Factory orders in Germany plunged even more than anticipated in April, underlining the effect the coronavirus pandemic has had on Europe’s largest economy.

A Thai dissident has been abducted in Cambodia, a human rights group said Friday, raising concern that a mysterious campaign targeting exiles for disappearance or death may have been revived.

The latest night of protests in New York City sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police was markedly calmer, while video of a police officer appearing to shove an elderly protester who falls and cracks his head in Buffalo drew widespread condemnation.

Australia’s national news agency will continue with new owners, the board confirmed Friday, just weeks before it was due to be shut down. But the agency will be slimmed down, with only about half the former number of staff.

When black men died at the hands of U.S. police in recent years, the news made international headlines. The name of George Floyd has reached the world?s streets.

At least the dead will always be there.

Shares advanced in Asia on Friday, with Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 closing at its highest level since late February.

Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak was victimized by rogue bankers and should be acquitted of corruption linked to the massive looting of a state investment fund, his lawyers said Friday at the close of his first corruption trial over the scandal.

Factories and stores are reopening, economies are reawakening ? but many jobs just aren?t coming back.

The head of Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency has been convicted over publishing an article that quotes a former ambassador criticizing Tehran’s ?arbitrary? intelligence operations in Europe, a journalism watchdog group said Friday.