International

• Monday, January 27th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Deadly China virus impacts on oil prices while safe havens assets rally

  

  Fears over the global economic impact of the deadly China virus sent oil prices plunging more than on Monday to extend last week's sell-off, while safe-haven assets including the yen and gold rallied.

• Monday, January 27th 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  One in two Australians have donated money to support bushfire relief efforts

  

  One in two Australians have donated money to support bushfire relief efforts, a new survey showed over the weekend, with meteorologists warning more hot and dry weather is to return after a heavy rain respite dampened many of the blazes.

• Monday, January 27th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  India and Brazil sign accords in fifteen different sectors

  

  India and Brazil have signed 15 accords aimed at forging closer ties between the two emerging market giants across a range of sectors, especially defense, both countries’ leaders tweeted on Saturday.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Coronavirus deaths piling in China; health authorities scramble to prevent a global pandemic

  

  The official death toll from the coronavirus in China jumped on early Saturday to 41 from 26 a day before, as local media reported a doctor on the frontline of the battle to contain the virus in Wuhan city had died.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Netanyahu praises Fernandez for his “persistence” in investigating the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday congratulated Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez for his “persistence” in investigating a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  Turmoil in Spanish coalition: Transport minister meets Venezuelan vice president in EU territory

  

  Opposition parties in Spain are calling on the government to explain why one of its ministers met Venezuela’s vice-president in a secretive encounter onboard a private jet at Madrid airport.

• Saturday, January 25th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Even the richest of the richest now admit climate change is an existential threat

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – Donald Trump's speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Monday contained no surprises: half an hour of chest-thumping self-praise, although without the usual xenophobia and dog-whistle racism. It was, after all, an audience of the ultra-rich and powerful in which most of the movers and shakers were not American.

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 09:34 UTC

  Filmus reaffirms before C24, Argentina's legitimate rights over the Falklands

  

  The Argentine foreign ministry reported that on Thursday it had reaffirmed before UN Decolonization Committee, C24, the country's 'legitimate rights' over the South Atlantic Islands and surrounding maritime spaces, and called on the United Kingdom to resume negotiations for a peaceful solution to the dispute.

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  Coronavirus outbreak has become a global health emergency; WHO cautious, “it's a bit too early”

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it was “a bit too early” to declare a new coronavirus a global health emergency as China put millions of people on lockdown amid an outbreak that has killed 25 people and infected more than 800.

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Greta Thunberg and US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin clash at Davos over climate change

  

  The United States' financial chief on Thursday told Swedish teen Greta Thunberg to go study before calling for a fossil fuel halt, prompting the climate campaigner to reply it doesn't “take a degree” to understand the science.