International

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 09:38 UTC

  NZ Prime Minister Ardern stepping down shortly

  

  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Thursday announced that she would be leaving her post no later than February 7, while the Labor Party is to choose a new leader in three days. Ardern came to power in 2017 with a coalition government and then led her center-left party to a sweeping victory in the 2020 elections, but her popularity and that of her party have fallen in recent polls.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 20:25 UTC

  UN Secretary-General warns many countries are on the brink of recession

  

  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres denounced Wednesday during his appearance before the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, that many countries were on the brink of recession, amid growing inflation in economies still to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 20:18 UTC

  Ukraine's Interior Minister killed in helicopter crash

  

  Ukraine's Interior Minister Denis Monastyrskyi, Deputy Minister Yevgeny Yenin, and the ministry's state secretary Yurii Lubkovytch were among the 16 people killed Wednesday when a relief helicopter crashed in Brovary, a town of about 100,000 people in eastern Kyiv en route to “one of the hot spots in our country where fighting is going on,”

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Australia and New Zealand cruise itineraries modified as both countries demand strict hull cleaning

  

  Due to strict maritime bio-security rules, the hull cleaning issue is threatening the cruise sector in Australia and New Zealand. Ports of call are dropped from the schedule, and time is spent at sea waiting for the ship’s hull to be cleaned.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

  Newest Omicron variant: WHO recommends air passengers to wear masks on long haul flights

  

  Given the fast spread of the newest Omicron variant of Covid 19, countries should require air passengers to wear masks on long-haul flights, the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially requested.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

  Thunberg released from German Police custody

  

  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was released from a German Police precinct Tuesday after she was identified together with all the other demonstrators joining her in a protest in the town of Lützerath, which was to be demolished to expand a coal mining project in a country needing energy sources following Russia's response to western sanctions due to the war in Ukraine.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 19:59 UTC

  Alberto Fernández: Argentina was the “second fastest growing economy in the world after China”

  

  The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, highlighted Tuesday the growth of the Argentine economy in the last two years and valued the Government's progress in infrastructure.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:39 UTC

  Scarce encouragement for the ocean freight industry from the Chinese New Year

  

  In a severe display of the weak demand undermining the containerized ocean freight industry, the latest data from Xeneta reveals carriers blanked more than six times the number of sailings on the main Asia to US West Coast corridor leading up to Chinese New Year as they did in the equivalent period of 2019, just before the global ´pandemic.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:31 UTC

  BAS and WWF “Walrus Detectives” project with satellite surveying to understand the Arctic marine mammals

  

  This week British Antarctic Survey and World Wide Fund, WWF, are inviting the public to become ‘walrus detectives’ and get involved in the Walrus from Space project to help with vital research to enable a better understanding of these Arctic marine mammals.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:23 UTC

  Spanish court greenlights extradition of Uruguayan torture doctor

  

  Spain granted the extradition of Uruguayan physician Carlos Suzacq Fiser to face criminal charges in the South American country for his alleged participation in torture sessions during the military dictatorship (1973-1985), during which he advised the inquisitors when to stop or when to continue without killing the victim.