Netherlands tourism: Businesses wait to see reopening benefits

There is no sign of visitors even though restrictions have been lifted, but many fear the Netherlands is too dependent on tourism.

People in the tourism industry in the Netherlands have been hesitant about welcoming back visitors as pandemic restrictions are being eased.

While tourists bring in significant earnings, health concerns remain.

And that is reigniting the debate over making tourism sustainable.

Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Facebook faces unprecedented advertisement boycott

Campaign aims to force the world’s largest social media platform to crack down on hate speech and racist content on its pages.

The world’s largest social media platform, Facebook, is facing an unprecedented advertising boycott.

More than 400 brands say they will stop advertising this month.

The campaign aims to force Facebook to crack down on hate speech and racist content on its pages.

Facebook has taken some action within the past week but critics say it is nowhere near enough.

Al Jazeera’s Priyanka Gupta explains.

COVID-19: Brazil deploys army to help protect Indigenous people

A military operation to fight COVID-19 in Brazil as the risk grows for the country’s Indigenous communities.

Brazil’s coronavirus death toll has passed 60,000, and the infection rate continues to climb.

As the pandemic rages, Indigenous people in the Amazon are especially at risk.

Their communities are already under pressure from illegal mining and logging.

Now, they fear the pandemic could be the biggest threat yet.

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports.

Lebanon bread price rises for the first time in 10 years

Country’s collapsing currency causes food prices to soar amid an economic crisis.

The price of bread in Lebanon has increased for the first time in 10 years, as the collapsing local currency causes food prices to soar.

The lira has lost more than 80 percent of its value on the black market in the last eight months.

The drop in value is part of a wider economic crisis in the import-dependent country.

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Beirut.

Hong Kong: Hundreds arrested over China security law protests

Critics say new law that criminalises actions against China threatens the identity and freedoms of the former British territory and deepens fears of oppression.

Hundreds of people have been arrested in Hong Kong as protesters rallied against the new national security law which criminalises actions against China.

Critics say the new law is the greatest threat to the identity and freedoms of the former British territory and deepens fears of oppression.

But Hong Kong’s leader says the legislation is necessary to end more than a year of protests which continue to paralyse the city.

Al Jazeera’s Sarah Clarke reports.

Woodford Investors to Get $230 Million Payout After Sale: Mail

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Investors in disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford’s collapsed Equity Income fund are set to receive new cash payouts this week following a sale of health-care stocks, according to the Mail on Sunday.

Woodford investors will get about 200 million pounds ($230 million), equivalent to about 5 pence a share, the newspaper reported.

The cash payout comes after the sale of Woodford healthcare stocks to U.S. investment firm Acacia Research Corporation, the Mail reported. In early June, Acacia agreed to pay as much as 224 million pounds for Woodford’s stakes in 19 firms, including several unlisted businesses.

Administrators have already returned 2.4 billion pounds to Woodford fund investors, equivalent to an average of 53 pence a share, the Mail said.

Coronavirus Phase 4 stimulus could be done piecemeal, GOP package coming Monday: Mnuchin

Secretary Mnuchin on negotiations for additional COVID relief, heath of US economy

Treasury Steven Mnuchin joins anchor Chris Wallace for an exclusive interview on ‘Fox News Sunday.’

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told "Fox News Sunday" that a Republican version of a coronavirus Phase 4 stimulus bill will be introduced Monday.

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White House negotiators have been working with Senate Republicans on "technical issues" in the package this weekend, Mnuchin told host Chris Wallace.

He also suggested that some thornier issues could be kicked down the road to a Phase 5 or 6 bill.

"Within the trillion-dollar package, there are certain things that have a timeframe that are a bigger priority, so we could look at doing an entire deal, we could look at doing parts," Mnuchin said.

Higher-priority issues, he said, are expiring unemployment benefits giving more money to people at home than at work and liability protection for schools and universities that the administration want to reopen.

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"We can move very quickly with the Democrats on these issues," the Treasury secretary said. "We've moved quickly before, and I see no reason that we can't move quickly again. And if there are issues that take longer, we'll deal with those as well."

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Brooklyn Man Confesses to Killing Wife in France: Report

Paris (AP) — A French-American man from Brooklyn was in custody Sunday in southwest France after he told police that he twice stabbed his wife, a local newspaper reported.

La Dépêche du Midi named the man as Billy Kruger and said he was detained Friday as he was preparing to fly from Toulouse. It said he was bound for Jakarta, Indonesia, where the couple lived.

Held on suspicion of murder, he subsequently confessed to killing his wife, 52-year-old Laure Bardina-Kruger, saying he stabbed her twice, the newspaper reported, citing prosecutor Marie-Agnès Joly.

The prosecutor did not respond Sunday to an emailed request for comment from The Associated Press and her office was closed.

The wife’s body was found in a storm drain Friday in Peyriac-de-Mer, on the Mediterranean, south of Narbonne.

The newspaper said that he worked as a diving instructor in Indonesia and that she taught French. It said the couple vacationed several weeks of the year at their holiday home in Peyriac-de-Mer.