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Surveillance video showed the officer putting his knee on the man's head and neck twice while he was being restrained.

The June 5 Movement also insisted for state's parliament to be dissolved and called for a 'republication transition'.

London's police force suspends officer after video emerged of him kneeling on Black suspect's head and neck.

WHO reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases, with the total rising by 237,743 in 24 hours.

A group of millionaires urges governments to raise taxes to fund a coronavirus recovery.

Remote communities have for years been hit by deadly raids from armed groups of cattle rustlers and kidnappers.

The ban could cause tension between military leaders and Trump, who supports keeping Confederate names on bases.

The oldest Supreme Court justice has faced a series of health challenges in recent years.

The 61-year-old became unwell during a weekly cabinet meeting and passed away at a hospital on July 8.

The Philippines now has the highest number of active COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia.

With the city of Misrata being untouched with violence since 2011, the city is now witnessing economic growth.

The US has imposed sanctions on Chinese officials it says are committing human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet.

Unidentified body left in Mediterranean for almost 3 weeks despite requests by rescue group to Libya, Italy and Malta.

Azerbaijan and Armenia accuse each other of shelling military positions and villages.

Turkish president denounces Egypt, UAE for supporting forces in east Libya after tribesmen call for Cairo to intervene.

Jamaal Bowman has defeated 16-term incumbent Eliot Engel in the Democratic House primary.

Texas reported 10,000 new cases and 129 additional deaths and California reported nearly 20,000 and 258 respectively.

Seoul said the organisations' work was 'seriously hindering the unification policy of the government'.

Security forces fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the southwestern city of Behbahan on Thursday.

The white men were charged with malice and murder in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery after video of the incident emerged.

The idea that modern Britain is not as bad as the US when it comes to racial injustice is just a fallacy.

Federal forces have hospitalised and 'kidnapped' protesters, whom DHS head Chad Wolf called 'violent anarchists'.

A 51-year-old British man is suspected of issuing a bomb threat midair during a Ryanair flight from London to Oslo.

Biden is expected to choose a candidate for vice president from a shortlist of women by early August.

Renowned poet, critic and political activist was arrested in 2018 for alleged links to Maoist fighters.

Across the US, The Sentencing Project says about six million convicted felons cannot vote due to various state laws.

Most of the violence happens in predominantly Black neighbourhoods across the US.

Navalny is banned from leaving Moscow as part of a new criminal case against him and his office is raided in the city.

Delhi Minority Commission report accuses police of inaction in cases related to the worst violence in decades.

More than one million people have been marooned in Nepal, Bangladesh and India as overflowing rivers wreak havoc.

Republican Brian Kemp seeking to overturn order that requires Atlanta residents to wear masks in public amid COVID-19.

The federal government has advised those who can no longer support themselves to strongly consider going home.

Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda faces steep challenges in Gabon's economic relaunch and COVID-19 response.

Russia's move prompts Ukraine to plan its own military exercises as an insurance against any escalation on its border.

Qatar's waters host some of the biggest gatherings of whale sharks, the world's largest living fish.

US diplomat shares Turkey's criticism Irini is biased, says it fails to stop embargo violations by Egypt, UAE, Russia.

Demonstrators want gov't to invest more in marginalised region hit by high unemployment and failing infrastructure.

Spanish giants beat Villareal to seal their first La Liga title in three years.

For Black and Indigenous people and other persons of colour, the backbreaking weight of American racism is inescapable.

A lower-caste Dalit couple in Madhya Pradesh state attempted suicide after police beat them and destroyed their crops.

India saw record cases on Friday, as Red Cross warned the virus was spreading at 'an alarming rate' across South Asia.

Top legislators on Capitol Hill told Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to brief committee staff members on the hack by next week.

At least 80 percent of flights in and out of Urumqi cancelled after case reported in far western province of China.

Surge in outbreak in state of Victoria prompts tightening of distancing restrictions in neighbouring New South Wales.

UN says response of wealthy countries 'grossly inadequate' as it increases appeal for funds to record $10.3bn.

Florida reported the largest one-day rise in deaths since the pandemic began and its second-largest increase in cases.

Behind Biden in public opinion polls, Trump is in a 'precarious' political position as 2020 re-election campaign begins.

Just 26 percent of American adults said they thought it was safe for schools in their community to bring students back.

Restrictions do not apply to people travelling for work, family care, educational or humanitarian reasons.

Activists and lawyers have called for the officer to be fired. Local authorities are investigating the latest death.