International

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:17 UTC

  Royal Yacht Britannia to be replaced by an ocean surveillance ship

  

  A £250m scheme to create a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia has been scrapped – with the Defense Secretary telling MPs the procurement of a new Royal Navy vessel is being prioritized instead.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  Former St Helena sea link, turned into “floating paddock” for Extreme E competitions visiting Uruguay

  

  A completely refurbished former RMS St Helena, which sailed between the British Overseas Territory of St Helena, (occasionally Ascension Island) and Cape Town in South Africa until 2018, is currently in Uruguay although under a new purpose.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Falklands' war landing craft, wins 2022 Flagship Award of the Year

  

  Foxtrot 8 is one of the four vessels that won the 2022 Flagships of the Year Awards, for its public engagement program and media campaign in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict, according to Heritage Machines and National Historic Ships UK.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 08:52 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey participating at the UN COP27 convention in Egypt

  

  British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists will participate in the 27th session of the United Nations National Framework Convention on Climate Change, hosted by the Arab Republic of Egypt until 18 November 2022 at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 03:51 UTC

  Macron and Maduro bump into each other at COP27

  

  Presidents Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Emmanuel Macron of France held a conversation on the sidelines of the COP27 Climate Summit at the Egyptian Red Sea por of Sharm l-Sheikh during which they agreed to work together toward mutual environmental goals.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 20:00 UTC

  More than half of the occupants survive plane crash in Tanzania

  

  A Tanzanian passenger twin turboprop aircraft ditched into Lake Victoria Sunday during a landing attempt at an airport in the lakeside town of Bukoba amid stormy weather. It was later reported that 19 Precision Air ATR 42-500 aircraft occupants were killed, but many others survived.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  Will Mastodon become a serious threat for Musk's Twitter?

  

  Mastodon is rapidly becoming one of the alternative platforms of Twitter, a social network with over 655,000 users with some 230,000 joining in the last few days, following on the takeover of the huge platform by billionaire Elon Musk.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  World Meteorological Organization: Grim forecast at the launching of COP27

  

  Earth's warming weather and rising seas are getting worse, with the situation deteriorating faster than ever, the World Meteorological Organization revealed in a new report.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Royal Navy's Type 26s delayed by a year at an extra cost of £233m

  

  UK Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace told MPs in a statement that Initial Operating Capability (IOC) for the Type 26s – dubbed the workhorses of the warship fleet – will now be reached in October 2028 instead of the planned October 2027, and with a cost growth of £233million.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Uruguayan beef makes successful presentation in Shanghai

  

  An Uruguayan team has successfully persuaded would-be buyers at the 5th China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai of the benefits of a healthy diet containing beef from the South American country.