Stories for June 2020

Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:57 UTC
US investigating digital services taxes by several countries, which “unfairly target our companies”

The United States is investigating digital services taxes being adopted or considered by Britain, Italy, Brazil, and other countries, the US Trade Representative's office said on Tuesday, a move that could lead to new punitive tariffs and heighten trade tensions.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 09:02 UTC
“I can't breathe” chant favela residents in Rio protesting crimes committed by police against black people

Hundreds of demonstrators converged on the square in front of the Rio de Janeiro state government palace Sunday, protesting crimes committed by the police against black people in the Brazilian city’s poor neighborhoods, known as favelas.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 09:00 UTC
Brazilian economy forecasted to contract 6,25% and rebound 3,5% in 2021

Brazil's financial analysts downgraded their economic growth forecast for 2020 from -5.89% to -6.25%, marking the 16th downward adjustment in a row, the Central Bank of Brazil said on Monday.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:57 UTC
Helped by a weaker currency, record export of Brazilian soybean to China

Brazil's May soybean exports jumped 45% on the year to reach 15.5 million tons, the second-highest monthly soy shipment ever, the latest foreign trade department data released on June first showed, with a hefty 74% of this volume bound for China.