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Statues of slave kneeling before Abraham Lincoln must go
The inscription on both reads: ‘A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.’
Confirmed new coronavirus cases hit record high in US
The figure represents a resurgence that has led some governors to back track or at least pause the reopening of their states.
Knifeman ‘kills three’ in Glasgow hotel attack before being shot by police
Police said the situation is ‘contained at this time and there is no danger to the general public’.
Bernie Ecclestone says Black people often ‘more racist than White people’
Ecclestone's comments come as Lewis Hamilton, who has been vocal throughout the Black Lives Matter movement and is the sport's only black driver, leads the fight for change.
‘When they urinate in your garden, it’s the pits’: Residents condemn beachgoers
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council declared a major incident after huge numbers of visitors crowded on to the beach.
Doctors accuse UK & US of Assange ‘psychological torture’
US prosecutors are seeking the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition on grounds that he damaged national security by publishing classified documents.
Statue of first female MP to sit in Parliament vandalised with Nazi graffiti
The Lady Astor statue had been listed by a national campaign called 'Topple the Racists', demanding the removal of monuments that “celebrate slavery and racism”.
Cambridge Uni backs academic who received racist death threats after Tweeting “White lives Don’t Matter”
Dr Gopal, a Fellow of Churchill College at the university, shared some of the hate speech she was receiving, including one man sending her a picture of a noose and writing: "We are coming for you you n***er loving piece of s*it".
British farmers to drive tractors and trucks to Westminster to protest agriculture bill that “sells them down the river”
The campaign group say the bill would reverse many of the promises made by Vote Leave and the Conservative Party.