Brazil justice minister to quit after Bolsonaro fires top cop: source
Brazilian Justice Sergio Moro will announce his resignation on Friday, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, after President Jair Bolsonaro fired the head of the federal police.
Britain, EU fail to bridge gaps in future relationship talks
Britain and the European Union showed little sign of progress towards a deal on their post-Brexit relationship this week, failing to bridge differences over future competition and EU fishing access to British waters.
Germans told not to lower guard as lockdown is eased
Germany’s coronavirus infection rate needs to fall further – to a few hundred cases a day – before lockdown measures can be eased further, its main public health institution said on Friday.
EU’s amorphous recovery fund bails out Italian PM, for now
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, struggling to map a way out of Italy’s coronavirus crisis and facing political fire from all sides, has won much-needed breathing space from the European Union.
EU accused of risking climate goals with ‘no strings attached’ state handouts
The European Union is facing pressure from environmentalists and lawmakers to attach conditions to state aid packages to protect climate goals, as countries pump cash into ailing firms and polluting sectors during the coronavirus pandemic.
World leaders launch WHO plan to curb COVID-19, U.S. not involved
World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests, drugs and vaccines against COVID-19 and to share them around the globe, but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative.
U.S. not at Geneva meet, but says it will lead on ‘global health matters’
The U.S. mission in Geneva said on Friday that although the United States did not participate in a meeting of world leaders on the coronavirus outbreak there was “no doubt about our continuing determination to lead on global health matters”.
Dancing in the streets: Ballet stars perform in empty Amsterdam
Six dancers from the Dutch National Ballet headed out into the empty streets of Amsterdam this week to perform their parts in a piece of choreography inspired by the coronavirus lockdown.
Honeymoon over, Spain’s fragile coalition tested by pandemic politics
Spain’s Socialist-led government marked its first 100 days in power this week by passing an emergency decree with the help of its eternal adversary the conservative People’s Party.
‘Toughest over’: Spain’s daily coronavirus deaths lowest in a month
Spain’s daily coronavirus deaths fell to the lowest in more than a month on Friday, prompting the government to declare the most acute phase of the epidemic was over as it prepared criteria to ease one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns.
