International

• Thursday, May 18th 2023 - 14:03 UTC

  Turkey brokers a two month extension of the Black Sea grain shipments benefitting Ukraine exports

  

  Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that a two-month extension of the UN-back grain deal, allowing shipments of grain from Ukraine to the global market, had been reached.

• Thursday, May 18th 2023 - 11:09 UTC

  BAS ends 2022/23 Antarctic field season with over sixty science projects

  

  The British Antarctic Survey 2022/23 Antarctic field season has ended, marking the conclusion of another successful year of scientific exploration in one of the world’s most remote and challenging environments.

• Wednesday, May 17th 2023 - 11:09 UTC

  Leading world central bankers to meet in Sao Paulo to address “past and present challenges”

  

  Christine Lagarde from the European Central Bank, Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), among other recognized world central bankers will be attending a Brazilian Central Bank seminar on central banks “past and present challenges” to take place in Sao Paulo on May 19th.

• Wednesday, May 17th 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  Brexit aftermath, UK Parliament takes initiative as to how and when scrapping EU legislation

  

  The British government has suffered defeats in the House of Lords over plans to scrap certain EU laws by the end of the year, reports BBC. Peers backed an amendment which would give Parliament greater scrutiny over which rules should be ditched and also voted to give devolved governments, rather than Westminster ministers, the final say on whether EU rights should be kept.

• Tuesday, May 16th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  Sunak pledges further help to Ukraine

  

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Monday promised additional military help in the form of missiles and drones to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting in London. Zelensy is on a support-gathering tour of Europe which included previous stops in Italy, Germany, and France.

• Tuesday, May 16th 2023 - 03:01 UTC

  Brazil and UK agree to speed up poultry trade with de-bureaucratization

  

  Brazil's vice president and Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce, and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, announced the UK’s endorsement for the de-bureaucratization of chicken exports from Brazil, in which poultry meat exporters will have zero cost when it comes to the issuing of market Certificates of Origin.

• Tuesday, May 16th 2023 - 02:55 UTC

  UK Government and British Overseas Territories leaders meet

  

  Following on the success of the Coronation of Charles III, representatives of the UK Overseas Territories had ample time to make political contacts with British members of Parliament, cabinet ministers and other officials, in anticipation of the Joint Ministerial Council on May 11/12.

• Tuesday, May 16th 2023 - 02:49 UTC

  One Web Low Earth Orbit satellite ground station in St Helena to operate in partnership with Sure

  

  The Low Earth Orbit satellite firm OneWeb is set to place a ground station on the island of St. Helena and take capacity on the island’s trunk of the Equiano subsea cable. Reported in the St Helena Independent, One Web has signed a 10-year ground station agreement with local telco Sure.

• Tuesday, May 16th 2023 - 02:00 UTC

  Australia approves new coal mine: 2,5 million tons in five years

  

  Despite elected on a climate action platform the Australian government has approved a new coal mine for the first time since it was elected, reports the BBC from Canberra. The government was bound by national environment laws when considering Central Queensland's Isaac River coal mine, a spokeswoman said.

• Saturday, May 13th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Linda Yaccarino is Twitter's new CEO as Elon Musk steps down

  

  According to the Washington Post, Linda Yaccarino has been chosen to succeed tycoon Elon Musk as CEO of Twitter. She was working as president of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal. The announcement comes the day after Musk said he would be stepping down and that he will move into the role of executive chairman and CTO (chief technology officer). In December, Musk asked his Twitter followers if he should step down as CEO and 57.5% said yes.