| Biden, Trump campaigns targeted by foreign hackers: Google Posted: 04 Jun 2020 05:14 PM PDT  Campaign staffs for both President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden have been targeted recently by foreign hackers, Google researchers said Thursday, highlighting persistent data security concerns ahead of the November US election. A tweet from Google's threat analysis chief Shane Huntley said the internet giant warned the Biden campaign about "phishing" efforts from China and the Trump campaign from Iran. The incidents nonetheless highlight fears about a repeat of a devastating data breach in 2016 involving the campaign of Hillary Clinton and a wide-ranging influence operation which officials said was directed from Russia.
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| Brazil overtakes Italy as country with third-highest coronavirus deaths Posted: 04 Jun 2020 04:57 PM PDT  Brazil records 1,349 deaths in day, with Mexico also registering over 1,000, as Latin American countries seek to reopen * Coronavirus – latest updates * See all our coronavirus coverageBrazil has overtaken Italy as the country with the third-highest Covid-19 death toll after another 1,233 fatalities took its total tally to 33,781.The figure was published by Brazil's health ministry on Thursday night and means only the United States and the United Kingdom have registered more deaths because of the pandemic. In an online broadcast shortly before the numbers were released, Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro made almost no mention of the victims but continued to publicly attack efforts to slow the advance of coronavirus with quarantine measures and social distancing. "We can't go on like this. Nobody can take it anymore," Bolsonaro said of the shutdown efforts being implemented by state governors and mayors across Brazil. "The collateral impact will be far greater than those people who unfortunately lost their lives because of these last three months here," Bolsonaro said.The numbers – which came after Mexico reported a record daily tally of more than 1,000 deaths on Wednesday – reinforced fears that Latin America's two biggest economies, and other countries in the region, were facing a bleak few months.Mexico's death toll now stands at nearly 12,000 with the number of infections rising above 100,000 on Wednesday. Chile is also grappling with a growing crisis, this week extending a quarantine of the capital, Santiago, as the country's total number of fatalities rose to nearly 1,300.Despite the worsening situation, many parts of the region are moving towards reopening, against the advice of most medical experts.Miguel Lago, the director of Brazil's Institute for Health Policy Studies, said reopening was a mistake that was likely to cause an explosion of infections and pile further pressure on hospitals that were already struggling to cope with the pandemic."I am very worried … We are going to witness hospitals collapsing in almost every state," Lago warned. "I think the worst is still to come."Coronavirus cases have now been detected in more than 70% of Brazilian cities, with the south-eastern states of Rio and São Paulo particularly badly hit.Lago said Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, bore particular responsibility for the dire situation: both for the incompetence of his government's response and for the political self-interest he believed had driven Bolsonaro to deliberately undermine social distancing in order to protect the economy – and his chances of re-election in 2022."He doesn't care about the lives of the Brazilians who will die because of his absolutely irresponsible behaviour," said Lago.Lago described the rightwing populist's reaction as even more lacking than those of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, the leaders of the two countries with the highest Covid-19 death tolls.José Manoel Ferreira Gonçalves, a civil society activist who recently denounced Bolsonaro at the United Nations for alleged crimes against humanity, said the president's "shameful" response had condemned Brazil to "carnage"."We are adrift," said Gonçalves, a member of the group Engineers For Democracy.On Thursday Mexico's president, the leftwing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, urged his 129 million citizens not to allow the rising numbers of deaths and infections to condemn them to "psychosis, apprehension or fear"."I think our strategy has been the right one," he reportedly told reporters in the southern state of Chiapas which he is visiting after restarting his travels this week as part of what he calls Mexico's "new normal". "We were lucky enough the pandemic didn't arrive here first, which gave us time to get ready."López Obrador attacked media reports about Mexico's record day of recorded deaths – the world's second highest on Wednesday, after Brazil – as "alarmist and irresponsible".Chile also suffered its worst day of confirmed deaths on Wednesday, with 87 reported fatalities.Despite their ideological differences, Bolsonaro and López Obrador, who swept to power in 2018 amid a wave of anti-establishment voter rage, have both positioned themselves as champions of the poor, determined to get their countries back to work in order to protect jobs and livelihoods.But their countries look set to suffer some of the world's highest Covid-19 death tolls, with Mexico's coronavirus tsar, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, this week admitting another 20,000 lives could be lost."We are still a long way from the end of this epidemic," he told the El Universal newspaper.
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| Trump hopeful for Iran after American freed in prisoner swap Posted: 04 Jun 2020 04:54 PM PDT  President Donald Trump voiced hope for progress with arch-rival Iran on Thursday after the clerical regime released a US Navy veteran and the United States freed two Iranians. Michael White, who had contracted the coronavirus while in Iran, flew out on a Swiss military jet to Zurich where he was welcomed by a senior US official. "I am blessed to announce that the nightmare is over, and my son is safely on his way home," his mother, Joanne White, said in a statement.
