International

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  WHO experts deny Covid-19 was losing potency, as asserted by Italian epidemiologist

  

  Two World Health Organization experts and a range of other scientists said on Monday there was no evidence to support an assertion by a high profile Italian doctor that the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic has been losing potency.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  IATA announces new health recommendations for air travel

  

  Mask wearing, temperature controls, disinfection of aircraft - the International Civil Aviation Organization on Monday published a series of health recommendations for a pandemic-hit airline industry as it re-launches air travel.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:08 UTC

  Facebook staff criticize Zuckerberg for leaving Trump’s most inflammatory verbiage unchallenged

  

  Facebook employees walked away from their work-from-home desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing U.S. President Donald Trump’s posts as strictly as the rival platform has done.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Oil prices fall because of concerns about extended rioting in major US cities

  

  Oil prices fell due to concerns about riots in major US cities that could staunch demand after trading higher on optimism that OPEC would extend or enhance production cuts at a meeting in June.

• 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 It's a very outdated group of countries,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One.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.