Coronavirus Live Updates: The possibility of a big COVID-19 rebound in China over the next two or three months is remote as 80% of people have been infected, a prominent government scientist said on Saturday.
Burkina Faso ends ties with French troops, orders departure
Burkina Faso's junta government late Saturday ordered hundreds of French troops to depart the West African country within a month, following in the path of neighboring Mali, whose nation is also headed by a coup leader. National broadcaster RTB made the announcement, citing the official Agence d'Information du Burkina. The news agency said the decision had been made Wednesday to end the presence of France's military on Burkinabe soil.
U.S. Justice Dept found 6 more classified documents in Biden home search, lawyer says
A new search of President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday by the U.S. Justice Department led to the discovery of six more classified documents , a lawyer for the president said in a statement Saturday night. Some of the classified documents and "surrounding materials" dated from Biden's tenure in the U.S. Senate, where he represented Delaware from 1973 to 2009, according to his lawyer, Bob Bauer. Other documents were from his tenure as vice president in the Obama administration, from 2009 through 2017, Bauer said.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy honours those killed in helicopter crash
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held an emotional meeting with the families of those who died in a helicopter crash earlier this week. Zelenskyy on Saturday spoke with family members of seven of those killed in Wednesday's crash in the Brovary area of Kyiv, the capital city. The helicopter carrying Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi and other top officials slammed into a kindergarten building in the residential suburb, killing him and about a dozen other people, including a child on the ground.
sraelis press on with protests against new government
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv night to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, measures that opponents say imperil the country's democratic fundamentals. Israeli media, citing police, said some 1,00,000 people were out protesting.
Peru closes Machu Picchu as anti-government protests grow
Peru indefinitely shut the tourist site Machu Picchu in the latest sign that anti-government protests that began last month are increasingly engulfing the South American country. The Culture Ministry said on Saturday that it had closed the country's most famous tourist attraction as well as the Inca Trail leading up to the site "to protect the safety of tourists and the population in general".