International

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Some 270 Chinese jiggers catching giant squid in Peruvian EEZ; Navy monitoring the fleet

  

  Peru’s Navy was carefully watching a fleet of around 250 Chinese fishing vessels that had sailed just outside the Andean country’s waters, angering the domestic fishing industry and sparking a Twitter war between Washington and Beijing.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  China suspends fish imports from Brazilian company because of Covid-19 in the packaging

  

  China will stop accepting import orders from a Brazilian fish processing company for a week because the packaging has testes positive for coronavirus. Beginning on Sunday Monteiro Indústria de Pescados Ltda., was blacklisted by Chinese customs, a decision that was confirmed by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Gibraltar warns of potential perfect storm with Brexit and COVID-19

  

  Gibraltar Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Joseph Garcia has said that the combination of leaving the European Union and the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential makings of a perfect storm, the consequences of which will be felt for years to come.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Britain is part of “an arc of instability” that surrounds the EU, claims EC president Charles Michel

  

  Brexit Britain is part of an “arc of instability” that has emerged around the European Union, the bloc's chairman said on Monday, ranking London's decision to leave the EU along with threats from Turkey, Russia, Libya and Syria.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 08:18 UTC

  More cases of African swine fever in wild boars in Germany

  

  One more case of African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in a wild boar in the eastern German state of Brandenburg over the weekend, Germany’s agriculture ministry said.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 08:17 UTC

  Playing football can improve mental health: new research

  

  By Mark Llewellyn, Alecia Cousins, and Philip Tyson (*) – Playing football is a good way to get physically fit. But our new study shows that a regular kickabout can also lead to improved mental health, social confidence, and a sense of purpose.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Coronavirus global death toll passed one million on Saturday

  

  The global death toll from the novel coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passed 1 million on Sunday. The pandemic has ravaged the global economy, inflamed geopolitical tensions, and upended lives, from Indian slums and Brazil's jungles to America's biggest city New York.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  OPEC is sixty, and feels old, exhausted and in need of more partners

  

  OPEC faces a critical moment in its 60-year history with the coronavirus crushing crude demand and prices, discord among its members, and threats from a world seeking cleaner fuels.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Islands Games in Guernsey postponed because of coronavirus

  

  Next year's Island Games in Guernsey have been postponed because of coronavirus, the International Island Games Association has confirmed. The event, which was due to be held between 3-9 July 2021, has not been canceled altogether but a decision is yet to be made on when it will now take place.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Libya's Hariga port resumes loading export oil after an eight month blockade

  

  An oil tanker is expected to load crude at Libya's Marsa el-Hariga terminal this week, the first since a blockade by eastern forces in January slashed the OPEC member's oil production to a trickle.