International

• Monday, February 15th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Argos Pereira retained in Montevideo: 28 crew members tested Covid-19 positive

  

  Red Ensign flagged trawler Argos Pereira which was heading for the Falkland Islands squid season, has been retained in the port of Montevideo after 28 of its 54 crew members tested positive to Covid-19, despite having complied with the expected protocols in the high seas before docking for bunkering in the Uruguayan capital.

• Monday, February 15th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Brazil confirms cases of UK variant of the coronavirus in two states

  

  Brazil's health ministry confirmed on Sunday cases of the UK variant of the novel coronavirus in two states and in the federal district of Brasília. However, the government said it has not yet confirmed cases of the South African variant.

• Monday, February 15th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

  Egypt: archeologists uncover 5,000 year old brewery with a 22,400 liters capacity

  

  An Egyptian-American team of archaeologists has uncovered a 5,000-year-old brewery capable of producing some 22,400 liters of beer at a time, the Egyptian Tourism Ministry has announced.

• Saturday, February 13th 2021 - 08:38 UTC

  WHO admits the origin of Covid-19 remains an open question and requires further study

  

  World Health Organization head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that all hypotheses on the origins of Covid-19 remain open and require further analysis and study.

• Saturday, February 13th 2021 - 08:38 UTC

  Chinese cable channel CGTN banned in Germany as a result of UK's Ofcom license sharing

  

  The Chinese cable channel CGTN no longer has permission to be broadcast in Germany, a press spokesperson for the state media authority of North Rhine-Westphalia confirmed on Friday.

• Saturday, February 13th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  British controversial lawyer elected as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

  

  British human rights lawyer Karim Khan was elected on Friday as the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a politically daunting position whose incumbent was slapped with US sanctions.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  China doing its homework and ozone layer recovery back on track

  

  In recent years, scientists had been alarmed by a sudden unexplained rise in ozone attacking chemicals in the atmosphere. Higher levels of trichlorofluoromethane, also known as CFC-11, were showing up in air samples — despite being officially banned worldwide since 2010.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:33 UTC

  UK/EU talks to overcome post Brexit frictions in Northern Ireland; Dublin pleads for calm

  

  Britain and the EU vowed on Thursday to resolve post-Brexit trade frictions over the Northern Ireland border in the wake of the UK's departure from the bloc. Northern Ireland was barely mentioned in the parliamentary debates prior to the 2016 Brexit referendum.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentina's Patagonia bank teams with Swiss UBS and Banco do Brasil to have a global platform

  

  UBS BB Investment Bank, a joint venture between UBS Group AG and Banco do Brasil SA for South America, reached a collaboration agreement with Argentina’s Banco Patagonia SA.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:18 UTC

  RRS Sir David Attenborough begins sea trials around the Irish Sea

  

  Falklands flagged RRS Sir David Attenborough will spend the next two weeks testing anchoring, maneuvering, and dynamic positioning, as well as other engineering systems, such as freshwater making, that cannot be tested while in port. The trials will primarily take place in and around the Irish Sea, although some may take place on the West Coast of Scotland and the Celtic Sea.