Stories for October 12th 2022

Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 10:35 UTC
Brazil's STF Judges against adding magistrates to the bench

Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) judges Tuesday voiced their opinion against President Jair Bolsonaro's proposal to increase the number of STF magistrates from 11 to 16, albeit under anonymity.
Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 10:20 UTC
The Falkland Islands and forty years of progress: environment and science

Queen’s University, Belfast, will be hosting a very special academic event dedicated to “The Falkland Islands and Forty Years of Progress: environment and science”, to be held on 20 October at the Elmwood Building, School of Natural and Built Environment, in the Northern Ireland capital.
Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 10:15 UTC
Falklands' SAERI scientist invited to COP27 at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

The 27th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP-27) is a platform for 197 states, or ‘parties’ to discuss lessons learnt from the 6th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and how they will achieve the goals agreed to in the Paris Agreement, to keep global warming below 1.5°C-2°C.
Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 10:00 UTC
Chile's Senate greenlights CPTPP agreement

Chile's Upper House Tuesday ratified by 27 votes in favor, 10 against and 1 abstention, the country's joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) which is expected to generate annual revenues of US$ 1.2 billion, it was announced.
Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:50 UTC
Venezuela left out of UN Human Rights Council

Venezuela has been voted out of the 47-member UN Human Rights Council while starting next year Chile and Costa Rica will join the group which also features Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay from Latin America.
Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:43 UTC
France with gasoline and diesel outages because of oil refineries strikes

Industrial conflict in French oil refineries has left many gasoline stations without fuel forcing the government to requisition with a court order, essential workers to staff oil depots of companies in conflict.
Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:40 UTC
Oldest marine DNA in Antarctica retrieved

Researchers from Australia's University of Tasmania have reportedly found the oldest marine DNA in history in the Scotia Sea in Antarctica, according to an article carried by the journal Nature Communications. The study also involved scientists from the University of Bonn.
Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:39 UTC
Chile and visiting South Korean PM agree to update trade deal and a strategic minerals MOU

Chilean president Gabriel Boric and South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo agreed on Tuesday in Santiago to resume negotiations this year to upgrade a bilateral free trade agreement that went into effect in 2004.
Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:26 UTC
Charles III coronation on May 6, with a pared down list of guests

Buckingham Palace has announced that King Charles III will crowned at Westminster Abbery on Tuesday May 6, next year. The coronation will takeplace almost exactly 70 years after his late mother's coronation on June 2, 1953.
Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:26 UTC
IMF anticipates recession in Germany and Italy next year and an almost halt for the UK economy

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday predicted that Germany and Italy would both fall into recession next year, while Great Britain the G7 best performing economy this year, will come to an almost halt in 2023, following on the announcement of the mini budget by the Liz Truss government.