Tweets For Today

Latin America hits 70,000 pandemic deaths, daily record in Mexico https://t.co/aXeH8eqEhT pic.twitter.com/2JLK9zllAl

— Reuters (@Reuters) June 11, 2020

There are more than 135 vaccines in development to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Keep track of the progress of the vaccines that have reached human trials here. https://t.co/Zom8KseuDV

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 11, 2020

#UPDATE The EU's chief diplomat Josep #Borrell said Wednesday he had assured China's foreign minister the bloc does not want a "cold war", as it accused Beijing of waging a coronavirus #disinformation campaign https://t.co/Uw0V31o6XM pic.twitter.com/MRAWoWBlxQ

— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 10, 2020

#UPDATE The global economy will contract by at least 6% this year, with the unprecedented loss of income and "extraordinary uncertainty" caused by measures to contain the #coronavirus outbreak, the #OECD said Wednesday https://t.co/TOqX5vv7Di pic.twitter.com/CcBFTf4ZVl

— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 10, 2020

President Trump says his administration will "not even consider" changing the names of Army bases named after Confederate Army officers. The issue has arisen periodically but is gaining new attention as the nation wrestles with questions of race. https://t.co/b1wTijQ1Yu

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 10, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling for statues of Confederate figures such as Jefferson Davis to be removed from the U.S. Capitol. The statues "pay homage to hate, not heritage," she says.https://t.co/ONQJfSil7I

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 11, 2020

#BREAKING: Protester critically injured after toppled Confederate statue landed on his head in Portsmouth, Virginia

“We could see that his skull was actually showing..”@BrettHNews

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 11, 2020