International

• Friday, October 14th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Bank of England to the rescue, “to restore orderly market conditions”

  

  The Bank of England unveiled further measures to calm market turmoil triggered by the UK mini budget announcement. The bank said it would spend up to 5 billion pounds (€5.7 billion, US$5.5 billion) per day on inflation-linked government debt bonds, or gilts, to further prop up Britain's £2.1-trillion bond market.

• Friday, October 14th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Controversy among NZ farmers with the proposed methane gas tax

  

  The New Zealand government has anticipated a controversial farm that would tax greenhouse gases from animals with the purpose of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Allegedly it would be a first in the world and farmers should be able to recover the expense by raising the price of items that are environmentally friendly.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 20:57 UTC

  IMF Chief praises Argentine gov't

  

  International Monetary Fund Managing Director Thursday praised the commitment of Argentine President Alberto Fernández's administration to comply with the debt-repayment program agreed upon.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Argentina: Pichetto to make presidential bid in 2023

  

  Argentina's comptroller and former Vice-Presidential candidate Miguel Ángel Pichetto Wednesday launched his 2023 bid for Casa Rosada on behalf of “Encuentro Republicano Federal,” the Peronist leg to enter the primaries within the Together for Chance (Juntos por el Cambio - JxC) opposition alliance.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  British World War Two dog's medal fetches record-breaking £140,000 at auction

  

  A medal received by a dog who served in the Second World War has broken a world record – more than six times over – by being sold for £140,000 at auction. Included with Rob the war dog's Dickin Medal and his RSPCA Red Collar for Valour were a painted portrait, photographs, a certificate, manuscripts, books and letters.

• Thursday, October 13th 2022 - 08:46 UTC

  UN condemns Russia's actions in Ukraine

  

  The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Wednesday declared Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson was “illegal” and called on all member countries not to recognize the move.

• Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Falklands' SAERI scientist invited to COP27 at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

  

  The 27th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP-27) is a platform for 197 states, or ‘parties’ to discuss lessons learnt from the 6th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and how they will achieve the goals agreed to in the Paris Agreement, to keep global warming below 1.5°C-2°C.

• Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  France with gasoline and diesel outages because of oil refineries strikes

  

  Industrial conflict in French oil refineries has left many gasoline stations without fuel forcing the government to requisition with a court order, essential workers to staff oil depots of companies in conflict.

• Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Chile and visiting South Korean PM agree to update trade deal and a strategic minerals MOU

  

  Chilean president Gabriel Boric and South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo agreed on Tuesday in Santiago to resume negotiations this year to upgrade a bilateral free trade agreement that went into effect in 2004.

• Wednesday, October 12th 2022 - 09:26 UTC

  Charles III coronation on May 6, with a pared down list of guests

  

  Buckingham Palace has announced that King Charles III will crowned at Westminster Abbery on Tuesday May 6, next year. The coronation will takeplace almost exactly 70 years after his late mother's coronation on June 2, 1953.