International

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 11:10 UTC

  G20 supports temporary halt to debt payments by world's poorest nations

  

  The Group of 20 nations announced support on Wednesday for a temporary halt to debt payments by the world's poorest nations as they struggle to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 11:08 UTC

  China argues WHO said there is no evidence the coronavirus was created in a lab

  

  Beijing's lockdown ahead of a possible resurgence of coronavirus infection e World Health Organization has said that there was no evidence the coronavirus that has infected more than 2 million people globally was created in a lab.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 11:04 UTC

  IMF fears social unrest could erupt if measures to mitigate pandemic are seen as unfair or insufficient

  

  New waves of social unrest could erupt in some countries if government measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic are seen as insufficient or unfairly favoring the wealthy, the IMF said in a new report on Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  End of “Greg Mortimer” cruise ordeal: last fifteen passengers flying to US and UK

  

  The final leg of the humanitarian repatriation of passengers on board an Antarctic cruise, stranded in Uruguay and most of them testing positive for coronavirus, ended Wednesday afternoon when they boarded in Uruguay's Carrasco international airport a sanitary charter to Miami.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  A 106-year-old great granny “beats” coronavirus and anxious to see her family

  

  A 106-year-old great-grandmother, thought to be the oldest patient in Britain to beat the novel coronavirus, was discharged from hospital to applause from nurses and health workers.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:57 UTC

  Bocelli's Easter concert was the most watched classical music on YouTube

  

  Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's solo Easter concert in a deserted Milan cathedral has scored a record as the most-watched classical music concert on YouTube.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:47 UTC

  “Coronavirus diplomacy” awarded South Korea's ruling party a landslide victory

  

  South Korea's ruling party won a landslide victory in Wednesday's general election, partial results showed after the coronavirus pandemic turned the political tide in President Moon Jae-in's favor.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:44 UTC

  Tracking technology with Smartphone software questioned by US senator fearing privacy violation

  

  Smartphone software makers Alphabet's Google and Apple will have to convince the public that any contact tracking technology to track who has been exposed to the new coronavirus will not lead to a violation of their privacy, Senator Richard Blumenthal said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Massive mortality of Atlantic salmon species in south Chilean farms

  

  The Marine Farm company notified Chile's National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service, SERNAPESCSA of massive mortality of fish of the Atlantic salmon species. The event took place at the Mellimoyu center (110899), located at ACS 34 in the Aysén region.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Brazil's most wanted criminal has been arrested in Mozambique

  

  One of Brazil's most wanted criminals has been arrested in Mozambique after spending more than two decades on the run, officials say. Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos, known as Fuminho, is accused of running drug trafficking operations for one of Brazil's most powerful gangs.