International

Monday, July 13th 2020 - 08:48 UTC
OECD Investment Committee report helps Uruguay with its full membership incorporation

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Investments Committee has decided to support Uruguay's incorporation as full member of that committee. The decision follows a review by the Committee of Uruguayan investment policies.
Monday, July 13th 2020 - 08:47 UTC
White House and Beijing on clash course over TikTok and WeChat applications, all info goes to “Chinese military servers”

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said on Sunday he expected President Donald Trump to act firmly against the TikTok and WeChat applications, amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing. Trump last week had said he is considering banning the wildly-popular TikTok app as a way to punish China over the coronavirus pandemic.
Monday, July 13th 2020 - 08:47 UTC
Boris Johnson expected to announce staff should return to their working places

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell employers next week to start ordering staff back into their places of work, as long as it is safe to do so, in order to stem the coronavirus hit to the economy, the Daily Mail said.
Monday, July 13th 2020 - 08:39 UTC
Copper prices hit their highest in two years, over a Chilean miners' strike

Shanghai copper hit its highest in nearly 25 months on Monday, while London copper scaled a 24-month high, on supply worries from top producer Chile due to a potential strike at a mine.
Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 10:00 UTC
Medical experts disagree on air transmission of coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century - to the very origins of germ theory. The Geneva-based World Health Organization acknowledged this week that the novel coronavirus can spread through tiny droplets floating in the air, a nod to more than 200 experts in aerosol science who publicly complained that the UN agency had failed to warn the public about this risk.
Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 09:00 UTC
Cruise Lines react to Foreign Office's guidance on travel for the over 70 or underlying conditions

Cruise lines have responded to new Foreign Office guidance which advises those aged over 70 and those with underlying health conditions not to go on cruises. Many have are contacting customers affected and offering further cruise credit.
Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:26 UTC
Wall Street stocks jump on Friday after a bull's week, encouraged by reports of a Covid-19 vaccine

Wall Street stocks jumped on Friday with the Nasdaq racing to yet another record as progress on a coronavirus vaccine offset worries about spiking US case levels. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index finished at 10,617.44, up 0.7%, notching its sixth record close in seven sessions.
Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:16 UTC
US announces 25% duties on French products in response to France's digital services tax

The Trump administration on Friday announced additional duties of 25per cent on French cosmetics, handbags and other imports valued at US$1.3 billion in response to France's digital services tax, but would hold off on implementing the move for up to 180 days.
Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:11 UTC
Italy bans travelers arriving from Brazil, Chile and Peru

Italy on Thursday banned travelers from Brazil and 12 other countries it considers to pose a high risk of Covid-19 transmission. The full list comprises Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Moldova, Oman, Panama and Peru.
Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:05 UTC
Illegal trade of ivory shrinks but pangolin scales trafficking soars, UN report

The illegal global trade in ivory has shrunk while the trafficking of pangolins has soared, a UN report on wildlife crime based on four years' data said on Friday. National bans on selling ivory, particularly China's in 2017, appear to have helped further erode ivory trafficking after it peaked around 2011-2013, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its World Wildlife Crime Report, which was last published in 2016.