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2021-06-01 16:46:38 Naomi Osaka Drops out of French Open

Naomi Osaka is walking away from the French Open after a standoff with the sport’s top officials over her refusal to attend news events with reporters. The move came after an unexpected clash with tennis officials. After arriving in Paris she announced she wouldn’t be attending mandatory news conferences at the French Open, citing, “disregard for athletes’ mental health.”



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2021-06-01 16:46:36 More than 200 Bodies Found at Indigenous School in Canada

The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school — one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation. From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society.



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2021-06-01 16:46:34 France and Germany ‘Seeking Full Clarity’ from US and Denmark on Spying Report

France and Germany are “seeking full clarity” on a report claiming that one of Denmark’s intelligence agencies helped the United States spy on several senior European officials, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday. “If the information is true,” Macron said during a statement to the press following a virtual Franco-German summit, these practices are “unacceptable between allies, and even less acceptable between European allies and partners.”



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2021-06-01 16:46:32 China Allows Three Children in Major Policy Shift

China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children, after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates. China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit which has failed to lead to a sustained upsurge in births. The cost of raising children in cities has deterred many Chinese couples.



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2021-05-28 16:50:03 Burning Ship Coats Sri Lanka Tourist Beach in Oil

Oil and debris from a container ship on fire off the coast of Sri Lanka have coated beaches on its west coast. The Singapore-registered X-Press Pearl was carrying chemicals and cosmetics, and has been on fire for eight days. If the ship sinks, then hundreds of tonnes of oil could leak into the sea having an adverse impact on marine life.



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2021-05-28 16:50:01 Germany Officially Calls Colonial-Era Killings in Namibia ‘Genocide’

Germany on Friday apologized for its role in slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a century ago and officially described the massacre as genocide for the first time, as it agreed to fund projects worth over a billion euros. German soldiers killed some 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama members in a 1904-1908 campaign in what historians and the United Nations have long called the first genocide of the 20th century.



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2021-05-28 16:49:59 Russian Authorities Deny Entry to European Airlines

At least two European airlines have been refused permission to fly to Moscow by Russian authorities after the carriers requested to fly an alternative route bypassing Belarusian airspace. Russia’s move, underlining Moscow’s support for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime, comes as the European Union mulls fresh sanctions against Belarus following what leaders have described as the state-sanctioned hijacking of a passenger flight over Belarus last Sunday.



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2021-05-28 16:49:57 Largest Ever Map of the Universe’s Dark Matter is Released

The largest ever map of the universe’s dark matter has been released. Dark matter, which is unobservable from the Earth, is thought to make up around 80% of matter in the universe. A team of scientists from the international Dark Energy Survey (DES) created the new map. About 100 million galaxies were observed for the project. According to NASA, there are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone.



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2021-05-28 16:49:55 COVID-19 Kills 32 Members of Congo’s Parliament

Thirty-two members of parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or about 5% of the total, have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, the vice president of the National Assembly said. Congo’s vaccination campaign has stuttered after it delayed the rollout because of safety concerns about the AstraZeneca shot. Many Congolese are reluctant to take a vaccine because of fears of the side-effects.



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2021-05-27 16:47:04 UN Rights Chief Says Israeli Strikes on Gaza may be War Crimes

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights said on Thursday that Israel’s deadly strikes on Gaza might constitute war crimes and that Islamist group Hamas had violated international humanitarian law by firing rockets into Israel. Michelle Bachelet said her office had verified the deaths of 270 Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including 68 children, during violence this month.



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