Black Lives Matter demonstrators in England have taken down a more than 100-year-old statue commemorating a slave trader. The memorial honoring merchant slave trader Edward Colston was destroyed by the crowd in Bristol while protesting the murder of George Floyd. They used ropes to remove the bronze statue of Edward Colton from its base. Protesters then dragged it to the River Avon and threw it in the water, where it quickly sank. The statue had been a fixture in …
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A 100-year-old Indonesian woman has recovered from COVID-19, making her the country’s oldest survivor of the deadly disease. The woman, Kamtim was discharged from the hospital this week after a month of treatment in her hometown Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-biggest city, officials said. Ms. Kamtim was taken to hospital last month after showing Coronavirus symptoms before it was confirmed she had it, according to The Hindu. Siti Aminah, the woman’s daughter-in-law, credited her recovery to “discipline and …