Stories for February 2020

Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:29 UTC
G7 members will jointly address the coronavirus epidemic

G 7 countries will discuss a joint response to the coronavirus epidemic, Germany's health minister said on Sunday. Jens Spahn said he had talked on the phone with his US counterpart and “we agreed that there should be a conference call, a discussion by G7 health ministers about this question with the aim of dealing with it together”.
Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:28 UTC
Dutchman sentenced to 40 hours community service for insulting Argentine born Queen Maxima of the Netherlands

Dutchman has been sentenced to 40 hours community service for insulting Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, after branding her the 'daughter of a murderer'.
Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:26 UTC
Argentina's soybean crop forecasts increase to 53.1 million tons on favorable moisture conditions

Argentina's soybean harvest for the 2019/20 season is forecast at 53.1 million tons, the Buenos Aires grains exchange said last week, an improvement from a prediction it made towards the end of last year.
Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:21 UTC
Mexico supports Argentine candidate to lead the Inter American Development bank

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s administration plans to support Argentina in the race to lead the Inter American Bank, a key Washington-based multilateral lender, in another sign of political rapport between the region’s two most important left-wing governments.
Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:20 UTC
China reports outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in poultry farm with 7.850 chickens

China reported an outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 bird flu at a farm in Shaoyang city of the southern province of Hunan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Sunday.
Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:55 UTC
Cheers and tears as UK ends 47 years of European Union membership

Britain on Friday ended almost half a century of European Union membership, making a historic exit after years of bitter arguments to chart its own uncertain path in the world. There were celebrations and tears across the country as the EU's often reluctant member became the first to leave an organization set up to forge unity among nations after the horrors of World War II.
Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:55 UTC
Pope Francis and president Alberto Fernandez examined Argentine problems

A smiling Pope Francis welcomed the new president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, to the Vatican on Friday morning and then spoke with him in a private audience for 45 minutes, signaling that good relations exist between the two leaders and suggesting that this could perhaps open the door for the pontiff’s first visit to his homeland since his election—though the president later said they did not discuss this.
Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Gibraltar Marks EU Departure

Gibraltar originally joined the EU under the British Treaty of Accession in 1972. On the evening of Friday 31st January 2020 at midnight Central European Time the departure from the European Union at the appointed time the UK formally ceased being a member state.
Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Beijing furious with US over warning American citizens to avoid China

Beijing on Friday sharply criticized the United States for warning American citizens to avoid China and for urging those already there to leave due to the coronavirus health emergency.
Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:47 UTC
Violence resurgence in Chile: three deaths, looting and torched supermarkets

A man died of carbon monoxide poisoning after a supermarket was torched in Chile's capital Santiago on Friday, bringing the death toll from a resurgence in violent unrest rose to three. A mob looted and then set fire to the supermarket in southern Santiago in the early hours of Friday.