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| Perdue Farms Becomes the First Poultry Company in the United States To Create a Pollinator-Friendly Habitat Throughout its Solar Installation Posted: 04 Jun 2020 04:51 PM PDT  The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 75% of food crops rely at least partially on pollination*. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the pollinator population in the United States has suffered tremendous losses, including the honey bees which American farmers rely on to pollinate crops.** Additionally, as part of the Department of Energy's InSPIRE research project, Argonne National Laboratory found that the area around solar panels could provide an ideal location for the plants that are beneficial to pollinators.*** Recognizing the unique leadership role it can play in this area, Perdue Farms announces it has become the first poultry company in the United States to have pollinator-friendly ground cover at a company solar installation. It is located at the company's headquarters in Salisbury, Maryland. The announcement coincides with World Environment Day on June 5, which celebrates biodiversity this year.
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| #WeAreTired: Nigerian women speak out over wave of violence Posted: 04 Jun 2020 04:25 PM PDT  Thousands sign a petition and use the hashtag WeAreTired to protest against recent rapes and killings.
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| Africa's week in pictures: 29 May - 4 June 2020 Posted: 04 Jun 2020 04:21 PM PDT  A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.
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| U.S. Navy vet freed from Iran after nearly 2 years in custody Posted: 04 Jun 2020 04:08 PM PDT  Michael White is returning to the U.S. after being detained in Iran nearly two years ago.
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| The lethality of "non-lethal" weapons Posted: 04 Jun 2020 03:42 PM PDT |
| America’s greatest strength puts its weaknesses on display around the world | Opinion Posted: 04 Jun 2020 03:13 PM PDT  In 2001, New York and Washington, D.C., were attacked, and the world responded by saying, "We are all Americans." The greatest ever military coalition formed to come to America's defense. Nations — including Cuba, Iran, Libya, and North Korea — condemned the terrorist attacks. Countries rallied to express sympathy and send material support.
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| Floyd death pushes military to face 'own demons' on race Posted: 04 Jun 2020 03:11 PM PDT  The death of George Floyd in police hands has pushed the U.S. military to search its soul and to admit that, like the rest of America, it has fallen short on racial fairness. Although the military historically has prided itself on diversity, leaders acknowledge that black troops often are disproportionately subject to military legal punishment and are impeded in promotions. "I struggle with the Air Force's own demons that include the racial disparities in military justice and discipline among our youngest black male airmen," Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright, an African American and the service's top enlisted airman, wrote in a social media post this week.
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| Emotions run high as anti-lynching bill stalls in Senate Posted: 04 Jun 2020 03:08 PM PDT  A Senate impasse over a widely backed bill to designate lynching as a federal hate crime boiled over on Thursday in an emotional debate cast against a backdrop of widespread protests over police treatment of African Americans. Raw feelings were evident as Sen. Rand Paul — who is single-handedly holding up the bill despite letting it pass last year — sought changes to the legislation as a condition of allowing it to pass. The debate occurred as a memorial service was taking place for George Floyd, a Minneapolis man who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes, sparking the protests that have convulsed the nation.
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| Detained US Navy veteran freed by Iran as part of deal Posted: 04 Jun 2020 02:06 PM PDT  A U.S. Navy veteran whose family said his only crime was falling in love left Iran on Thursday after nearly two years of detention, winning his freedom as part of a deal that spared an American-Iranian physician from any additional time behind bars. Michael White flew from Tehran to Zurich, where he was met by diplomat Brian Hook, the U.S. special envoy for Iran. In Atlanta, meanwhile, a federal judge approved a sentencing agreement for Florida dermatologist Matteo Taerri, who had been charged by the Justice Department with violating U.S. sanctions on Iran as well as banking laws.
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| Heat-trapping carbon dioxide in air hits new record high Posted: 04 Jun 2020 01:50 PM PDT  The world hit another new record high for heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, despite reduced emissions because of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists announced Thursday. Measurements of carbon dioxide, the chief human-caused greenhouse gas, averaged 417.1 parts per million at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, for the month of May, when carbon levels in the air peak, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. Carbon dioxide can stay in the air for centuries, so the short-term reductions of new carbon pollution for a few months didn't have much of a big picture effect, said NOAA senior scientist Pieter Tans.
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| Immigrants anxious as they await Supreme Court DACA decision Posted: 04 Jun 2020 01:46 PM PDT  The immigrant rights activist who's shielded from deportation and allowed to legally work in the U.S. under an Obama-era program sets a 6 a.m. alarm so she's alert when the latest Supreme Court decision may be posted online about an hour later. Montoya, like 650,000 others enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, is waiting for the justices to release their decision on President Donald Trump's attempt to end the protections. "My gut hurts," said Montoya, 29, who is originally from Mexico but has grown up in the Phoenix area.
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| Analysis: Trump emulates strongman tactics, tests his limits Posted: 04 Jun 2020 01:33 PM PDT  A phalanx of law enforcement officers and soldiers is positioned on the streets of the nation's capital to keep protesters at bay. In words and in actions, President Donald Trump is increasingly emulating the strongman leaders he has long admired as he seeks to tamp down protests over police brutality that are roiling the United States. In doing so, he is stretching the powers of the American presidency in ways rarely seen, and testing the willingness of the Pentagon to follow along.
