MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 3rd 2020
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Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:54 UTC
Google faces US$ 5bn class action for illegally and pervasively invading privacy of millions of users
Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the Internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their Internet use through browsers set in “private mode.”
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Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:40 UTC
Thousands demonstrate before the US Capitol yelling “silence is violence”
Thousands of demonstrators took to a knee in the grass outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, chanting “silence is violence” and “no justice, no peace,” just before a government-imposed curfew as rallies against police brutality swelled in major cities.
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Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC
New York upmarket retailers' shops in central Manhattan raided by looters
New York was under a curfew that would last until early Tuesday morning, officials said, after looters raided stores in central Manhattan, targeting some of the city's top retailers.
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Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:30 UTC
Austria is turning Hitler's house into a police station, hoping to neutralize neo Nazi attraction
Austria presented an architectural plan on Tuesday to turn the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station in the hope of “neutralizing” the space and ensuring it does not attract neo-Nazis.
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Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:05 UTC
WHO's Americas branch PAHO calls on US to keep countries in the region combat the pandemic
The World Health Organization's (WHO's) regional director for the Americas urged the United States on Tuesday to keep helping countries in the region to fight the novel coronavirus even as the Trump administration leaves the UN agency.
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Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:00 UTC
Virus death toll in UK reaches 48,000, according to National Statistics Office
The number of suspected and confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Britain has risen to 48,000, official data showed on Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures tallied all fatalities in which COVID-19 was suspected or mentioned on death certificates up to May 22.
