Whole of portuguese health system 'close to limit' due to pandemic
Lusa - Portugal - 18/01/2021
Calls abroad grow for release of Putin critic Navalny
AFP - International - 18/01/2021
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was being held in a Moscow police cell on Monday after his dramatic airport arrest, as calls grew in the West for his immediate release.
President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic was still waiting to see his lawyer hours…
Valdis Dombrovskis, executivevice-president of the European Commission with responsibility for trade, told Lusa that he expected “close cooperation” from the Portuguese presidency of theCouncil of theEuropean Union with the new US…
World migration down 30 percent due to pandemic
AFP - International - 16/01/2021
The coronavirus pandemic has slowed global migration by nearly 30 percent, with around two million fewer people than predicted migrating between 2019 and 2020, according to a UN report released on Friday
Some 281 million people were living outside their country of…
U.S. House Democrats press forward on impeachment vote
Reuters - 13/01/2021
The House voted to approve a measure calling for President Trump to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment following last week’s deadly Capitol attack.
With at least five Republicans joining their push to impeach President Donald Trump over the storming of…
Casino empire Sheldon Adelson turned water into casinos and wealth in Macau
Macau Business - 13/01/2021
The founder of the Las Vegas Sands casino empire, Sheldon Adelson, died yesterday at the age of 87, victim of cancer, with the American businessman having irrevocably changed Macau forever.
China says WHO coronavirus experts to visit from Thursday
AFP - International - 11/01/2021
Ten World Health Organization scientists will visit China from Thursday to probe the origins of Covid-19, authorities said Monday, more than a year after the pandemic began and amid accusations Beijing has tried to thwart the investigation.
The long-awaited mission is of…
A year after first death in China, coronavirus source still a puzzle
AFP - China - 10/01/2021
It is the world’s most pressing scientific puzzle, but experts warn there may never be conclusive answers over the source of the coronavirus, after an investigative effort marked from the start by disarray, Chinese secrecy and international rancour.
January 11 marks…
Trump finally promises transition as calls mount to remove him
AFP - International - 08/01/2021
Donald Trump on Thursday acknowledged his presidency was ending and promised a smooth transition to Joe Biden in the wake of a mob attack by his supporters on the US Capitol now known to have left five people dead.
After two of his cabinet secretaries quit in protest…
China warns US of "high price" of possible visit to Taiwan by UN ambassador
Lusa - International - 08/01/2021
China announced that the United States will pay “a heavy price” if a US ambassador to the UN visits Taiwan in the next few days, as declared by the US State Department.
“The United States will pay a heavy price for the wrongdoing” and “China…
Cabinet members discussing Trump's removal: US media
AFP - USA - 07/01/2021
Members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet on Wednesday discussed the possibility of removing Trump from office after his supporters stormed the Capitol, three US news channels reported
The discussions focused on the 25th amendment to the US Constitution…
