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US virus cases surge to highest level in 2 months (AP) New coronavirus cases in the U.S. have surged to their highest level in two months and are now back to where they were at the peak of the outbreak. The U.S. on Tuesday reported 34,700 new cases of the virus, according to a tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University that was published Wednesday. While early hot spots like New York and New Jersey have seen cases steadily decrease, the virus has been hitting the south and west. Several states on Tuesday set single-day records, including Arizona, California, Mississippi, Nevada and Texas. Cases were also surging in other parts of the world. India reported a record daily increase of nearly 16,000 new cases. Mexico, where testing rates have been low, also set a record with more than 6,200 new cases.

Travelers to NY, New Jersey, Connecticut are told to isolate (AP) New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will require visitors from states with high coronavirus infection rates to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival, beginning Thursday, the three governors said. Visitors from states over a set infection rate will have to quarantine. As of Wednesday, states over the threshold were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah and Texas.

Polish Leader Duda Visits White House For Pre-Election Boost (Foreign Policy) The White House will welcome Polish President Andrzej Duda today for the first visit from a foreign leader since the coronavirus pandemic began. The meeting comes as Duda faces a potentially tough election contest this Sunday—with recent polls showing him tied in a second round run-off with one of his challengers, and losing to another (if Duda wins more than 50 percent of the vote, no run-off is needed). U.S. President Donald Trump will be hoping to give his ideological ally the same edge he gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he hosted him in January before the Israeli elections. They also have a chance to discuss the allegedly stalled plan to station 1,000 U.S. troops in Poland. With 9,500 troops set to leave Germany soon, speculation has grown that some will move east.

Pyrotechnics and the pandemic (Foreign Policy) Major cities in the United States are experiencing an unexplained explosion in fireworks use. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said complaints to the city’s police have increased by 2,300 percent. In New York, police have recorded a 2,000 percent increase in complaints on the same period last year. Julie Heckman, the executive director American Pyrotechnics Association, has a simple explanation for the increase. “I think the general public, due to COVID, is just itching to do something,” she told Slate.

Historian compares civil rights protests, then and now (AP) Douglas Brinkley, a Rice University history professor and author, whose works include books about the late civil rights icons Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., discusses differences between the 1960s civil rights protests and those of today: Then: Protests fueled by Christian credos with a soundtrack of gospel music and spirituals. Now: “More raw anger” in the streets, but with hip hop and other current music as the soundtrack. Then: Nonviolence. King once was punched in the face on stage, took the blows, and urged that the white man not be charged. Now: Protesters more militant, “no one’s going to tolerate a punch in the face” without responding. Then: Black demonstrators supported by white people opposed to the Vietnam War. Now: Black demonstrators supported by others frustrated by the pandemic and economy. Then: Civil rights leaders felt the sympathy of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy. Now: President Donald Trump “mimics the language” of ‘60s white supremacists about protesters. Then: Activists such as three young men, two of them white, murdered 56 years ago this week in Mississippi’s Freedom Summer, could suddenly disappear. Now: Social media and cellphones provide quick calls for help; cell phone cameras can make police abuses “go viral.”

Mutual aid flourishing amid protests (Religion News Service) Groceries. Prepared meals. Face masks. Prayer requests. Housing. Rent assistance. Mental health care. Spiritual guidance. Career advice. Transportation. The requests for help keep coming at Forefront Church, at all hours of the day and night, and Zanifa Franck keeps responding. “If you need aid and we have it, we’re going to give it to you,” says Franck, direct deacon for the Brooklyn church’s active 12-member care team, launched at the pandemic’s onset in an effort to live out Forefront’s anti-racist mission. “There’s no parameters or criteria or rules for how you get aid.” Like many volunteers involved in the current resurgence of mutual aid projects, Franck says her efforts are driven both by the understanding that existing welfare systems are broken—and that it’s her duty as a believer to step in. “The foundation of being a radical Christ follower is truly believing that every human, whether they’re Muslim or Buddhist or anyone, deserves access to power and access to basic necessities of life,” Franck told Religion News Service. “For whatever reason, society has not allowed you to have access. So if I have it, I need to share it.” Through mutual aid, community members take up the responsibility for caring for each other.

Virus Gains Steam Across Latin America (NYT) By late March, the Mexican government calmly predicted that its coronavirus outbreak would peak in April. A few weeks later, it changed its prediction to mid-May. And then to late May. And then to June. Now, with new infections surging and the government facing growing anger, even ridicule, over its constant guesswork, many Mexicans have drawn their own conclusion: No one really knows. Mexico, like the rest of Latin America, has quickly become a focal point of the pandemic, a worrisome frontier for a virus that has claimed the lives of more than 460,000 people and infected more than nine million worldwide. Deaths have more than doubled across Latin America in a month, according to the Pan American Health Organization, and the region now accounts for several of the world’s worst outbreaks.