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| Russia defends Iran satellite launch against US opposition Posted: 04 Jun 2020 01:11 PM PDT |
| Judge rejects Ponzi king Madoff's bid for early release Posted: 04 Jun 2020 12:34 PM PDT |
| Syria: Israeli warplanes strike targets in central Syria Posted: 04 Jun 2020 12:20 PM PDT |
| U.S. and Iran Swap Prisoners While Denying Swap Days Ago Posted: 04 Jun 2020 12:13 PM PDT  Iran claims to have sent back an American prisoner and received an Iranian prisoner on Thursday, a day after both countries denied reports of a swap.
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| Trump Tests a Role He's Long Admired: A Strongman Imposing Order Posted: 04 Jun 2020 12:11 PM PDT  President Donald Trump has come closer this week than at perhaps any point in his presidency to reproducing, in appearance if not in form, some of the same traits of the strongmen rulers for whom he has long expressed admiration.The man who praised President Vladimir Putin's "very strong control" over Russia, and once said that China's violent crackdown in Tiananmen Square showed "the power of strength," found himself threatening to deploy the military to states where governors did not restore calm.Trump also told governors "you have to do retribution" against the protesters he described as "terrorists" and, later, endorsed as "100% Correct" a tweet by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., calling for "zero tolerance" of "anarchy, rioting and looting" and for deploying an Army division against "these Antifa terrorists."Such moments -- in another, Trump warned protesters, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" -- echo his praise for Rodrigo Duterte, the strongman president of the Philippines. Trump lauded Duterte for doing an "unbelievable job on the drug problem," referring to a campaign of vigilante police violence thought to have claimed thousands of lives.And after long admiring the pomp and regalia of military leaders and military parades, Trump this week marched across Lafayette Park in Washington flanked by senior Defense Department officials. One of them, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, separately referred to cities as "the battle space." Another, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, strolled among the soldiers securing Washington's downtown street corners while in battle fatigues.Trump's unapologetic calls for force, his efforts to position the military as backing his political line and his warnings of us-versus-them internal threats that must be put down swiftly all follow, whether he knows it or not, a playbook used by the very strongmen he has praised.The episode heightens a question that has busied political scientists since Trump took office: whether that playbook, developed in shakier democracies with weaker institutions, would bring Trump similar political gains and whether it would do similar damage to the norms and institutions that serve as the guardrails of democracy."Saying you're going to shove aside the niceties of democratic norms in order to take a hard line against crime or against chaos, that's a really common appeal," said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard University political scientist who studies democratic decline. "Duterte is the leading example of this."But, Levitsky added, "whether that will work for Trump or not, well, it's a very different context in the United States."The Appeal of Extreme Steps in Chaotic TimesPsychological research finds that, under certain conditions, when a threat feels chaotic and uncontrolled, some people will not only tolerate but desire extreme steps by the government to reimpose order and forcibly control whoever is perceived as the source of the danger.Some leaders -- Duterte, Viktor Orban of Hungary, Putin early in his career and others -- rose by promising to fulfill those desires, a strategy that Tom Pepinsky, a Cornell University scholar, has termed an appeal to "order over law, instead of law and order.""If people think that the normal functioning of the rule of law won't protect them, maybe they'll find someone who can crack a couple skulls or tase some college kids in their car or shoot a protester in the eye," Pepinsky said.If this requires overturning limits on the leader's authority, or enlisting the police or the military to serve as a personal shock force, all the better for demonstrating that this leader alone can take the supposedly necessary steps.Where this goes to extremes, Pepinsky added, is when people do not just tolerate force as a regrettable necessity but also "feel real pleasure in seeing the capital-O 'other' being put down and controlled."That's a far easier sell in countries like the Philippines, where violent crime had been widespread in a way that it is simply not in the United States.But deep social polarization, along with sometimes alarmist portrayals of protesters who have committed some looting but only scattered violence, may prime some Americans to be receptive to the language of us-versus-them and of a threat growing out of control.Duterte is planning to sign legislation that would allow his government to classify some political opponents as terrorists, mere days after Trump claimed he would designate the left-wing protest group antifa as terrorists.The Peril and Promise of 'I Alone Can Fix It'Under that playbook, transgressing democratic norms -- by, for example, deploying the military at home -- is seen as part of the appeal in its own right.In another echo of the leaders he has praised, Trump, far from presenting his deployment of troops and his threat to overrule governors as regrettable necessities, has held them up as shows of strength."Populist figures almost invariably use norm-breaking as a signal to supporters," Levitsky said, calling it a way to signal that the leader will "take an ax to the political elite" who set those norms.And it shows the leader's willingness to take drastic actions that others won't.For opportunists like Duterte or Orban, this creates an opening to consolidate power. Trump's aims appear more narrowly tailored to appearing strong and in control at a moment of economic calamity and a runaway pandemic.But the effect is similar in at least one way: Trump rallying the military to his side, portraying it as tacitly backing both his polarizing condemnations of protesters and his assertions of sweeping power over governors and public order."Creating a sense that the military is a partisan political actor," said Kori Schake, a former Pentagon official now with the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, "really does violence to the nature of the civil-military compact of the United States."So does, she added, "the suggestion that