Stories for June 2020

Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:51 UTC
Boeing confirms elimination of 12,000 US jobs, and more in “coming months”

Boeing confirmed it was eliminating more than 12,000 US jobs, including 6,770 involuntary layoffs, as the largest US planemaker restructures in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Boeing also disclosed it plans “several thousand remaining layoffs” in the coming months but did not say where those would take place.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Argentina extends debt negotiations deadline to 12 June: “adjustment margin remains thin”

Argentina extended the deadline to negotiate with its creditors to June 12 and may sweeten its most recent restructuring offer, the country said on Monday, after a previous proposal was deemed insufficient by some investors.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:40 UTC
Trump threatens to deploy thousands of “heavily armed” soldiers

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he was deploying thousands of “heavily armed” soldiers and police to prevent further protests in Washington, where buildings and monuments have been vandalized near the White House.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:30 UTC
WHO experts deny Covid-19 was losing potency, as asserted by Italian epidemiologist

Two World Health Organization experts and a range of other scientists said on Monday there was no evidence to support an assertion by a high profile Italian doctor that the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic has been losing potency.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:22 UTC
IATA announces new health recommendations for air travel

Mask wearing, temperature controls, disinfection of aircraft - the International Civil Aviation Organization on Monday published a series of health recommendations for a pandemic-hit airline industry as it re-launches air travel.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:08 UTC
Facebook staff criticize Zuckerberg for leaving Trump’s most inflammatory verbiage unchallenged

Facebook employees walked away from their work-from-home desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing U.S. President Donald Trump’s posts as strictly as the rival platform has done.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:03 UTC
Mexican workers return to work at the automotive factories

Tens of thousands of workers lined up before dawn to return to work at automotive factories along Mexico's northern border on Monday, the first day that industries joined the country's list of essential activities beginning to reopen.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 07:58 UTC
Storm in Central America leaves at least 18 dead, and hundreds homeless

Emergency workers were searching for seven people still missing Monday as El Salvador and its Central American neighbors picked through the destruction after the first-named Pacific storm of the year left at least 18 people dead.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 07:44 UTC
Independent autopsy contradicts official document: George Floyd died from asphyxiation

Two doctors who carried out an independent autopsy of George Floyd, the black man whose death in Minneapolis police custody last week triggered nationwide protests, said on Monday that he died from asphyxiation and that his death was a homicide.
Monday, June 1st 2020 - 09:27 UTC
Three Uruguayan marines shot dead; unanimous condemnation from public opinion and political system

The killing of three young Uruguayan marines, with shots in their heads in a non-strategic outpost next to the Montevideo fortress which overlooks the port and city, has shocked public opinion and triggered pledges from government authorities that the culprits will be brought to justice and face trial.