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The “martyrdom” of George Floyd will spark changes in policing, says Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

After a week of large demonstrations against racism and police brutality, at home and abroad, the French government announced Monday that police will no longer be able to use chokeholds when arresting people.

More than half of pregnant women admitted to UK hospitals with Covid-19 were from black or other ethnic minority groups, according to a national study published Monday in the BMJ medical journal.

The researchers say the death toll would have been “huge” without a lockdown.

The white police officer is accused of killing the black man whose death sparked global protests.

Almost all coronavirus restrictions in New Zealand will be lifted tomorrow, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced, after the country reported no active cases.

Every time we do the laundry, our clothes shed millions of plastic microfibers. Those that find their way into the ocean may be disrupting life all the way up the food chain.

In an interview with CNN’s Will Ripley, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said the Tokyo Olympic Games could signify a victory over the pandemic but admitted that organizers were contending with many uncertainties.