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  Yellow police tape — a familiar sight across Italy since the coronavirus began sweeping the country in March — reappeared at the weekend outside a Rome squat where nine new cases have emerged. Health workers insist the outbreak affecting a Peruvian family and four of their close contacts is …

Boris Johnson said colonialism in Africa should never have ended and downplayed Britain’s role in the slave trade, an article written by the prime minister while he was a Tory MP reveals. Critics are urging Mr Johnson to explain whether he still holds the views expounded in the 2002 piece, …

Twenty-five-year-old London resident Jemma Beale has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for making false rape accusations four separate times over three years. Beale claimed she was raped by nine men, and seriously assaulted by another six. One of the falsely accused, Mahad Cassim, was sentenced to seven years …

Atlanta’s Police Chief has resigned after the fatal shooting of an African-American who had fallen asleep in his car at a drive-through restaurant. Rayshard Brooks, 27, was shot by a police officer during a struggle on Friday, authorities say. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Erika Shields handed in her resignation …

At an old stone harbor in the English city of Bristol, young people gather at a bent railing by the water and peer into the murky deep. They’re looking for the defaced statue of the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. And just maybe, they’re looking at an era gone by. Protesters …

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will be the first Royal Family members to hold a major event during the coronavirus lockdown when they welcome the French president to the UK. Charles and Camilla will meet Emmanuel Macron at their London home on 18 June. They will mark …

A mother-of-two, Takieyah Reaves, from Newark, New Jersey, now lives with her intestines hanging out of her abdomen after surviving a horrific nightclub shooting. Reaves, 32, defied death in July 2017 to survive being shot twice on her stomach and right leg by a random attacker who sprayed bullets at …

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has given the green light for two households to merge into ‘support bubbles’ from Saturday, but only if one of them contains just one adult. The plans will allow couples who live in separate homes to reunite – if one of them lives alone.  They …

One of the four former Minneapolis police officers who were charged over the death of George Floyd has been released on bail. The former police officer released, Thomas Lane, 37, had been held on $750,000 bail and was freed from Hennepin County jail, sheriff’s office records showed. He was one …

When anti-racism protesters in England pulled down the statue of a 17th Century slave trader and promptly dumped it in the deep waters of a harbour, the message was clear. Edward Colston’s ships are believed to have transported about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas. But his memory …