International

• Friday, April 5th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

  UK National Living Wage up from £10.42 to £11.44 an hour; will apply to workers over 21

  

  The minimum wage set by the British government, known as the National Living Wage in UK is rising from £10.42 to £11.44 an hour and will apply to workers over 21 rather than over 23, benefiting some 2,7 million low paid workers. Younger workers will also see a rise in the rates that apply to them.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 - 19:58 UTC

  Paraguay not unwilling to pay Waterway toll, FM says

  

  Paraguayan Foreign Ministry Rubén Ramírez Lescano told Congress Wednesday in Asunción that the government of President Santiago Peña was not against barges sailing through the Paraná Waterway paying toll provided there was a service in return.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 - 19:02 UTC

  Oldest man on earth dies aged 114

  

  Venezuelan national Juan Vicente Pérez Mora passed away Tuesday due to respiratory complications at the age of 114 in San José de Bolívar, Francisco de Miranda municipality, in the state of Táchira. He was certified by the Guinness World Record on Feb. 4, 2022, as the oldest man on earth. He had been born in El Cobre, Táchira State, on May 27, 1909.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Haitian authorities fend off yet another attack against Gov't Palace

  

  Five Haitian law enforcement officers were wounded while fending off an onslaught from Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier's Vivre Ensemble (Living Together) gang against the Government Palace in Port-au-Prince on Monday. According to local media, there were various casualties on the attackers' side, but the number remained undetermined.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2024 - 22:00 UTC

  Israel to ban Al Jazeera, PM announces

  

  Press freedom advocates worldwide expressed concern Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would use newly passed temporary legislation to shut down the local operations of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news service. The new law will only be in effect for 45 days and must be re-approved every 45 days, expiring on July 31. The judges have three days to decide whether to “amend” the decision or limit its duration.

• Monday, April 1st 2024 - 18:44 UTC

  Google to lay submarine cable between Chile and Australia

  

  Tech giants Google plan to link Chile with Australia and French Polynesia through the Humboldt cable, which would become first direct submarine link between South America and Oceania, thus expanding the digital infrastructure of the South Pacific.

• Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 06:23 UTC

  UK defense capabilities of the Falklands, following the Danish F16s deal for Argentina

  

  Army Technology, a business service agency located in London that focuses on the technologies required by military personnel and companies working in this important field, has offered a piece on the UK defense capabilities of the Falkland Islands following the agreement between Denmark and Argentina for the sale of a squadron of F16 fighters to Buenos Aires.

• Friday, March 29th 2024 - 10:53 UTC

  FTA deal between EU and Mercosur needs to start from scratch, says Macron

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron told a business forum in São Paulo that the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the South American Common Market (Mercosur) and the European Union (EU) needed to be ”renegotiated from scratch,” Agencia Brasil reported.

• Thursday, March 28th 2024 - 19:32 UTC

  Brazil's newest sub christened before Lula and Macron

  

  Presidents Emmanuel Macron of France and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil Thursday visited the Itaguaí Naval Complex, the facilities in the State of Rio de Janeiro where the Tonelero (S-42) submarine -a joint undertaking between the two countries- was christened by First Lady Rosângela Lula da Silva.

• Thursday, March 28th 2024 - 11:53 UTC

  “Democracy returned to Argentina thanks to Margaret Thatcher,” Argentine historian said

  

  ”You really want to know why democracy returned to Argentina, (1983), it's hard to say, and you need guts to say it, but all of us Argentines must know it, and accept it, democracy returned to Argentina thanks to Margaret Thatcher, and the Malvinas adventure defeat...”