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A passenger on AIDAblu – the first AIDA Cruises’ ship to resume cruising during the time of Covid-19 – was banned from reboarding after straying from a shore excursion in Catania, Italy, this week. In doing so the passenger broke AIDA Cruises’ strict coronavirus protocols that prohibit independent exploration. At...Read Full Story Carnival Corp.MSC CruisesPassengerCoronavirus Disease 2019ItalyShipCataniaAidaChief Executive OfficerThe Daily TelegraphEuropeShore ExcursionsCarnival CorporationThe TelegraphRoyal Caribbean GroupRichard Fain

image captionAnrí Ó Domhnaill hopes to complete the feat in a year. Anrí Ó Domhnaill is no ordinary swimmer. The Irish endurance athlete is attempting to finswim around the coast of Ireland. Finswimming involves swimming on the water's surface using fins and a snorkel. Known as Finman, a nod to...Read Full Story CoastSwimmingO'DonnellNorthern IrelandIrish PeopleAtlantic OceanCounty DonegalEuropeScotlandUNMount ElbrusBeagle ChannelBBC News NIFinmanPerito Moreno Glacier

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MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is facing a no-confidence debate in parliament brought by the nation’s far-right Vox party, but it appears the maneuver lacks the necessary votes to topple the government. The parliament is hearing arguments for and against the motion on Wednesday before a vote scheduled for Thursday. Vox argues that Sánchez’s government must depart for what the party says is the poor handling of the pandemic by authorities.If the no-confidence vote were to succeed, it would replace the current left-wing coalition government with one led by Vox leader Santiago Abascal. The leading opposition party, the conservative Popular Party, however, has already said it won’t back Vox. Without the Popular Party’s votes, the motion has no chance.“With victims, outbreaks and infections, the truth is that this no-confidence motion is a waste of time,” Popular Party secretary-general Teodoro García Egea said before the start of the debate.Many observers of Spanish politics consider the no-confidence vote as a way for the upstart Vox to put more pressure on the Popular Party. The Popular Party has been very critical of Sánchez, but Vox’s rise in recent years has come at the expense of the Spain’s traditional right-wing force. Now it must choose between one adversary or the other. Spain is set to become the first country in Western Europe to reach 1 million reported infections of the virus. The country has confirmed more than 34,000 deaths from COVID-19, but experts say the true death toll has likely been impossible to record because of a shortage of tests in the first weeks of the health crisis. “Sánchez’s government is the worst in the world that has faced the coronavirus,” Abascal told the parliament’s lower house. He said that the current government is the “worst in 80 years of (Spanish) history” signaling his preference for the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco that ruled from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 to after his death in 1975.SpainCoalition GovernmentMadridOpposition PartyCoronavirus Disease 2019ParliamentVoxConservative PartyPopular VotePopular PartyAPNo-confidence VoteDebatesSpanish PoliticsArgumentsPedro SánchezFrancisco FrancoTeodoro García EgeaSantiago Abascal

Australia's winemakers are scrambling to find new buyers around the world after China imposed hefty tariffs on the industry, effectively cutting it off from its most important export market. Beijing's decision last week to impose tariffs of up to 212% on Australian wine imports has endangered business with mainland China,...Read Full Story Treasury Wine EstatesTariffUnited StatesMainland ChinaShanghaiEuropeImport TariffsWorld TradeAsian MarketsCNN BusinessCommerce MinistryTWEWine AustraliaAustralian Wine ImportsExport SalesTim Ford

IndustryGrowthInsights has published a detailed report on the Nucleic-Acid Based Gene Therapeutics market. This market research report was prepared after considering the COVID-19 impacts and monitoring the market for a m

The new coronavirus pandemic has prompted an increase in contactless payments in Brazil, though the method has yet to take off, according to a new study released by Visa. According to the research, contactless payments made through cards, smartwatches and other mobile devices accounted for about 3% of all payments processed by the company between January and June 2020, compared to 1% in the same period last year.Coronavirus Disease 2019COVID-19 PandemicTravel VisaBraziliansEuropeContactless PaymentsMobile PaymentsMobile DevicesCredit CardsMobile AppsContactless TransactionsElectronic PaymentsBrazilian ConsumersFood RetailersQR CodesRead Full Story

Multiple countries in Europe are looking at new restrictions in an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus. NBC News' Matt Bradley joins 'Squawk Box' live from Paris with the latest.Read Full Story FranceCoronavirusNBC NewsParisEuropeMultiple CountriesSquawk BoxMatt Bradley

LONDON -- The global travel and tourism industry is on course to lose 174 million jobs this year if current restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus remain in place, a leading industry group warned Friday. While alarming, the projection from the World Travel & Tourism Council was lower...Read Full Story Coronavirus Disease 2019JobsChinaLondonEuropeTourism IndustryDomestic TourismGlobal GdpDomestic Air TravelGlobal GDPDomestic TravelTravel RestrictionsAirportsTravelersFlightsGloria Guevara

ALGIERS/RABAT (Reuters) - The leader of the Polisario Front, Western Sahara's independence movement, said on Saturday the group had ended a 29-year ceasefire with Morocco to resume its armed struggle following a border confrontation. A collapse of the truce, which Morocco has said it intends to stick with, could reignite...Read Full Story Western SaharaMoroccoAlgeriaCeasefireSpainWestern DesertReutersThe Polisario FrontOubi BechrayaPolisario FightersPolisario LeaderPolisario SupportersMoroccan PositionsAfricaEurope