Headlines for May 24, 2021
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5J6PC)
- Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Holds as Gazans Face Grief and Destruction After Israeli Assault
- India's Official COVID Death Toll Passes 300,000, Latin America Tops 1 Million Deaths
- Average of Daily U.S. Coronavirus Infections Falls Below 30,000 for First Time Since June
- Biden Administration to Extend Temporary Protected Status to 100,000 Haitians in U.S.
- Belarus Uses Fake Bomb Threat to Divert Plane and Arrest Journalist Critical of President
- Deposed Burmese Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Appears in Court for First Time Since February 1 Coup
- Bangladeshi Journalist Rozina Islam, Who Reported on Corruption, Granted Bail After Arrest
- Powerful Cyclone Grows East of India a Week After a Cyclone Killed at Least 140 in India's West
- 15 Dead, Thousands Left Homeless in Democratic Republic of Congo as Volcano Erupts Near Goma
- Weekend Mass Shootings Around U.S. Leave 11 Dead, 69 Injured
- Minneapolis Honors George Floyd, One Year After His Murder at Hands of Police Officer
- "You Shouldn't Be Able to Breathe": Video Shows TN Man Asphyxiated with Officers' Knees on His Back
- Alden Global Capital Hedge Fund to Purchase Tribune Newspaper Chain