Stories for December 2020

Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:13 UTC
WHO chief warns Covid-19 will not be the last pandemic: climate change and animal welfare must be addressed

The coronavirus crisis will not be the last pandemic, and attempts to improve human health are “doomed” without tackling climate change and animal welfare, the World Health Organization's chief said.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:10 UTC
Europe launched a mass Covid-19 inoculation drive on Sunday; 6,25 million should be vaccinated by end of the year

Europe launched a mass Covid-19 vaccination drive on Sunday with pensioners and medics lining up to get the first shots to see off a pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives worldwide.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:06 UTC
Trump finally signs into law a US$ 2,3 trillion pandemic and spending package; stimulus checks of US$ 2,000

US President Donald Trump on Sunday signed into law a US$2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a federal government shutdown in a crisis of his own making.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:00 UTC
Hot food and drinks shop found buried under the volcanic ashes or Pompeii

Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Sunday 6,8 magnitude earthquake rocks south central Chile on Sunday

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck off the coast of south-central Chile on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, but Chilean officials immediately discarded the risk of a tsunami.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 08:30 UTC
Argentina's soy oil manufacturers and exporters unions' strike could end this week

Argentina's influential chamber of soy oil manufacturers and exporters on Sunday improved an offer to striking workers, seeking to end a more than two-week standoff that has bogged down exports from one of the world's main breadbaskets.
Monday, December 28th 2020 - 08:18 UTC
Sole suicide bomber responsible for Nashville Christmas Day explosion

The 63-year-old suspect in the bombing that rocked Nashville on Christmas Day morning was killed in the blast that destroyed his motor home and damaged more than 40 businesses.
Saturday, December 26th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
Brazil pledges a target of 45% renewable energy by 2050

Brazil has now moved past the 7 gigawatts (GW) mark of total installed renewables – and has set the ambition of 45% of its energy needs being generated in similar form by 2050.
Saturday, December 26th 2020 - 09:28 UTC
Galicia disappointed with fisheries post Brexit deal, pledges a belligerent attitude to recover lost fishing rights

Spain's regional government of Galicia has publicly expressed its concern about the fisheries chapter in the recently agreed UK/EU post/Brexit trade deal, which it considers will have a cost of 190 million Euros for the regional fleet and anticipates it will adopt a “belligerent” attitude to recover the lost fishing rights of the regional industry,
Saturday, December 26th 2020 - 09:20 UTC
Trump issues new pardons for crooks and including the father of his son in law Jared Kushner

US President Donald Trump issued new pardons for allies including the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner and two confidants caught up in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election that brought him to power. The pardons added to a long list he has granted in his waning days in office and sparked fresh outrage.