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US President Joe Biden condemned the nation’s legacy of systemic injustice and racist violence in his call for sweeping police reform, hours after a verdict was announced for the murder of George Floyd, a Black man whose death has revived an international demand for justice for the police killings of Black Americans. “It was a murder in full light of day and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see” systemic racism in the US, he said in remarks to the nation alongside Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House on Tuesday evening. Mr Biden called systemic racism a “stain on our nation’s soul” after Ms Harris demanded that the lives of Americans of colour be “valued in our education system, in our healthcare system, in our housing system, in our economic system, in our criminal justice system, in our nation, full stop.”
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Joe Biden celebrates ‘some justice’ for George Floyd as AOC calls conviction not enough
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Islamists call halt to Pakistan protest after government allows vote on French envoy
A banned Pakistani Islamist group called an end to violent nationwide anti-France protests on Tuesday, after the government called a parliamentary vote on whether to expel the French ambassador and said it would halt criminal cases against the group's members. Pakistan arrested the leader of the group Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) on April 12 and banned the group last week after its members blocked main highways, railways and access routes to major cities, assaulting police and burning public property. The group has demanded that Pakistan expel the French ambassador in retaliation for the publication in France of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
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Harriet Tubman’s lost childhood home discovered by archaeologists
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Bush says America is so polarised people ‘couldn’t believe I was friends with Michelle Obama’
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Ohio shooting: Young woman shot dead by police in Columbus
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‘Steve Urkel’ actor launches cannabis brand on 4/20
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Obama says 'a jury did the right thing' after Derek Chauvin guilty verdict in George Floyd's death
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The state of Washington DC statehood: What House Democrats are proposing and why it will probably fail
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