International

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  Venezuelan president Guaidó meets Johnson in London; in Caracas his office was raided by Maduro's secret service agents

  

  Venezuelan secret service agents have raided the offices of opposition leader Juan Guaidó while he is on a visit to the UK. Footage showed hooded and armed officers from the Sebin service outside the building in Caracas.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  “UK has crossed the Brexit finishing line”, claims Johnson after Parliament vote

  

  Boris Johnson has said the UK has “crossed the Brexit finish line” after Parliament passed legislation implementing the withdrawal deal. The EU Bill, which paves the way for the country to leave the bloc on 31 January, is now awaiting royal assent.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  Coronavirus from China could have reached Mexico; professor who visited Wuhan under home monitoring

  

  A man who fell ill in Mexico on Monday following a December trip to Wuhan, China, is under observation as a potential case of the coronavirus, the respiratory virus that has killed at least 19 people worldwide.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne again threatened by high temperatures and bush fires

  

  Soaring temperatures are set to stoke simmering bushfires in Australia's southeast on Thursday with Sydney forecast to hit 41 degrees Celsius following a few days of reprieve.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 08:26 UTC

  Falklands' veteran, discharged for LGBT, has medal returned and an apology from the Ministry of Defense

  

  Falklands veteran forced out of the Royal Navy due to his sexuality has had a medal returned to him 27 years after it was cut off his chest. Joe Ousalice was a radio operator for 18 years but was discharged in 1993 because of a ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 08:08 UTC

  Coronavirus outbreak in China: WHO could declare global health emergency

  

  China said it was halting flights and trains from Thursday out of Wuhan, the city of 11 million people at the centre of a deadly SARS-like virus outbreak, as the UN extended emergency talks on the disease.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 - 18:22 UTC

  International tourism growth continues to outpace the global economy

  

  According to the first comprehensive report on global tourism numbers and trends of the new decade, the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, this represents the tenth consecutive year of growth.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 - 17:54 UTC

  Monty Python legend Terry Jones dies aged 77 after losing struggle against dreadful illness

  

  British acting legend Terry Jones, one of the founding members of comedy troupe Monty Python, has died on Tuesday at the age of 77, his family announced Wednesday.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  China SARS-like virus keeps spreading; airports round the world tighten screening

  

  The number of deaths from a new SARS-like virus has climbed to nine as of the end of Tuesday with 440 confirmed cases, Chinese health officials said as authorities stepped up efforts to control the outbreak by discouraging public gatherings in Hubei province.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 - 06:47 UTC

  Ex Interpol chief sentenced in China to 13 years in prison for bribery

  

  Former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, who was detained on a visit to China in 2018, was sentenced on Tuesday (Jan 21) to more than 13 years in prison for bribery in a case that shook the international police organization.