International

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  China will resume imports of Canadian beef and pork, PM Trudeau announces

  

  China has agreed to resume imports of Canadian beef and pork, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday, signaling a breakthrough in their tense relations.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  WHO recommends 15 minutes daily walking to improve productivity and life expectancy

  

  The world economy could be boosted by as much as US$100 billion a year if employers successfully encouraged their staff to meet World Health Organization guidelines on exercise, according to an analysis of the economic impact of the activity.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 20:37 UTC

  Google data center project in Uruguay under way

  

  Google plans to build a data centre for storage and server management within Uruguay's Science Park in the Canelones area, it was announced. It will be Google's second such facility in Latin America, the other one being in Chile.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Malvinas “Virgin of Lujan” image finally arrives to Buenos Aires

  

  An image of Argentina Patroness, the Virgin of Lujan which was left behind by the Argentine soldiers at the end of the Falklands/Malvinas war, and was recently returned by the United Kingdom and blessed by Pope Francis in the Vatican, finally arrived in Buenos Aires early morning Monday, 37 years after the conflict was over.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Protests all over the world: are we witnessing an emerging global society?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – Journalists don’t just travel in packs; they write in packs, too. And what they’re writing this week is endless pipe-sucking ruminations about what’s driving the seemingly synchronized outbreak of protests in a large number of very different countries around the world.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Several countries members of OAS Joint Declaration on the situation in Bolivia

  

  Following a presentation by Bolivian foreign minister Diego Pary to an extraordinary session of the Organization of American States' (OAS) permanent council in Washington, the following declaration was issued:

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Xi calls on the world “to tear down the walls” of protectionism and unilateralism

  

  President Xi Jinping on Tuesday pledged to further open China's economy, declaring the world must “tear down walls” as he opened an annual trade fair in Shanghai.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:34 UTC

  IAG, Iberia and British Airways parent company takes over Air Europa for €1bn

  

  IAG, the parent company of Iberia and British Airways, has agreed to buy Spanish airline Air Europa for €1bn in a move it says will strengthen Madrid’s position as a European hub. It will be the airline group’s third Spanish brand, behind the flag-carrier and low-cost Vueling.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  Commons has a new Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, who promised “the House will change for better”

  

  Long-serving Labour Party lawmaker Lindsay Hoyle was elected speaker of Britain’s House of Commons on Monday, taking up the job with a clear message: I’m not John Bercow.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  US formally notifies UN withdrawal from Paris climate accord

  

  United States on Monday formally notified the United Nations that it was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, making the world's largest economy the sole outlier from the agreement. President Donald Trump went ahead with the pullout despite mounting evidence of the reality and impact of climate change, with September the fourth month in the row with near- or record-breaking temperatures.