International

• Thursday, July 13th 2023 - 09:55 UTC

  WHO concerned bird flu virus might affect humans more easily

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday said it has “strong concerns” that the avian flu virus (H5N1) might mutate to infect humans, as outbreaks of the disease among birds are becoming more frequent. In the WHO's assessment, the virus might adapt to infect humans more easily.

• Thursday, July 13th 2023 - 09:00 UTC

  South & North America – Best Destinations for Gambling Lovers

  

  For many individuals, nothing is more enjoyable and thrilling than traveling to a city famed for its casinos and entertainment. Almost any well-known party city on the globe seems to combine these two. The potential of casinos in Latin America and the Caribbean is always enticing.

• Thursday, July 13th 2023 - 07:30 UTC

  European Parliament approves bill for the restoration of peat-lands

  

  The European Parliament has accepted a key biodiversity bill that will see the restoration of CO2-storing peat-lands but has been criticized by farmers another opposition groups due to fears they might lose land.<br />
  Testing the EU's global climate credentials, the lawmakers supported the European Commission plan in a razor-thin 324-312 vote with 12 abstentions.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2023 - 21:06 UTC

  China extends financial measures for the battered real estate to the end of 2024

  

  China's top financial regulators announced this week that financial support measures for qualified real estate developers, taken in November 2020, will be extended through the end of 2024, in order to continue to guide more financial support for firms and to ensure deliveries of homes.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2023 - 21:03 UTC

  Shell considers cutting oil and gas production “dangerous and irresponsible”

  

  Cutting oil and gas production would be “dangerous and irresponsible”, the boss of energy giant Shell has told the BBC. Wael Sawan insisted that the world still “desperately needs oil and gas” as moves to renewable energy were not happening fast enough to replace it.

• Monday, July 10th 2023 - 22:03 UTC

  Sweden in NATO, if Turkey joins the European Union, Erdogan insists

  

  Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday added European Union membership o the list of demands he wants fulfilled in exchange for finally backing Stockholm's accession to NATO.

• Monday, July 10th 2023 - 19:04 UTC

  US/UK relations “solid rock,” president Biden tells PM Sunak

  

  US President Joe Biden has described relations with the UK as “rock solid” during talks in London with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Mr. Biden said he “couldn't be meeting a closer friend and a greater ally”. Mr. Sunak hailed the UK and the US as “two of the firmest allies” in NATO.

• Monday, July 10th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

  Peru: Afghan migrants rescued from people traffickers

  

  Peruvian authorities Sunday rescued 23 Afghan victims of migrant trafficking, it was reported in Lima. “The Tahuamanu Prosecutor's Office in the district of Madre de Dios achieved the rescue of 23 migrants of Afghan nationality in an operation carried out on the Peru-Brazil border, in coordination with the police,” said a statement from the prosecutor's office.

• Saturday, July 8th 2023 - 14:28 UTC

  IMO agrees to cut greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping by mid century

  

  The International Maritime Organization, IMO on Friday sealed a deal that sets ambitious emissions-cutting targets. IMO agreed to cut total annual emissions of greenhouse gases “by at least 20%, striving for 30% by 2030” and “by at least 70%, striving for 80%, by 2040.” 

• Saturday, July 8th 2023 - 14:13 UTC

  Humanoid robots at first AI media conference deny intentions of replacing humans

  

  Robots have stressed they work alongside humans to assist them and have no intention of overthrowing or replacing them, though they suggested they could be more efficient government leaders, as they took questions from reporters in their first-ever press conference.