International

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazilian women ashamed of their president, Macron replies to Bolsonaro's mock of French First Lady

  

  Brazilian women are probably ashamed of President Jair Bolsonaro, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, hitting back after the Brazilian leader mocked Macron’s wife on Facebook.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  France and US reach a deal on taxing big internet companies

  

  France and the United States have reached a deal to end a standoff over a French tax on big internet companies, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to hit back with tariff action after France passed a law earlier this year that would impose a 3% tax on revenues earned on digital services in France.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 08:18 UTC

  Questioned at G7, Trump defends his negotiating style with China: “Sorry it's the way I do it”

  

  Crushing off concerns about global economic instability, US President Donald Trump on Monday defended the way he is trying to squeeze a trade deal out of China, saying it's what worked for him in business.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 07:50 UTC

  Leonarod Di Caprio's Earth Alliance donates US$ 5 million to help Amazon indigenous communities

  

  Leonardo Di Caprio's environmental organization is putting US$5m towards helping the Amazon rainforest after the recent surge in fires there. Earth Alliance will give the money to local groups and indigenous communities as they work to protect the Amazon.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 07:38 UTC

  PM Johnson pledges £10 million to restore Amazon rainforest; UK wants to host 2020 climate change conference

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday pledged £10 million (US$12.3 million) to help restore the Amazon rainforest that has been ravaged by fires, sparking a wave of global concern. The money would be made available immediately to help restore the habitat, including areas that have been hit by the fires, the British government said in a statement released at the G7 summit in the French resort of Biarritz.

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 20:35 UTC

  Hamas condemns Paraguay for designating the group as an “international terrorist organization”

  

  In its press statement on the Paraguayan decision, the group said: “This decision runs against international law which ensures peoples’ right to resist the aggression and occupation with all possible means including the armed struggle”

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 19:13 UTC

  Brazilian warplanes dumpling water on the Amazon forest, but will it be enough?

  

  Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest, according to a government video.

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 19:02 UTC

  Trump to hold off from a further tariff escalation in the trade war with China, admits “second thoughts”

  

  President Donald Trump on Sunday denied that his trade war with China is causing friction at the G7 summit, but indicated he will hold off from a threatened further escalation for now. “I think they respect the trade war. It has to happen,” Trump told reporters in Biarritz, France, where he was meeting with other leaders of the G7 group.

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 18:42 UTC

  EU divided on ratification of trade pact with Mercosur, warns Donald Tusk

  

  The European Union Council president Donald Tusk said it was hard to imagine the bloc ratifying its trade pact with Mercosur as long as Brazil fails to curb the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest. The EU “stands by the EU-Mercosur agreement”, Tusk told reporters at a G7 meeting in Biarritz in southern France.

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 17:56 UTC

  New fires raging in the Amazon; agriculture sector warns Bolsonaro: “nationalistic bravado will not win the game”

  

  Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, official data showed, as thousands of troops were made available to help fight the worst blazes in years following a global outcry. Multiple fires billowing huge plumes of smoke into the air were seen across a vast area of the northwestern state of Rondonia.