International

• Thursday, August 6th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  Brazil doubled oil exports during July

  

  Brazilian oil exports more than doubled in July to 8.19 million tons, compared to 3.76 million tons shipped in July 2019, according to data released by the Foreign Trade Secretariat, Secex.

• Thursday, August 6th 2020 - 09:21 UTC

  Destruction of Beirut port silos leaves Lebanon with only a month of wheat

  

  Lebanon’s main grain silo at Beirut port was destroyed in a blast, leaving the nation with less than a month’s reserves of the grain but enough flour to avoid a crisis, the economy minister said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, August 6th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Hiroshima remembers the 75th anniversary of the first atomic bomb

  

  Bells tolled in Hiroshima on Thursday for the 75th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, with ceremonies downsized due to the novel coronavirus and the mayor urging nations to reject selfish nationalism and unite to fight all threats.

• Thursday, August 6th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Beirut blast point to years on inaction and negligence over storage of explosives

  

  Initial investigations into the Beirut port blast indicate years of inaction and negligence over the storage of highly explosive material caused the explosion that killed more than 150 people, injured thousands and left 300,000 homeless, an official source revealed

• Wednesday, August 5th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Argentina reaches an agreement with majority of creditors and looks to convince the undecided

  

  Argentina has reached an agreement with creditors to restructure around US$ 65 billion in sovereign debt, breaking a deadlock in talks that will help the country climb out of default and banish fears of a damaging and protracted legal standoff.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Beirut port blast kills at least 78, injures over 4,000 and flattens huge area of the city

  

  Lebanon is in mourning after a huge explosion in the capital Beirut killed at least 78 people and injured more than 4,000 others on Tuesday. The whole city was shaken by the blast, which began with a fire at the port which exploded into a mushroom cloud.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2020 - 08:17 UTC

  Ex Uber engineer sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing Google trade secrets

  

  A U.S. judge on Tuesday sentenced former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski to 18 months in prison for stealing a trade secret from Google related to self-driving cars months before becoming the head of Uber Technologies Inc’s (UBER.N) rival unit.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2020 - 07:54 UTC

  Brazil: controversy as to when the country's labs can start making Covid-19 vaccines

  

  Brazilian officials say they can start making COVID-19 vaccines developed by British and Chinese researchers within a year. Experts say it will take at least twice as long, leaving Brazil reliant on imports to slow the world's second-worst outbreak.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2020 - 10:34 UTC

  Uruguay’s Secret to Success in Combating COVID-19

  

  By S. Pelin Berkmen and Natasha Che – On June 29th, when some 250,000 students returned to classrooms in Montevideo, Uruguay reached a post-COVID-19 normalization milestone that is still a distant aspiration for most of Latin America. While the virus still rages on throughout the Americas, Uruguay’s daily count of new cases had been in the single digit for most days since May, despite the recent incipient outbreaks.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2020 - 10:20 UTC

  Antibody testing in Italy shows 2,5% of the population developed coronavirus

  

  Almost 1.5 million people in Italy or 2.5% of the population have developed coronavirus antibodies, a figure six times more than official numbers reported, according to a survey from statistics agency Istat on Monday.