Politics

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentina economic activity plummets 26,4% in April year on year

  

  Argentina's economic activity plummeted in April, the first full month that social-distancing measures that shut down non-essential businesses and other activities were in effect.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 07:54 UTC

  Some of the largest corporations that joined the boycott of Facebook: “stop hate for profit”

  

  Some companies have joined a boycott of Facebook after critics accused the social network of inadequately policing hateful and misleading content on its platform. Here's a list of companies that are planning to halt spending on social media.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 07:48 UTC

  Republicans leaders ignore Trump and make a public push for face masks

  

  In a rare split with mask-averse US President Donald Trump, fellow Republican leaders are making a public push for face coverings as Covid-19 cases surge in some Republican-leaning states.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 07:43 UTC

  Boris Johnson in major speech will pledge billions in public works to jump start the economy

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed Britain will spend large sums on hospitals, schools and roads to jump-start the economy as it emerges from the coronavirus lockdown that has plunged the country into what may be the worst recession in three centuries.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 10:55 UTC

  COVID-19 could crush Argentina’s shale boom

  

  By Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com – Holding some of the largest shale oil and gas reserves in the world, Argentina is often cited as the likely candidate for the next big shale boom, and Vaca Muerta is often described as having the potential to be South America’s Permian basin.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 10:29 UTC

  Massive support in Brazil for democracy, and only 10% for a military dictatorship

  

  Some 75% of Brazilians support the country's current democracy, a poll by Datafolha released on Sunday showed, while just 10% of citizens support a dictatorship, the highest and lowest levels of support for the two forms of government in at least 30 years.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 10:28 UTC

  Facebook advertising boycott campaign preparing to expand to major companies in Europe

  

  Organizers of a Facebook advertising boycott campaign that has drawn support from a rapidly expanding list of major companies are now preparing to take the battle global to increase pressure on the social media company to remove hate speech. The new chapter comes when PepsiCo had decided to stop advertising on Facebook Inc, according to Fox Business News.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 10:09 UTC

  Britain's most senior civil servant stands down

  

  Britain's most senior civil servant, Mark Sedwill, told Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday he would stand down as cabinet secretary and national security adviser.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 07:47 UTC

  Rolling Stones threaten legal action against Trump's campaign for the use of one of their songs

  

  British rock legends The Rolling Stones have threatened legal action against Donald Trump for the US president's use of their song You Can't Always Get What You Want at campaign rallies.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 07:41 UTC

  The “little Spanish girl” who has been re-elected mayor of Paris

  

  Anne Hidalgo, re-elected Paris mayor on Sunday, is a Spanish-born socialist who has waged a divisive but ambitious campaign to push cars out of the centre of the French capital. Hidalgo, 61, became in 2014 the first-ever woman to head the French capital's city hall that had once been the political springboard for late president Jacques Chirac.