International

• Thursday, October 12th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Brazil requests new UN Security Council meeting to assess crisis between Israel and Palestine

  

  Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira was on his way to New York Wednesday to participate in the United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting, where the situation between Israel and Palestine is to be discussed, Agencia Brasil reported Wednesday

• Thursday, October 12th 2023 - 09:35 UTC

  Uruguayan troops bound for Golan Heights

  

  A Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) Hercules C-130 transport aircraft departed Wednesday carrying some 200 troops to be deployed in the Golan Heights, on the border between Israel and Syria, for a United Nations peacekeeping mission, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Thursday, October 12th 2023 - 08:43 UTC

  UK committed to upholding self-determination and responsibilities in BOTs: Gibraltar and Falklands

  

  United Kingdom statement delivered by Mungo Woodifield, UK Spokesperson to the UN, at the UN Fourth Committee on Decolonization. Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered.

• Thursday, October 12th 2023 - 08:07 UTC

  Foreign Secretary Cleverly visits Israel, underline UK’s unwavering solidarity in the face of terror

  

  British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visited Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and southern Israel on Wednesday 11 October 2023, days after Hamas launched a barbaric terrorist attack on the country. He underlined underline UK’s unwavering solidarity in the face of terror.

• Thursday, October 12th 2023 - 07:57 UTC

  Strong campaign in UK to stop farmers from overusing antibiotics in their animals

  

  Hospital and school caterers are not doing enough to stop farmers from overusing antibiotics in their animals, according to United Kingdom campaign groups. Such overuse raises the risk of antibiotic resistance rendering key human medicines ineffective.

• Wednesday, October 11th 2023 - 21:37 UTC

  BOTs Attorney Generals met in Montserrat to enhance cooperation and uphold rule of the law

  

  Attorneys General of the British Overseas Territories met during three days in September, the first in-person conference since 2019, to enhance cooperation on a number of wide-ranging issues.

• Wednesday, October 11th 2023 - 19:52 UTC

  Clock is ticking for the Big Meat “sunset industry”

  

  By Gwynne Dyer -The French government has just published a decree banning the use of terms like “steak,” “spare ribs” and “ham” on plant-based foods. It’s not that the French are so stupid that they don’t know which is meat from dead cattle and which is “plant-based steak,” a label that has been used in French supermarkets for at least 40 years.

• Wednesday, October 11th 2023 - 19:41 UTC

  Economics Nobel to Claudia Goldin for women's participation in the global labor market

  

  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 to Claudia Goldin, who has provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labor market participation through the centuries.

• Wednesday, October 11th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

  Israel: Pets welcome on Brazilian evacuation flights

  

  Brazilian authorities will nationals of the South American country to bring along their dogs and cats as they are evacuated from war-torn Israel, Agencia Brasil reported. The pets shall not be required to produce their International Veterinary Certificate (IVC), it was also explained. Such a document is usually needed in cases of pets coming from other countries.

• Wednesday, October 11th 2023 - 08:00 UTC

  Uruguayan Air Force to rescue 77 people stranded in Israel

  

  A Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) Hercules C-130 aircraft was to leave for Israel Wednesday to rescue nationals of the South American country willing to leave the war-torn Middle East, Defense Minister Javier García explained Tuesday in Montevideo.