Good evening. Tonight we open with a story out of Bangladesh where the country's high court has ruled that Muslim brides will no longer be required to declare that they are virgins on their marriage certificates.
>Muslim brides in Bangladesh will no longer have to declare whether they are virgins on marriage certificates, the country's high court has ruled. >Activists hailed Sunday's decision as a landmark ruling and an important step towards more gender equality. >Under Bangladesh's Muslim marriage and divorce laws, a bride has to select from one of three options on the certificate: kumari (which means virgin), widow or divorced. Grooms are not required to declare their marital status. >Rights groups, three of which filed the petition against the term in 2014, have long described the term as discriminatory and a breach of privacy for women getting married. >That changed Sunday when the high court ordered the word 'kumari' be replaced with 'unmarried.' The other two options on the form remain unchanged. >The court also said that grooms will now have to disclose their marital status, Aynun Nahar Siddiqua, one of the lawyers representing the case's petitioners, told CNN. >"The judge agreed that it is a violation of women's privacy and fundamental rights," Siddiqua said about the term, which has been used on marriage certificates since 1961.
In Hong Kong protests continue as Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam denies that she has lost control.
>Hong Kong’s embattled leader, Carrie Lam, has condemned renewed violent protests that erupted over the weekend but insisted that she would not give in to activists’ political demands. >As the former British colony’s biggest political crisis since the handover to China continued into its 12th week, Lam denied on Tuesday that she had lost control of the situation and vowed to tackle the unrest and restore law and order. >“Unfortunately the calm vanished in the past weekend. The protests are becoming more and more violent,” Lam told reporters before a cabinet meeting. “I stress that violence is not the way to resolve problems and shouldn’t be justified and glorified.” >The weekend protests, which followed a few days of relative calm, saw police use water cannon for the first time on Sunday along with teargas and beatings as they fought running battles with protesters, who threw bricks and petrol bombs. Six officers drew their pistols and one officer fired a warning shot into the air during a heated confrontation after the protest. >Police said they detained 86 people over the weekend, including a 12-year-old child, for offences including unlawful assembly, possession of offensive weapons and assaulting police officers.
And in Africa for the first time in nearly 20 years Uganda Airlines is taking flight once again.
>Uganda Airlines made an inaugural flight to neighboring Kenya on Tuesday, reviving a national carrier founded by former dictator Idi Amin and liquidated almost two decades ago. >The carrier, initially founded in 1976 and wound up in 2001, plans commercial flights to major cities in Kenya, Tanzania, South Sudan and Somalia, Cornwell Muleya, a technical adviser at the carrier, said by phone from the Ugandan capital, Kampala. >The nation took delivery of two of four Bombardier jets in April and expects the others later this year. The first of two long-haul Airbus jets will arrive in December 2020 and the second in the following month, according to the airline.
>Someone Has Killed More Than 40 Wild Burros in a California Desert. There's a $10,000 Reward for the Gunman >Since May, 42 burro carcasses have been found with gunshot wounds along Interstate 15 in California’s Mojave Desert, according to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). >A burro is simply a wild donkey. They are considered to be an enduring symbol of the American Southwest, according to the Associated Press. >The animal is also protected under federal law by the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. >Anyone found guilty of harassing, branding or killing one can face a fine of up to $2,000 and a year in jail. >BLM is leading an investigation into the killings, along with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, California Highway Patrol and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife >“Wild horses and burros are an iconic part of the American West, and part of our national heritage. We will pursue every lead until we’ve arrested and prosecuted those responsible for these cruel, savage deaths, and we welcome the public’s help to bring the perpetrator or perpetrators to justice,” William Perry Pendley, the BLM’s Deputy Director for Policy and Programs said in a statement.
And we close tonight with this story of the Russian humanoid robot Fedor boarding the ISS.
>It was second time lucky on Tuesday as an unmanned spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot docked at the International Space Station following a failed attempt over the weekend. >"Sorry for the delay. Got stuck in traffic. Am ready to carry on with work," the robot's Twitter account said in a jokey first tweet from space. >Copying human movements and designed to help with high-risk tasks, the lifesize robot, Fedor, is due to stay on the ISS until September 7. >Speaking to Russian cosmonauts on the ISS via a video link-up, President Vladimir Putin lavished praise on them for the way they handled the glitch. >The problems with docking were "in some way abnormal", he said, adding that "as usual for our cosmonauts, you dealt with this work magnificently". >The robot sat in the commander's seat of an unmanned Soyuz spaceship that blasted off Thursday from a Russian spaceport in southern Kazakhstan. >"Let's go. Let's go," the robot was heard saying during the launch, repeating the phrase used by the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin. >Soyuz capsules are normally manned on such trips, but this time no humans were travelling in order to test a new emergency rescue system. >The ship was carrying scientific and medical equipment and components for the space station's life-support system, as well as food, medicines and personal hygiene products for crew members, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said. >After the successful docking at the second attempt, a NASA TV commentator praised the vessel's "flawless approach to the ISS". >"Second time was a charm... the crew is up to seven," he said, referring to the six astronauts aboard the space station. >Putin told the crew he hoped Fedor "will give you the help you need and support in your interesting work that is needed by all of us".
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Brazil Angrily Rejects Millions in Amazon Aid Pledged at G7 >RIO DE JANEIRO — Hours after leaders of some of the world’s wealthiest countries pledged more than $22 million to help combat fires in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil’s government angrily rejected the offer, in effect telling the other nations to mind their own business — only to later lay out potential terms for the aid’s acceptance. >President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil expressed his ire in a series of Twitter posts on Monday, extending his verbal feud with President Emmanuel Macron of France, who had announced the aid package at the Group of 7 summit meeting. >But early the next day, Mr. Bolsonaro offered possible terms for its acceptance. If Mr. Macron withdrew what he called personal insults and insinuations that Brazil does not have sovereignty over the Amazon, he said, he would reconsider. >“He will have to withdraw his words, and then we can talk,” Mr. Bolsonaro said.
