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© Jim Mone A protester holds a sign across the street from National Guard soldiers guarding the Hennepin County Government Centre, the trial venue (Jim Mone/AP).

Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck and was bearing down with most of his weight the entire time Mr Floyd lay face down with his hands cuffed behind his back, a use-of-force expert said at Chauvin’s murder trial.

The Senate unanimously passed a bill this week that clamps down on China’s reach into U.S. universities by tightening restrictions on Confucius Institutes.The Concerns Over Nations Funding University Campus Institutes in the United States (CONFUCIUS) Act, introduced by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., targets Chinese-funded cultural centers on college campuses that lawmakers have said are being utilized…

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) plans to reopen schools starting April 12, announced the city’s Board of Education Friday.After being under the national eye for months due to the school board’s decision to prioritize renaming public schools over reopening them, the city’s school officials have reached a deal with the teachers unions to get kids back in…

Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are calling for massive protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Wednesday, saying Navalny’s health is deteriorating during a hunger strikeBy JIM HEINTZ Associated PressApril 18, 2021, 4:53 PM• 3 min readMOSCOW — Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called Sunday for massive protests in…

One in six adults in the UK are now fully vaccinated with both of their coronavirus jabs.  For the country to continue on schedule with Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown, the vaccination programme has to continue to go well. The figures are looking positive as more than 8.9 million people have now had two…

Canada is facing a devastating third wave of Covid-19 driven by new variants, it has been reported. For the first time since the pandemic began, Canada’s case numbers have surged past the US. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, 207.3 per million Canadians have now tested positive for coronavirus, compared to 206.7

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visit the gardens of Marlborough House, London, to view the flowers and messages left by members of the public outside Buckingham Palace following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh – Jeremy Selwyn

Two great-grandchildren of Prince Philip were touchingly named after him – but it is thought he never got the chance to meet them. Princess Eugenie and Zara Tindall both paid touching tributes to their beloved grandfather by choosing Philip for the middle names of their newborn sons earlier this year. Eugenie, 31, the

The Queen has described the death of Prince Philip as leaving ‘a huge void in her life’, her son said. Prince Andrew spoke about the impact on the family, revealing how his mother described the passing of her husband. He described what happened as an ‘enormous change’ but said the family

The UK government has set out “little detail” on what it wants to achieve during COP26, amid concerns that it may be “impossible” to limit the rise in Earth’s temperature if the climate summit fails.That is the warning from the Foreign Affairs Committee in its report, A Climate For Ambition: Diplomatic Preparations For COP26. The…