Racial incidents in NYC and Minneapolis dominate US front pages

IN THE PAPERS – Wednesday, May 27: We look at doubts around the efficiency of hydroxycholoroquine in treating coronavirus, which is the focus of French daily Libération. Also, a development in a longstanding case for extradition between Israel and Australia involving a woman accused of 74 counts of child sex abuse while headmistress at a religious school in Melbourne. There’s lots of focus on race in the New York Daily News after a viral video of a white woman calling the police on a black man in Central Park on Monday. Finally, Twitter has moved to fact-check the US president.

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France is a republic and the largest Western European nation. Through expansion and colonisation in the 17th and 18th centuries France became a great power and still retains territories around the world. It has a seat on the UN security council and is the world’s fourth most wealthy country with a high standard of living and strong cultural identity.

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