International

Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 12:24 UTC
UN human rights top official criticizes US “police violence” and historic inequalities

Protests in cities across the United States triggered by the killing of George Floyd underscore “police violence” against people of color, and historic inequalities in access to health, education, and jobs, the top United Nations human rights official said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 11:52 UTC
UK government's lockdown “sex ban” faces widespread mockery

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government faced widespread mockery on Tuesday over coronavirus rules which were cast by some media as a “sex ban”, though a junior minister said the regulations were aimed at keeping people safe.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:57 UTC
EU starts overhaul of drug manufacturing emphasizing in production and access to medicines

The European Commission on Tuesday started a process that could lead to reforms of drug manufacturing to limit shortages of vaccines and antibiotics and make medicines more easily available.
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 - 08:30 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 - 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.
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.