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Abdelkader Rahmoun hasn't slept in days. The 44-year-old Syrian and his family are among thousands of recognised refugees about to lose the temporary homes they were given under Greece's asylum seeker housing scheme. As quoted by AFP.com as of Monday(June1), authorities will start moving more than 11,200 people out of flats, hotels and camps on the mainland, to make room for other asylum seekers currently living in dismal island camps. Rahmoun's family has been given until the end of June to vacate his small EU-funded flat in the port of Piraeus. But he has little confidence that later they will find alternative accommodation//AFP

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Police fired tear gas outside the White House late Sunday as anti-racism protestors again took to the streets to voice fury at police brutality, and major US cities were put under curfew to suppress rioting. As quoted by AFP.com (June1) with the Trump administration branding instigators of six nights of rioting as domestic terrorists, there were more confrontations between protestors and police and fresh outbreaks of looting. Violent clashes erupted repeatedly in a small park next to the White House, with authorities using tear gas, pepper spray and flash bang grenades to disperse crowds who lit several large fires and damaged property. Local US leaders appealed to citizens to give constructive outlet to their rage over the death of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, while night-time curfews were imposed in cities including Washington, Los Angeles and Houston//AFP

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Formula One's truncated coronavirus-hit season, will finally get underway with the Austrian Grand Prix on July 5, the Austrian government announced on Saturday. The Spielberg circuit has also been given the green light to stage a second race the following weekend. Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober announced that the two Formula One races on July 5 and 12 at Spielberg will be staged without spectators. He said that the two races had been approved after F1 organisers had presented a complete and professional plan, to combat the spread of COVID-19. The F1 season was thrown into chaos, with the cancellation of the traditional curtain-raising Australian Grand Prix in March, only hours before practice was due to begin. Melbourne was one of 10 races either cancelled or postponed, yet F1 boss Chase Carey believes a 15-18 race season is still possible. The 2020 F1 season was to have featured a record 22 races, now it is set to be one of the shortest campaigns for over a decade//AFP

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SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans toward orbit from Florida on Saturday, in a mission that marks the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 p.m. EDT or 1922 GMT, launching Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, on a 19-hour ride aboard the company’s newly designed Crew Dragon capsule bound for the International Space Station. Crew Dragon separated from its second stage booster at 3:35 and minutes later entered orbit. The craft launched from the same pad used by NASA’s final space shuttle flight, piloted by Hurley, in 2011. Since then, NASA astronauts have had to hitch rides into orbit aboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft//Reuters