International

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  Spain registers over 500,000 coronavirus infections after a second surge in cases

  

  Spain became the first country in Western Europe to register 500,000 coronavirus infections on Monday, after a second surge in cases that coincided with schools reopening.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  NASA pictures show the world's largest wetland lost to fires sweeping across Brazil

  

  A record amount of the world's largest tropical wetland has been lost to the fires sweeping Brazil this year, scientists said, devastating a delicate ecosystem that is one of the most biologically diverse habitats on the planet.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  France to UK: Brexit negotiator Barnier is not stepping down or being sidelined

  

  France denied the European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier was about to be sidelined by EU leaders in a bid to break the deadlock in trade talks, as reported by British newspaper the Daily Telegraph.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:21 UTC

  UN human rights office demands Paraguay impartially investigates the deaths of two Argentine girls

  

  The Paraguayan government must investigate “impartially and without delay” the deaths of two 12-year-old girls in a police and military operation against a rebel terrorist group in the north of the country, the regional office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Sunday.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:18 UTC

  US pork with ractopamine controversy in Taiwan

  

  Taiwan's main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) began a push on Sunday for a referendum to block the easing of restrictions on US pork imports, which if passed could threaten a long-mooted free trade deal with Taipei's key ally Washington.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:09 UTC

  “Wonder of the Seas”, with 5,000 guest capacity should be ready in 2022

  

  The new Wonder of the Seas, set to be the largest cruise ship in the world for Royal Caribbean International, is now in the water at Chantiers de l'Atlantique in France.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 07:43 UTC

  Johnson promoting the idea that if UK/EU talks don't advance, “both sides should accept it and move on”, says FT

  

  The British government is planning legislation that will override key parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, risking the collapse of trade negotiations with Brussels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 08:26 UTC

  “Don't expect widespread vaccination against Covid-19 until middle of next year”

  

  World Health Organization spokeswoman said on Friday it does not expect widespread vaccinations against COVID-19 until the middle of next year, stressing the importance of rigorous checks on their effectiveness and safety.

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 07:29 UTC

  Francis blast the “shaky pillars” of an economic model built on money idolatry

  

  Pope Francis said on Friday that the coronavirus pandemic had “toppled the shaky pillars” of a world economic model built on the idolatry of money and domination by the rich and powerful.

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 07:22 UTC

  Macron, “to be French is to defend the right to laugh, jest, mock and caricature”

  

  The right to mock and caricature, even religion, is an essential part of being French, President Emmanuel Macron said at a naturalization ceremony on Friday, days after the start of a trial of the accused accomplices in an attack by gunmen on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015.