International

• Monday, November 27th 2023 - 08:07 UTC

  Brazilian drug gang goes global, The Economist reports

  

  According to an article in The Economist last week, Brazil's largest drug gang now has links throughout Europe. The First Capital Command (PCC), a gang officially born after a deadly football match between prison inmates in São Paulo in August 1993, has grown to some 40,000 life members and another 60,000 “contractors,” which would make it one of the world's largest criminal groups.

• Sunday, November 26th 2023 - 23:28 UTC

  Second swap between Israel and Hamas successful

  

  The pro-Palestinian terrorist group Hamas Saturday released another batch of hostages, consisting of 13 Israeli citizens and 4 Thais, in exchange for another 39 prison inmates held by Tel Aviv, matching the 1:3 ratio agreed upon for the duration of the humanitarian truce. The exchanges took longer than expected, it was reported.

• Sunday, November 26th 2023 - 23:25 UTC

  Peruvian pilots who helped Argentina in 1982 decorated

  

  During a ceremony at the Argentine Embassy in Lima last week, a group of retired Peruvian Air Force (FAP) pilots were awarded the Argentine Air Force's (FAA) Order of Heroes of the Malvinas, in the grade of “Malvinas Medal for Contribution to the War Effort” in the 1982 South Atlantic conflict with the United Kingdom.

• Saturday, November 25th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  NGO warns Essequibo question might end up in war between Venezuela and Guyana

  

  Control Ciudadano (Social Watch - CC) Chairwoman Rocío San Miguel said Guyanese President Irfaan Alí's recent statements regarding the military support of several countries to defend the Essequibo amounted to a “very strong warning for Venezuela,” which will hold a referendum on the matter on Dec. 3.

• Saturday, November 25th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  International scientific team to research Antarctic ecosystems on RRS Sir David Attenborough

  

  A team of international researchers set sail on the Falklands flagged RRS Sir David Attenborough last Monday, 20 November to answer some of the big questions about how Antarctic ecosystems and sea ice drive global ocean cycles of carbon and nutrients.

• Saturday, November 25th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  First batch of Israeli hostages released in exchange for Palestinian prison inmates

  

  The terrorist organization Hamas Friday handed over 13 hostages of the over 200 taken from Israel in the Oct. 7 attacks. The measure was enacted during a four-day ceasefire which also allowed for the release in return of 39 Palestinians who were serving prison sentences. Further swaps are expected in the coming days.

• Friday, November 24th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  WHO wants data from China on respiratory disease affecting children

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has requested that Chinese health authorities explain the rapid spread of a respiratory disease among children.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 14:34 UTC

  Tories preparing for elections, “cut taxes to help businesses and boost economic growth”

  

  Election blues in Britain, the general election must be held before the end of January 2025, but the prime minister can call it earlier. And in effect, the ruling Conservatives claimed this week they had delivered the biggest tax cuts in decades in a move to boost the UK's stagnant economy and lift incomes.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 14:22 UTC

  An extreme populist anti migration candidate wins a great victory in Netherlands

  

  Reflecting the Netherlands' people's concern with immigration and European Union policies, an extreme populist leader, with his Freedom Party (PVV), has won the general election, with a clear difference over a left-wing alliance runner-up.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 14:12 UTC

  UK Export Finance support for Brazil's Embraer

  

  Brazil's giant aircraft industry Embraer announced the closing of a Framework Agreement for a credit operation aimed at helping its customers purchase aircraft and air industry supplies with support from UK Export Finance (UKEF). UKEF is a British government agency focused on financing local exports, which will be the credit guarantor for future financial transactions.