International

• Tuesday, September 7th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  Dreamliner deliveries entangled within red tape and FAA inspections

  

  Boeing deliveries of the 787 model, known as the “Dreamliner” have been put on hold for a while now and are not expected to resume until at least the end of October, according to The Wall Street Journal.

• Tuesday, September 7th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  ”How is my friend President Fernandez getting along?

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez is planning to succeed his Mexican peer next 17 September as chair of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Estates, CELAC, one of several regional organizations in the continent, but his luck seems to be in the will of a gnome dictator in one of the Caribbean Commonwealth islands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

• Tuesday, September 7th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Football legend Pele recovering from colon surgery

  

  Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, has undergone colon surgery to remove a tumour. After the procedure, he posted on Instagram that he was feeling well.

• Monday, September 6th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  WTO resumes negotiations on fisheries subsidies; agreed text should be ready by December

  

  World Trade Organization country members resumed this month fisheries subsidies negotiations following the August break and the chair of the rounds Ambassador Santiago Wills from Colombia said the objective was to produce a clean text on fisheries subsidy rules ahead of the 12th ministerial conference next December.

• Monday, September 6th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  World Cup qualifier in Brazil halted due to presence of Argentine players from red-zoned England

  

  The football World Cup qualifying match between South American giants Brazil and Argentina in Sao Paulo was halted Sunday after just seven minutes by health authorities from the host country, claiming four of the visiting players had allegedly dodged quarantine and other COVID-19 measures.

• Monday, September 6th 2021 - 07:00 UTC

  Record order of containers to help relieve maritime traffic congestion

  

  Hapag-Lloyd AG, the German international shipping and container transportation agency has announced it has ordered 75,000TEU containers, which will be manufactured in China and delivered within the fourth quarter of 2021.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 07:24 UTC

  What’s the Mu variant? And will we keep seeing more concerning variants?

  

  By Paul Griffin (*) - This week the World Health Organization named a new “variant of interest” of the coronavirus, called the Mu variant. It was first found in Colombia in January 2021 and has been found in about 39 countries so far.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 06:53 UTC

  Heathrow chaos: Huge crowds overwhelm understaffed airport

  

  Some Heathrow passengers were reporting absolutely absurd queue times due to a Border Force staff shortage which kept travelers waiting in lines for five hours.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 06:46 UTC

  LATAM must reimburse boarding fees to travelers who did not fly

  

  LATAM will have to reimburse boarding fees to all those consumers who purchased air tickets and for different reasons were unable to travel. The decision is a Collective Voluntary Procedure from the Chilean National Consumer Service, Sernac and is estimated to benefit some 400,000 consumers involving some 600 million dollars.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 05:17 UTC

  Google's fiber optic cable landed on St Helena

  

  Google’s new submarine cable system, Equiano, which will connect Africa and Europe, will make its first landfall later this week – on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.