Bloomberg Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for Covid-19 in an escalation of the health crisis that has engulfed Latin America’s largest economy. “I’m perfectly well,” Bolsonaro told CNN Brasil in a live interview, after announcing the result of his test. He added he is taking hydroxichloroquine, an anti-malaria medicine he’s been touting as being effective against the virus though ...

Bloomberg Russian investigators have detained an adviser to the head of the country’s space agency on charges of treason, Roscosmos said on Tuesday. The Federal Security Service said Ivan Safronov was suspected of passing information on arms sales and other defense and security matters to a North American Treaty Organization (NATO) country that it didn’t name, the state-run RIA Novosti ...

Bloomberg Europe’s economy will suffer more than previously estimated this year and take longer to recover because of a slow easing of coronavirus restrictions, according to the bloc’s executive arm. Officials sent the starkest warning yet about the impact of the pandemic, with the divergences between richer and poorer countries opening up even further than projected two months ago. It ...