International

• 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.

• Wednesday, October 11th 2023 - 07:23 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government attend Party Conferences

  

  The Falkland Islands Government attended both the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester (1st to 4th October) and the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (8th to 11th October) and met with a number of senior politicians from both parties, including Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet Ministers, to discuss issues of importance to the Islands, alongside welcoming MPs, Councillors and Party Members to the Falkland Islands stand.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Paraguay activates Mercosur cooperation to evacuate Israel

  

  Paraguay's Foreign Ministry announced Sunday that a joint mechanism within Mercosur had been activated to rescue nationals of all member countries trapped in war-torn Israel.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  Scotland's First Minister parents in law “trapped” in Gaza during a family visit

  

  Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf says his parents-in-law are “trapped” in Gaza, as he unequivocally condemned the attacks by Hamas in Israel. Yousaf said his wife's parents, who live in Dundee, travelled to Gaza to see her father's sick mother.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 10:39 UTC

  Gibraltar election on Thursday: wafer thin difference between GSLP/Liberals and GSD

  

  Gibraltar Social Democrats GSD would form the government with nine MPs despite the GSLP/Liberals obtaining 1.6% more of the overall vote, according to a second poll by the Gibraltar Chronicle and GBC that echoed the results of a similar survey last week and underscored the likelihood of a knife-edge election on Thursday.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

  Marches staged in Buenos Aires for and against Israel

  

  Scores of members of the Jewish community in Argentina marched down Buenos Aires' Estado de Israel Avenue in front of the Hacoaj Club given Hamas' attacks during the weekend. They chanted slogans such as “Together, Israel will always defeat terror.”

• Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 09:41 UTC

  Palestine diplomats in South America launch appeal to international community

  

  Palestine's Ambassadors to Uruguay and Chile agreed Monday that the ongoing war unleashed by Hamas' attacks against Israel was something “horrible” to witness and therefore something needed to be done “to stop” it.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 08:23 UTC

  First Brazilian Air Force rescue aircraft due in Tel Aviv Tuesday

  

  A Brazilian Air Force (FAB) Airbus 330-200 transport aircraft which can accommodate up to 230 passengers was already in Rome Monday, from where it planned to fly to Tel Aviv to bring the first batch of nationals of the South American country to safety from war-torn Israel, Agencia Brasil reported.