WORLD NEWS May 9, 2020 5 North Korea Blasts South’s Military Drills After Police Kill Two Men in Indianapolis: Kim Sends ‘Warm Greetings’ Angry U.S. Protesters: We’re Being Hunted PARIS (AFP) -- The death toll from the to China Leader novel coronavirus pandemic in Asia passed had said the shots fired by North Korea 10,000 on Friday, with just under half of the were likely “accidental”. fatalities in China, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources. With a total Meanwhile, a U.S. think tank said North of 10,001 deaths and 269,025 infections, Korea is building a facility big enough to Asia has a far lower toll than Europe, which store its ballistic missiles. has recorded 151,576 deaths, or the United The Washington-based Center for Stra- States and Canada with 79,328. China, tegic and International Studies (CSIS) said which has officially recorded 4,633 deaths, construction of the unit, near Pyongyang has registered only one new death in the past International Airport, “is nearing comple- three weeks, while the next hardest-hit Asian tion” and “is almost certainly related to countries are India with 1,783 fatalities and North Korea’s expanding ballistic missiles Indonesia with 930. program”. *** “A high-bay building within the facility ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -- Coronavirus cas- is large enough to accommodate an el- es in Pakistan surged past 25,000 on Friday, evated Hwasong-15 intercontinental bal- just hours before the government was due to listic missile and, therefore, the entirety lift lockdown measures, with the country re- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, meets President Xi Jinping in of North Korea’s known ballistic missile Protesters listen during a rally outside of the City County Building on porting some of the biggest daily increases variants,” the CSIS report said. in new infections in the world. Officials Beijing in this photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News May 7, 2020, in Indianapolis after the fatal shooting by the police. reported 1,764 new COVID-19 cases over Agency (KCNA) on January 10, 2019. “The facility has been constructed next to an underground facility whose likely INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Protesters Lives Matter flags and signs. the past 24 hours on Friday, taking the total crowded the streets of Indianapolis on The Marion County coroner’s office to 25,837. Deaths rose by 30 to 594. Prime SEOUL (Dispatches) -- North Korea enemies all the time,” the statement said. size is also large enough to easily accom- Thursday to voice concerns about po- identified the man killed in the first Minister Imran Khan has announced plans to lashed out at South Korea over recent North Korea cited a military exercise by modate all known North Korean ballistic lice treatment after officers shot and shooting as Dreasjon Reed, 21, and the begin lifting Pakistan’s poorly enforced lock- military drills, while leader Kim Jong the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) missiles and their associated launchers and down from Saturday, amid fears for the coun- killed two men and fatally struck a man killed later as McHale Rose, 19. Un sent a personal message to China’s Air Combat Command on Wednesday, and support vehicles.” try’s economy as it sinks into recession. Khan pregnant pedestrian in three separate The pregnant woman was identified as Xi Jinping to congratulate him on that said the drills violated inter-Korean agree- In a separate dispatch, KCNA said Kim said the easing of restrictions, aimed at help- incidents just hours apart. Ashlynn Lisby, 23. Her fetus also did country’s success in controlling the ments aimed at reducing military tensions. sent a verbal message to the Chinese presi- ing the country’s most impoverished citizens, Officials said both men exchanged not survive. coronavirus, state media reported on “Everything is now going back to the dent about the coronavirus, KCNA said. would be lifted in phases and warned people gunfire with officers, adding that the Protests began after video of the events that the epidemic could get out of control if Friday. starting point before the north-south sum- “Kim Jong Un in his message extended second shooting early Thursday morn- leading up to Reed’s shooting appeared they did not take precautions. He added that A North Korean military representative mit meeting in 2018,” the statement said. his warm greetings to Xi Jinping and con- ing could have been an ambush on po- on Facebook. The video, which appears restrictions could be restored if the outbreak said on Friday that recent South Korean On Sunday, South Korea said North Ko- gratulated him, highly appreciating that he lice. Police did not have body camera or to have been recorded by Reed, shows worsens. military drills were a grave provocation rean troops fired multiple shots toward a is seizing a chance of victory in the war dash camera footage