Politics

• Saturday, November 14th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  China congratulates Biden and Kamala on winning the November 3 election

  

  China finally congratulated Mr. Joe Biden and Ms. Kamala Harris on winning the November 3 US presidential election ending days of speculation about when Beijing would formally acknowledge the victory.

• Saturday, November 14th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Prime Minister Johnson confirms Tristan da Cunha Marine Protection Zone

  

  More than 4.3 million sq. km of some of the world’s most precious marine environment – 1% of all the world’s ocean – will be protected following the success of the UK’s Blue Belt Programme, the Prime Minister has confirmed.

• Saturday, November 14th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Al Qaeda second in command killed in Iran by an Israel operation

  

  Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing intelligence officials.

• Saturday, November 14th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Mexican steel tycoon on the run will be extradited from Spain to his home country

  

  Spain's high court said on Friday it had rejected an appeal lodged by the chairman of a leading Mexican steelmaker and ordered his extradition to his home country where he faces corruption charges.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 14:00 UTC

  Chilean financial system at risk by the continuing pandemic, central bank warns

  

  The continuing coronavirus pandemic poses the most significant risk to Chile’s financial system as institutions’ capacity to take mitigating action diminishes, the country’s Central Bank warned in a report on Wednesday.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Falklands second civilian case of Covid-19: pasenger who arrives in the air bridge

  

  The first two civilian cases of Covid-19 have been identified in the Falklands, it was confirmed this week, reports Penguin News. The first case was identified through quarantine surveillance swabbing of the individual, who had been in quarantine since their arrival in the Islands on November 5, “and remains so,” according to a Falkland Islands Government press statement.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  For Bolsonaro, US elections are not over, “Have they really finished?”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a close ally of Republican President Donald Trump and one of the few prominent world leaders still not to have congratulated Democratic President-elect Joe Biden on his election win, asked on Thursday whether the vote in the U.S. was really over.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Street protests in Peru against the new government of interim president

  

  Peru's interim President Manuel Merino called for calm on Thursday amid protests that have escalated around the country since the abrupt ouster of former leader Martin Vizcarra.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 08:51 UTC

  Ortega's Nicaragua approves the privatization of drinking water services

  

  The Nicaraguan parliament, controlled by the party of leftist President Daniel Ortega, on Thursday, approved a reform that will open the door to the privatization of drinking water services in the Central American nation.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 08:37 UTC

  Land mines and other explosives caused 5,554 victims in 2019

  

  Land mines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) killed or injured at least 5,554 people around the world last year, according to the Landmine Monitor 2020, published in Geneva on Thursday.