you would make civilian authorities inside the United States subordinate to the military, rather than vice versa."It calls to mind Trump's pledge on accepting the Republican presidential nomination: "I alone can fix it," a message common to populist leaders who are skeptical of norms that restrain them and institutions that govern somewhat independently.He has frequently moved to take direct control of institutions like the Justice Department or the State Department, purging troublesome inspectors general or career civil servants and installing loyalists, another trait he shares with the strongmen leaders he has praised.But the military is a very different entity. It may prove harder to politicize.The United States is unusual in that its military simultaneously holds significant sway over foreign and defense policy, is culturally revered and yet is widely seen as apolitical -- a combination that no other country's military fits, Schake said."The military is a big, very professionalized institution," Levitsky said. "It has a lot of prestige, which gives it some capacity to push back, which we're already seeing. Because the stakes are so high, you'll likely see an awful lot of pushback."Some of that pushback came from Trump's own defense secretary Wednesday night when Esper said that active-duty military troops should not be deployed in response to the protests, at least for now.In Levitsky's study of democratic decline, he added, he found that civilian courts and prosecutors had proven far more tempting, and more dangerous, targets of politicization.Still, he added, given both the military's status in American life and its sheer firepower, "If Trump were to succeed in politicizing the military, it would have potentially devastating consequences for democracy."This echoes another puzzle that Trump has presented for political scientists, particularly those whose study of strongmen populists have heightened their sensitivities to Trump's bluster. How seriously to take his gestures toward extreme steps, like sending the military into states where governors have refused their access, positions that he might well move on from in a few days' time?Pepinsky, the Cornell University scholar, speculated that Trump was unlikely to go further, but stressed he had been wrong before."We are more safe, probably, until we're not," he said, adding of a playbook that has brought chaos to the Asian and Eastern European countries he studies. "We don't know what the outcome is here in the United States. But we'll find out."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company
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| Putin declares a state of emergency after 20,000 tons of diesel oil leak into Arctic river due to climate change Posted: 04 Jun 2020 11:50 AM PDT  Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency after more than 20,000 tons of diesel fuel spilled into a river in the Russian Arctic. Several miles of the Ambarnaya river were turned red after a fuel tank at a power plant in Norilsk, an industrial city in northern Siberia, collapsed on Friday. Mr Putin berated regional officials for their slow response in a Zoom call broadcast on state television on Wednesday. "Why did government agencies only find out about this two days after the fact?" he asked Sergei Lipin, the head of the subsidiary that runs the plant. "Are we going to learn about emergency situations from social media?" Yevgenny Zinichev, the head of the Emergencies Ministry and and Alexander Uss, the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai said that they only learnt about the spill on May 31, two days after it occurred and established a true picture of the situation "only after information on social media." Mr Uss said officials were considering burning the oil off, but that there was no precedent for attempting to do so on such a large scale and it was not clear if it would succeed. The power plant is a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium. The company said in a statement that no one had been hurt by the accident and that it had deployed emergency teams to clean up the spill. It said the spill appeared to have been caused by "a sudden sinking of supporting posts in the basement of the storage tank" and that it was reviewing the threat of melting permafrost at other storage facilities. Russia's investigative committee, its rough equivalent of the FBI, has opened a criminal investigation. The head of the power plant has been taken into custody but has not been charged.
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| Google says state-backed hackers are targeting Trump and Biden campaigns Posted: 04 Jun 2020 11:40 AM PDT  Google's security researchers say state-backed hackers from Iran and China have targeted the Trump and Biden presidential campaigns, respectively.
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| Attorneys: 2 ex-cops charged in Floyd's death were rookies Posted: 04 Jun 2020 11:39 AM PDT  Two of three Minneapolis police officers accused of aiding and abetting in the death of George Floyd were rookies barely off probation when a more senior white officer ignored the black man's cries for help and pressed a knee into his neck, defense attorneys said Thursday. Earl Gray said his client, former Officer Thomas Lane, had no choice but to follow the instructions of Derek Chauvin, who has since been charged with second-degree murder in Floyd's May 25 death. A judge set bail at $750,000 apiece for Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao, when they made their first appearances in Hennepin County District Court Thursday.
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| Iran foreign minister confirms release of Iranian-American and U.S. Navy veteran Posted: 04 Jun 2020 11:29 AM PDT |
| Google: Overseas hackers targeting Trump, Biden campaigns Posted: 04 Jun 2020 11:26 AM PDT  Hackers based in Iran have tried to compromise the president's campaign with malicious emails, while those in China have tried the same to the presumptive Democratic nominee, the company said. None succeeded.
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| Germany's Merkel condemns racist 'murder' of George Floyd Posted: 04 Jun 2020 11:09 AM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday condemned the death in US police custody of George Floyd as "murder", saying that "racism is something terrible". Asked about US President Donald Trump's role in the unrest sweeping the country, Merkel said while she tries "to bring people together, to seek reconciliation", the US leader's "political style is a very controversial one". Merkel has been a pointed critic of Trump's stance including on his go-it-alone style that sidelines international cooperation.
