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  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 12:42 UTC

    UK offshore Oil Workers anticipate biggest strike in a generation

    John Boland, Unite industrial officer, added: “Unite has received an emphatic mandate in support of strike action”

    Hundreds of oil and gas platforms will stage a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay and other working conditions. Unite has warned that the standstill by the walkout has been planned for April 24. Industry experts agree that contractors and operators can afford to give the Unite members a decent pay rise.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    Mercosur, Canada to resume trade deal talks

    A Canadian team is due in Brasilia next month to resume the negotiations that were left aside due to the Covid-19 pandemic

    Negotiations for an agreement between Mercosur and Canada to eliminate tariffs on industrial and agricultural goods, services, intellectual property, and government purchases are to resume after more than three years, CNN Brazil reported. The initiative had been halted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Russia says China has the right to respond to “provocations” with military exercises

    “In a very short period of time, we have witnessed many actions that were provocative towards the People's Republic of China,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

    Russia today considered that China has the right to respond with military maneuvers to the “provocations” taking place around Taiwan, exercises that Beijing successfully completed on Monday.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

    Golan Heights: Uruguayan peacekeepers near line of fire

    Violence is spiraling in the Middle East

    Uruguay's Army Sunday reported that its peacekeeping troops in the Golan Heights were in good shape after missile attacks were recorded Saturday in the area they are patrolling. However, the group's mission was temporarily suspended.

  • Saturday, April 8th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Ukraine tells Lula “thanks but no thanks”

    “The full and entire sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the UN charter,” must be respected, Nikolenko insisted

    Despite Brazilian President Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva's efforts to come up with a peace plan for the ongoing war in Europe, Ukraine replied Friday that it will not give up Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, in exchange for the end of the conflict, something which the South American leader had suggested as a possible course of action.

  • Friday, April 7th 2023 - 19:50 UTC

    Falklands attends Overseas Territories Speakers' Conference

    Falklands Legislative Assembly, second from the left and Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons next to the lectern

    The 2nd Commons and Overseas Territories Speakers’ Conference (COTSC) has been held at the Anguilla House of Assembly from 3 to 5 April 2023 on the theme of ‘Deepening Parliamentary Democracy in the British Overseas Territories - A Roadmap to 2030’. Falklands was represented by Keith Biles, Speaker for the Legislative Assembly.

  • Friday, April 7th 2023 - 19:41 UTC

    Investigation into party finances involves husband of ex Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

    Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's house on Thursday teatime - after a two-day police search of the property

    Scotland's former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pulled out of a speaking event after her husband was questioned by police on Wednesday. Peter Murrell, the former SNP chief executive, was arrested and then released without charge pending further investigation into party finances, reports BBC.

  • Friday, April 7th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

    New ICJ ruling against Venezuela in Essequibo case

    “Guyana is confident that the court will uphold its long-standing international boundary with Venezuela,” Guyanese President Irfaan Ali said

    The Venezuelan administration of President Nicolás Maduro was dealt another international setback Thursday when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday turned down new objections filed by Caracas regarding the territorial dispute with Guyana over the oil-rich Essequibo.

  • Thursday, April 6th 2023 - 14:49 UTC

    The truth about cell phone “spying”: Can our phones really listen to us?

    The study found that nearly half of Brits (45%) say they “have seen an ad for something pop up on their phones shortly after talking about it or seeing it on TV, without even looking for it”

    Cell phone “spying” is a long-standing suspicion that is fueled by the exclusive “coincidences” between what is talked about near the device and what happens later in interest.

  • Wednesday, April 5th 2023 - 09:42 UTC

    Finland becomes NATO's 31st full member

    “This is maybe the one thing that we can thank Mr. Putin for,” Blinken said about Finland's accession to the alliance

    Finland has finally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in a move that doubles Russia’s border with the world’s biggest security alliance, thus dealing a strategic blow to President Vladimir Putin, who has long complained about NATO’s expansion and partly used that as a justification for the invasion of Ukraine. Finland shares a 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) border with Russia.