Politics

Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 11:52 UTC
Brazilian May exports reached US$ 18bn with a trade surplus of US$ 4,5bn

Last month, Brazilian exports totaled US$17.94 billion and imports, US$13.392 billion, which generated a trade surplus of US$4.548 billion. On the export side, there was a 4.2% decline in the daily export average from US$936.02 million in May 2019, to US$896.98 million in May 2020. In relation to imports, there was a 1.6% decline in the daily average over the same comparison period, from US$680.37 million to US$669.58 million.
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 - 08:59 UTC
Brazil surpasses 30,000 coronavirus deaths; in Sao Paulo City partial lifting of the lockdown delayed

Brazil surpassed 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday as the disease continued to rip through South America's worst-hit country. Figures released by the health ministry showed a new record 1,262 deaths in the previous 24 hours, as well as 28,936 new infections.
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
Uptick in domestic violence in Chile becomes politically controversial; women's minister forced to apologize

The Chilean new women's minister has been forced to apologize and pull a controversial advertisement aimed at curbing an increase in domestic violence with the coronavirus pandemic.
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 - 08:40 UTC
Thousands demonstrate before the US Capitol yelling “silence is violence”

Thousands of demonstrators took to a knee in the grass outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, chanting “silence is violence” and “no justice, no peace,” just before a government-imposed curfew as rallies against police brutality swelled in major cities.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC
New York upmarket retailers' shops in central Manhattan raided by looters

New York was under a curfew that would last until early Tuesday morning, officials said, after looters raided stores in central Manhattan, targeting some of the city's top retailers.
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.