June 26 (GMT) – June 27 (AEST), 2020 YOUR DAILY TOP 12 STORIES FROM FRANK NEWS FULL STORIES START ON PAGE 3 USA UK AUSTRALIA Trump, Biden campaign in earnest Beachgoers on notice over virus Toilet paper hoarding ‘ridiculous’ A presidential campaign that has largely Health Secretary Matt Hancock has Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been frozen for several months because warned the government will take action branded a resurgence in panic buying of the coronavirus took on a degree of if social distancing measures are ignored ridiculous, after major supermarkets normalcy when President Donald Trump as thousands flocked to the south coast were forced to reinstate limits on toilet and Democratic challenger Joe Biden on the hottest day of the year. Hancock paper purchases. Coles and Woolworths swung through critical battleground said the government had the power reinstated purchase limits on toilet paper states presenting starkly different visions to close public areas such as beaches and other essential items in Victoria this for a post-pandemic America. Touring a if people flouted safety restrictions. week after a sudden surge in coronavirus shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, Trump Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole cases sparked hoarding. From Friday, insisted the economy is “coming back at a council declared a major incident after shoppers in other parts of the country level nobody ever imagined possible.” services were “completely overstretched” similarly will be allowed to buy only two by huge numbers of visitors. packs of toilet paper and paper towels USA UK AUSTRALIA City votes on abolishing police MP sacked over anti-Semitism MP probed on China links The Minneapolis City Council is set to Rebecca Long-Bailey has been sacked A little-known NSW Labor MP has been vote on a proposal to change the city from the Labour shadow cabinet after suspended from the party after his charter to allow elimination of the city’s sharing an article containing an allegedly Sydney home was raided by federal police department, a radical move anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Party police and ASIO amid allegations of supported by a majority of the council leader Sir Keir Starmer took action after foreign interference with links to China. after George Floyd’s death. The vote Long-Bailey tweeted a link to an interview Shaoquett Moselmane has recently is one step in a process that faces with the actress Maxine Peake in which spoken and written articles in support significant bureaucratic obstacles to she claimed police linked to the death of of China’s Communist leader Xi Jinping make the November ballot, where the George Floyd in the US had learned their but kept a low profile following the city’s voters would have the final say. tactics from the Israeli secret services. raid. Prime Minister Scott Morrison Jewish groups praised Sir Keir for his swift described the developments in Sydney as action. “extremely serious”. 1 June 26 (GMT) – June 27 (AEST), 2020 YOUR DAILY TOP 12 STORIES FROM FRANK NEWS FULL STORIES START ON PAGE 6 REST OF THE WORLD EUROPE NEW ZEALAND Pentagon reassures NATO Portugal scrambles as cases spike ‘Big twister’ touches down US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has At the Bairro do Zambujal housing Mangawhai residents have witnessed sought to reassure allies at NATO that project on the outskirts of Lisbon, the birds and roofs being pulled into the Washington will consult them on any behaviour of residents offers clues to vortex as a tornado touched down at future troop movements, after President why this part of Portugal has become the coastal town north of Auckland. The Donald Trump surprised partners at a hot spot for new Covid-19 cases and freak weather event was believed to have the military alliance by announcing the how government efforts to stamp out the occurred not long after 4pm, and lasted withdrawal of thousands of personnel new coronavirus are being frustrated. A only a few minutes. Resident Pamela from Germany. Esper paid an in- lot of people in the project that houses Gervai said it was “like a big twister” that person visit to NATO headquarters in about 6000 people disregard the touched down several times and then Brussels after several allied defence recommendation from authorities to dissipated. “Along with that, we had a lot ministers expressed concern about the wear masks. of wild wind, thunder, lightning flashes unpredictability of US troop plans. and just a dramatic downpour of rain.” REST OF THE WORLD EUROPE NEW ZEALAND Africa urges ‘people’s vaccine’ Tensions rise at virus hotspot National still says not to NZ First Governments around the world should The governor of a southern Italian region National Party leader Todd Muller says “remove all obstacles” to swift and has insisted that Bulgarian farm workers his caucus’ position remains that it equitable distribution of any successful who live in an apartment complex with