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  Last update: 22:58 GMT 10.07.2020

  22:58 GMT 10.07.2020

  Opinion

  'Not Going to Stop': US Protests Against Racism to Carry on Despite Police Repression, Activist Says

  A community organizer in Columbia, South Carolina, told Sputnik that the past seven weeks of militant protests against racism in the face of increasing police repression and intimidation tactics have awakened a new generation to the state’s long history of Black radical struggle.

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  Last update: 00:56 GMT 11.07.2020

  00:56 GMT 11.07.2020

  Opinion

  Trump Would Rather ‘Gin Up Race War’ Over Base Names than Allow Public Focus on Class Conflict

  US President Donald Trump threatened to veto this year’s proposed $740 billion defense bill if it includes an amendment requiring the Pentagon to rechristen bases named after Confederate leaders. However, the president is unlikely to veto anything regarding the military, award-winning foreign correspondent Jon Jeter told Political Misfits.

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  Last update: 23:07 GMT 10.07.2020

  23:07 GMT 10.07.2020

  US

  Video: US Police Probe Unapproved 'White Lives Matter' Sign as Charges Filed Over Defaced BLM Mural

  Authorities in California’s San Francisco Bay Area are investigating an unapproved “White Lives Matter” mural that was painted on a road in the East Bay city of Martinez and then defaced in a counter-protest.

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  Last update: 19:00 GMT 10.07.2020

  19:00 GMT 10.07.2020

  US

  Part 3: Training the Warrior Cop: US Empire is a Laboratory for Militarized Policing

  The techniques and weaponry at the core of US police militarization are pioneered abroad on the front lines of the US war machine and its client states, a laboratory where the line between protester and insurgent becomes blurred by a militarized, foreign occupation. At the center of this dynamic are Israel and Iraq.

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  Last update: 23:28 GMT 10.07.2020

  23:28 GMT 10.07.2020

  Africa

  ‘Novel Disease’ May be Behind Hundreds of Elephant Deaths in Botswana

  Botswana officials have warned that a new pathogen may be to blame for the deaths of hundreds of elephants in the country.

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  Last update: 00:08 GMT 11.07.2020

  00:08 GMT 11.07.2020

  Sport

  NHL Will Resume Season on 1 August Following 142-Day Pause

  The National Hockey Leauge (NHL) decided to suspend the season on 12 March amid the vast increase in the number of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the United States.

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  Last update: 23:04 GMT 10.07.2020

  23:04 GMT 10.07.2020

  Tech

  Amazon Says Email Mandating Employees Delete TikTok Was Sent by Mistake

  An Amazon spokesperson revealed Friday evening that an email sent to employees Friday morning requiring that they remove the video-sharing app TikTok from their company mobile devices was sent in error.

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  Last update: 06:17 GMT 10.07.2020

  06:17 GMT 10.07.2020

  World

  Coronavirus Live Updates: Brazil's COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses 70,000

  The total coronavirus count has surpassed 12.3 million cases worldwide, while the death toll from the infection is over 557,000, according to John Hopkins University.