International

• Saturday, November 13th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Cruise season starts in Buenos Aires with arrival of first ship

  

  Buenos Aires' cruise season has kicked off with the arrival at the Argentine capital's river port of the US-flagged World Navigator carrying some 100 passengers from Europe, the United States and Canada.

• Saturday, November 13th 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  Pfizer seeks clearance for Comirnaty to be used in Brazil on kids aged 5 to 11

  

  The pharmaceutical company Pfizer Friday filed an application before Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) for its COVID-19 vaccine named Comirnaty to be cleared for use on patients aged 5 to 11 years old.

• Saturday, November 13th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Queen will attend Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph

  

  The Queen will attend the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph but miss the General Synod next week, Buckingham Palace has announced.

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 20:10 UTC

  UK prison authorities allow Assange to marry mother of his kids

  

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted permission to get married by UK prison authorities, his fiancee announced Friday. The 50-year-old Australian national is in custody in Britain, pending a court decision on a request for his extradition from the United States.

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 19:07 UTC

  Cardiff court hands down 18- month jail sentence to manager behind Argentine footballer's fatal flight

  

  British aviation businessman David Henderson, who organized the private flight from Nantes to Cardiff resulting in the death of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of “endangering the safety of the aircraft.”

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 18:37 UTC

  Austria's unvaccinated on the brink being quarantined yet again

  

  The Government of Upper Austria plans to impose a full lockdown on the region's unvaccinated as of next Monday, despite doubts that this is the right approach at the growing number of COVID-19 infections, it was reported.

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 10:00 UTC

  Governments at COP26 create group to rid world of fossil fuels

  

  A group of countries and territories led by Denmark and Costa Rica have decided to join forces with regards to a world free from fossil fuels in compliance with the 2015 Paris Agreement under a group named “the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA).”

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Xi, Biden to hold virtual Summit next Monday

  

  The Presidents of China, Xi Jinping, and of the United States, Joseph Biden, are to hold a virtual Summit this coming Monday to discuss bilateral issues, particularly the case of Taiwan, an independent country still considered a rogue province by the Asian giant.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 20:06 UTC

  Beijing shopping mall closed after positive case of COVID-19 found to have been there

  

  Authorities in the Chinese capital Beijing sealed up a large shopping mall and placed several apartment buildings under full lockdown due to a new outbreak of COVID-19, it was reported Thursday.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 19:12 UTC

  South Africa's last white president dies of lung condition

  

  Former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk, the last white man ever to rule the country, has died Thursday of mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer, at his home near Cape Town. He was 85.