Stories for October 2022

Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 09:27 UTC
British World War Two dog's medal fetches record-breaking £140,000 at auction

A medal received by a dog who served in the Second World War has broken a world record – more than six times over – by being sold for £140,000 at auction. Included with Rob the war dog's Dickin Medal and his RSPCA Red Collar for Valour were a painted portrait, photographs, a certificate, manuscripts, books and letters.
Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 09:04 UTC
First patient with monkeypox dies in São Paulo

São Paulo's State Health Secretariat Wednesday confirmed the first death statewide of a patient suffering from monkeypox. The patient was a 26-year- old local male resident in South America's largest city, Agencia Brasil reported.
Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 08:49 UTC
PAHO sends help to Venezuelan town hit by mudslides

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Wednesday announced it was sending “medicines and medical supplies” to the Venezuelan town of Las Tejerías, in the State of Aragua state (central-north), where the number of fatalities has been updated to 43 following mudslides from heavy rains.
Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 08:46 UTC
UN condemns Russia's actions in Ukraine

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Wednesday declared Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson was “illegal” and called on all member countries not to recognize the move.
Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:47 UTC
President of the Mexican Hunting Federation dies in Argentina after being rammed by a buffalo

The president of the Mexican Hunting Federation, Mario Alberto Canales, died in Argentina when he was rammed by a buffalo he was trying to hunt in the province of Entre Ríos, in the northeast of the country, police sources reported Wednesday.
Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:44 UTC
Lula promises favela dwellers they will eat 3 meals a day if he is elected

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) Wednesday promised potential supporters that if he is elected in the Oct. 30 runoff with the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, “people will eat 3 times a day.”
Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:41 UTC
Mayor of Buenos Aires wants federal gov't to quit improvising

Following the President Alberto Fernández administration's creation of a so-called “Qatar dollar” for transactions abroad with credit cards, Buenos Aires Mayor and potential presidential candidate said nobody will “invest in Argentina with so many exchange rates.”
Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 02:34 UTC
Parts of Uruguay on brink of agricultural emergency due to poor rains

Uruguay's Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries Minister Fernando Mattos has not ruled out declaring a national emergency due to the water deficit caused by poor rains, despite western and southern parts of the country being the most severely affected by the lack of rainfall during the winter.
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.