Stories for July 2020

Tuesday, July 7th 2020 - 09:10 UTC
Dairy prices in June increased 4%, but beef is down because of larger export volumes

In June, global food commodity prices rose for the first time since the beginning of the year driven by a rebound in vegetable oils, sugar and dairy quotations. However, in the cereals and meat markets, most prices remained under downward pressure amid market uncertainties posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monday, July 6th 2020 - 09:40 UTC
Argentine journalists reject a new impulse of Cristina Kirchner's harassing habits

Three hundred Argentine journalists have made public a document rejecting claims from Vice-president Cristina Fernandez that several media professionals have colluded in an illicit association to spy on her.
Monday, July 6th 2020 - 09:35 UTC
Argentina unveils its “final effort”, with sweeteners, to bondholders and an August 4 deadline

Argentina’s government unveiled an amended debt restructuring proposal on Sunday and set a deadline of Aug. 4 for creditors to accept it, adding some key sweeteners as it looks to defuse recent tensions with bondholders and strike a deal.
Monday, July 6th 2020 - 09:30 UTC
Six out of ten children in Argentina live in poverty, UN data

The global pandemic has hammered Argentina's economy, which is now expected to shrink around 12% this year, driving millions into poverty and leaving almost six out of every 10 children and adolescents below the poverty line, United Nations data show.
Monday, July 6th 2020 - 07:25 UTC
China suspends imports from two pork plants in the state of Rio Grande do Sul

China has suspended imports from two Brazilian pork plants owned by meatpackers JBS SA and BRF SA, according to the Chinese customs authority, as it cracks down on meat shipments amid concerns about the new coronavirus.
Monday, July 6th 2020 - 07:23 UTC
Scientists insist in the airborne transmission of Covid-19, and call on WHO to revise recommendations

The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide, in bars and restaurants, offices, markets and casinos, giving rise to frightening clusters of infection that increasingly confirm what many scientists have been saying for months: The virus lingers in the air indoors, infecting those nearby.
Monday, July 6th 2020 - 07:21 UTC
Pink glacial ice in the Alps caused by algae surprises scientists

Scientists in Italy are investigating the mysterious appearance of pink glacial ice in the Alps, caused by algae that accelerate the effects of climate change.
Monday, July 6th 2020 - 07:03 UTC
Lockouts re-imposed in areas of Galicia and Catalonia

The northwestern Spanish region of Galicia imposed restrictions on about 70,000 people on Sunday following a COVID-19 outbreak, a day after Catalonia also introduced a local lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Monday, July 6th 2020 - 06:52 UTC
“It's crystal clear” that drunk people cannot socially distance, London police

Britain's police said on Sunday that revelers who packed London's Soho district the night pubs finally reopened made it “crystal clear” that drunk people cannot socially distance.
Monday, July 6th 2020 - 06:48 UTC
British historian who said slavery was not genocide, quits Cambridge University

A British royal historian who said slavery was not genocide has quit his honorary position at Cambridge University and been dropped by his publisher HarperCollins. The comments from Professor David Starkey came during a period of soul searching in Britain over its colonial past.