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Donald Trump raged against Twitter \u2013 on Twitter \u2013 on Tuesday, after the social media platform marked the president\u2019s misleading <\/a>posts with its new \u201cget the facts\u201d label<\/a> for the first time since introducing the feature this month. Trump had made false statements about the threat of voter fraud posed by the expansion of mail-in voting in California.<\/p>\n

Twitter, which has long faced criticism for failing to censor the head of state\u2019s most egregious statements, added the new labels after deciding Trump\u2019s tweets violated its new \u201ccivic integrity policy\u201d, which bars users from \u201cmanipulating or interfering in elections\u201d. Trump then repeated his false claims in a further series of tweets, accusing Twitter of \u201cinterfering in the 2020 Presidential Election\u201d and \u201ccompletely stifling FREE SPEECH\u201d.<\/p>\n

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  A widower asked Twitter to delete Trump\u2019s \u2018horrifying\u2019 smears about his late wife. <\/strong>But the firm has said it will not take down the tweets, in which the president alludes to debunked claims that Joe Scarborough was involved<\/a> in the 2001 death of Scarborough\u2019s then congressional aide, Lori Klausutis.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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  Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly ducked questions about the controversy <\/strong>at a White House briefing on Tuesday. The president\u2019s new press secretary is no different from her predecessors<\/a>, writes David Smith:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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  McEnany has stunned viewers with her evangelical devotion to the US president, her straight-faced defence of his wildest conspiracy theories and her already-wearing-thin stunt of trying to turn the tables on reporters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

  The Americas are the new epicentre of the pandemic<\/h2>\n

  Latin America has surpassed the US and Europe as the continent with the highest daily coronavirus infection rate, which, according to Carissa Etienne, the World Health Organization\u2019s director for the Americas, makes the region the latest \u201cepicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>\u201d<\/a>. A study by the University of Washington predicts the death toll in Brazil could reach 125,000 by early August, while WHO officials have also expressed concern about accelerating outbreaks in Peru, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n

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    Venezuela\u2019s official count of just 10 deaths is \u2018not credible\u2019<\/strong>, say activists from Human Rights Watch, calling the statistics released by the Maduro regime<\/a> \u201cabsolutely absurd\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    In Brazil, <\/strong>157 nurses <\/strong>have died as a result of Covid-19<\/strong>, more than any other country including the US<\/a>, where at least 146 nurses are known to have died.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    A cardboard hospital bed that doubles as a coffin<\/strong> could come into use in Colombia, after a team of designers came up with the morbidly pragmatic solution to potential shortages<\/a> of hospital beds and funerary caskets.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Protests followed a police killing in Minneapolis<\/h2>\n