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• Wednesday, September 11th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

  SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission lifts off for first-ever non-professional spacewalk

  

  Internet Service Provider (ISP) Starlink's parent company SpaceX Tuesday launched the Polaris Dawn manned mission featuring a billionaire, a pilot, and two female company employees for the performance of the first-ever private spacewalk in history.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2024 - 08:12 UTC

  Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citi forecast oil price falling in Q4 and 2025

  

  Investment bank Morgan Stanley has again cut its forecast price for a barrel of oil, expecting the international benchmark to average US$ 75 a barrel in the last quarter of the year. This is because analysts at Morgan Stanley see rising headwinds on the demand side, which has been their key reason for cutting their Q4 oil price forecast.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2024 - 08:00 UTC

  UK multi-party MPs attend the celebrations of Gibraltar National Day

  

  A group of eleven MPs and Peers from across the UK political spectrum will join this year’s National Day celebrations in Gibraltar.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2024 - 07:52 UTC

  Online overtakes television in an annual survey of the UK's news habits

  

  Research by the broadcast regulator Ofcom reveals 71% of the UK population said they used online services for news versus 70% for TV news bulletins. According to an article from BBC, over last year, online sources grew from 68% to 71%, while social media also saw a rise from 47% to 52%. For people aged between 16 and 24, the number saying they use social media for news was 82%.

• Monday, September 9th 2024 - 13:02 UTC

  FAO August Food Price Index declined marginally, meat and cereals down, dairy and vegetable oil up

  

  The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined marginally in August, as decreases in quotations for sugar, meat, and cereals outweighed increases in those for vegetable oils and dairy products, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported.

• Monday, September 9th 2024 - 09:37 UTC

  Chief Minister Fabian Picardo National Day message: ‘Gibraltar will not blink’

  

  ”When we gather on Tuesday (September 10) to celebrate National Day it is important that we send a clear message. There are fundamental positions that we will never renounce and our resolve and determination remains as strong as ever.

• Monday, September 9th 2024 - 06:20 UTC

  Argentine national killed in terrorist attack on West Bank border with Jordan

  

  Argentine-Israeli national Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer, aged 52, was one of the three people killed in a terrorist attack Sunday at the Allenby border crossing bridge between Jordan and the West Bank when a terrorist got out of a lorry and opened fire on Israeli security forces before being eventually gunned down.

• Sunday, September 8th 2024 - 18:36 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González arrives in Spain after receiving political asylum

  

  Edmundo González Urrutia, a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader who was elected, to many in the international community, as the legitimate winner of the July 28 presidential election, arrived in Spain this Sunday after being granted political asylum by the Spanish government. González had sought refuge at the Dutch Embassy in Caracas before securing his passage out of the country.

• Friday, September 6th 2024 - 21:42 UTC

  Macron picks the seasoned Barnier for French PM job

  

  The 73-year-old Barnier has served four times as a cabinet minister and as the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator. On July 16, Macron accepted Gabriel Attal's resignation but asked him to stay in office on a caretaker basis until a replacement could be found.

• Friday, September 6th 2024 - 10:29 UTC

  Falklands to attend Lib-Dem, Labour and Conservative parties conventions

  

  A delegation from the Falkland Islands Government will be attending the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences this year, while it will also be holding the first ever fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton with a conference titled, “Falkland Islands: Self determination in the 21st century”.