Name: Twin blasts at Sunday Mass, 20 dead
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Description: A twin-bomb attack at a church in Philippines has killed 20 people and injured 81. Reports said that the first blast happened as Sunday Mass was celebrated at a Roman Catholic cathedral on Jolo island, which is a predominantly Muslim area. As soldiers responded, a second device was detonated in the parking lot. Jolo Island has long been a base for Islamist militants.

A twin-bomb attack at a church in Philippines has killed 20 people and injured 81. Reports said that the first blast happened as Sunday Mass was celebrated at a Roman Catholic cathedral on Jolo island, which is a predominantly Muslim area. As soldiers responded, a second device was detonated in the parking lot. Jolo Island has long been a base for Islamist militants. 

Bolivia's interim President Jeanine Anez announced on Thursday that she has tested positive for coronavirus. The 53-year-old said in a video on Twitter that she would remain in quarantine for 14 days before taking another test. Anez becomes the second South American president in a matter of days to contract the coronavirus after Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro announced his positive result on Tuesday. Four members of Anez's cabinet had tested positive in recent days.

The US Department of Transportation said it has revoked permission for Pakistan International Airlines to conduct charter flights to the United States, citing Federal Aviation Administration concerns over Pakistani pilot certifications. Pakistan last month grounded almost a third of its pilots after discovering they may have falsified their qualifications. Earlier, the European Union had suspended PIA's authorisation to fly to the bloc for six months in a blow to the carrier's operations.

For the second time in a week, India and China will on Friday discuss ways to build on the disengagement process.&nbsp;National Security Advisor&nbsp;Ajit&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold&nbsp;Friday&rsquo;s meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on Indo-China Border Affairs&nbsp;or WMCC. This will be&nbsp;the first formal interaction at a diplomatic level after the Doval-Wang icebreaker video call on Sunday on the&nbsp;Ladakh stand-off.&nbsp;The WMCC,&nbsp;was&nbsp;set up in 2012 to address tensions along the Line of Actual Control.&nbsp;The Hindustan Times reported that&nbsp;Friday&rsquo;s meeting was being held under different circumstances, largely on account of the seven-hour-long video call between&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;and Wang.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Nepal's ruling communist party has failed to address the intra-party rifts as Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and NCP executive chairman Pushpa Kamal&nbsp;Dahal&nbsp;'Prachanda' have failed to reach a consensus despite holding over half-a-dozen meetings in a week, a media report said on Thursday.&nbsp;On Wednesday, a crucial meeting of the NCP's 45-member Standing Committee was postponed till Friday. The meeting was deferred for the fourth consecutive time in a bid to provide enough time for the two chairmen of the party to sort out their differences amidst the heightened intra-party rift.&nbsp;The political future of 68-year-old Oli is expected to be decided on Friday during the Standing Committee meeting, amidst the growing involvement of Hou Yanqui, the Chinese ambassador to Nepal, to save his chair.&nbsp;

China on Thursday said Chinese and Indian troops have taken 'effective measures' to disengage at Galwan Valley and other areas along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh. Days after the two sides agreed on an expeditious withdrawal of soldiers from all the standoff points, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said&nbsp;the situation is 'stable and improving'. The remarks by the Chinese came a day after people in New Delhi familiar with the developments said that the Chinese military removed all temporary structures and completed withdrawal of its troops from the face-off site in Hot Springs in eastern Ladakh.

Australia's prime minister says the country has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and extended visas for Hong Kong residents in response to China's imposition of a tough national security law on the semi-autonomous territory. Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday announced a range of visas will be extended from two to five years and offers of pathways to permanent residency visas. It is not clear how many residents are expected to get the extensions. The move comes after China bypassed Hong Kong's Legislative Council to impose the sweeping security legislation without public consultation. Britain, too, is extending residency rights for up to three million Hong Kong residents eligible for British National Overseas passports, allowing them to live and work in the UK for five years.

The court document have shed new light on the final moments when George Floyd was killed by a white cop in Minneapolis. The US police officer accused of Floyd's murder told him to stop talking as he repeatedly gasped under his knee. Floyd cried out for his late mother and children as he said the Minneapolis policeman would kill him, transcripts from body-cam footage show. The transcripts show that Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as the cop choked him with his knee. Floyd's death led to a wave of anti-racism protests.

At a time when anti-racism protesters are targeting statues of US leaders with links to slavery, a wooden sculpture of US First Lady Melania Trump has reportedly been set on fire near her hometown in Slovenia. BBC quoted Brad Downey, the American artist who commissioned the statue, as saying that it was targeted on 4 July, Independence Day in the US. Police told Reuters news agency they had launched an investigation. The sculpture was carved out of a tree trunk on the outskirts of Sevnica, her hometown in central Slovenia, and received mixed reviews when it was erected in July 2019.

The United States is preparing to take additional actions against China, the White House has said. But the administration has not spelled out what those presidential measures would be. "I'm not going to get ahead of the president on what our actions on China will be, but you will be hearing about some upcoming actions that pertain to China. So, I can confirm that," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Wednesday, responding to a question on recent statements made by top administration officials.

Russia said Wednesday that a remote Far Eastern region near Mongolia had begun testing rodents for bubonic plague after cases of the disease were confirmed in Mongolia and China. Public health officials have appealed to residents of the mountainous Tuva and Altai regions not to hunt or eat marmots after two bubonic plague cases were confirmed in Mongolia last week. Both cases involved brothers who had eaten marmot meat. The WHO has said it is also monitoring a case of bubonic plague in China after being notified by the authorities in Beijing.

