International

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Nine year old invents a portable “lunar toilet” for astronauts and wins NASA's challenge 2020

  

  A 9-year-old Malaysian boy has come up with a solution to a long-standing dilemma faced by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa): a gravity-defying loo for its next lunar mission.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  A new low for Argentine Falkland Islands' sovereignty claim propagandists

  

  By John Fowler (*) – The selective amnesia of successive Argentine governments never ceases to amaze. Last week, during universal rejoicing in the Falklands that the eleven year-long demining campaign had finally come to a successful conclusion, the Argentine Government was complaining about it in Geneva.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  “Good progress” in Argentina/IMF negotiations for an Extended Fund Facility

  

  ”Good progress” has been made in parts of a new program between the International Monetary Fund and Argentina, IMF officials said in a statement on Friday. An IMF team visited Argentina to begin discussions on repackaging some US$ 45 billion the country owes the Fund.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  Pfizer wants emergency distribution of its vaccine simultaneously in US, Europe and Latin America

  

  US drugmaker Pfizer Inc is hoping to rapidly roll out its experimental COVID-19 vaccine around Latin America soon after it gets emergency authorization in the United States, a senior executive said, which could be as early as next month.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  FDA to meet December 10 to decide emergency use of Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines

  

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's outside advisers will meet on Dec. 10 to discuss whether to authorize the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech for emergency use, the agency said on Friday.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:12 UTC

  G-20 must help plug US$ 5,4bn funding gap for the Covid-19 program, global leaders request

  

  G-20 nations must help plug a US$4.5 billion funding gap for a WHO-led program to distribute coronavirus vaccines and pave the way for an end to the pandemic, according to a letter sent by several world leaders, ahead of this weekend's virtual G20 summit.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  G-20 committed to support vulnerable countries beyond a temporary foreign debt freeze

  

  The Group of 20 (G-20) nations are determined to continue doing everything possible to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, warning in a draft communiqué that the global economic recovery remains “uneven, highly uncertain, and subject to elevated downside risks”.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Covid-19: UNICEF calls for opening schools and “averting lost generations”

  

  The United Nations agency responsible for aiding children is warning that the costs of coronavirus-related school closures out-weight the benefits, and that the pandemic poses substantial threats to children and their countries' long-term well-being.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 08:32 UTC

  After two years and two fatal disasters, Boeing wins FAA approval to fly with the 737 MAX

  

  After nearly two years of scrutiny, corporate upheaval, and a stand-off with global regulators, Boeing Co won approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration to fly its 737 Max jet again after two fatal disasters.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Johnson announces extra defense funding “to restore UK's position as Europe's foremost naval power”

  

  The Prime Minister has said billions of pounds of extra defense spending will “restore Britain’s position as the foremost naval power in Europe”. On Thursday, Boris Johnson set out a £16,5bn increase in funding to the Ministry of Defense (MOD) over the next four years.