Politics

• Tuesday, July 7th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Chinese censorship: Law professor who criticized president Xi arrested for “soliciting prostitution”

  

  Chinese authorities on Monday detained a law professor who published essays criticizing President Xi Jinping over the coronavirus pandemic and his efforts to consolidate power, according to friends of the man.

• Tuesday, July 7th 2020 - 09:12 UTC

  Trump's niece will launch the family book, “the world's most dangerous man” on July 14

  

  Donald Trump's niece will release her unflattering book on the US president on July 14, her publisher announced Monday, after a judge lifted a temporary ban on publication.

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  Argentina unveils its “final effort”, with sweeteners, to bondholders and an August 4 deadline

  

  Argentina’s government unveiled an amended debt restructuring proposal on Sunday and set a deadline of Aug. 4 for creditors to accept it, adding some key sweeteners as it looks to defuse recent tensions with bondholders and strike a deal.

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 06:52 UTC

  “It's crystal clear” that drunk people cannot socially distance, London police

  

  Britain's police said on Sunday that revelers who packed London's Soho district the night pubs finally reopened made it “crystal clear” that drunk people cannot socially distance.

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 06:48 UTC

  British historian who said slavery was not genocide, quits Cambridge University

  

  A British royal historian who said slavery was not genocide has quit his honorary position at Cambridge University and been dropped by his publisher HarperCollins. The comments from Professor David Starkey came during a period of soul searching in Britain over its colonial past.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Bolsonaro waters down law making it mandatory to wear face masks in public places

  

  Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday watered down a law requiring the wearing of face masks in public places to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The far-right leader used his veto power to remove articles obliging people to wear masks in shops and churches.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Portuguese tourism industry furious with England over the quarantine measures

  

  Portugal's tourism sector reacted with fury and disbelief at Britain's decision to maintain a quarantine regime for travelers coming from Portugal despite having a higher number of coronavirus cases and deaths.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Trudeau not sure he will attend trade treaty celebration in Washington with Trump and Lopez Obrador

  

  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he was still unsure whether he would go to Washington DC next week to celebrate a new North American trade treaty, citing concern about possible US tariffs on aluminum.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  International banks accuse Argentine major soy crusher of “diverting hundreds of millions of dollars” in a US court

  

  Banks owed money by cash-strapped Argentine soy crusher Vicentin are accusing the company of diverting hundreds of millions of dollars and have asked a U.S. court to subpoena records as part of a lawsuit, including wire transfers and bank statements.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  Monuments vandalizing spree: Copenhagen's Little Mermaid described as a “racist fish”

  

  Denmark woke up on Friday to the words “racist fish” scrawled across the base of the Little Mermaid, the bronze statue honoring Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale that perches on a rock in the sea off a pier in Copenhagen.