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| Germany's Merkel dismisses talk she might seek 5th term Posted: 04 Jun 2020 11:07 AM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday firmly rejected suggestions that she might seek a fifth term at the helm or is reconsidering a pledge to leave politics when her current government leaves office. Merkel's center-right Union bloc has seen its poll ratings climb since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, benefiting from a well-regarded responseto the public health crisis. Last month, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer — a conservative ally who has clashed with Merkel in the past over migration policy — said he had heard more frequent talk recently of a fifth term for the chancellor.
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| As nation confronts old demons, a 1770 slaying is recalled Posted: 04 Jun 2020 10:55 AM PDT  Like George Floyd, he was black, in his mid-40s, and died at the hands of a white man. Many in the Black Lives Matter movement are invoking Crispus Attucks — an African American gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre of 1770 — as a symbol of entrenched white-on-black violence and oppression. Attucks is widely seen as the first casualty of the American Revolution, and 250 years after his death, he's become a rallying figure for a nation battling old demons.
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| Merkel says 'absolutely not' planning 5th term Posted: 04 Jun 2020 10:39 AM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday she is "absolutely not" planning to stand for reelection to a fifth term despite her overwhelming popularity. "No, absolutely not," Merkel told reporters from public broadcaster ZDF, saying her decision was "very firm". The 65-year-old chancellor enjoys unparallelled popularity in her home country, with 71 percent of people saying they were satisfied with her performance in a poll for public broadcaster ARD also published Thursday.
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| Russia launches major clean-up operation after huge Arctic fuel spill Posted: 04 Jun 2020 10:37 AM PDT  "Why did government agencies only find out about this two days after the fact?" and angry President Vladimir Putin asked.
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| Russia launches major clean-up operation after huge Arctic fuel spill Posted: 04 Jun 2020 10:37 AM PDT  A major clean-up operation has been launched in Siberia after more than 15,000 tons of diesel fuel was released into a river above the Arctic circle — threatening a pristine territory through a series of lakes and tributaries. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a federal emergency Wednesday after berating Siberian officials for their slow response to the accident which took place near the city of Norilsk on May 29. Describing it as "the first ecological incident of such a large scale above the Arctic circle," Greenpeace Russia has warned that it could contaminate a vast swath of Russia's Arctic for years if not properly contained.
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| ACLU sues over police force on protesters near White House Posted: 04 Jun 2020 10:24 AM PDT  The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration Thursday, alleging officials violated the civil rights of protesters who were forcefully removed from a park near the White House by police using chemical agents before President Donald Trump walked to a nearby church to take a photo. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on Washington, comes as Attorney General William Barr defended the decision to forcefully remove the peaceful protesters, saying it was necessary to protect officers and federal property.
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| "People just don't want to be killed. Period.": Anti-apartheid leader on protests Posted: 04 Jun 2020 09:37 AM PDT  "People are feeling exhausted about us talking about racism. Try living it," says U.N. Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka,
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| Iran frees US Navy veteran held for nearly 2 years Posted: 04 Jun 2020 09:23 AM PDT  The Iranian government has freed a U.S. Navy veteran after detaining him for nearly two years, according to his family. Michael White departed the country Thursday on a Swiss government aircraft, according to President Donald Trump, who welcomed the news in a tweet. "For the past 683 days my son, Michael, has been held hostage in Iran by the IRGC and I have been living a nightmare," his mother Joanne White said in a statement to ABC News.
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| In Morocco, tiny Jewish community grapples with virus Posted: 04 Jun 2020 09:10 AM PDT  When the phone rang on the second day of Passover, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Levi Banon figured it must be an emergency. Rabbi Sholom Eidelman, his godfather and a longtime Jewish leader in the Muslim country of Morocco, had died after contracting the coronavirus. It was the second virus death in as many days, Banon said.
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| Killing of Palestinian man with autism draws Floyd parallel Posted: 04 Jun 2020 09:00 AM PDT  Eyad Hallaq liked to watch cartoons. Early on Saturday, the 32-year-old Palestinian with severe autism was chased by Israeli border police forces into a nook in Jerusalem's Old City and fatally shot as he cowered next to a garbage bin after apparently being mistaken for an attacker. The shooting has drawn comparisons to the death of George Floyd in the U.S. and prompted a series of small demonstrations against police violence toward Palestinians.
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| UN rights official: Philippine anti-terror bill worrying Posted: 04 Jun 2020 08:59 AM PDT  New anti-terrorism legislation passed by the Philippine Congress that allows the detention of suspects for up to 24 days without warrants and relaxes human rights safeguards is "very worrying," a U.N. rights official said Thursday. The House of Representatives passed the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 on Wednesday night after President Rodrigo Duterte urgently endorsed the legislation, despite fears it could threaten human rights and be used against his political opponents. The Senate passed its version in February.
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| U.S. Navy veteran released from Iran Posted: 04 Jun 2020 08:51 AM PDT  Michael White, a U.S. Navy veteran who was imprisoned in Iran since 2018, was released on Thursday and heading back to the United States, the Iranian foreign ministry and his family said in a statement. "For the past 683 days my son, Michael, has been held hostage in Iran by the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) and I have been living a nightmare," said Joanne White, mother of Michael White. White's mother expressed gratitude to the Trump administration, the State Department, the Swiss government that had relayed messages back and forth between Tehran and Washington, and to former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson for working to secure her son's release.