cannot work with New Zealand First. Covid-19 vaccine, including by making all dozens of Covid-19 cases must stay Last night’s latest 1 News Colmar Brunton intellectual property and technologies inside for 15 days, not even emerging for political poll had support for National up immediately available, African countries food. Wearing a mask to discourage virus nine percentage points to 38 per cent, have said. The call from the African spread, Campania Governor Vincenzo De while Labour fell to 50 per cent. Muller Union was Africa’s most assertive one yet Luca said that the national civil protection said: “My position has always been that for a “people’s vaccine” made available agency should deliver groceries to our caucus in February said that we can’t to everyone, even as rich countries the estimated 700 occupants of the see a way that we would work with them. like the United States make deals with apartments in Mondragone, a seaside But …my final pronunciation on all of this manufacturers for potential supplies. town about 50km northwest of Naples. will be before the campaign starts.” 2 June 26 (GMT) – June 27 (AEST), 2020 US President Donald Trump. – AP Terrence Floyd, second from right, is comforted as he sits at the spot where his brother George Floyd encountered police and died while in their custody. – AP USA USA Trump, Biden campaign Minneapolis votes on in earnest abolishing police A presidential campaign that has largely been frozen for The Minneapolis City Council is set to vote on a proposal several months because of the coronavirus took on a to change the city charter to allow elimination of the degree of normalcy when President Donald Trump and city’s police department, a radical move supported by a Democratic challenger Joe Biden swung through critical majority of the council after George Floyd’s death. battleground states presenting starkly different visions for a post-pandemic America. The vote is one step in a process that faces significant bureaucratic obstacles to make the November ballot, where Touring a shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, Trump insisted the city’s voters would have the final say. And it comes amid a the economy is “coming back at a level nobody ever imagined spate of recent shootings in Minnesota’s largest city that have possible.” But in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Biden warned that heightened many citizens’ concerns about talk of dismantling “no miracles are coming” and slammed Trump’s handling of the the department. virus. The Minneapolis force has come under heavy pressure “Amazingly, he hasn’t grasped the most basic fact of this since Floyd, a black man in handcuffs, died May 25 after a crisis: To fix the economy we have to get control over the virus,” police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly Biden said. eight minutes. Activists had long accused the department of With just over four months remaining until the election, being unable to change a racist and brutal culture, and earlier the contrasting styles of Trump and Biden are increasingly on this month, a majority of the council proclaimed support for display. The president is itching to move past an outbreak that dismantling the department. has dashed the economy and killed more than 120,000 people. Doing so would first require amending the city charter. Draft Biden, meanwhile, is seeking to present himself as a language of the amendment would replace the department competent and calming leader ready to level with the nation with a Department of Community Safety and Violence about the hardships that may be required to emerge from the Prevention, “which will have responsibility for public safety current turmoil. services prioritizing a holistic, public health-oriented approach.” Beyond knocking Trump’s leadership, Biden spent much of The amendment goes on to say the director of the new the day defending the Obama administration’s signature health agency would have “non-law-enforcement experience in care law and decrying what he said was a White House-led community safety services, including but not limited to public effort to dismantle it via a court challenge. health and/or restorative justice approaches.” It also provides It was part of a larger Democratic effort to refocus the 2020 for a division of licensed peace officers, who would answer to election on healthcare, an issue that helped the party retake the department’s director. the House last cycle and one it hopes will resonate with even Council members who support the change are looking more voters amid the pandemic. to seize on a groundswell of support for significant policing Narrow 2016 victories in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were changes following Floyd’s death. If they don’t get the charter vital in sending Trump to the White House. That he would build change on the November ballot, their next chance won’t come his travel around trying to do that again – and that Biden would until November 2021, they say.