International

• Thursday, January 18th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

  PM Sunak relief: Rwanda Bill approved by Commons but stiffer battle expected at Lords

  

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has succeeded in getting his key Rwanda bill through the House of Commons after a Tory rebellion failed to materialize, BBC reports. But the bill must now go to the House of Lords, another stiff battle.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 19:18 UTC

  Argentina and UK explore economic ties and Falklands resolution in Davos meeting

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron met at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, signalling a commitment to enhance bilateral trade relations and address the dispute over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. Both nations engaged in a conflict over this territory in 1982, when Argentina invaded the South Atlantic islands. Since then, the South American country has maintained its claim to sovereignty.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

  Paraguay with positive trade balance and good news from Israel

  

  Land locked and Mercosur member Paraguay exports reached US$ 17,3 billion in 2023, according to the country's Central Bank International Trade Report. This represents a 24,8% increase in US dollars over a similar period a year before. The success is attributed to larger shipments of soybeans, rice and soy flour.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

  UK: Crucial vote on Rwanda bill this Wednesday; blow to PM Sunak's authority

  

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing a crucial vote on his Rwanda bill this Wednesday, after two Conservative deputy chairmen and a ministerial aide resigned to rebel over the issue. BBC has reported that on Tuesday Lee Anderson, Brendan Clarke-Smith and Jane Stevenson stepped down to vote for changes they said would toughen up the legislation.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

  “Remigration,” an EU and German 'non word' applied to promote extreme right wing policies against migration

  

  Germany has increased its vocabulary of “non words”, with the term “remigration”, quite extensive to the rest of the European Union combating illegal migration. However a jury of linguists in Marburg in Hessen, argue the term is being used as a “euphemistic cover vocabulary” by extreme right wing parties.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Taiwan's unknowable future and president for life Xi Jinping rage

  

  By Gwynne Dyer
  
  Taiwan’s fate is as unknowable as usual, even though we know who the next president is, William Lai, vice-president under outgoing President Tsai Ing-Wen, mainly because the two opposition parties failed to agree on a joint candidate and ultimately split the slightly-less-anti-China vote between them.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Ulster farmers controversy with DAERA over Bovine TB compensations in dairy farms

  

  The Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) is prepared to take legal action against the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) over its bovine TB (bTB) compensation policy. According to a report from the BBC, it follows the announcement of a consultation on compensation rates for animals removed after testing positive.

• Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Casino market suggests it could be time to revive million pound drop adaptations in America

  

  Various British game shows have found success on the other side of the Atlantic, in different international adaptations. The Million Pound Drop was a popular offering that ran for 15 seasons over there and spawned spinoff editions in the USA, Argentina, Brazil, and numerous other nations.

• Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 09:18 UTC

  Online bingo is helping the pastime to spread across South America

  

  Prior to the turn of the millennium, bingo wasn’t a major pastime across South America. You could find games in certain places, but it certainly wasn’t mainstream. While the game blew up in the USA and the UK, it never really spread around this continent in the same way.

• Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Milei off to Davos, has meeting arranged with IMF's Georgieva

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei is departing Monday to Davos, Switzerland, on regular airline flights with stopovers in Frankfurt and Zurich to participate in the World Economic Forum (WEF). According to Casa Rosada sources quoted by local media in Buenos Aires, he is also to have a one-on-one meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.