World rallies against George Floyd’s death Demonstrators hold signs during a Black Lives Matter protest in Parliament Square in London, Britain, on Saturday. Outraged protesters from Sydney to London on Saturday kicked off a weekend of global rallies against racism and police brutality following the death at police hands of George Floyd. SD-Agencies Samsung heir Jay Y. Lee appears in court Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee on Monday arrived at a South Korean court, which will rule whether he will be sent back to jail after more than two years of freedom, as new allegations dog the executive and cast a pall over the country’s top conglomerate. Prosecutors asked the court to issue an arrest warrant against Lee, culminating a probe into accounting fraud and a controversial 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates that they said helped facilitate Lee’s plan to assume greater control of the group. Lee, 51, wearing a face mask and a dark suit, did not answer questions from reporters before entering the court. India overtakes Italy in COVID-19 cases India has recorded close to 10,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking its total above that of Italy. The country now has the sixth-highest number of confirmed cases in the world, 236,657. There have been 6,649 deaths. The health system in Mumbai is on the verge of collapse while hospitals in the capital, Delhi, are reportedly running out of space. Meanwhile, shopping centers, places of worship, restaurants and offices will be allowed to reopen from Monday. Brazil takes down COVID-19 data Brazil’s government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics call an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease in Latin America’s largest nation. The Saturday move came after months of criticism from experts saying Brazil’s statistics are woefully deficient, and in some cases manipulated, so it may never be possible to gain a real understanding of the depth of the pandemic in the country. Brazil’s last official numbers showed it had recorded over 34,000 deaths related to the coronavirus, the third-highest number in the world, just ahead of Italy. It reported nearly 615,000 infections, putting it at the second-highest, behind the United States. EU wants borders free of restrictions by end of June Europe could have its free travel zone up and running again by the end of this month, but travelers from further afield will not be allowed in before July, a European Union commissioner said on Friday after talks among the bloc’s interior ministers. Panicked by Italy’s coronavirus outbreak in February, countries in the 26-nation Schengen travel zone imposed border restrictions without consulting their neighbors to try to keep the disease out. New Zealand clears its last COVID-19 case New Zealand has no active COVID-19 cases after the country’s final patient was given the all clear and released from isolation, health authorities said on Monday. The milestone was “really good news” and an achievement the whole of New Zealand could take heart from, health department director-general Ashley Bloomfield said. New Zealand has won praise for its handling of the pandemic, which involved a strict seven-week lockdown that ended last month after the virus was contained. The South Pacific nation, with a population of five million, has had 1,154 confirmed cases and 22 deaths. (SD-Agencies) | 