Politics

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

  Argentina will take over soy-crushing giant, currently under administration

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced Monday evening a plan to seize crop trader Vicentin SAIC in a move that is anticipated will ring alarm bells in soy markets, among investors in the country and even the current foreign debt negotiations.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 07:19 UTC

  World Bank loans Mexico one billion dollars to cope with coronavirus effects

  

  Mexico has taken out a one billion US dollars loan from the World Bank as the effects of the coronavirus begin to squeeze the economy, a business newspaper reported on Sunday.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 05:24 UTC

  Maduro restricts the return of Venezuelan migrants and considers them a threat

  

  The Nicolás Maduro regime blames Venezuelan migrants for the increase in the spread of the coronavirus in Venezuela while hundreds of these emigrants, pushed by their limited survival options, remain stranded in makeshift camps in different cities of Colombia waiting to be able to cross into their country.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 13:08 UTC

  NYT editorial chief head rolls after publishing the “Send the troops” column from a Republican US Senator

  

  James Bennet, the New York Times editorial page editor responsible for publishing a column that advocated using the military to quiet protests over U.S. racial inequality, resigned on Sunday, the newspaper announced.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 12:51 UTC

  Canadian aboriginal groups demand independent probe into death of a young indigenous woman by the police

  

  Canadian aboriginal groups on Saturday (June 6) called for an independent probe into the death of an indigenous woman who was shot by a police officer called in for a wellness check.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 11:17 UTC

  Chile reviews deaths' database, resulting in an increase in Covid 19 fatalities

  

  Chile revised its death toll linked to the novel coronavirus outbreak sharply higher on Sunday, adding fatalities from databases that previously had not been included.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 09:12 UTC

  Hong Kong: Japan drops out from a US, UK, Australia and Canada critical statement of Beijing

  

  Japan will not join the United States, Britain and others in issuing a statement scolding China for imposing a new security law, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, citing officials from countries involved

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Colin Powell criticizes the Republican party and announces he will vote for Biden

  

  Colin Powell, who served as the United States' top military officer and top diplomat under Republican presidents, said on Sunday he will vote for Democrat Joe Biden, accusing Donald Trump of drifting from the US Constitution and Republicans of failing to hold him accountable.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 07:42 UTC

  Bolsonaro limits information on the epidemic in Brazil, “...they don't reflect the moment the country is in”

  

  Brazil removed from public view months of data on its coronavirus epidemic on Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro defended delays and changes to official record-keeping of the world's second-largest Covid19 outbreak.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 07:33 UTC

  Brazilians protest death of a black boy, son of a maid, entrusted to her white employer

  

  Hundreds of Brazilians marched on Friday over the death of a black boy whose mother, a maid, had entrusted him to her white employer, in an echo of the protests sweeping across the US.