shown on the air.

“You don’t have to doubt my story,” he said. “It’s not filtered in any way. You saw it for your own eyes. That gave me a little bit of comfort. But it was definitely nerve-wracking.”

At a later news conference, Walz said that “I take full responsibility. There is absolutely no reason something like that should happen ... This is a very public apology to that team.”

The arrest drew widespread condemnation across the news industry. CNN competitors MSNBC, CBS News and Fox News all issued statements in support of Jimenez, along with the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists.

CNN accepted Walz's apology, saying the network appreciated the sincerity of his words.

Walz's words in support of journalists have impact at a time when the news media is often under attack, said Jane E Kirtley, silha professor of Media Ethics and Law and director of the Silha Center at the University of Minnesota.

“It's really important for the governor to make that kind of statement to emphasize to everyone, especially law enforcement, that the press has an important job to do... and they need to be respected,” said Kirtley, who lives blocks away from the protests and could still smell smoke from the fires on Friday.

Later Friday, the network was again thrust into the story when hundreds of protesters confronted police outside CNN’s downtown Atlanta headquarters. Activists spray-painted a large CNN logo outside the building, breaking a window and tagging doors. One protester climbed on top of the CNN sign and waved a “Black Lives Matter” flag to cheers from the crowd.

As anchor Chris Cuomo opened his prime-time show, he told viewers the network’s headquarters had been “swarmed and defaced.” Footage of the damage outside was mixed with scenes from other protests around the country.

Correspondent Nick Valencia reported from inside the building as protesters hurled objects at the building and police.

"This is our home, Chris, you know, this is where we come to work every day, journalists who are trying to tell the truth, trying to deliver information...  And these demonstrators have decided to come here today to take our their frustration and anger it seems not just on police but on our CNN center as well,” Valencia said.

Meanwhile, there were signs Friday that cable news networks, who were spending much of their time covering the story, have become sensitive to the impact of showing witness video of Floyd's treatment by police.

News anchors on all three networks usually warned viewers of its graphic nature before showing the video.

“I must warn you that this is difficult to watch,” said CNN's Brianna Keilar, “but it is important to remember.”

With inputs from AP

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Washington: President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would withdraw funding from the World Health Organisation, end Hong Kong’s special trade status and suspend visas of Chinese graduate students suspected of conducting research on behalf of their government, escalating tensions with China that have surged during the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump has been expressing anger at the World Health Organisation for weeks over what he has portrayed as an inadequate response to the initial outbreak of the coronavirus in China’s Wuhan province late last year.

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Other critics of the administration’s decision to cut funding called it misguided, saying it would undermine an important institution that is leading vaccine development efforts and drug trials to address the COVID-19 outbreak.

“Severing ties with the World Health Organisation serves no logical purpose and makes finding a way out of this public health crisis dramatically more challenging,” said Dr Patrice Harris, president of the American Medical Association.

The WHO declined to comment on the announcement. Officials of the UN agency have not directly addressed a letter that Trump sent to the general director on 18 May warning that he would make permanent a temporary freeze on US funding and reconsider U.S. membership unless it committed to “major substantive improvements within the next 30 days.”

Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate health committee, also warned that the president’s decision could interfere with vaccine trials and international cooperation during future outbreaks.

“Certainly there needs to be a good, hard look at mistakes the World Health Organisation might have made in connection with coronavirus, but the time to do that is after the crisis has been dealt with, not in the middle of it,” said Alexander, echoing a point made by others, including the head of the United Nations.

At an event later Friday, Trump was asked about relations with China, and he repeated his earlier suspicions about how the country managed to apparently contain the virus in Wuhan while it spread to Europe and the United States.

“Well, we’re certainly not happy with what happened with respect to China,” he told reporters.

Tensions over Hong Kong have increased over the past year as China has cracked down on protesters and sought to exert more control over the former British territory.

Trump said the administration would begin eliminating the “full range” of agreements that had given Hong Kong a relationship with the US that mainland China lacked, including exemptions from controls on certain exports. He said the state department would begin warning US citizens of the threat of surveillance and arrest when visiting the city.

“China has replaced its promised formula of one country, two systems, with one country, one system,” he said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo notified Congress on Wednesday that Hong Kong is no longer deserving of the preferential trade and commercial status it has enjoyed from the US since it reverted to Chinese rule in 1997.

It’s not yet clear what impact the decision will have on US companies that operate in Hong Kong or on the city’s position as Asia’s major financial hub, or how China will react to the decision.

“The downward spiral in the bilateral relationship has now reached lows not seen since the 4 June, 1989, Tiananmen massacre, and there is little reason to expect things to get better soon,” said Dexter Tiff Roberts, an Asia expert at the Atlantic Council, which publishes nonpartisan policy analysis.

Representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican who is a commissioner of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, praised the decision on Hong Kong as an overdue response to the government of President Xi Jinping for human rights abuses, including against religious minorities in the Xinjiang region.

“After years of human rights admonishment and cheap rhetoric devoid of any meaningful penalties, Xi has concluded that the West is all talk, no action,” Smith said. “President Trump, however, is today beginning to change that and is doing what previous presidents have failed to do.”

The president also said the US would be suspending entry of Chinese graduate students who are suspected of taking part in an extensive government campaign to acquire trade knowledge and academic research for the country’s military and industrial development.

Allowing their continued entry to the country would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States,” Trump said in an order released after the White House announcement.

Revocation of the visas has faced opposition from US universities and scientific organizations that depend on tuition fees paid by Chinese students to offset other costs and fear possible reciprocal action from Beijing that could limit their access to China.

The president's order includes an exemptions for students whose work was not expected to benefit the Chinese military.

China seemed to signal in recent days that it was hoping to ease tensions. Premier Li Keqiang told reporters on Thursday that both countries stood to gain from cooperation and to lose from confrontation because their economies have become so interconnected.

“We must use our wisdom to expand common interests and manage differences and disagreements,” Li said.

Still, the country has insisted that its control of Hong Kong is an internal matter, and it has disputed that it mishandled the response to the virus.

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'This is just noise': A primer on Donald Trump's Executive Order targeting social media websites

Washington: President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on Thursday targeting legal protections that keep people from suing social media websites. The move follows his anger at Twitter over its decision this week to append fact-check labels to several of his tweets about mail-in voting, along with links to accurate information on the topic.

Much of the president's order consists of complaints about social media companies and their efforts to flag or remove content deemed inappropriate. Here is an explanation of the legal issues surrounding the components of the order that would — or might — do something.

What protects social media companies?

A 1996 law, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, essentially bars people from suing providers of an “interactive computer service” for libel if users post defamatory messages on their platforms.

It says intermediary website operators — a category ranging from social media giants like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to blogs that let readers post comments — will not be treated as the publisher or the speaker for making others’ posts available.

A related provision also protects the sites from lawsuits accusing them of wrongfully taking down content. It gives them immunity for “good faith” decisions to remove or restrict posts they deem “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.”

How does the Executive Order target this shield?

By putting forward a vision for an exception to websites’ legal immunity.

The order argues that if a site restricts access to others’ content in bad faith and goes beyond removing the types of objectionable content detailed in the law, it should be deemed a publisher rather than a neutral platform — thus losing its legal immunity from lawsuits.

If this vision was the law, it would mean that social media companies could be sued for defamatory content over what other people post on their platforms. For example, because Trump has used Twitter to falsely insinuate that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough murdered a congressional aide in 2001, Scarborough could in theory accuse Twitter of libel — if he could also make the case that Twitter met Trump’s criteria for being an editor.

Even under the Executive Order’s vision of the law, such lawsuits might fail: A court would first have to decide that the social media firm had sufficiently engaged in enough editorial conduct to lose its immunity. But the order could discourage such companies from taking an active role in curating the content on their platforms — and raise the risk and cost of doing business.

File image of Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco. By Jim Wilson © 2020 The New York Times

How does the order try to impose this understanding?

By setting in motion a request that the Federal Communications Commission issue a rule to “clarify” whether the immunity law implicitly contains the exception Trump wants.

Specifically, the order directs the Commerce Department to ask the FCC to develop regulations addressing whether social media firms lose Section 230 immunity if they restrict access to posted material in bad faith. That could include actions that are “deceptive, pretextual or inconsistent with a provider’s terms of service,” the order said.

The FCC is an independent agency outside Trump’s control. Its five-member panel has three Republican and two Democratic appointees.

Would such a rule make any legal difference?

Probably not, legal experts said.

First, although the FCC oversees parts of communications law where Congress envisioned its regulation, like rules for telephone companies, the order does not explain why the agency would have any role in authoritatively interpreting Section 230. Courts, not the FCC, handle lawsuits.

Moreover, courts have been sceptical of claims that the FCC has implied authority to regulate ancillary matters not expressly granted by Congress, even when they are more closely related to its core responsibilities than this would be, said Ellen P Goodman, a Rutgers University law professor who specialises in digital communications and free speech issues.

“This is just noise,” she said, adding: “It’s not a hard question. It’s not a tossup. It’s obvious that the FCC doesn’t have jurisdiction.”

Finally, agency regulations cannot override a statute enacted by Congress. On its face, the law gives websites broad leeway to restrict or take down posts they consider bad, including a catch-all category of posts they consider “otherwise objectionable.”

