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This year's vigil was banned, with authorities citing coronavirus restrictions on group gatherings. But pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong, who have been waging a long struggle against what they see as China's tightening grip on the city, were determi...

In past years, Hong Kong's candlelight vigils have drawn tens of thousands of people to the city's Victoria Park.

Boris Johnson said he was "sickened and appalled" by the death of George Floyd during an arrest.

Michelle Bachelet also voiced alarm at the "unprecedented assault" on journalists covering protests across the country after George Floyd's death in custody.

The children, all aged under 10 years, were sitting in the classroom of the seminary and were reciting holy Quran when its roof collapsed in Zer Jan Kot area on Tuesday.

In one of Melania Trump's tweets, she asked Americans not to turn violent during their protests. Our country allows for peaceful protests, but there is no reason for violence.

The step makes the glitzy city-state the first in the Middle East to drop nearly all restrictions to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus that hit retailers and leisure activities.

The man, aged 71, died on May 31 while undergoing treatment at the camp's isolation center, said Bimal Chakma, a senior official of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission.

The government was expected to extend a ban on group gatherings larger than eight later on Tuesday.

Pompeo said that the recent Chinese actions be it on the India border, or Hong Kong or the South China Sea, have been part of the Chinese behaviour in the recent past.

Remdesivir is being closely watched after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization on May 1.

Hong Kong has managed to keep the virus mostly in check, with just over 1,000 infections and four deaths. Bars, restaurants, gyms and cinemas have largely reopened in recent weeks.

A building in the park with bathrooms and a maintenance office went up in flames. As demonstrations persisted past curfew, Washington police said they were responding to multiple fires set around the capital.

About 28,245 cases have been diagnosed in Sindh, 26,240 in Punjab, 10,027 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 4,393 in Balochistan, 2,589 in Islamabad, 711 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 255 in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Biden issued a statement just after midnight as protesters in several major U.S. cities vented outrage at the death of a black man shown on video gasping for breath as a white Minneapolis policeman knelt on his neck.

Early risers beat the crowds, some bearing breakfast picnics as they waited for the gates of the northeastern Buttes-Chaumont to swing open at 7 am.