
By BY MICHELLE GOLDBERG from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2QNebcp


The federal Bureau of Prisons will begin allowing inmates to have visitors again in October, almost seven months after visits were suspended at the 122 federal prisons across the U.S., according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.
Argentina said Monday that private creditors have massively accepted an offer to restructure $65 billion in debt, allowing it to avoid another default and messy legal battle in international courts.
An American consultant pleaded guilty Monday in an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibilliondollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, and to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the U.S.





Global coronavirus infections soared past 25 million, as countries tightened restrictions to halt the health crisis that has upended life for most of humanity.
French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian condemned on Sunday what he called "arbitrary measures" taken by the Belarusian authorities against journalists, saying they violate press freedom.
Jordan reported 73 new cases of COVID19 on Sunday, its highest daily tally since the start of the outbreak, the health ministry said.
Lebanon's ambassador to Germany Mustapha Adib is poised to be designated prime minister on Monday after winning the support of major parties to form a new government facing a crippling financial crisis and the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion.
The Saudiled coalition fighting in Yemen intercepted and destroyed an explosiveladen drone at Saudi Arabia's Abha international airport and a remotely controlled explosiveladen boat in the south of the Red Sea both launched by Iranaligned Houthis on Sunday, Saudi state news agency (SPA) reported.
U.S. President Donald Trump's intelligence chief on Sunday defended his decision to cease inperson Congressional briefings on election security, while Democrats said the move would suppress critical information about foreign election meddling and warned they may subpoena testimony.
Police broke up an overnight illegal rave in a forest in eastern England on Sunday, days after the British government introduced tougher measures to target "serious breaches" of COVID19 restrictions, including 10,000pound ($13,000) fines.
Two Katyusha rockets fell near Baghdad airport on Sunday but caused no casualties, the Iraqi military said, the third such attack on sensitive sites in the capital this week.
The number of deaths caused by the novel coronavirus rose by 1,006 to 182,149 people, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Sunday, reporting a total of 5,934,824 cases, an increase of 44,292 from its previous count.




Mexicos Navy said Sunday it has named the first woman to command a coast guard cutter, the largest command yet for a female in the Mexican service.

The case is proceeding amid renewed fury over police violence against African Americans, galvanized by the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin this week.
Brazil will officially announce on Tuesday the extension of an aid payment program designed to help people weather the economic damage of the novel coronavirus pandemic, a government official said on Saturday.
For Ricardo Moraes, a veteran photographer who for 11 years has documented for Reuters life in Rio de Janeiro's often dangerous cinderblock slums known as "favelas", work began at about 6 a.m. on Thursday, when he heard a radio report of a hostage situation in Sao Carlos, a sprawling tangle of hillside homes near the city center.
Montenegrins go to the polls on Sunday in a parliamentary election that looks too close to call, with neither the longruling proWestern party nor a rival proRussian alliance tipped to win a majority of seats.GM Diptayan Ghosh caused the biggest upset of the World Chess Cup by ousting former world championship challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russ...