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Singapore on Friday eased restrictions further, and allowed more business and social activities to resume including shopping at physical retail stores, as well as dining in at food and beverage outlets.
But retailers are not hopeful the move will do much to help their already struggling businesses, said Rose Tong, executive director of Singapore Retailers Association.
The Singapore economy has been badly hit and is expected to shrink by between 4% and 7% this year, according to the government’s forecast.
Singapore on Friday eased restrictions further and reopened pockets of the economy that were suspended due tocoronavirus— but retailers are not hopeful the move would do much to lift their already struggling businesses, according to an industry association.
As the monsoon lashes Mumbai and black clouds darken the skyline, the city is in the grip of nostalgia for the men who used to keep daily life ticking as rhythmically and comfortingly as a Swiss watch. Men who are missing.
Southern separatists stormed security department building in city of Hadibouh, official says.
Fierce clashes have erupted on Socotra as former allies in Yemen's long-running war are battling for control of the island off the Horn of Africa.
The latest outburst of fighting on Friday pitted Saudi-backed government forces against fighters loyal to the self-styled, UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), which seeks independence for southern Yemen from the north.
Unilaterally taking territory the Palestinians have counted on for a state could cement Benjamin Netanyahu’s legacy. It could also destabilize the region.
JERUSALEM — To Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it’s a “historic opportunity”: the chance to annex large stretches of the occupied West Bank that right-wing Israelis have long coveted, possibly giving the country a permanent eastern border for the first time.
Annexation would also cement his place in history, carving out a permanentlegacyfor Israel’s longest-serving leader. And although he has not disclosed the scope of his plan, he has promised to move forward with it as soon as July 1.
Turkey bombed Iraq and Syria, striking a Kurdish militia it has accused of training members of the left-wing, international antifa movement involved in protests across the United States.
The Turkish Defense Ministry released footage Friday of an F-16 fighter jet taking off and conducting what it said was an operation in Iraq's northern Great Zab region that "neutralized" four members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The outlawed group has been locked ina three-decade, cross-border insurgencywith Ankara, which has stepped up its campaign against Kurdish forces in Iraq in recent days.
Two Croatian police officers were arrested on Thursday over the beating of an asylum seeker, as the UN urged the country to immediately investigate reports of excessive use of force against migrants.
The police in Karlovac, 35 miles south-west of Zagreb, announced the two officers had been charged after an Afghan man who crossed the border from Bosnia was injured,24sata, a leading daily newspaper in Croatia, reported.
In late March, the organisers of Ruhrtriennale, an annual music and arts festival that takes place in the Ruhr area of Germany, announced that the Cameroonian philosopher and post-colonial theorist, Achille Mbembe, would be delivering the keynote address at this year's event.
Mbembe, a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, is globally renowned for his writings on colonial legacies and neoliberal capitalism. He is also very popular in Germany. In the last few years, he has been a guest speaker at a number of public events and received several prestigious academic and literary honours in the country. Thus, there should have been nothing newsworthy about his planned participation in a German arts festival.
Before coronavirus, Venice was overwhelmed by tourists - a boon for the city's economy but a sometimes inconvenient reality for residents. As the city reopens, some residents tell CNN's Ben Wedeman they hope a new balance can be struck.
The Vatican is urging Catholics and the private sector to "progressively and without delay" divest fromfossil fuel producersand other entities that perpetuate climate change.
The announcement was made Thursday in"Laudato Si," a Vatican encyclical written by Pope Francis that is something of a best practices manual for church leaders and workers. In it, the pope said that "less harmful alternatives can be used transiently" and called on richer countries to help finance the costs so they don't "fall disproportionately on the poorest countries."
Two dead men have become the faces of France's current racism debate.
Adama Traoré, a young black man from the Paris suburbs who died in police custody four years ago; and Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a white aristocrat from the 17th Century who managed the country's finances under King Louis XIV.
One is remembered today in demonstrations against police brutality; the other with a marble statue outside the National Assembly.
As coronavirus spread through France, so did the grey in the prime minister’s impressively dark beard. When Édouard Philippe regularly appeared on television to detail the health crisis or outline lockdown rules, viewers watched as the patch of hair on his left cheek grew, like the physical embodiment of the growing pandemic.
Was it his age, he is 49, or the stress of persistent rumours that the increasingly unpopular president, Emmanuel Macron, was about to dump his increasingly popular government leader?
The controversial rightwing commentator Katie Hopkins has had her Twitter account permanently suspended for violating the platform’s “hateful conduct” policy.
