Earlier this week, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called up the National Guard to help deal with civil unrest. This is the first time in 12 years that the Guard has been deployed in the state.

Public unrest has been shaking the United States since 26 May, after an African-American man died following being detained by four police officers in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis citizens have been demonstrating non-stop following the death of black resident George Floyd. The protests went violent at some point, with rioters engaging in clashes with police officers, smashing and setting vehicles on fire, and even stealing from local businesses.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Atlanta and Chicago in the United States extended night curfews on Sunday to stem rioting that broke out after the in-custody death of George Floyd.

After condemning China for over a year for purportedly oppressing the human rights of Hong Kong residents, the US itself has been accused of engaging in heavy-handed tactics in response to the demonstrations taking place in its own cities.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Embassy in the United States sent a note of protest on Sunday to the Department of State after a Minneapolis police officer pepper-sprayed RIA Novosti reporter Mikhail Turgiyev in the face.

The development comes after months of speculation that the ruler of one of the most secretive countries had been gravely ill and even died. The rumours started after Mr. Kim, who is said to be in his mid-thirties, did not appear in public for several weeks and even missed the country’s biggest and most important holiday.

The testing of new weaponry is continuing in the state despite opposition from some locals, who say that military test sites have made the islands a potential target for adversaries of the US.

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Duffield, MP for Canterbury, resigned as whip and apologised after newspaper revelations she’d met her partner while lockdown restrictions were in place despite not living together, at a time people from separate households were still barred from meeting.

The US has for five days straight been seeing countrywide protests over the death of African-American man George Floyd at the hands of a police officer, forcing some state governors to call in the National Guard to stop the looting, vandalism, and violence.

Since Floyd's death 25th May, angry citizens in virtually every major city in America have taken to the streets to demand justice for Floyd, who died after now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for over eight minutes.

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TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Iran will not hand over the flight recorders retrieved from a crashed Ukrainian passenger plane to Kiev, Iranian news agency ISNA reported on Sunday.

Earlier on Sunday, the National Guard said in a statement that although its servicemen have been put on heightened alert in 15 US states and Washington, DC, it is local law enforcement agencies that should tackle security amid the ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man, in Minneapolis police custody on 25 May.