International

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Biden does not want an Ireland/UK guarded border; insists on Good Friday peace deal

  

  U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday he did not want to see a guarded border between Ireland and the United Kingdom, adding that he had previously discussed the matter with the British and Irish prime ministers and other European leaders.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  Markets reach new records in Wall Street on Covid-19 vaccines optimism

  

  The Dow Jones Industrial Average breached the 30,000-mark for the first time on Tuesday, as optimism that COVID-19 vaccines will open the way to economic recovery next year fueled Wall Street’s rebound from a pandemic-driven crash this year.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Royal Navy in relief support operations for hurricane devastated Honduras

  

  Royal Navy helicopters have flown vital reconnaissance missions over devastated Honduras as relief operations continue in the wake of Hurricane Eta and Iota. Severe flooding and landslides following the two catastrophic storms have left millions of Hondurans displaced and isolated without food and clean water.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Cambridge appeals for the recovery of missing Charles Darwin's notebooks with “Tree of Life” sketches

  

  Two of Charles Darwin-s notebooks containing his pioneering ideas on evolution and his famous “Tree of Life” sketch are missing, believed stolen, the Cambridge University Library said on Tuesday. The British scientist filled the leather notebooks in 1837 after returning from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. The library said they were worth millions of pounds.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  UK recovers full control of its fishing waters; automatic rights for EU vessels revoked

  

  The UK’s first major domestic fisheries legislation in nearly 40 years passed into law. The Fisheries Act 2020 gives the UK full control of its fishing waters for the first time since 1973. The Fisheries Act will enable UK to control who fishes in British waters through a new foreign vessel licensing regime and ends the current automatic rights for EU vessels to fish in UK waters.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  World Tourism chief visits Montevideo and praises Uruguay's focus on the industry with and without the pandemic

  

  The Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has concluded his official visit to the Americas with a series of high-level meetings in Uruguay.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  China's appetite for imported pork slowing as the country recovers its herd

  

  China is starting to curb its appetite for imported pork as it regains its domestic stock and domestic meat prices are beginning to fall. Added to this are consumer concerns about the presence of Covid-19 on food packaging that arrives from other countries.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Spanish King on a 10-day quarantine after close contact with a positive case

  

  Spain's King Felipe VI started 10 days of quarantine on Monday after coming into close contact with someone who later tested positive for the new coronavirus, a Royal House source said.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2020 - 08:08 UTC

  Finnish M/S Viking Grace rescued from the Aland islands shores returns to port

  

  A passenger ferry that ran aground in heavy winds in a Baltic Sea archipelago between Finland and Sweden was dragged off the shore and towed early Sunday to a port, where some of its over 300 passengers disembarked.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 18:25 UTC

  Chinese submersible exploring the Mariana Trench, the deepest valley on the planet

  

  China live-streamed footage of its new manned submersible parked at the bottom of the Mariana Trench on Friday, part of a historic mission into the deepest underwater valley on the planet.