International

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 07:29 UTC

  NASA astronauts enter the Space Station after landmark journey on the Crew Dragon

  

  NASA astronauts entered the International Space Station on Sunday after a landmark 19-hour journey on the first crewed US spacecraft in nearly a decade, a triumph for SpaceX and private enterprise.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 07:02 UTC

  Trump to delay G7 June summit and invite more countries including Russia, S. Korea, Australia, India

  

  United States President Donald Trump said he will delay the G7 summit scheduled to take place in June and invite other countries -- including Russia - to join the meeting. “I don't feel that as a G7 it properly represents what's going on in the world. It's a very outdated group of countries,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 06:59 UTC

  Pope Francis said “healing people, not saving money to help the economy is more important”

  

  Pope Francis said on Sunday that people are more important than the economy, as countries decide how quickly to reopen their countries from coronavirus lockdowns. The Pope made his comments, departing from a prepared script, at the first noon address from his window overlooking St Peter's Square in three months as Italy's lockdown drew to an end.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Brazil surpasses Spain and becomes fifth highest in number of virus fatalities

  

  Brazil on Friday reached 27,878 coronavirus deaths, official figures showed, surpassing the toll of hard-hit Spain and making it the country with the fifth-highest number of fatalities. The epicenter of the South American coronavirus outbreak, Brazil saw 1,124 deaths in 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Boeing dumped Embraer but the Brazilian plane maker has suitors from China, Russia and India

  

  Aircraft makers are circling Brazil’s Embraer weeks after Boeing ditched plans for a historic commercial aviation tie-up, people familiar with the matter said. Boeing axed plans to buy 80% of Embraer’s commercial unit in April, ending a planned move into regional jets that mirrored rival Airbus’ purchase in 2018 of a competing model developed by Canada’s Bombardier.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  Trump cuts relations with the World Health Organization, “a puppet organization of China”

  

  US President Donald Trump on Friday said he is terminating the US relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus, saying the WHO had essentially become a puppet organization of China.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  US-UK clash at UN with China over controversial law for Hong Kong

  

  President Donald Trump said on Friday he would strip several of Hong Kong's special privileges with the United States and bar some Chinese students from US universities in anger over Beijing's bid to exert control in the financial hub.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Merkel refuses to accept Trump invitation to a G7 summit in the US

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to accept US President Donald Trump's invitation to attend an envisaged summit of the Group of Seven (G7) in the United States, Politico reported on Friday.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  Trump orders a probe into Chinese companies listed in US financial markets

  

  US President Donald Trump on Friday ordered a probe into the actions of Chinese companies listed on American financial markets as tensions flared anew between the world's two biggest economies.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 07:42 UTC

  Spain to begin handing out a basic income scheme benefitting 850.000 homes

  

  Spain's leftwing government approved a minimum basic income scheme on Friday to tackle a spike in poverty stemming from the virus crisis that has forced many families to rely on food aid.