Новости за 07.06.2020

British protesters tore down the statue of a renowned slave trader Sunday and threw it in the harbour in Bristol on the second day of weekend protests against George Floyd’s death.

More than 16,000 Libyans have been displaced during recent battles that saw forces of the UN-recognised government wrest back control of western Libya from strongman Khalifa Haftar, the UN said Sunday.

Germany became the first European country to announce a post-coronavirus economic stimulus package last week, allocating €130 billion that follows an initial roll-out of emergency measures to save the economy from the fallout of the pandemic. The ambitious plan could inspire other eurozone nations also desperate for a reboot.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview Sunday that relations with Washington are "complicated" following media reports that the US wants to withdraw 9,500 troops from Germany, significantly reducing US commitments to European defence under NATO in what one former US military commander said would be a "gift" to Russia's Vladimir Putin.

The confirmed global death toll from the Covid-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities on Sunday, a day after the government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of the number of deaths and infections in the hard-hit South American country.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in cities around the world on Saturday and Sunday to express anger over the death of George Floyd as the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality resonates with global calls to address racism.

Brazil removed from public view months of data on its COVID-19 epidemic on Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro defended delays and changes to official record-keeping of the world's second-largest coronavirus outbreak.