International

• Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 11:52 UTC

  Falklands Liberation Reception in London

  

  At the invitation of the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, who visited the Falklands last year, the Falklands Liberation Reception was held this year in the magnificent surroundings of the Speakers House at Westminster.

• Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 09:32 UTC

  Blinken going to China amid growing tension between Washington and Beijing

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China this weekend amid growing tension between the two countries in a move to keep lines of communication open, the State Department said.

• Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentine jurist chosen for international Sea Law court

  

  Argentine jurist Frida Armas Pfirter has been appointed as a judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, where she will serve until 2032, it was reported in New York.

• Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 06:50 UTC

  Fed makes a pause, leaves rates unchanged but anticipates two further moves before 2024

  

  The United States Federal Reserve this Wednesday, following a two-day meeting decided to keep the interest rate unchanged but the Federal Open Market Committee anticipated that a further two hikes of quarter percentage moves can be expected before the end of the year.

• Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 06:43 UTC

  Relief for Paraguay: chicungunya vaccine in humans showed promising results

  

  A new clinical study shows promising results of a Phase III chikungunya vaccine trial, the first time the shot has been tested in humans. If approved by regulators, the vaccine would have the capacity to protect millions of people from the debilitating mosquito-borne disease, authors explained in the study published June 12 in The Lancet.

• Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 06:31 UTC

  Overseas business risk for Uruguay, according to UK FCDO

  

  The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office has published Information on how UK companies can control risks when doing business in Uruguay.

• Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 06:14 UTC

  EU Parliament votes to regulate use of Artificial Intelligence

  

  The European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems across the bloc. The vote kick-starts the process toward passing the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act, the first of its kind globally.

• Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  France's Lower House votes against EU-Mercosur FTA

  

  France's National Assembly (Lower House) Tuesday voted 281 to 58 against the approval of the EU- Mercosur trade deal on the grounds that it “may encourage” deforestation, among other issues contrary to the country's interests, it was reported in Paris.

• Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  Produce from deforested areas banned from EU, beginning 2025

  

  The European Union (EU) finally approved a regulation prohibiting the entry of agricultural items, including coffee, soy, and beef, produced after 2020 in deforested areas, regardless of whether legally compliant with the producing country’s national legislation. The regulation will come into effect on December 30, 2024.

• Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Church abuses in Germany: court orders Cologne Archdiocese to pay victim €300,000

  

  A German regional court on Tuesday ordered the Archdiocese of Cologne to pay €300,000 (roughly US$325,000) in damages to an abuse victim for crimes committed in the 1970s. A far higher sum than Germany's Catholic Church dioceses have paid in voluntary, symbolic compensation payments in the past.