International

• Monday, October 14th 2024 - 08:25 UTC

  Trouble ahead at Samoa Commonwealth summit; Caribbean nations demanding £200bn billion from UK for slave trade

  

  Trouble ahead for King Charles and PM Keir Starmer when they attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa on October 21st. A group of fifteen Caribbean governments have unanimously decided to demand an incredible £200 billion from the UK in compensation for its role in the slave trade, according to reports in the British media.

• Monday, October 14th 2024 - 08:18 UTC

  UK names new investment minister to spearhead bolstered Office for Investment

  

  A new Minister for Investment has been appointed to head up a bolstered Office for Investment, as part of a wider Whitehall ‘shake up’ to strengthen the government’s offer and partnership with businesses and investors.

• Saturday, October 12th 2024 - 11:20 UTC

  Premier of the discovery of the “Endurance” at the London Film Festival

  

  This Saturday, October 12, a documentary film about the discovery of the ship “Endurance” by the great Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will be presented at the London Film Festival.

• Saturday, October 12th 2024 - 10:16 UTC

  IMF goes easier on heavily indebted countries such as Argentina

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced Friday a series of cuts on overcharges to countries heavily in debt, which, albeit moderate, could benefit Argentina among other nations. Such an initiative had been resisted in the past by Washington and other G7 nations but things have changed considerably at a global level.

• Friday, October 11th 2024 - 21:47 UTC

  Gibraltar CM angered by Spain's tighter unilateral border controls

  

  Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo vowed not to give in to Spain's “pressure tactics” after the reintroduction of passport controls at the La Verja crossing requiring passports to people from the British Overseas Territory.

• Friday, October 11th 2024 - 19:03 UTC

  Japanese organization of atom bomb survivors granted 2024 Nobel Peace Prize

  

  Given its commitment to a nuclear-free world, the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Norway's Nobel Committee in Oslo announced Friday. It was the first time in 50 years that a Japanese recipient has been awarded the prize.

• Friday, October 11th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

  South Korean woman granted 2024 Nobel Literature Prize

  

  South Korean author Han Kang has been granted this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Thursday. She was chosen for her novel The Vegetarian, which has already been awarded the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2016, which was also a first for a Korean.

• Friday, October 11th 2024 - 09:05 UTC

  Brazilian Air Force completes third Operation Cedar Roots flight

  

  Brazil's Air Force (FAB) Thursday completed its third airlift mission bringing back nationals of the South American country out of war-torn Lebanon. The third flight landed at the Guarulhos Air Base in Sao Paulo carrying 217 passengers for a total of 672 evacuees, Agencia Brasil reported. The FAB expects to bring back around 3,000 of the 21,000 Brazilians living in Lebanon at a pace of approximately 500 passengers each week.

• Thursday, October 10th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

  Keir Starmer: “Falklands are British and will remain British; it's personal for me”

  

  British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer made a conclusive statement of support for the Falkland Islands during the Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, hoping to put an end to speculations over the future of British Overseas Territories following on the decision to hand the Chagos archipelago sovereignty (British Indian Ocean Overseas Territory) to the Republic of Mauritius.

• Thursday, October 10th 2024 - 10:03 UTC

  Italian Deputy PM pledges to help pull through EU-Mercosur FTA

  

  Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and top diplomat Antonio Tajani told a group of Brazilian businesspeople in Sao Paulo Wednesday that his country was facing “a great opportunity” to strengthen its economic and commercial presence in Latin America, particularly through the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement that is still pending ratification.