Landlords reject call for 50% reduction, saying hotel group is using Covid-19 crisis to cut costs

Health and beauty chain cites ‘unprecedented decline’ in footfall

Office group founder files lawsuit over largest investor’s decision to pull out of $3bn tender offer

President acts as though Latin America’s second-largest economy is immune to pandemic

Oil price collapse and crumbling health system put Latin American nation at risk

The need for an effective fight against coronavirus trumps other considerations

Maduro regime rejects latest Washington plan despite fears of humanitarian catastrophe from Covid-19

Flashpoint between Brazil’s populist leader and political establishment over response to virus

Region’s ‘Pink tide’ leaders see chance of revival as inequality and public health concerns take centre stage

Officials’ barbs come at a precarious time for Latin American country

Approval ratings for the billionaire president have more than doubled

Work dries up under lockdown but returning home could be more perilous than staying put

Tensions escalate between president and the speaker of Congress’s lower house over response to coronavirus 

Sérgio Moro was the face of nation’s long-running ‘Car Wash’ anti-corruption probe

Finance minister Paulo Guedes has had his liberal economic agenda sidelined by emergency measures

Former justice minister had accused president of political interference in police work

Tareck El-Aissami has little experience — and a $10m US bounty on his head

Decades of philanthropy pay off for one of Wall Street’s most complicated figures

Maduro’s economic rescue plan offers little hope to people struggling to get by 

Investor blames peso mayhem on ‘massive speculative attack’ and local over-reaction

Revised agreement comes a day after the exit of central bank governor

About 85 per cent of voters think the country is heading in the wrong direction

Guido Sandleris says it is ‘too soon’ to declare that stability has returned to peso

Iron ore giant in second disaster in 3 years after mud and waste surges through valley

President Lenín Moreno says deal will save his country from Venezuela’s fate

Just two years ago investors rushed to snap up 100-year debt sold by Buenos Aires

Creditor group says restrictions on trading could be forcing bonds into ‘rogue’ hands

Peso tumbles and cost to hedge against debt default surges

Bondholders weigh deal with Macri against negotiating with likely successor Fernández

Reimposition of currency controls is admission of defeat by president

Revised terms draw support from some creditors in key test before government debt crunch

Creditors prepare for tough negotiations after IMF calls on them to share the pain

Governors seize on criticisms of president over lack of coronavirus stimulus

Creditors denounce government restructuring plan as unacceptable

Jeremy Corbyn unveils party's ‘most radical’ plans in decades, Tories backtrack on national insurance pledge while pressure on public finances increases

The Brexit party and the Welsh Plaid Cymru reveal their policies; Corbyn and McDonnell defend tax plans; Tories propose stamp duty rise for foreign buyers; while UK figures show more gloomy outlook

Former prime minister intervenes with warning that both Tories and Labour ‘pose a risk’ to country, Conservative manifesto in the spotlight, Lib Dems change tune with calls to avert Johnson majority, Sterling rallies as Tories extend lead.

Jeremy Corbyn defends party's processes for dealing with racism after Ephraim Mirvis's criticism. Conservatives put opposition to independence at heart of Scottish campaign. Sterling slips as Labour makes inroads on Tories' polling lead.

Jeremy Corbyn unveiled 451 pages of leaked documents, which he claimed show details of trade talks between the UK and US. The Labour leader said the discussions included Washington's demand for providing access to the NHS for American healthcare companies.

Neither Labour nor the Conservatives have offered a "credible prospectus" for government in the election, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said this morning, in a damning assessment that highlighted the gulf between different political visions for Britain.

The Conservatives vowed to bring in a new state aid system to protect British industry after Brexit, as the party finesses its message to Leave voters ahead of election day.

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The Labour and Conservative parties are making a final push on key issues — border security and rail fares — as the election campaign nears the home stretch. Brexit concerns are also bubbling again.

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Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn spar in a televised debate just six days before the general election.

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