Politics

• Monday, July 20th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  UK/China souring relations continue to escalate; warning from Beijing ambassador

  

  Britain will on Monday suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in a further escalation of its dispute with China over the introduction of security law in the former colony, British newspapers reported.

• Monday, July 20th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  Amazon indigenous leader defender stable after blood transfusion in hospital

  

  Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, one of the Amazon rainforest's best-known defenders, is “stable” after receiving a blood transfusion in hospital, his institute said on Sunday. Raoni, chief of the Kayapo people in northern Brazil, has been hospitalized since Thursday for weakness, shortness of breath, poor appetite, and diarrhea.

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  Coronavirus “stabilized” in Brazil (at 1,300 deaths per day), but “is not heading down from the mountain”

  

  Coronavirus infections in Brazil no longer appear to be rising exponentially but the country is “still in the middle of this fight” as new cases and deaths grow by thousands every day, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 09:16 UTC

  Argentina extends quarantine to August 2, while trying to gradually return to normal life

  

  The Argentine government announced on Friday that it has extended the national quarantine aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 to August 2.

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  A George Floyd similar incident video-taped in London: “get off my neck” cried the black man

  

  London's police force suspended an officer on Friday after video footage emerged of him appearing to kneel on the head and neck of a Black man they had detained who cried out, “Get off my neck!”

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Cuba devalues its currency and makes the US dollar legal tender for shopping

  

  Cuba said this week it will allow some stores to sell food, personal hygiene and other consumer goods in U.S. dollars and will eliminate a 10% tax on the greenback, an effort to rake in more hard currency to purchase goods abroad.

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Yangtze River flooding question the role played by the massive Three Gorges Dam

  

  Chinese authorities issued more flood warnings for China’s Yangtze River on Friday, as heavy rains were forecast in provinces in the country’s south. At least 141 people have died or are missing and more than 2.2 million relocated due to floods across southern China since June, state-run CGTN reported.

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Mexican president will contribute 25% of his salary to combat the virus

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday that he will return a fourth of his salary to help the country weather the coronavirus crisis that has battered the economy, encouraging public servants also to donate from their earnings.

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 07:27 UTC

  UK and US warn Guyana to respect election results and “avoid frustrating the will of the people”

  

  United Kingdom expressed disappointment with the current authorities of Guyana which so far have not recognized the results of elections held four months ago, frustrating the will of the people.

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 06:51 UTC

  Planning for the worst and hoping for the best, Boris Johnson's Christmas wish list

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he hoped Britain could return to normality before Christmas, setting out a phased removal of lockdown restrictions, but warned the country still needed to prepare for the worst.