of either shooting. him being pursued by police both in his that demanded a reaction, according to a South Korean guard post at the Demili- against the unprecedented epidemic,” said *** Both of the men were black, as were car and on foot before incoherent shout- statement carried by Korean Central News tarized Zone (DMZ), which separates KCNA. RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) -- Brazilian most of the protesters. ing and popping sounds are heard. Later Agency (KCNA). the two countries. South Korean troops Kim wished Xi good health and the President Jair Bolsonaro authorized the The pregnant woman, who was white, came the detective’s comment, which “The recent drill served as an oppor- responded by firing warning shots, but no KCNA report said the relations between army Thursday to fight Amazon wildfires was walking along an expressway ramp also was broadcast live on social media. tunity which awakened us once again to casualties were reported. Pyongyang and Beijing were “firmly con- and deforestation, amid warnings the world’s when an officer driving to work struck Reed’s father, Jamie Reed, said he had biggest rainforest is disappearing even faster the obvious fact that the enemies remain U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo solidated. her with his vehicle. seen the video and was “crushed” by its than during record devastation last year. Events surrounding the first shooting contents. The far-right leader has faced criticism on were livestreamed on Facebook, includ- “It just shows me that we’re not really the world stage for record-breaking wildfires ing comments by a responding detective being protected and served. We’re be- in 2019, his first year in office. And though UN Chief: Virus ‘Continues to fire season will only start in late May with who is heard saying: “I think it’s going ing hunted,” he told reporters at Thurs- dryer weather, there are already worrying to be a closed casket, homie,” an appar- day’s protest. “My son was a great son. I signs for this year. Deforestation in the Bra- Unleash Tsunami of Hate’ ent reference to a closed-casket funeral. love him to death. He was just a typical zilian Amazon for the first three months of Protesters converged on the first young adult like anybody else. He didn’t the year increased by more than 50 percent do much more to flag and... remove shooting scene Wednesday night, and deserve to die like that.” from the same period last year, to 796 square racist, misogynist and other harmful dozens more gathered Thursday at the Relatives said Reed, whose nickname kilometers. Bolsonaro signed a decree autho- content.” City County Building in downtown was “Sean,” had recently left the U.S. rizing the armed forces to take “preventive Black Brazilians are exposed to great- Indianapolis. Many wore face masks Air Force. Military records show he and restrictive action against environmen- er risk than whites and are dying at a aimed at reducing the spread of the served less than a year, in 2017. Details tal crimes, namely illegal deforestation and wildfires.” The order will be in effect from higher rate. coronavirus and at times shouted, “No of separations cannot be released under May 11 to June 10 in protected areas, indig- More than half Brazil’s population of justice, no peace.” Several carried Black privacy rules. enous reserves and other federal land in the 210 million people is black, but they Amazon region. face deeply entrenched inequalities that are on full display during the pandemic. *** As in the United States, where black WHO: Coronavirus Likely NEW DELHI (Reuters) -- An Indian train people are also bearing the brunt of ran over migrant workers sleeping on the COVID-19, there are a range of under- track on Friday, killing at least 14 of the lying reasons that Afro-Brazilians are to Kill 190,000 in Africa group, who were apparently on their way to their home villages, the railway ministry and being disproportionately affected. media said. Tens of thousands of people have The death rate from the virus for been walking home from India’s big cities af- blacks in the state is 15.6 per 100,000. ter losing their jobs because of a lockdown to Residents gather to protest against racism in the Chinese community For whites, it is 9.6 per 100,000. contain the spread of the novel coronavirus during a rally held at Portsmouth Square in the Chinatown neighbor- Brazil’s indigenous people are also since late March. The driver tried to stop the hood of San Francisco, Feb. 29, 2020. facing a health crisis, as Bolsonaro has freight train when he saw the laborers on the not included their communities, living tracks in the western state of Maharashtra, the UNITED NATIONS (Dispatches) cess to medical treatment.” in remote areas, in his national plans to railway ministry said, adding it had ordered -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Meanwhile, “contemptible memes fight the coronavirus outbreak.