Opening another point of friction amid tense relations between Washington and Beijing, the US has announced new visa bans on senior Chinese officials involved in restricting access to foreigners to the sensitive region of Tibet and reaffirmed its support for 'meaningful autonomy' for Tibetans. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was taking action against an unspecified number of Chinese officials, including from the ruling Communist Party, under a US law that calls on China to let Americans visit Tibet. In a statement he said&nbsp;Beijing has continued systematically to obstruct travel to the Tibetan Autonomous Region and other Tibetan areas by US diplomats and other officials, while Chinese officials and other citizens enjoy far greater access to the United States.

The Chinese military removed all temporary structures and completed withdrawal of its troops from the face-off site in Hot Springs in eastern Ladakh on Wednesday even as the Indian Army kept a close watch on the pull back and maintained a high-level of combat readiness in the region, PTI reported quoting sources.&nbsp;&nbsp;They&nbsp;news&nbsp;report said&nbsp;the two armies are expected to carry out a joint verification in the next few days to assess the implementation of the disengagement process once the dismantling of the temporary infrastructure and withdrawal of troops by China are completed at the friction points along the Line of Actual Control&nbsp;in eastern Ladakh.&nbsp;There has been thinning out of troops from Finger areas in Pangong Tso as well, they&nbsp;report said. Pangong Tso has been a major face-off site between the two sides.&nbsp;

The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday came down heavily on Pakistan over the Kulbhushan Jadhav case and said that the Indian national was coerced by the country to forego his rights.&nbsp;The MEA&rsquo;s reactions comes after Pakistan&rsquo;s claims that the 49-year-old retired Indian Navy officer refused to file a review petition and reconsideration of his death sentence and conviction. The MEA statement said in a brazen attempt to scuttle even the inadequate remedy&nbsp;Pakistan&nbsp;has refused to initiate review petition is a continuation of the farce that has been in play for the last four years.&nbsp;Despite our repeated requests, the MEA said that Pakistan continues to deny India free and unimpeded access to Jadhav.&nbsp;&nbsp;

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused China of taking 'incredibly aggressive action' in a recent confrontation with India along the LAC in eastern Ladakh's Galwan valley. Pompeo told reporters that the Indians have done their best to respond to that. He added he had spoken&nbsp;to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar many times about this. 20 personnel of the Indian Army were killed in violent clashes with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley on June 15. After high-level talks between the two armies and leaders, both India and China agreed to pull back from the contested spots earlier this week.

UK finance minister Rishi&nbsp;Sunak&nbsp;has announced a new&nbsp;&pound;30 billion plan&nbsp; to save jobs by paying bonuses to employers to bring back furloughed workers. He also announced tax cuts in hospitality and for homebuyers. Sunak&nbsp;said that the govt will play&nbsp;&pound;1000 to employers for every furloughed worker who returns to work when the furlough scheme ends in October. Under the current scheme, the govt pays the salaries of employees who have been sent on leave without pay. For the struggling hospitality and tourism sectors, Sunak&nbsp;cut the Value-added&nbsp;Tax to 5% from 20%. The UK govt has also cut the amount of stamp duty that needs to be paid while buying&nbsp;a house.&nbsp;

Rapper Kanye West in a new interview has signalled that he no longer supported US President Donald Trump and said he would enter the presidential race to win it. In an interview to Forbes magazine, Kanye&nbsp;said he was&nbsp;taking the red hat off, referring to Trump's trademark red 'Make America Great Again' baseball cap. He added, like anything he's ever done in his life, he's doing (this) to win. Kanye&nbsp;said he would run under a new banner - the Birthday Party.&nbsp;There is no record of West filing any official paperwork with the Federal Election Commission. President Trump meanwhile, in an interview to a news website said, the rapper's candidacy 'would be a great trial run' and that he had a 'real voice'.

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have sued US administration&nbsp;over new guidelines&nbsp;barring foreign students from remaining in America&nbsp;if their universities switched to online-only classes in the Fall.&nbsp;A report in The Harvard Crimson said the two educational institutions filed a lawsuit in District Court in Boston on Wednesday against the two federal agencies.&nbsp;The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary relief to bar the US Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement from the enforcing federal guidelines that will force international students to leave the US.&nbsp;

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has hinted that he is keen to set up his electric carmaker&rsquo;s second gigafactory in Asia. Responding to queries on Twitter, the Tesla CEO hinted that the second factory will be outside China. The Gigafactory 3 in China is Tesla's only operational facility currently across the world. The sprawling 9,300,000-square feet facility is currently used to produce Tesla Model 3 sedans. Currently, among all the Asian countries apart from China, Japan and Korea top the list where EVs are popular. India too may feature on Musk's mind given that land and labour both are likely to be cheaper than most other viable options. Last month, the Tamil Nadu government wrote to top executives of automobile companies, including Tesla, inviting them to set up shop in the state.

Former Indian diplomat Syed Akbaruddin on Wednesday posted an article on Twitter that stated that US had pulled of 12 bodies/treaties amid a rising number of coronavirus cases. "Whither Global Order? US out of 12 bodies/Treaties ..&amp; still counting...," he tweeted. According to a report in CNN, the Trump administration has notified Congress and the United Nations that the United States is formally withdrawing from the World Health Organization, but the US government is yet to clarify what "terminating" its relationship with WHO actually means.

Pakistan has said that Kulbhushan Jadhav refused to file a review application on his verdict on June 17. In a statement, Pakistan Attorney General claimed, Jadhav was invited to file a petition for review and reconsideration of his sentence and conviction, but he refused. According to media reports, Pakistan has offered second consular access to him. In May, Pakistan said it had fully complied with ICJ's judgement on Jadhav after India said it hoped to persuade Islamabad through back-channel talks to release him. 49-year-old Kulbhushan Jadhav, a retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of 'espionage and terrorism' in April 2017.

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