International

Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 08:11 UTC
Latam rescheduling and scaling back domestic and international flights

South American carrier LATAM has suspended ticket sales on 23 routes across its network, including several domestic routes within Chile and international routes from Brazil, Chile and Peru. At the same time, the Santiago-headquartered carrier has made the bold move to suspend international destinations from five Argentinean destinations to the carrier’s hubs in Santiago, Lima and Sao Paulo until 2021.
Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 07:36 UTC
Dozens of dead dolphins washing up on France's Atlantic coast

$Postmortems often show fractures, broken tails and flippers and deep incisions cut into their skin by the nets. Some have been mutilated as fishermen release their bodies$

Dead dolphins are washing up on France's Atlantic coast in such high numbers that local populations of the mammals are at risk, marine biologists say.
Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 07:11 UTC
Spanish virologists find trace of coronavirus in Barcelona March 2019 waste water sample

Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona wastewater collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday.
Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 06:45 UTC
Brazil recorded longest lightning bolt, 700km and Argentina a lighting megaflash of 16,7 seconds

The UN's weather agency announced this week the longest lightning bolt on record -- a single flash in Brazil on October 31, 2018 that cut the sky across more than 700 kilometres.
Friday, June 26th 2020 - 10:08 UTC
Bournemouth authorities 'appalled' after thousands flocked to the beach

An English seaside resort declared a major incident Thursday after thousands of people flocked to the beach on the hottest day of the year so far, despite the threat of coronavirus.
Friday, June 26th 2020 - 10:00 UTC
Boris played Donald Trump “like a fiddle”, says John Bolton

Just like the Russian President, Britain's Boris Johnson also played Donald Trump “like a fiddle,” according to John Bolton, who suggested the British prime minister can use that ability to his advantage.
Friday, June 26th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
UN Secretary General calls on world leaders to strengthen multilateral cooperation

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the world to strengthen multilateral cooperation, saying a global approach has been the key to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Friday, June 26th 2020 - 09:24 UTC
UN human rights office calls for moratorium in use of facial recognition technology

The UN human rights chief called on Thursday for a “moratorium” on the use of facial recognition technology during peaceful protests, stressing that it could increase discrimination against people of African descent and other minorities.
Friday, June 26th 2020 - 09:23 UTC
Sao Paulo University to test a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Italian lab

The Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp) is in talks to test a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Italian researchers, the dean of the Brazilian university revealed.
Friday, June 26th 2020 - 08:27 UTC
Labour leader sacks education spokeswoman on “anti Semitic” controversy

The new leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, sacked his education spokeswoman Rebecca Long-Bailey on Thursday after she shared an article online which included a reference to what he called an “anti-Semitic conspiracy theory”.