International

• Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

  Is it really the end of populism

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – We’re going to miss them the populist ‘big beasts’ now they’re gone. Who will now tell us that “Voting Conservative will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3”? (Boris Johnson)

• Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:06 UTC

  WWII: Graf Spee's eagle to be turned into a bronze dove of peace

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Friday announced that the bronze eagle retrieved from the wreckage of the German World War II battleship Admiral Graf Spee in 2006 will be transformed into a dove as a “symbol of peace and union” by local artist Pablo Atchugarry, whose work is expected to be completed by November, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Friday, June 16th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  UK Parliament consulting Falklands Legislative Assembly on Overseas Territoires

  

  There is currently an inquiry by UK Parliament into the status of the Overseas Territories in the 21st Century and the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly intend to make a submission, confirmed MLA Teslyn Barkman to Penguin News this week.

• 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.