International

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 07:29 UTC

  Covid-19 “peaked” in China but countries should prepare for “a potential pandemic”, warns WHO

  

  The World Health Organization on Monday said the new coronavirus epidemic had “peaked” in China but warned that a surge in cases elsewhere was “deeply concerning” and all countries should prepare for a “potential pandemic”.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 06:42 UTC

  China fast-tracks ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals

  

  China's top legislature said it will immediately ban the trade and consumption of wild animals, in a fast-track decision it says will allow the country to win the battle against the coronavirus outbreak.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 06:40 UTC

  Goldman Sachs facing charges in Malaysia for misleading investors on a US$ 6,5bn bond sale

  

  Three units of Goldman Sachs pleaded not guilty to charges of misleading investors regarding US$6.5 billion in bond sales that the U.S. investment bank helped raise for state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Bernama state news agency reported on Monday.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 06:38 UTC

  Trump receives a hero's welcome in Gujarat, India, Prime Minister Modi's home state

  

  Emerging in a stadium to the appropriate strains of the Village People's “Macho Man” as 100,000 people cheered on, US President Donald Trump looked like he was at a campaign rally in America's Midwest.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentina will allow IMF to inspect its accounts under Article IV consultations

  

  Argentina agreed to start consultations with the International Monetary Fund that could lead to a new financing program, days after the global lender said the country’s debt situation had become “unsustainable”.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:47 UTC

  “Decolonization is a process guided by the aspirations and needs of the communities living in the territories”

  

  With 17 non-self-governing territories remaining worldwide, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said that decolonization is a process that has to be guided by the aspirations and needs of the communities living in the territories.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:13 UTC

  UK interested in partnership with Argentina to develop the railway system

  

  Ambassador Mark Kent said the United Kingdom wants to be a partner of Argentina in such areas as the development of railways, following a meeting of a British trade mission with the head of the country's Railways infrastructure Administration, ADIFSE, Ricardo Lissalde.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:10 UTC

  Warren Buffett recommends 'shareholder-loyal pit bulls and not cocker spaniels' in corporate America boards

  

  Warren Buffett called on corporate America to make their boards of directors more accountable to shareholders and less beholden to chief executive officers, perhaps by reducing their pay and requiring that they buy more stock.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:59 UTC

  British passports will return to dark blue color. although the new document will be made in the EU

  

  Britain will start re-introducing traditional blue passports next month, the interior ministry said on Saturday, replacing the burgundy European Union documents that have been in use since 1988.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:53 UTC

  Leading central bankers, UK, EU and Japan, discuss how to reach the 2% inflation elusive target

  

  Central bankers from the United States, Japan and the euro zone meeting in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia this weekend had their own shifting sands to cross – those of elusive inflation.