Chile celebrated success against the coronavirus—and began to open up. Infections have soared. (Washington Post) It wasn’t that long ago that Chilean President Sebastián Piñera boasted that the country was ready for the coronavirus. And after locking down the population, bolstering hospitals and testing aggressively, the country did appear to be faring well against the pandemic. With a comparatively advanced health-care system, it kept numbers of cases and deaths lower than in neighboring Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. But after weeks of soaring infections, Chile has now reported more than 250,000 cases of the coronavirus, seventh in the world, and 4,500 deaths. Officials said over the weekend that 3,000 more deaths were probably caused by covid-19. Its 1,338.9 cases per 100,000 people lead Latin America.

No name, no pint (and no writhing) (Reuters) Drinkers in England’s pubs will have to give their name before they order a pint, and there will be no live acts or standing at the bar, the government said in advice for re-opening the sector next month. Pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will have to keep a record of customers for 21 days to assist the state health service’s test and trace operation, which aims to identify and contain any local flare ups of COVID-19 and stop a second wave of infections. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was keen to enjoy a visit to the pub and urged people to go out and enjoy their new freedom to socialize next month, but cautioned that they would still need to act responsibly. “We can’t have, you know, great sort of writhing scenes in the beer gardens when the virus could be passed on.”

Russia holds Victory Day military parade and, for a day, forgets the grinding pandemic (Washington Post) Russians celebrated Victory Day on Wednesday, the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat of the Nazis in World War II, as President Vladimir Putin sought to shed the political setbacks of the covid-19 pandemic and drum up national pride in preparation for a nationwide vote on constitutional changes that could let him stay in power until 2036. For Russians, Victory Day is perhaps the nation’s most emotional holiday and evokes triumphant memories of wartime heroism darkened by the cruel sacrifice of 27 million Soviet citizens who died in what is known here as the Great Patriotic War. The parade is a showcase of Russian military forces, with tanks and missiles rumbling through Red Square, soldiers marching in crisp formation and an air force flyover of the nation’s most advanced military planes, including MiG-31 interceptors carrying hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. More than 13,000 troops, 234 armored vehicles and 75 aircraft participated.

India calls in army to run facilities in Delhi as cases surge (Reuters) India reported 16,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, its highest daily increase since the outbreak began, and the government called in the army to manage new treatment centres with thousands of additional hospital beds in New Delhi. At more than 456,000 confirmed coronavirus cases so far, India is the fourth worst hit country in the world, behind the United States, Brazil and Russia, according to a Reuters tally.

High-altitude diplomacy (Foreign Policy) India and China have agreed “to take the necessary measures to lower the temperature on the situation” after military leaders from both sides met for 11 hours on Monday near the site of the deadly confrontation in the Himalayas on June 15. “There was a mutual consensus to disengage,” an Indian government source told Reuters.

Three Gorges Dam at risk? (Foreign Policy) The Chinese government is denying that the infamous Three Gorges Dam is at risk of collapse after heavy flooding and a warning from a famous hydrologist—raising suspicions, naturally, that it is in fact at risk. Foreign journalists attempting to report on the recent issues were followed and their sources threatened. A Three Gorges Dam collapse would be a disaster even greater than the last time a major dam failed in China. In 1975, the collapse of the Banqiao Dam killed 230,000 people.

Israeli annexation plan draws apartheid comparisons (AP) Benjamin Pogrund spent decades battling apartheid as a journalist in South Africa. Since moving to Israel two decades ago, he has passionately defended the country against charges that it too is an apartheid state. But at the age of 87, Pogrund is having second thoughts. He says that if Israel moves ahead with plans to annex parts of the West Bank, he will have no choice but to declare that his adopted homeland has become a modern-day version of apartheid-era South Africa. “There will be Israeli overlords in an occupied area. And the people over whom they will be ruling will not have basic rights,” Pogrund said in an interview in his leafy backyard garden. “That will be apartheid. And we will merit the charge. And that is something that worries me gravely because it exposes us to huge dangers.”

Yemeni rebels hit Riyadh (Washington Post) Yemeni rebels claimed to have carried out one of the largest attacks on Saudi soil in the five-year war in Yemen, saying they launched drone and ballistic missile strikes targeting Defense and Intelligence ministries in Riyadh. The Saudi-led military coalition fighting in neighboring Yemen said it intercepted one ballistic missile targeting the Saudi capital, but there was no immediate response to the claims that the ministries and air base were hit.

When the Soldiers Meant to Protect You Instead Come to Kill (NYT) Over the past four years, Burkina Faso has fallen into chaos, with gunmen robbing, killing and threatening some of the poorest citizens in this landlocked West African nation, and causing 850,000 to flee their homes. Some of the gunmen are terrorists, loosely allied with the Islamic State or Al Qaeda. Some are bandits. Some are vigilantes. It is seldom spoken of, and the government denies it, but some are soldiers in Burkina Faso’s armed forces. In the name of ridding their country of Islamist extremists and bandits, government security forces are now killing about as many people as jihadists do, according to interviews with human rights campaigners and a security analyst. At least 2,000 people are thought to have been killed in Burkina Faso in the last 18 months, though such counts are woefully incomplete, partly because the government passed a law prohibiting journalists from reporting on anything that could “demoralize” defense forces.

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