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| Detained U.S. Navy veteran freed by Iran, en route home Posted: 04 Jun 2020 08:25 AM PDT  A Navy veteran detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and started making his way home.
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| VIRUS DIARY: When the class hamster came home - and stayed Posted: 04 Jun 2020 08:24 AM PDT  Mr. Rich is a hamster who most recently served as the classroom pet in my 9-year-old's science class. My daughter Claire, shut out over the winter holidays, volunteered in January to take Mr. Rich home over spring break. Arkansas was shutting down schools in a handful of counties, essentially adding an extra week to spring break.
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| What you need to know today about the virus outbreak Posted: 04 Jun 2020 08:21 AM PDT  The United Nations is among organizations urging companies to create a "people's vaccine" for COVID-19 that would be free to everyone once one is developed. Meanwhile, in Europe, German auto sales are slumping and France is changing its traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue to a ceremony honoring health care workers as well. Thousands of participants and guests at the July 14 ceremony on the Place de la Concorde square will be requested to keep physical distance from one another.
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| Black activists, allies call Lee statue removal a big win Posted: 04 Jun 2020 08:18 AM PDT  Wes Bellamy, a former Charlottesville city councilman, said that when he first started raising the issue of removing Confederate monuments, black and white people alike across Virginia told him he was just causing trouble. Several years — and death threats — later, Bellamy said Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's announcement Thursday that one of the nation's most iconic tributes to the Confederacy would be taken down feels like divine intervention. After days of global unrest over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck while he pleaded for air, Northam announced the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee near downtown Richmond will be removed from its 40-foot-tall granite pedestal as soon as possible.
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| Pandemic and racial unrest test black clergy on dual fronts Posted: 04 Jun 2020 08:12 AM PDT  For black clergy across the United States, the past 10 days have been a tumultuous test of their stamina and their skills. For weeks, they had been striving to comfort their congregations amid a pandemic taking a disproportionately heavy toll on African-Americans. Then came a coast-to-coast upsurge of racial tension and unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis black man who died after a white police officer pressed his knee into his neck as he pleaded for air.
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| A biological war? Garlic as a cure? How a non-profit is confronting Arabic coronavirus conspiracies Posted: 04 Jun 2020 08:11 AM PDT  Faisal Al Mutar was at his home in New York City when he saw the first hints of what would become a tidal wave of Arabic-language coronavirus conspiracy content spreading online. It was mid-February and while the virus was starting to appear in Iran, there was yet to be a serious outbreak in an Arab country — the rampant misinformation had arrived in the Arab world before the virus. Al Mutar, 28, watched videos suggesting the pandemic was part of a biological war between the United States and China.
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| US Navy veteran leaves Iran day after scientist returns to Tehran Posted: 04 Jun 2020 08:08 AM PDT  US Navy veteran Michael White has been freed and left Iran nearly two years after his arrest, his mother said Thursday, following the US release of an Iranian scientist. "I am blessed to announce that the nightmare is over, and my son is safely on his way home," Joanne White said in a statement. The release comes one day after an Iranian scientist, Cyrus Asgari, returned home.
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| Michael White: US Navy veteran detained in Iran for two years en route home Posted: 04 Jun 2020 07:37 AM PDT  A Navy veteran detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and is on his way home aboard a Swiss government aircraft, US officials said Thursday.The US special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, flew to Zurich with a doctor to meet freed detainee Michael White and will accompany White back to the United States, the officials said.
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| John Lewis says video of George Floyd's killing made him cry Posted: 04 Jun 2020 07:32 AM PDT  Civil rights icon John Lewis said Thursday that the video of George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minnesota "made me cry." Lewis said he was encouraged to see such diverse crowds protesting Floyd's killing, seeking the arrests of the police officers involved and demanding an end to racial injustice. Lewis, 80, was a key figure in the civil rights movement and was one of the leaders behind the 1963 March on Washington and the push to end legalized racial segregation.
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| Libya conflict: GNA regains full control of Tripoli from Gen Haftar Posted: 04 Jun 2020 07:27 AM PDT  Gen Khalifa Haftar's forces have been besieging the capital for more than a year.
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| Detained US Navy veteran freed by Iran as part of deal Posted: 04 Jun 2020 07:21 AM PDT  A U.S. Navy veteran whose family said his only crime was falling in love left Iran on Thursday after nearly two years of detention, winning his freedom as part of a deal that spared an American-Iranian physician any more time behind American bars. Michael White flew from Tehran to Zurich, where he was met by diplomat Brian Hook, the U.S. special envoy for Iran. In Atlanta, a federal judge approved a sentencing agreement for Florida dermatologist Matteo Taerri, who had been charged with violating U.S. sanctions on Iran as well as banking laws.
