International

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Indonesia rainforest fires more toxic and extended than blazes in the Amazon, EU claims

  

  Fires that destroyed Indonesian rainforests pumped out more carbon dioxide than the blazes in the Amazon this year, according to the European Union's atmosphere observation program.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Boris Johnson is “dangerous and unfit for office”, claims Scottish leader Sturgeon calling for a vote to “escape Brexit”

  

  Scotland's leader Nicola Sturgeon is to accuse Prime Minister Boris Johnson of being “dangerous and unfit for office” as she launches the SNP's election manifesto. The SNP leader will say that a vote for her party on 12 December will be a vote to “escape Brexit and put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands”.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Abu Dhabi's Premier League Manchester City worth US$ 4.8 billion

  

  The owner of English Premier League champions Manchester City is selling a US$500 million stake to private equity firm Silver Lake, valuing the football club's owner at US$4.8 billion, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Thieves empty German museum of €1 billion in jewels and treasures

  

  Thieves grabbed jewels and other treasures worth up to €1 billion from an eastern German museum in the early hours of Monday, Bild newspaper reported.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2019 - 09:17 UTC

  Romanian authorities trying to rescue thousands of sheep trapped in a capsized ship

  

  Port authorities tried to right a capsized ship on Monday to rescue thousands of sheep trapped below deck in the Black Sea off Romania. The Palau-registered Queen Hind flipped onto its side shortly after leaving Romania's Midia port en route to Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Its crew, most of them Syrians, were rescued.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2019 - 08:55 UTC

  Spanish police seize a Colombian submarine with tons of cocaine in Galicia

  

  Police in Spain have seized a submarine carrying cocaine off the coast of the northwest Galicia region which had arrived from South America, officials said on Monday.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  Britain is a dangerous mess, warns Tony Blair; “the Marxist Leninist wing has taken over Labour”

  

  Former prime minister Tony Blair said on Monday that Britain was in a dangerous mess and that neither his own Labour Party nor Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives deserved to win a Dec. 12 election.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  Tories' lead over Labour is narrowing according to the latest opinion polls

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party saw its lead over the opposition Labour Party narrow during the last week, an opinion poll by ICM for Reuters showed on Monday, ahead of a Dec 12 election.

• Monday, November 25th 2019 - 12:40 UTC

  What is the Airbnb effect on the global tourism industry?

  

  Every so often, industries become disrupted by an innovative idea or different approach to providing services in order to match customer demand. We have seen how Uber changed the landscape for the taxi industry, using a model that offers a quick and easy solution to booking a local taxi via an app and signing up self-employed drivers.

• Monday, November 25th 2019 - 06:29 UTC

  US, a source of instability and “baselessly smearing China” blasts top Beijing official

  

  The United States is the world's biggest source of instability and its politicians are going around the world baselessly smearing China, the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Saturday in a stinging attack at a G20 meeting in Japan.