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  • Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 09:03 UTC

    Dominica's PM retains power after snap elections

    Skerrit has been in office since 2004

    Dominica's incumbent Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit's party Tuesday scored yet another victory in the country's snap elections, according to preliminary results which showed the ruling DLP winning 15 of the 21 parliamentary seats at stake.

  • Tuesday, December 6th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

    A 150,000 people petition urging the EU to protect the welfare of fish

    The petition was sponsored by “Compassion in World Farming”, a leading farm animal welfare organization dedicated to ending factory farming

    A petition asking for new standards to protect the welfare of fish signed by more than 150,000 people, was handed on Monday to the European Commission. It comes ahead of a full revision of animal welfare legislation announced by the Commission in May 2020 as part of the EU farm and Fork strategy and Compassion in World Farming wants to ensure that farmed fish welfare standards are included.

  • Tuesday, December 6th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

    “Goblin mode”, chose by the public as the Oxford word of the year

    It is a slang term often used in the expressions such as “I am in goblin mode.” It is ”a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy.

    The first Oxford word of the year to be chosen by public vote has been announced and the winning word, “goblin mode”, is a slang term describing “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy” behavior, reports the BBC.

  • Tuesday, December 6th 2022 - 08:00 UTC

    Rishi Sunak’s daunting challenge, standing up to far right extremists

    Sunak entered office following two horrendous displays of prime ministerial incompetence

    By Chris Patten - The United Kingdom’s new prime minister has inherited a mountain of economic problems, including runaway inflation and a shrinking GDP. To fix his predecessors’ blunders and avoid a humiliating electoral defeat, he must stand up to his party’s far-right extremists.

  • Monday, December 5th 2022 - 23:21 UTC

    South Korea no match for Brazil at Qatar 2022

    Brazil will now face Croatia Friday in a quarterfinal match

    Five-time champions Brazil Monday advanced to the quarterfinals of the Qatar 2022 football World Cup with a 4-1 rout of South Korea giving Uruguay some comfort that had they not been eliminated earlier they would have most likely had to endure a similar disgrace.

  • Monday, December 5th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

    Falklands tells MPs of its concern with registers of beneficial ownership

    MPs Doughty and Sunderland acknowledged local issues and recognized that work needed to be done to tailor issues to individual overseas territories.

    During the recent visit of members of the Falklands All-Party Parliamentary Group, a controversial and thorny issue came up at a media conference when Penguin News asked whether the Falklands and the effect on the Islands, were being considered amidst the requirement for British Overseas Territories (BOTs) to establish registers of beneficial ownership (*).

  • Monday, December 5th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

    HMS Protector digs out snow covered Port Lockroy scientific base managed by four women

    The new arrivals at Port Lockroy, with the Royal Navy team from HMS Protector

    Ice Patrol HMS Protector's sailors and Royal Marines spent two days digging out the Port Lockroy scientific base in Antarctica which is home to a museum, gift shop and the world's most remote post office.

  • Monday, December 5th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

    Iran's morality police dissolved

    Montazeri also announced the authorities were working on a “modification” of the law on the compulsory wearing of the Islamic veil

    The Islamic Republic of Iran announced the dismantling of its morality police in the aftermath of Mahsa Amini's death, a woman who died while in custody after being arrested for not wearing her face cover properly.

  • Monday, December 5th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

    Some 2,500 seals are found dead on the Caspian Sea

    Members of the Environmental Protection Center in a beach of the Caspian Sea among the carcasses

    Some 2,500 seals have been found dead on the Caspian Sea coast in the southern Russian province of Dagestan, officials said on Sunday. Carcasses were discovered at various locations in and around Makhachkala, the coastal capital of the republic.

  • Monday, December 5th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

    Argentine fans support Bangladeshi cricket squad

    The news of the creation of the group went viral on social media and Argentine fans keep joining the webpage “at a rapid pace.”

    A group of Argentine football fans has launched a Facebook initiative to root for Bangladesh's cricket team in recognition of the Asian country's devotion to the South American squad participating in the Qatar 2002 football World Cup, and particularly for Lionel Messi and the late Diego Maradona.