International

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Fiona causes havoc in Canada

  

  Hurricane Fiona has left unprecedented damage after making landfall throughout five provinces in eastern Canada, it was reported.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  South Georgia announces the latest version of the Bio-Security Handbook

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands has announced that the latest version of the Bio-security Handbook is now available. The Handbook details the procedures which are in place to help reduce the risk of harmful non-native species and disease entering the Territory and steps in place to detect them and limit their spread should they arrive.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Frozen Planet II presented by Sir David Attenborough, after four and a half years of filming in 18 countries

  

  In 2011, Frozen Planet gave BBC viewers an unprecedented insight into life in the Poles. The final episode featured British Antarctic Survey (BAS) glaciologist Dr Andy Smith using explosives to see how the ice interacts with the bed beneath to monitor how it behaves and is changing.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 09:08 UTC

  Another equality 'advance' for Swiss women, they will retire as 65, just like Swiss men

  

  Switzerland is known as a country of direct democracy since voting on referendums is practiced quite often, as happened on Sunday when voters accepted the government's pension reform albeit by a narrow margin.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 19:20 UTC

  Residents in Russian-held territories vote between staying Russian or going back under Kyiv

  

  Residents in the eastern Ukrainian republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbas regions and in other parts of Russian-controlled territories began voting Friday in a referendum with which Moscow seeks to legitimize the military deployment in the area since February.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  A smaller EU, (without UK), and Brazil negotiating new quotas and export volumes

  

  Brazil and the European Union (EU) have reached a bilateral agreement on agricultural commodity quotas to adapt them to the bloc’s change in size following the Brexit departure of the United Kingdom. Under the new agreement, EU will reduce quotas, but, in return, UK decided to open others proportionately, thus preserving Brazil’s export window for both markets.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:22 UTC

  Chilean police launch major search for British astrophysicist disappeared in the Atacama Desert

  

  Chilean police have launched a major search for a British scientist who has gone missing in the north of the country. Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood to have been working.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  England announces pause in “fracking moratorium” to bolster energy security

  

  The UK government on Thursday lifted England's moratorium on the fracking process to extract oil and gas, saying the move aims to shore up energy security as Russia cuts gas deliveries amid tensions over its invasion of Ukraine and the intensification of the war.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Spanish coalition plans a “wealth” tax on the richest 1% to support “the middle class and workers”

  

  Spain's fragile left-wing coalition government plans to slap a temporary tax on the wealthiest 1% of the country's population to help pay for inflation and cost of living relief measures.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Another challenge for UK unity: latest census shows Catholics are a majority in Northern Ireland

  

  For the first time in the century of its existence, Northern Ireland has more residents who identify as Catholic than those calling themselves Protestants, a census has shown, according to results published on Thursday.