Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a “lie”.

The space research agency Inpe recorded 6,803 fires in the Amazon last month

The US has slapped additional 25 percent tariffs on French goods in retaliation for France's new digital services tax that hits American technology companies.

‘The deforestation data by itself shows that we now have a very complicated situation that is out of control in the Amazon.’

Brazilian environmentalists say much more needs to be done to combat the dual threat of deforestation and fires that threaten what some have called the planet's lungs: the Amazon rainforest.

Indigenous tribes in Peru’s Amazon say the government has left them to fend for themselves against the coronavirus, risking “ethnocide by inaction.”

Amazon has reversed its policy and will now be delivering parcels for free to customers in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Palestinian Authority has called on the US online retail giant Amazon to cease its recent discriminatory practice toward Palestinians.

Customers who select 'Palestinian Territories' as their address are subject to shipping fees.

Amazon is depriving Palestinians of free shipping granted to nearby customers in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank for mentioning the "Palestinian Territories" in the address not Israel.