Politics

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 07:15 UTC

  UN questions as “vague and overly broad” Hong Kong's national security law

  

  The UN human rights office voiced concern on Friday that “vague and overly broad” provisions in the national security law for Hong Kong may lead to arbitrary interpretation and prosecutions of activists in violation of freedoms of assembly and expression.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 07:09 UTC

  Germany makes up skirting a criminal offence punishable with up two years in prison

  

  Germany is making up-skirting, surreptitiously taking photographs or filming under a person's clothing, a criminal offense punishable with fines or up to two years in prison.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 07:05 UTC

  Angela Merkel wears a face mask in the Bundesrat

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel made her first public appearance wearing a mask on Friday after dismissing accusations of hypocrisy earlier this week for not wearing one.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 07:02 UTC

  England's travel corridors: countries and territories exemption list

  

  From 10 July 2020, unless they have visited or stopped in any other country or territory in the preceding 14 days, passengers arriving from the following countries and territories will not be required to self-isolate on arrival into England.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 06:07 UTC

  British socialite and Epstein's ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell arrested; Prince Andrew's defense “bewildered”

  

  Prince Andrew is “bewildered” by claims he is not cooperating with the US investigation into the alleged sex trafficking of minors by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, his legal team said on Friday.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Mercosur presidential summit can't forget support for Argentina's claim over the Falklands

  

  Mercosur full-member presidents and their associate peers backed Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands in the framework of the 56th Heads of State summit, which took place in Paraguay through a video conference when the pro tempore chair was delivered by Brazil to Uruguay for the second half of 2020.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 09:13 UTC

  Venezuela parliamentary elections scheduled for 6 December; opposition boycott, “no transparency conditions”

  

  Venezuela's National Electoral Council on Wednesday called parliamentary elections for December 6, with the opposition already vowing to boycott. The National Assembly parliament is the only government branch controlled by the opposition.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Brazil postpones municipal elections to November from October

  

  Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved on Wednesday a constitutional amendment to postpone municipal elections to November from October due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  Bolsonaro pledges to veto a bill regulating fake news: “I favor total freedom of the media”

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said he would veto a bill regulating fake news, which has also been criticized by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter, if it comes to his desk from Congress in its present shape.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Brazil admits a budget deficit of 11,5% of GDP; ten years before public debt falls to 2019 level

  

  Brazil’s government on Thursday revised its 2020 fiscal outlook, forecasting significantly higher debt and wider deficits due to the COVID-19 crisis, and said it will be over a decade before public debt falls back to last year’s level.