International

• Friday, September 2nd 2022 - 18:33 UTC

  New drastic lockdown ordered in a Chinese city

  

  Some 21 million people have been placed under sanitary confinement Thursday in the Chinese City of Chengdu as a result of a new outbreak of COVID-19 in a move to tackle “an extremely complex and serious pandemic situation,” it was reported.

• Friday, September 2nd 2022 - 10:29 UTC

  Foreign leaders condemn attack against Argentine VP

  

  Foreign leaders have expressed their support to Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner who survived an assassination attempt late Thursday after the gun pointed at her head failed to fire.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 18:44 UTC

  Petrobras cuts price of fuel for distributors

  

  Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras Thursday announced it would reduce the sale price of fuel to distributors from R$ 3.53 (US$ 0.67) to R$3.28 (US$ 0.63) per liter effective Friday.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 14:18 UTC

  New theory on mass strandings among pilot whales, includes Falklands' experience

  

  Mass stranding events among cetaceans – a group of marine mammals including the whale, dolphin, and porpoise – have been reported since the times of Aristotle and there has been a long drive to understand what causes them. Long-finned pilot whales – a gregarious species with complex social bonds – are those most often affected.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 14:04 UTC

  State of the art Astute-class sub HMS Anson joins the Royal Navy

  

  The world's most advanced hunter-killer submarine, HMS Anson, £1.3bn of both naval stealth and striking power – able to gather vital intelligence, protect other Royal Navy vessels from threats above and below the waves and destroy enemy military infrastructure with pinpoint accuracy, was welcomed into the Royal Navy fleet at a ceremony in Barrow.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 14:00 UTC

  World leaders praise Gorbachev for making the world safer and giving freedom to millions

  

  United States, United Kingdom, Germany, UN, EU, France, paid homage to the former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Praise flowed to the memory of the man who helped achieve a peaceful end to the almost half century Cold War.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Bachelet's last report critical of China regarding Uighurs

  

  Former two-time Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Wednesday filed a report on China's “Crimes against humanity” on her last day as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) as she left her office to a standing ovation.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Mysterious respiratory disease in Argentine province kills two

  

  Health authorities in the Argentine province of Tucumán (center, north) have reported the second death of a still unidentified lung disease that has spread locally over the past few weeks, it was announced.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 19:14 UTC

  Millions of Chinese citizens again under lockdown amid zero-COVID policies

  

  Chinese authorities have once again placed millions of people under lockdown following the resurgence of an outbreak of COVID-19 of the Omicron variant and as a consequence of the national government's zero-COVID policy.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 19:09 UTC

  New British PM to be appointed at Balmoral Castle

  

  According to a Buckingham Palace announcement released Wednesday, Queen Elizabeth II will for the first time in her historic 70-year reign appoint the new prime minister at Balmoral, in Scotland, due to mobility issues affecting the monarch.