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Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 10:00 UTC
Medical experts disagree on air transmission of coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century - to the very origins of germ theory. The Geneva-based World Health Organization acknowledged this week that the novel coronavirus can spread through tiny droplets floating in the air, a nod to more than 200 experts in aerosol science who publicly complained that the UN agency had failed to warn the public about this risk.
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Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 09:00 UTC
Cruise Lines react to Foreign Office's guidance on travel for the over 70 or underlying conditions

Cruise lines have responded to new Foreign Office guidance which advises those aged over 70 and those with underlying health conditions not to go on cruises. Many have are contacting customers affected and offering further cruise credit.
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Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:26 UTC
Wall Street stocks jump on Friday after a bull's week, encouraged by reports of a Covid-19 vaccine

Wall Street stocks jumped on Friday with the Nasdaq racing to yet another record as progress on a coronavirus vaccine offset worries about spiking US case levels. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index finished at 10,617.44, up 0.7%, notching its sixth record close in seven sessions.
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Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:16 UTC
US announces 25% duties on French products in response to France's digital services tax

The Trump administration on Friday announced additional duties of 25per cent on French cosmetics, handbags and other imports valued at US$1.3 billion in response to France's digital services tax, but would hold off on implementing the move for up to 180 days.
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Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:11 UTC
Italy bans travelers arriving from Brazil, Chile and Peru

Italy on Thursday banned travelers from Brazil and 12 other countries it considers to pose a high risk of Covid-19 transmission. The full list comprises Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Moldova, Oman, Panama and Peru.
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Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:05 UTC
Illegal trade of ivory shrinks but pangolin scales trafficking soars, UN report

The illegal global trade in ivory has shrunk while the trafficking of pangolins has soared, a UN report on wildlife crime based on four years' data said on Friday. National bans on selling ivory, particularly China's in 2017, appear to have helped further erode ivory trafficking after it peaked around 2011-2013, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its World Wildlife Crime Report, which was last published in 2016.
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Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 07:48 UTC
US welcomes WHO probe into the origins of coronavirus in China

The United States welcomes the World Health Organization's W(HO) probe into the origins of the novel coronavirus in China, its ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said on Friday.
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Friday, July 10th 2020 - 09:42 UTC
Galician shipyard launches new trawler for the Falklands' fisheries

The Galician Nodosa shipyard launched this week a trawler-freezer, “Montelourido” which according to the Vigo media was ordered by Rampesca and their Falklands' partners RBC.
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Friday, July 10th 2020 - 08:06 UTC
Irish minister elected new president of the Eurozone finance group

Ireland's finance minister Paschal Donohoe has been elected as the new president of the eurozone's finance group. Donohoe succeeds former president Mário Centeno from Portugal who said in June he would not run for another term as Eurogroup president.
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Friday, July 10th 2020 - 08:03 UTC
Wales mirrors England and Scotland air bridges to safe countries, but includes Spain

Welsh Government has amended its coronavirus regulations to allow people to travel to dozens of countries and overseas territories without having to quarantine on their return. The steps by the Government also means residents from those countries can now travel to Wales for summer holidays without having to self isolate.
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