Cyclone Nisarga brought heavy rainfall and winds up to 75 mph as it made landfall near the western coastal city of Alibag, India, on Wednesday. The storm ripped up beachside shanties and brought with it high winds 60 miles inland in the country’s financial hub, Mumbai, which is home to more than 18 million people. Authorities reported no deaths or injuries. The cyclone is the strongest to hit Mumbai since 1948.

Britain may welcome nearly 3 million Hong Kong citizens if China imposes its new security law. Close to 350,000 Hong Kong residents hold a British National Overseas passport, and another 2.5 million are eligible to apply.

The 2020 Republican National Convention will no longer take place in Charlotte, N.C., after the state’s governor failed to guarantee a full-capacity venue, President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday. The convention, which was set to take place at the Spectrum Center from Aug. 24 to 27, typically attracts about 2,500 delegates, along with guests, journalists, and alternate delegates.

Protesters in U.S. cities defied curfews again on Tuesday night, but most of the gatherings remained calm. After 7 p.m. EDT in Washington, D.C., demonstrators marched peacefully and booed at one person who took down a street sign from a lamp post. Pastors at St. John’s Church prayed with the protesters and handed out water bottles. Nearly an hour after the 10 p.m. EDT curfew in Orlando, Fla., police still deployed tear gas and smoke to clear out “a few remaining participants” who threw rocks and bottles at them.

The World Health Organization publicly praised China in January for its response to the coronavirus outbreak despite growing frustration behind the scenes. Recordings from the agency’s internal meetings released on Tuesday showed Chinese government labs only shared the genome of the virus after another lab published the details on Jan. 11.

Police used tear gas, flash-bang grenades, and low-flying military helicopters to clear out protesters who defied curfews across U.S. cities on Monday night. In the Chicago suburb of Cicero, at least two people died during the protests, the town spokesman Ray Hanania confirmed. Authorities have arrested at least 5,600 people nationwide since the unrest began over the death of African American George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis police custody on May 25.

More train services resumed and businesses reopened in India on Monday. Some areas began allowing interstate travel, and film production restarted in the coastal state of Maharashtra. The country is easing restrictions despite ranking seventh in the world in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases. Johns Hopkins reports that India has nearly 193,500 infections and more than 5,400 deaths and 93,300 recoveries as of Monday morning.