International

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Google's dominance of digital advertising exposed in Australia

  

  Google's dominance of digital advertising technology in Australia needs to be addressed, the country's competition watchdog said, opening up another front in its battle with the US giant.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  HMS Hermes refuses to be scrapped; company wants to turn the former Indian Navy flagship in a museum

  

  The dismantling of the Indian Navy's former flagship, Viraat, (ex HMS Hermes) has been kept on hold by the country's Supreme Court, which also issued notice to the company that bought the ship from the government to be made into scrap. The Supreme Court's order comes on a petition by a group that offered to buy the decommissioned carrier and convert it into a museum.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  Moderate tsunami generated in the South Pacific following 7,7 magnitude earthquake

  

  A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific on Thursday, generating a tsunami that threatened island nations in the region. The quake struck at just after midnight on Thursday local time (1320 GMT Wednesday) about 415 kilometers east of Vao in New Caledonia at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the US Geological Survey.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 08:18 UTC

  FAO anticipates a sharp decline in global cereal stocks

  

  FAO's Cereals Supply and Demand Brief point to record wheat and rice production in 2020 and looking ahead to 2021 cereal output, early prospects indicate a likely modest increase for winter wheat crops in the northern hemisphere, buoyed by acreage increases in France, India, the Russian Federation and the US.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 07:18 UTC

  Netherlands company produces cultivated seaweed from seawater

  

  Zeewar is the first company in the Netherlands that produces and exclusively works with sustainably cultivated seaweed from clean seawater in the EU. The result is a premium seaweed product, in terms of taste, nutritional values, color, and a tender bite.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2021 - 10:13 UTC

  WHO finds no hard evidence on origin of pandemic in China

  

  Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) on mission in China announced Tuesday that they found no conclusive evidence of the origin of a pandemic that continues spreading around the world.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  “Hope” in Martian orbit becomes the first Arab interplanetary mission

  

  After seven months, the Hope craft launched by the United Arab Emirates has successfully entered the orbit of Mars. Next up are China's Tianwen-1 and the US's Mars 2020. February is full of nail-biting moments of truth for three countries — indeed, the world — as three separate Mars missions approach the red planet.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2021 - 08:49 UTC

  US deeply concerned with Haiti's fragile institutions

  

  The United States is “deeply concerned” about Haiti's fragile institutions after fresh political turmoil engulfed the volatile Caribbean nation over the weekend and the government of President Jovenel Moise forcibly retired three Supreme Court judges who posed a threat to his leadership.

• Tuesday, February 9th 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  Fernandez expects IMF to grant Argentina more flexible repayment terms

  

  President Alberto Fernández believes the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should grant Argentina more “flexible” terms on the repayment terms of the debt and warned that increasing inflation could lead his government to again hike export taxes, the president said in an interview on Sunday with newspaper Página/12.

• Tuesday, February 9th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Bolsonaro preparing a new round of emergency cash transfer to millions of Brazilians

  

  Brazil is preparing a fresh round of emergency cash transfers to millions of poor, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday. “I think there will be an extension,” Bolsonaro said in an interview with the TV program Brasil Urgente.