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| Amid the COVID-19 crisis and the looming economic recession, the Passenger Cars market worldwide will grow by a projected 16.2 Thousand Units, during the analysis period Posted: 04 Jun 2020 07:10 AM PDT  Amid the COVID-19 crisis and the looming economic recession, the Passenger Cars market worldwide will grow by a projected 16.2 Thousand Units, during the analysis period, driven by a revised compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.8%. Passenger Cars, one of the segments analyzed and sized in this study, is forecast to grow at over 2.8% and reach a market size of 90.6 Thousand Units by the end of the analysis period. An unusual period in history, the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a series of unprecedented events affecting every industry. The Passenger Cars market will be reset to a new normal which going forwards in a post COVID-19 era will be continuously redefined and redesigned. Staying on top of trends and accurate analysis is paramount now more than ever to manage uncertainty, change and continuously adapt to new and evolving market conditions. Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p092464/?utm_source=PRN As part of the new emerging geographic scenario, the United States is forecast to readjust to a 1.7% CAGR. Within Europe, the region worst hit by the pandemic, Germany will add over 373 Units to the region's size over the next 7 to 8 years. In addition, over 408.9 Units worth of projected demand in the region will come from Rest of European markets. In Japan, the Passenger Cars segment will reach a market size of 5.2 Thousand Units by the close of the analysis period. Blamed for the pandemic, significant political and economic challenges confront China. Amid the growing push for decoupling and economic distancing, the changing relationship between China and the rest of the world will influence competition and opportunities in the Passenger Cars market. Against this backdrop and the changing geopolitical, business and consumer sentiments, the world's second largest economy will grow at 5.7% over the next couple of years and add approximately 5.4 Thousand Units in terms of addressable market opportunity. Continuous monitoring for emerging signs of a possible new world order post-COVID-19 crisis is a must for aspiring businesses and their astute leaders seeking to find success in the now changing Passenger Cars market landscape. All research viewpoints presented are based on validated engagements from influencers in the market, whose opinions supersede all other research methodologies. Competitors identified in this market include, among others, Adam Opel AG; American Honda Motor Co., Inc.; Audi AG; Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW GROUP); Beijing Automotive Group Co., Ltd.; Cadillac; Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd.; Daimler AG; Dongfeng Motor Corporation; Dr. Ing. HCF Porsche AG; Ferrari SpA; General Motors Company; Haima Automobile International Corporation; Hindustan Motors Ltd.; Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; Hyundai Motor Company; Infiniti Motor Company Ltd.; Kia Motors Corporation; Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.; Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.; Mazda Motor Corporation; Mitsubishi Motors Corporation; Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.; PSA Peugeot Citroen; Renault Group; Tata Motors Ltd.; Toyota Motor Corporation; Volkswagen AG; Volvo Car CorporationRead the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p092464/?utm_source=PRN PASSENGER CARS MCP-4MARKET ANALYSIS, TRENDS, AND FORECASTS, JUNE 2CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY & REPORT SCOPE II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. MARKET OVERVIEW Global Competitor Market Shares Passenger Cars Competitor Market Share Scenario Worldwide (in %): 2019 & 2028 Impact of Covid-19 and a Looming Global Recession 2. FOCUS ON SELECT PLAYERS 3. MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERS 4. GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE Table 1: Passenger Cars Global Market Estimates and Forecasts in Units by Region/Country: 2020-2027 Table 2: Passenger Cars Global Retrospective Market Scenario in Units by Region/Country: 2012-2019 Table 3: Passenger Cars Market Share Shift across Key Geographies Worldwide: 2012 VS 2020 VS 2027 III. MARKET ANALYSIS GEOGRAPHIC MARKET ANALYSIS UNITED STATES Market Facts & Figures Market Analytics Table 4: United States Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Projections in Units: 2020 to 2027 Table 5: Passenger Cars Market in the United States: A Historic Review in Units for 2012-2019 CANADA Table 6: Canadian Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Forecasts in Units: 2020 to 2027 Table 7: Canadian Passenger Cars Historic Market Review in Units: 2012-2019 JAPAN Table 8: Japanese Market for Passenger Cars: Annual Sales Estimates and Projections in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 9: Passenger Cars Market in Japan: Historic Sales Analysis in Units for the Period 2012-2019 CHINA Table 10: Chinese Passenger Cars Market Growth Prospects in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 11: Passenger Cars Historic Market Analysis in China in Units: 2012-2019 EUROPE Market Facts & Figures Market Analytics Table 12: European Passenger Cars Market Demand Scenario in Units by Region/Country: 2020-2027 Table 13: Passenger Cars Market in Europe: A Historic Market Perspective in Units by Region/Country for the Period 2012-2019 Table 14: European Passenger Cars Market Share Shift by Region/Country: 2012 VS 2020 VS 2027 FRANCE Table 15: Passenger Cars Market in France: Estimates and Projections in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 16: French Passenger Cars Historic Market Scenario in Units: 2012-2019 GERMANY Table 17: Passenger