Hopkins, who has been repeatedly retweeted by the US president, Donald Trump, and had more than 1.1 million followers, was removed to “keep Twitter safe”, according to the social media platform.
Seven firms told Reuters they will divest funds if they do not see progress in resolving the Amazon's deforestation.
Seven major European investment firms have told Reuters news agency they will divest from beef producers, grains traders and even government bonds in Brazil if they do not see progress in resolving the surging destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
The rising threats from investors with more than $2 trillion in assets under management, including Finland-based Nordea and the United Kingdom's Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), show how the private sector is taking global action to protect the world's largest rainforest.
The $2bn in gold bars is stored in the UK, which recognises opposition leader Juan Guido as Venezuela's president.
In the vaults beneath the Bank of England, where foreign nations stash parts of their vast gold reserves, lie 1.7 billion euros ($1.9bn) of disputed gold bars. Two parties claim access to them.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says they belong to his administration's central bank. His rival, opposition leader Juan Guaido, who the British government recognises as Venezuela's rightful leader, says the bars are his to control.
Helicopter removed the bus where adventurer Christopher McCandless died of starvation in 1992, to prevent others trying to reach it
An abandoned bus in theAlaskaback country, popularized by the book Into the Wild and movie of the same name, was removed on Thursday as a public safety measure, state officials said.
The bus has long attracted adventurers to an area without cellphone service and marked by unpredictable weather and at-times swollen rivers.Some have had to be rescuedor have died. Christopher McCandless, the subject of the book and movie, died of starvation there in 1992.
IfIfI had to sum up my condition over the last few weeks, it’d be exhaustion. I’m tired. I told a friend this week that my soul feels like it needs to hibernate. Not only in grieving for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade but also in viewing what feels like hundreds of accounts of hotheaded police officers violently attacking protesters who are demonstrating against police violence. Once again, I’m forced to confront the reality that I’m not as free as I’ve been led to believe. That our system is broken. That people want me dead, due to no fault of my own.
BOSTON (CBS) – On the campus of UMass Boston, college students observed Juneteenth by meeting to create an art installation.
“We’re making tombstones and on the tombstones we’re writing the names of people who have lost their lives to police brutality,” said Kamiyah Parkin, a sophomore and president of the university’s chapter of the NAACP. “The main message is to help people conceptualize how much of an issue this is. The cause of their death is because of racism. Because of a system that was designed not to protect Black people.”
A letter signed by hundreds of artists, writers, film producers and directors, actors and singers demanded that institutions be “active agents” in fighting racism.
A letter released on Fridaythat carried the names of some of the most influential black figures in film, television, visual art, music, theater, literature and other cultural disciplines called on the institutions they work with to actively fight racism by cutting ties with the police, as well as financially supporting and advocating for black artists and their work.
MACON, Ga -- Kicking off Middle Georgia's Juneteenth celebrations, a group of artists have come together to build what they're calling a#BlockTheHate art installationaround Macon's Confederate memorials.
Danny Glover, one of the event organizers, writes "The purpose for the #installation is to reclaim a space in the name of community and #BlackArt. We’re confident those statues will be removed, however, now is the time for the community to begin re-imagining the future use of this space."
CLEVELAND, Ohio —Jill Snyder, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland since 1996, is stepping down immediately amid acontroversyover the museum’s cancellation of an exhibit of artworks dealing with police violence against black people.
But in an interview Thursday withcleveland.com, Snyder said her resignation is voluntary and is motivated by reasons beyond New York artist Shaun Leonardo accusing the museum of censorship for canceling his exhibit.
The rise of social conservatism has certainly affected public perceptions of issues that are considered to be “deviant” from the norm.
Take, for example, Garin Nugroho’s film Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku (Memories of My Body), which explores the life of a traditional Javanese dancer named Juno.
Despite winning eight of its 12 nominations at the 2019 Indonesian Film Festival awards and becoming the Indonesian entry for the 2020 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category, Kucumbu was subject to controversy at home because of its perceived homoerotic nature, with several cities banning theater screenings altogether.
When the pandemic hit, arts students and professors found that at-home learning invited creative experimentation and problem-solving. What innovations might colleges keep through the summer and even into the fall?
If there is anything that Camille Sokk learned this spring, it’s that she can practicepliésandrond de jambes in the kitchen.
The dance major at San Jose State University simply cleared off a spot on the counter to use as her ballet barre when classes transitioned online. There were other adjustments, too: Checking her technique without looking in a dance studio mirror, and turning in a choreographed video using TikTok – the app popular among teens – as a final exam.