Politics

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  UK will formally apply to join the Trans Pacific Partnership

  

  The United Kingdom will formally apply to join one of the world’s largest free-trade areas, deepening trade ties with some of the fastest-growing markets in the world. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss will speak to ministers in Japan and New Zealand to request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), with formal negotiations set to start this year.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 03:38 UTC

  FIFA and WHO promoting fair access to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments

  

  FIFA and the World Health Organization (WHO) will team up to promote the need for fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics, and to encourage people to keep practicing life-saving, everyday public health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and to protect health.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Ecuador president's plane makes emergency landing in Washington before meeting with IMF chief and Biden officials

  

  The aircraft carrying Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno, the First Lady, and a delegation of top officials was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday in Washington at the end of an official visit, the country's communications ministry announced.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 08:24 UTC

  Bolivia will be among the first to benefit from WHO's Covax vaccine program

  

  The United Nations mission in Bolivia celebrated the fact that this country will be one of the first to receive vaccines from the multilateral Covax system, promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) to guarantee access to these drugs in the world's poorest countries.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 08:22 UTC

  World medics call for cooperation in fighting Covid-19, and an end to egotism and nationalism

  

  The World Medical Association called for cooperation to fight egotisms and nationalism in the fight against Covid-19. Speaking at a ceremony this Sunday in Vienna, where the WMA was presented with an award honoring physicians around the world for their fight against the pandemic, Dr. Otmar Kloiber, Secretary-General of the WMA, stressed the need for international co-operation.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 05:12 UTC

  New Zealand unveils ambitious carbon neutral plan: end of fossil fuel powered cars and 15% less cows

  

  The government of New Zealand unveiled a blueprint Sunday to phase out gasoline cars while it's dairy and beef industry, a key pillar of the economy, must slash cow numbers under the ambitious plan to be carbon neutral by 2050.

• Saturday, January 30th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Official 2020 inflation in Argentina at 36,1%, but several points higher for the poor half of the country

  

  Argentina registered inflation of 36,1% in 2020, with the declining rate during three quarters, picking up strongly in the last three months particularly basics such as food which is serious since almost half of the Argentine population are cataloged as poor or living below the poverty line.

• Saturday, January 30th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  One for Bolsonaro: Brazil almost broke; primary deficit reaches 10% of GDP

  

  Only a week ago, President Jair Bolsonaro said Brazil was “broke” and the latest Treasury numbers have come close to backing the statement. Last year the country reported a record primary budget deficit of 743.1 billion reais (US$138 billion), a record 10% of GDP.

• Saturday, January 30th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  EU will monitor (and block) coronavirus vaccine exports out of the continent

  

  The European Commission will monitor and in some cases block coronavirus vaccine exports out of the bloc since it installed a new mechanism on Friday. The move comes amid a row with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca over vaccine deliveries.

• Saturday, January 30th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Large companies sign “Neptune Declaration” to help crews trapped in ships because of Covid-19

  

  More than 300 large companies pledged this week to work together to help hundreds of thousands of merchant sailors trapped on ships for many months due to Covid-19. About 90% of world trade is transported by sea, and coronavirus restrictions in many countries are affecting global supply chains.