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  • Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

    Pandemic has pushed 20 million Latin Americans into poverty, UN report

    Poverty as a whole rose to afflict a total of 208 million people — 33.7% from 30.5% of the population — in a year when the overall GDP collapsed by 7.7%.

    More than 20 million people were pushed into poverty during pandemic-plagued 2020 across Latin America and the Caribbean, the U.N. economic agency for the region announced this week.

  • Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

    UK-Gibraltar partnership strengthened by new funding stream

    The objective of the scheme is to support Gibraltar’s transition away from EU structural funding

    The UK Government has included Gibraltar in the UK Community Renewal Fund for 2021-22. This means that projects in Gibraltar will be eligible for funding up to a maximum of half a million pounds.

  • Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

    Casino supermarkets sued under French law for selling beef linked to deforestation

    The groups linked Casino meat to an area of deforestation “five times the size of Paris”. Casino said it took a “rigorous” approach to its supply chains.

    French supermarket chain Casino is being sued by indigenous groups from the Amazon, for allegedly selling beef linked to deforestation. The 11 indigenous groups, backed by NGOs in the US and France, are seeking €3.1m in damages.

  • Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 07:10 UTC

    Rossby Waves, and Wave-7

    A winter temperature 25°C colder than usual for the time of year is rare, but this is not the first time it has snowed in Texas

    Bt Gwynne Dyer – It used to blast straight east all the way around the planet, but even then it occasionally developed long S-shaped kinks called Rossby waves: Big loops extending far north and south of its usual track.

  • Friday, March 5th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

    Icelandair's 42 hours flight to Antarctica and home again

    The charter flight included offloading provisions for the research station's staff who will remain at Troll this winter, and to pick up scientists returning to Norway

    In its presentation, Icelandair says it usually flies closer to the Arctic Circle, but on this occasion, the trip was 4 days and 42 flight hours from the top of the world to the bottom, and home again. On Friday, February 26, an Icelandair Boeing 767 (TF-ISN), landed at Troll airfield (QAT) at the Troll research station operated by the Norwegian Polar Institute in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.

  • Friday, March 5th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

    The Haves and Have-nots of the Digital Age

    Despite the promise of digital transformation, it can also drive unequal outcomes in education, opportunities, and access to health care and financial services

    By Gita Bhatt (*) – Accelerated by the pandemic, the digital future is coming at us faster than ever before, and maybe faster than we can imagine. In this issue, we explore the possible consequences —the good, the bad, and the gray.

  • Thursday, March 4th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

    White House financial support for Merck and Johnson & Johnson to speed vaccine production

    J&J was contracted to deliver 200 million doses to the federal government by the end of May and roughly a billion doses globally by end-2021. Photo: Getty Images

    White House senior adviser Andy Slavitt told reporters on Tuesday that the federal government is planning to spend US$100 million to help the joint partnership between Merck & Co and rival Johnson & Johnson accelerate vaccine production.

  • Thursday, March 4th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

    France bans extreme right group which incited hatred, violence and attacks immigrants

    Minister Darmanin said the group had links to ”ultra right groups from which (GI) receives logistical support”

    France agreed on Wednesday to ban the far-right group Generation Identity. Interior minister Gerald Darmanin said it took into account the group's “structure and military organization,” adding that GI can be regarded “as having the character of a private militia.”

  • Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 - 08:56 UTC

    Merck & Co to the rescue of Johnson & Johnson single shot Covid-19 vaccine

    Under its contract, J&J was supposed to deliver 12 million doses by the end of February, but had fewer than four million ready to ship

    Merck & Co will help make rival Johnson & Johnson's single-shot Covid-19 vaccine in a partnership set to be announced on Tuesday by US President Joe Biden, a White House official said. J&J's vaccine production has been slower than promised.

  • Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 - 08:38 UTC

    Louise De Sousa is the new British Ambassador to Chile

    Ambassador De Sousa joined the Diplomatic Service in 1991, most recently serving as British Ambassador to Tunisia, from 2016 to 2020

    Ambassador Mrs. Louise De Sousa will lead the British Embassy’s efforts further strengthening ties and co-operation between the United Kingdom and Chile. Ambassador De Sousa’s priorities will focus on UK and Chile co-operation responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and a clean, resilient global economic recovery; promoting meaningful action to tackle climate change in the lead-up to the COP26 climate conference; and further strengthening trade and prosperity between the UK and Chile. The ambassador’s work will also include defence and security co-operation, science and innovation, educational and cultural links, and gender equality, reflecting UK global priorities.