International

• Wednesday, October 14th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Pioneer ozone Mexican scientist and Nobel Prize dies

  

  Mario Molina, the winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995 and the only Mexican scientist to be honored with a Nobel, died last week in his native Mexico City. He was 77 years old.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  Oxfam claims IMF's loans during the pandemic have worsen poverty and inequality

  

  The vast majority of International Monetary Fund loans extended during the Covid-19 pandemic have suggested or demanded spending cuts that would worsen poverty and inequality, charity group Oxfam says.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Mexico claiming Aztec emperor Moctezuma's feather headdress from Austria

  

  Mexico's president said on Monday that he had given his wife the “almost impossible mission” of persuading Austria to return a feather headdress said to have been worn by Aztec emperor Moctezuma.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  Two US academics and experts on auctions, awarded the Nobel Economics

  

  United States academics Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the 2020 Nobel Economics on Monday for work on auctions hailed as benefiting buyers and sellers around the world of everything from fishing quotas to aircraft landing slots.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 07:20 UTC

  Obstinate Japanese finally visits Machu Picchu after waiting for seven months

  

  Peru opened the ruins of Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist after he waited almost seven months to enter the Inca citadel, while trapped in the Andean country during the coronavirus outbreak.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 06:56 UTC

  British Airways, “fighting for survival” replaces CEO

  

  British Airways CEO Alex Cruz has been replaced after four-and-a-half years on the job as the COVID-19 pandemic pummels airlines around the world.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 06:50 UTC

  World envy: Crowd of 47,000 will pack Auckland's Eden Park for the All Blacks vs Wallabies test match

  

  New Zealand Rugby is expecting a “near-capacity” crowd of some 47,000 to pack into Auckland's Eden Park for the second Bledisloe Cup international against Australia on Sunday.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 06:28 UTC

  China opens its third Confucius Institute in Argentina: University of Cordoba

  

  Argentina's third Confucius Institute officially opened its doors at the National University of Cordoba (UNC), offering introductory to advanced courses on Chinese language and culture at the country's oldest institute of higher education.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Chile keeping close monitoring of large fleet of Chinese fishing vessels

  

  The Chilean government is keeping close tabs on a large fleet of Chinese fishing vessels that has stirred up controversy further north along the Pacific coast of South America, Foreign Minister Andres Allamand said.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Icebreaker “donation” for Argentina? Australia's “Aurora Australis”?

  

  According to reports in the Argentine media next November the Australian flagged icebreaker Aurora Australis will be docking in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, and then head for Buenos Aires where, allegedly, she will be incorporated to the Argentine navy fleet and will be participating next to ARA Almirante Irizar in the 2020/21 Antarctica campaign.