Still, the order could kick-start a policy debate, and Congress can change the statute. The order also directs Attorney-General William Barr to develop draft legislation for Congress to consider that would promote the policy goal of curtailing the legal protections that Section 230 gives powerful technology companies.

What does Trump want to count as inappropriate editing?

The Executive Order does not spell this out in detail.

Given the order’s timing and context, the most obvious notion is that Trump is trying to stop Twitter from flagging his tweets as inaccurate. The order complains that he was singled out, and Trump told reporters that Twitter’s fact-check labels were “political activism”.

But it was not clear how the details of the change envisioned by the Executive Order clearly map onto that complaint. Twitter has not removed or restricted Trump’s messages.

But the administration has reportedly long toyed with the idea of targeting social media companies, and an earlier draft of the Executive Order, which did not contain some of the language about Twitter’s fact-checking labels, suggested a version had been drafted some time ago. Elements, including references to complaints that companies suppress content or users based on political views, suggested another target: So-called shadow banning.

Some conservatives have voiced a theory that Twitter suppresses their posts for political reasons by hiding them from other users, even though their writers can still see them — a purported practice that would more closely fit the notion of deceptively restricting access to posted content. The company has denied that it does so, but Trump endorsed the accusation in July 2018 and vowed to look into it.

What else would the Executive Order do?

It opened several reviews that could result in some kind of later action.

Trump required the head of each executive department and agency to produce a report on how much advertising money it spent on online platforms. The Department of Justice is then to review whether such platforms impose “viewpoint-based speech restrictions” to assess whether any are “problematic” places for government speech — an implicit threat to ban taxpayer-funded marketing on them.

The president also put in motion two reviews that contemplate eventual action to prohibit social media platforms from restricting access to user posts in ways the technology companies do not disclose. He asked the Federal Trade Commission to examine that issue, and he told the justice department to convene a working group with state attorneys-general on whether they could use state laws to address it.

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Donald Trump says Narendra Modi not in 'good mood' over India's border row with China, renews offer to mediate

Washington: Reiterating his offer to mediate on the border dispute between India and China, US president Donald Trump has said that he spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is not in a "good mood" over the "big conflict" between the two countries.

Interacting with journalists in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday, Trump said a "big conflict" was going on between India and China.

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"They like me in India. I think they like me in India more than the media likes me in this country. And, I like Modi. I like your prime minister a lot. He is a great gentleman," he said.

"They have a big conflict… India and China. Two countries with 1.4 billion people (each). Two countries with very powerful militaries. India is not happy and probably China is not happy," the president said when asked if he was worried about the border situation between India and China.

"I can tell you; I did speak to Prime Minister Modi. He is not in a good mood about what is going on with China," Trump said. A day earlier, the president offered to mediate between India and China.

Trump on Wednesday said in a tweet that he was "ready, willing and able to mediate" between the two countries. Responding to a question on his tweet, Trump reiterated his offer, saying if called for help, "I would do that (mediate). If they thought it would help" about "mediate or arbitrate, I would do that," he said.

India on Wednesday said it was engaged with China to peacefully resolve the border row, in a carefully crafted reaction to Trump''s offer to arbitrate between the two Asian giants to settle their decades-old dispute.

"We are engaged with the Chinese side to peacefully resolve it," External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said, replying to a volley of questions at an online media briefing.

"The two sides have established mechanisms both at military and diplomatic levels to resolve situations which may arise in border areas peacefully through dialogue and continue to remain engaged through these channels," he said.

While the Chinese foreign ministry is yet to react to Trump''s tweet which appears to have caught Beijing by surprise, an op-ed in the state-run Global Times said both countries did not need such help from the US president.

"The latest dispute can be solved bilaterally by China and India. The two countries should keep alert on the US, which exploits every chance to create waves that jeopardise regional peace and order," it said.

Trump's unexpected offer came on a day when China took an apparently conciliatory tone by saying that the situation at the border with India is "overall stable and controllable."

In Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Wednesday that both China and India have proper mechanisms and communication channels to resolve the issues through dialogue and consultations.

Trump previously offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue, a proposal that was rejected by New Delhi.

The situation in eastern Ladakh deteriorated after around 250 Chinese and Indian soldiers were engaged in a violent face-off on the evening of 5 May which spilled over to the next day before the two sides agreed to "disengage" following a meeting at the level of local commanders.

Over 100 Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in the violence.

The incident in Pangong Tso was followed by a similar incident in North Sikkim on 9 May.

On 5 May, the Indian and the Chinese army personnel clashed with iron rods, sticks, and even resorted to stone-pelting in the Pangong Tso lake area in which soldiers on both sides sustained injuries.

In a separate incident, nearly 150 Indian and Chinese military personnel were engaged in a face-off near Naku La Pass in the Sikkim sector on 9 May. At least 10 soldiers from both sides sustained injuries.

