International

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:34 UTC

  Inflation in China falls 0,2% in February; pork prices drop 14,9% year on year

  

  China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, fell 0.2% in February from a year earlier, paving the way for China's steady economic recovery in the post-COVID era as the price trend kept stable, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:34 UTC

  Countries and airlines discuss “health passports” hoping to re launch travel

  

  From digital certificates to “health passports”, countries and airlines across the globe are hoping to re-launch travel by letting people prove their Covid-free status. But with patchy vaccine access around the world and mounting concerns over data privacy, questions are swirling about how the measures will work in practice.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  Finland turned down Chinese Polar Institute offer to lease an Arctic airport

  

  The city of Kemijärvi in Finnish Lapland turned down an offer made in January 2018 by China’s state-funded Polar Research Institute to buy or lease the city’s airport, after it informed the Finnish Armed Forces. But the matter is only now being made public.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 07:30 UTC

  “Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members”

  

  Queen Elizabeth II said on Tuesday that the British royals were saddened by the challenging experiences of her grandson Harry and his wife Meghan Markle and promised to privately address revelations about a racist remark about their son.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Oil heading for US$ 70 a barrel on OPEC+ latest decision to retain output cuts

  

  Oil is heading toward US$ 70 a barrel after OPEC+ chose not to relax supply curbs even as the global economy pulls out of its pandemic-driven slump, confounding widespread expectations the group would loosen the taps.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  A third of world travel destinations remain closed to international tourism, UNWTO report

  

  Around a third of 217 world travel destinations’ borders surveyed remain completely closed to international tourists, as concerns grow over the impact of new coronavirus variants, and some governments reverse efforts to ease restrictions, a new report released on Monday by the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) revealed.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  New Zealanders happy with Queen Elizabeth as head of state

  

  Queen Elizabeth, as constitutional monarch of New Zealand, is unlikely to stop being the head of state anytime soon, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, in comments following Oprah Winfrey's interview with Prince Harry and Meghan.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  British regulators fined Chinese state CGTN €260,000 for breaching UK broadcast code

  

  British regulators on Monday fined Chinese state broadcast CGTN €260,000, a month after having revoked its license. Peter Humphrey complained to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about the channel's airing of a criminal confession that he says he was forced to make.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Greek 37 day old baby dies from Covid-19

  

  Greece on Monday mourned a 37-day-old baby, the youngest among the country's nearly 6,800 COVID-19 victims. “Sadly today we had the pandemic's youngest victim in our country, an infant that spent 17 of its 37 days fighting the coronavirus,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted.

• Monday, March 8th 2021 - 08:35 UTC

  Maduro and wife Cilia Flores receive first doses of Sputnik vaccine, as shown by state television

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores have received their first doses of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Venezuelan state television reported, while the country received a second shipment of the vaccine.