International

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  Johnson calls on Britons to behave on “Super Saturday” when pubs reopen

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson will urge Britons to act responsibly when pubs reopen this weekend, warning that businesses, livelihoods and the future of the whole economy depend on it.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 08:02 UTC

  UK/EU post Brexit negotiations remain stalled and “serious divergences remain”

  

  Britain and the European Union (EU) failed to make progress in talks on post-Brexit relations this week due to major differences and called off a one-on-one meeting between their chief negotiators, officials said on Thursday.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 07:51 UTC

  Mayor coup by British police after cracking criminal world encryption EncroChat

  

  British police said on Thursday they had carried out their biggest operation ever, arresting “iconic” figures and smashing thousands of conspiracies including murder plots after infiltrating a communications service used by criminals.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 07:33 UTC

  Offshore assets from 84 million bank accounts reach 10 trillion Euros, OECD

  

  Authorities in nearly 100 countries saw 10 trillion Euros (US$ 11.2 trillion) in offshore assets come to light last year due to the automatic exchange of details for 84 million bank accounts, the OECD revealed this week.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 10:50 UTC

  Britain will allow three million Hong Kong citizens to move to the UK

  

  Boris Johnson's government will allow almost three million Hong Kong citizens to move to Britain, risking a further escalation of tensions with China after it enforced a sweeping security law on the former British colony

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 10:32 UTC

  Johnson tells Israel that UK would not recognize any changes to the 1967 lines

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Israel it should not go ahead with a plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, cautioning that London would not recognize any changes to the 1967 lines.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  New Zealand health minister loses his job given “unhelpful distractions”

  

  New Zealand's health minister, David Clark, resigned on Thursday following recent slip-ups in the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and personal mistakes.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Facebook 'hate speech' boycott: 400 brands stop advertising; civil rights groups insist in meeting Zuckerberg

  

  Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish from Facebook as of Thursday, after the failure of last-ditch talks to stop a boycott over hate speech on the site.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 08:02 UTC

  Guyana Venezuela territorial dispute at the Court of Justice, but Caracas denies The Hague jurisdiction to rule

  

  The United Nations’ top court held its first virtual hearing on Tuesday, taking up a 120-year-old territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela. Guyana made its arguments as to why the International Court of Justice has jurisdiction in the border dispute, which calls into question the ownership of more than half of the ex British colony.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 10:34 UTC

  Macron in a rally declares he opposes the trade agreement of EU with Mercosur

  

  French president, Emmanuel Macron, declared his opposition to the free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Mercosur. In addition, 265 civil society organizations were also mobilized against the agreement. The decision follows the defeat of Macron in the municipal elections and the strong advance of the Greens.