Cars Market in Germany: Recent Past, Current and Future Analysis in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 18: German Passenger Cars Historic Market Analysis in Units: 2012-2019 ITALY Table 19: Italian Passenger Cars Market Growth Prospects in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 20: Passenger Cars Historic Market Analysis in Italy in Units: 2012-2019 UNITED KINGDOM Table 21: United Kingdom Market for Passenger Cars: Annual Sales Estimates and Projections in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 22: Passenger Cars Market in the United Kingdom: Historic Sales Analysis in Units for the Period 2012-2019 SPAIN Table 23: Spanish Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Forecasts in Units: 2020 to 2027 Table 24: Spanish Passenger Cars Historic Market Review in Units: 2012-2019 RUSSIA Table 25: Russian Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Projections in Units: 2020 to 2027 Table 26: Passenger Cars Market in Russia: A Historic Review in Units for 2012-2019 REST OF EUROPE Table 27: Rest of Europe Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Forecasts in Units: 2020-2027 Table 28: Passenger Cars Market in Rest of Europe in Units: A Historic Review for the Period 2012-2019 ASIA-PACIFIC Table 29: Asia-Pacific Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Forecasts in Units by Region/Country: 2020-2027 Table 30: Passenger Cars Market in Asia-Pacific: Historic Market Analysis in Units by Region/Country for the Period 2012-2019 Table 31: Asia-Pacific Passenger Cars Market Share Analysis by Region/Country: 2012 VS 2020 VS 2027 AUSTRALIA Table 32: Passenger Cars Market in Australia: Recent Past, Current and Future Analysis in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 33: Australian Passenger Cars Historic Market Analysis in Units: 2012-2019 INDIA Table 34: Indian Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Forecasts in Units: 2020 to 2027 Table 35: Indian Passenger Cars Historic Market Review in Units: 2012-2019 SOUTH KOREA Table 36: Passenger Cars Market in South Korea: Recent Past, Current and Future Analysis in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 37: South Korean Passenger Cars Historic Market Analysis in Units: 2012-2019 REST OF ASIA-PACIFIC Table 38: Rest of Asia-Pacific Market for Passenger Cars: Annual Sales Estimates and Projections in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 39: Passenger Cars Market in Rest of Asia-Pacific: Historic Sales Analysis in Units for the Period 2012-2019 LATIN AMERICA Table 40: Latin American Passenger Cars Market Trends by Region/Country in Units: 2020-2027 Table 41: Passenger Cars Market in Latin America in Units by Region/Country: A Historic Perspective for the Period 2012-2019 Table 42: Latin American Passenger Cars Market Percentage Breakdown of Sales by Region/Country: 2012, 2020, and 2027 ARGENTINA Table 43: Argentinean Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Forecasts in Units: 2020-2027 Table 44: Passenger Cars Market in Argentina in Units: A Historic Review for the Period 2012-2019 BRAZIL Table 45: Passenger Cars Market in Brazil: Estimates and Projections in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 46: Brazilian Passenger Cars Historic Market Scenario in Units: 2012-2019 MEXICO Table 47: Passenger Cars Market in Mexico: Recent Past, Current and Future Analysis in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 48: Mexican Passenger Cars Historic Market Analysis in Units: 2012-2019 REST OF LATIN AMERICA Table 49: Rest of Latin America Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Projections in Units: 2020 to 2027 Table 50: Passenger Cars Market in Rest of Latin America: A Historic Review in Units for 2012-2019 MIDDLE EAST Table 51: The Middle East Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Forecasts in Units by Region/Country: 2020-2027 Table 52: Passenger Cars Market in the Middle East by Region/Country in Units: 2012-2019 Table 53: The Middle East Passenger Cars Market Share Breakdown by Region/Country: 2012, 2020, and 2027 IRAN Table 54: Iranian Market for Passenger Cars: Annual Sales Estimates and Projections in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 55: Passenger Cars Market in Iran: Historic Sales Analysis in Units for the Period 2012-2019 ISRAEL Table 56: Israeli Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Forecasts in Units: 2020-2027 Table 57: Passenger Cars Market in Israel in Units: A Historic Review for the Period 2012-2019 SAUDI ARABIA Table 58: Saudi Arabian Passenger Cars Market Growth Prospects in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 59: Passenger Cars Historic Market Analysis in Saudi Arabia in Units: 2012-2019 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Table 60: Passenger Cars Market in the United Arab Emirates: Recent Past, Current and Future Analysis in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 61: United Arab Emirates Passenger Cars Historic Market Analysis in Units: 2012-2019 REST OF MIDDLE EAST Table 62: Passenger Cars Market in Rest of Middle East: Recent Past, Current and Future Analysis in Units for the Period 2020-2027 Table 63: Rest of Middle East Passenger Cars Historic Market Analysis in Units: 2012-2019 AFRICA Table 64: African Passenger Cars Market Estimates and Projections in Units: 2020 to 2027 Table 65: Passenger Cars Market in Africa: A Historic Review in Units for 2012-2019 IV. COMPETITION Total Companies Profiled: 71 Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p092464/?utm_source=PRN About Reportlinker ReportLinker is an award-winning market research solution. Reportlinker finds and organizes the latest industry data so you get all the market research you need - instantly, in one place. __________________________ Contact Clare: clare@reportlinker.com US: (339)-368-6001 Intl: +1 339-368-6001
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