Stories for May 2024

Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 12:25 UTC
Brexit and UK's rising costs of implementing customs to EU imports

The UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016 but remained in the bloc's single market and customs union until 2021. When UK withdrew from the EU customs union a new RU/UK Trade Cooperation Agreement (TCA) went into effect.
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Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Rio Grande do Sul still far from recovering from floods

Brazilian authorities have released a new report updating the number of casualties in the storm-hit State of Rio Grande do Sul to 157 with 88 people still missing and some 650,000 others displaced.
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Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 10:50 UTC
France and Germany split over the EU–Mercosur trade pact

By Oliver Pieper - The free trade deal between the European Union and the South American trade bloc Mercosur could become the world's largest agreement, involving a market of a total of 780 million people. But in late March, French President Emmanuel Macron not only described it as “a very bad agreement,” he even suggested it should be “left behind” and called for “a new agreement.”
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Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 10:24 UTC
No May Pact, but celebrations in Córdoba still on

Argentine President Javier Milei confirmed Monday upon his return from Spain that there will be no May Pact as he had planned because the so-called Omnibus Law -officially known as the Bases Law- has not yet been approved by the Senate.
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Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 10:16 UTC
Chilean authorities to discuss Antarctica issues on site

Chilean Lower House's Defense Committee plans to convene at the Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva base in Antarctica this week to discuss the “prevailing geopolitical conditions” in the area after controversies with Argentina regarding sovereignty claims.
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Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 10:02 UTC
Biden says ICC move to prosecute Netanyahu is “outrageous”

US President Joseph Biden Monday criticized International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan's decision to request arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders alike on the grounds that comparing one with the other was “outrageous.” In Biden's view, the move suggests that Israel and Hamas share equal blame for the war in Gaza.
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Monday, May 20th 2024 - 20:57 UTC
Assange granted another appeal on his extradition to the US

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted yet another opportunity to challenge a previous ruling ordering his extradition to the United States to stand trial for espionage, London's High Court decided Monday. Now it could be months before the appeal is heard.
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Monday, May 20th 2024 - 20:11 UTC
ICC Chief Prosecutor wants arrest warrants out on Israeli and Hamas leaders

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan announced Monday that he would be seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as well as for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, and Ismail Haniyeh.
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Monday, May 20th 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Milei's words in Spain trigger new diplomatic conflict

Argentine President Javier Milei insisted on questioning Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife's clear sheet and triggered yet another diplomatic controversy for the South American country since he took office on Dec. 10, 2023.
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Monday, May 20th 2024 - 10:58 UTC
Iranian President killed in helicopter crash

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian crashed killing all occupants, Vice President Mohammad Mokhber confirmed in the early hours of Monday. The crashed aircraft was part of a convoy of three helicopters carrying the presidential entourage. The other two landed safely in Tabriz, in northwestern Iran.
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