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More protests in Atlanta after police fatally shoot another black man

Georgia prosecutors said they were weighing bringing charges against the police officer who shot dead 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot in Atlanta on Friday night.

Autopsy declares Rayshard Brooks killing a homicide

An autopsy showed that Rayshard Brooks who was killed by a police officer in Atlanta, died from blood loss and organ injuries caused by two gunshot wounds.

Nationwide anti-racism protests force US states to consider reforms

Anti-racism protests continue in the US as statues, monuments and buildings of US historical leaders who carried out policies viewed as racist are being removed, following last month's police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd.

Racism is being recorded - and that’s why the French want cameras banned

Several French lawmakers are now compelled to hinder accountability, not racial injustice.

'Stop the pain,' George Floyd's brother testifies before US Congress

Protesters will take to the streets across the US again, a day after the funeral of George Floyd, whose death in police custody has ignited the biggest surge of anti-racism activism since the civil rights era of the 1960s.

Australia, Asia protests embrace 'Black Lives Matter' movement

Rolling, global protests reflect rising anger over police treatment of ethnic minorities, sparked by George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis after a police officer detaining him knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes as fellow officers stood by.

Has the American smile gone forever?

American civil society, undermined deliberately or unwittingly by both parties for short-term political gain or ideological satisfaction, is weaker than at any time since 1860.

Four cops charged in Floyd death, one faces 2nd-degree murder count

The May 25 death of George Floyd - who had been accused of trying to buy cigarettes with a counterfeit bill - has ignited protests across the United States over systemic racism and police brutality.

UN's Yemen coronavirus efforts may end in June as it runs out of cash

The warning comes a day after a UN appeal for countries to fund emergency aid in the Arab world’s poorest nation fell a billion dollars short of what agencies need to cover essential activities from June to December.

In pictures: 'Justice for George Floyd' protests ripple through US

Curfew and police force didn’t stop thousands of defiant demonstrators from marching through the streets of the US throughout the night, though some of the rampant destruction seen over the past few nights was quelled.

Why police brutality persists in the US

Policing in America is broken. Is it time to rethink the role of the police?

American history shows civil unrest is the only way black voices are heard

The gratuitous fixation on rioting won't kill the elephant in the room.