United States

• Wednesday, February 3rd 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Amazon Jeff Bezos to become executive chairman and Andy Jassy the next CEO

  

  Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon later this year, the company said on Tuesday, 30 years after holding that role. The online company said he'll be replaced in the fall of 2021 by Andy Jassy, who currently runs Amazon's cloud business.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:28 UTC

  Pfizer-BioNtech promises 75 million more vaccines to EU in 2021 second quarter

  

  BioNtech-Pfizer has promised to deliver up to 75 million more coronavirus vaccine doses to the EU in the second quarter of 2021, the company's head Sierk Poetting said in a statement on Monday.

• 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.

• Saturday, January 30th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  US economy hazy despite S&P surge, ten million workers jobless and record high unemployment applications

  

  The United States grew at a 4% annual rate in the final three months of 2020 and shrank last year by the largest amount in 74 years. The coronavirus inflicted the worst economic freeze since the end of World War II, the economy contracted 3.5% and clouded the outlook for this year.

• Thursday, January 28th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Over a million people have died from Covid-19 in the Americas

  

  More than one million people have died from COVID-19 in North and South America, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported. Last week two million more cases were reported in the Americas, with the United States the main driver of the outbreak.

• Thursday, January 28th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Secretary of State Blinken: US-China is “arguably the most important relationship in the world”

  

  The United States-China relationship is “arguably the most important relationship that we have in the world,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during his first full day in office.

• Thursday, January 28th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Putin criticizes “digital giants” that challenge “legitimate democratic institutions”

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the growing influence of U.S. social media companies and said their impact on society now puts them in competition with elected governments.

• Thursday, January 28th 2021 - 08:33 UTC

  Climate change becomes a national security issue for the Pentagon

  

  Reuters – The risk of climate change in military theatre simulations and war games was confirmed by the Pentagon following a raft of executive actions signed by US president Joe Biden to tackle the climate issue.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Europe calls on Venezuela for broad talks and new elections, warns of more sanctions

  

  AP – The European Union called for broad political talks in Venezuela to set up new elections and warned that it stands ready to slap sanctions on more senior Venezuelan officials in the country if they undermine democracy or take part in human rights violations.

• Wednesday, January 27th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  ”(Trump's) Impeachment trial is dead on arrival”, Senator Rand Paul

  

  Forty-five Senate Republicans backed a failed effort on Tuesday to halt US ex-president Donald Trump's impeachment trial, in a sign of party unity and the former president's continued sway over the GOP.