International

• Saturday, May 4th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Japanese PM discusses Mercosur FTA with Paraguay's President

  

  Paraguayan President Santiago Peña and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Friday in Asunción to strengthen bilateral ties as well as to further discuss a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). Peña, who holds the group's rotating presidency, expressed in a statement his “fervent desire” to “move forward with a free trade agreement between Mercosur and Japan.”

• Saturday, May 4th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Milei's Office condemns slanderous statements by Spanish official

  

  The Government of Argentina was angered Friday after Spain's Transport Minister Oscar Puente said President Javier Milei was “ingesting substances.” Casa Rosada replied with a communiqué outlining the alleged involvement of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife in a case of corruption that nearly led to his resignation and insisted Madrid should remain focused on those affairs.

• Friday, May 3rd 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Mondino says all Chinese people look the same and becomes social media laughingstock

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino took heavy social media flak Thursday after her remarks in a newspaper interview that all Chinese people looked the same. Therefore nobody could know whether or not the staff at the controversial base in the Neuquén province were scientists.

• Friday, May 3rd 2024 - 09:48 UTC

  World Press Freedom Day 2024: environmental journalism, an increasingly dangerous profession

  

  The world is going through an unprecedented environmental emergency which poses an existential threat to this and future generations. People need to know about this – and journalists and media workers have a key role in informing and educating them.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 10:16 UTC

  Colombia breaks up with Israel over Gaza deployment

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro Wednesday announced that his country would be severing diplomatic ties with Israel as of Thursday over the latter's military deployment in Gaza at the behest of its “genocidal” head of government. Petro also insisted that “if Palestine dies, humanity dies.”

• Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 06:18 UTC

  Iconic war Aircraft to be exhibited at the Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust

  

  The Falkland Islands Museum & National Trust is delighted to announce the impending arrival of two additional aircraft for exhibition. Currently located at Marchwood, these aircraft are scheduled to arrive in the Falklands in early June 2024, with plans for their transportation to Stanley on or around June 14th, Liberation Day, weather permitting.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 06:02 UTC

  Uruguay's UN human rights test: high standard record, strong media freedom and freedom of expression

  

  The United Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the WTO and the UN in Geneva, Simon Manley, CMG, delivered on May first a statement at Uruguay's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 05:47 UTC

  “Stop the boats” policy, First volunteer asylum seeker off to Rwanda

  

  British media is reporting that the UK has sent its first asylum-seeker to Rwanda under a voluntary scheme, just a week after the UK government adopted a controversial law allowing irregular migrants to be deported to the East African nation.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 04:53 UTC

  Scotland's political system in the process of nominating a new First Minister

  

  Potential successors to outgoing Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf who announced his resignation on Monday, after a let down from the Greens, and fearing two no confidence votes, have been meeting to consider bids for the leadership of SNP. They are John Swinney and Kate Forbes who have yet to confirm their aspirations.

• Wednesday, May 1st 2024 - 23:50 UTC

  Mondino assured of China's support for Argentina's stance regarding Malvinas/Falkland issue

  

  Although Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino had the near-impossible task of putting her country on good terms with China despite President Javier Milei's disparaging campaign comments, some common ground was reached this week as the South American diplomat reaffirmed the one-China principle and Beijing backed Argentina's claim to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.