International

• Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Maersk Essen, en route from China to Los Angeles lost 750 containers

  

  At least 750 containers were lost from the ship Maersk Essen during its journey between the Port of Xiamen, in China, and Los Angeles, in the United States. According to the maritime consultancy WK Webster, the incident occurred on January 16 and was allegedly caused by the fact that the ship faced adverse weather conditions during navigation.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - 08:35 UTC

  IMF, despite pandemic challenges, forecasts a strong economic rebound this year

  

  The global economy is set to lose over US$ 22 trillion between 2020 and 2025, due to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday. The economy will likely see a strong rebound this year, but the pandemic is causing severe damage said IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 13:34 UTC

  Poirot at 100: the refugee detective who stole Britain’s heart

  

  By Christopher Pittard, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth - A hundred years ago, Agatha Christie introduced British readers to a small man with an impeccably maintained mustache who, with the help of his “little grey cells””, was very good at solving crimes. That man, of course, was Hercule Poirot, who made his debut in Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1921.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Ex Brazilian president Michel Temer contracted as an advisor for Huawei's 5G

  

  China's Huawei has just hired a former president of Brazil to act as an advisor on 5G networking in the region. Through the new hiring, the company aims at ensuring the growth of the newer and faster bandwidth in the local market just prior to the auction for 5G wireless networks.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  ILO: Pandemic in 2020 has caused massive loss of working hours, equivalent to 255 million full time jobs

  

  Tentative signs of recovery are emerging in global labor markets, following unprecedented disruption in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the latest report from the International Labour Organization, ILO.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  “Journey of recovery” in 2021 will be accompanied by a high level of uncertainty, Christine Lagarde

  

  Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), said on Monday that the “journey to recovery” in 2021 would most likely be accompanied by a “very high level of uncertainty” before a transition to a “new economy.”

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  G7 will meet in June in Cornwall to make the future fairer, greener and more prosperous

  

  Prime Ministers and Presidents from the world’s leading democracies will come together in Cornwall, England in June to address shared challenges, from beating coronavirus and tackling climate change, to ensure that people everywhere can benefit from open trade, technological change, and scientific discovery.

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 08:35 UTC

  EU warns on export rules for Covid-19 vaccines if supplies to the 27 member block are limited

  

  The European Union has warned it will tighten rules on exports of Covid vaccines, amid a row with AstraZeneca over a cut in planned supplies to the 27-member bloc. Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said the EU “will take any action required to protect its citizens.”

• Tuesday, January 26th 2021 - 08:27 UTC

  Merkel and Biden agree to closer cooperation in pandemic, defense and trade

  

  REUTERS – German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke on Monday to US president Joe Biden to congratulate him and agreed on closer cooperation in tackling world challenges, particularly the pandemic, defense, and trade.

• Monday, January 25th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  Work starts at Antarctica's Rothera Research Station Discovery Building

  

  The next stage of building a scientific support facility in Antarctica has started and to avoid the risk of introducing COVID-19 to the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research Station, the construction team spent two weeks in quarantine and had three Covid-19 tests prior to making the 11,000-kilometer voyage by ship.