The troops of India and China were engaged in a 73-day stand-off in Doka La tri-junction in 2017 which even triggered fears of a war between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

The India-China border dispute covers the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control. China claims Arunachal Pradesh as part of southern Tibet while India contests it.

Both sides have been asserting that pending the final resolution of the boundary issue, it is necessary to maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas.

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Donald Trump signs Executive Order cracking down on social media, while claiming to protect 'free speech'

Denouncing what he said was the power of social media “to shape the interpretation of public events,” President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on Thursday directing federal regulators to crack down on companies like Twitter and to consider taking away the legal protections that shield them from liability for what gets posted on their platforms.

Trump and his allies have often accused Twitter as well as Facebook of bias against conservative voices, and the president has been urged for years to take a harder line against them. He had resisted until this week when Twitter fact-checked his own false statements in two posts.

That move by Twitter prompted an outcry from conservatives, who said that the platform should not be able to selectively choose whose statements it was fact-checking. But while the order sought to impose new regulatory pressure on social media companies, legal experts said it would be difficult to enforce.

“We’re here today to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers it has faced in American history,” Trump told reporters in signing the order in the Oval Office, with William Barr, the attorney-general, standing nearby.

“They’ve had unchecked power to censure, restrict, edit, shape, hide, alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences,” Trump said, adding that there was “no precedent” for it. “We cannot allow that to happen, especially when they go about doing what they’re doing.”

Donald Trump speaks before signing the Executive Order on Thursday. By Doug Mills © 2020 The New York Times

Twitter, the president said, was making “editorial decisions.”

“In these moments, Twitter ceases to be a neutral public platform — they become an editor with a viewpoint,” he said, saying that Facebook and Google are included in his critiques.

With its order, the administration sought to curtail the protections currently given to technology companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which limits the liability that companies face for content posted by their users.

The law has enabled technology companies to flourish, allowing them to mostly set their own rules for their platforms and to collect a vast amount of free content from users against which to sell ads. The Executive Order is aimed at removing that shield, Trump said.

The companies, along with many free speech advocates, have maintained that amending Section 230 would cripple online discussion and bury platforms under endless legal bills.

“We have clear content policies and we enforce them without regard to political viewpoint,” said Riva Sciuto, a Google spokeswoman. “Our platforms have empowered a wide range of people and organisations from across the political spectrum, giving them a voice and new ways to reach their audiences. Undermining Section 230 in this way would hurt America’s economy and its global leadership on internet freedom.”

Liz Bourgeois, a Facebook spokeswoman, said that “by exposing companies to potential liability for everything that billions of people around the world say, this would penalise companies that choose to allow controversial speech and encourage platforms to censor anything that might offend anyone.”

Conservative pundits have said the companies remove their posts more frequently than those of their liberal counterparts or ban them from social media services altogether.

But if protection from liability was ended, the order could end up backfiring on Trump, who has used Twitter to lob insults at rivals and to interact freely with his supporters. Without the liability shield that Section 230 provides, social media platforms could be forced to remove posts considered false or defamatory — and the president often pushes the boundaries with his commentary.

Moments after saying free speech was under attack from tech companies, Trump suggested he would shut down Twitter if it was legally possible, although he acknowledged there were substantial obstacles. But he suggested he was planning legislation dealing with social media platforms.

Administration officials initially said the Executive Order would be released Wednesday after the president said he would make an aggressive move related to social media companies. But with officials scrambling to fill in the details, the order was not released until after Trump answered questions from reporters Thursday afternoon.

Legal experts said that the enforcement actions suggested by the president were largely toothless and unlikely to withstand legal challenges.

“Regardless of the circumstances that led up to this, this is not how public policy is made in the United States. An Executive Order cannot be properly used to change federal law,” the US Chamber of Commerce said in an unusually pointed statement, one that echoed the concerns conservatives once voiced about President Barack Obama’s use of Executive Orders.

Trump’s order proposes three ways to crack down on the companies: Requiring the federal government to review its spending on social media advertisements; giving the Federal Communications Commission the authority to make new rules applying to social media platforms; and asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether social media companies have misled users about the kinds of content they can post online.

It also called on states to pursue their own enforcement actions and directed the attorney general to craft a proposal for legislation.

Of the three tactics laid out in the order, the review of federal spending is the most feasible, legal experts said.

“The government does have broad authority to promote legitimate public policy goals through its spending power and it does this a lot,” said Harold Feld, a senior vice-president at Public Knowledge, a public policy nonprofit.

But withholding advertising dollars may not sway the social media companies’ behaviour. Last year, Twitter swore off political advertising altogether, and many social media companies rely heavily on major brands for their advertising dollars.

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