International

• Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  Falklands and HMS Medway honor patrol vessel HMS Leeds Castle

  

  HMS Medway is carrying out patrol duties in the Falkland Islands, filling in while HMS Forth undergoes refit in Gibraltar, but her crew are leaving behind a lasting legacy, which will even be visible from space.

• Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  UK condemns “desecration” of maritime military graves in Malaysian waters

  

  Malaysia questioned a Chinese-registered vessel suspected of looting two British World War II shipwrecks. The ship was seized over the weekend after it anchored without a permit off Malaysia's southern Johor state, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency chief in the region, Nurul Hizam Zakaria, said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

  How the Far Left paves the way for the Far Right, the Chilean experience

  

  By Andrés Velasco
  
  In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention that produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

• Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:24 UTC

  Uruguayan Senator against synthetic meat

  

  Uruguayan Senator Sebastián Da Silva (National Party) will push for the banning of the manufacture and import of artificial or laboratory meat because “Uruguay, as a cattle-raising country, has to be a pioneer in the fight against this type of laboratory protein, artificial, and must defend the real natural food,” it was reported in Montevideo.

• Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

  CEO of US top bank JP Morgan linked with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

  

  The CEO of one of the largest global banks and consultant of politicians and lawmakers, Jamie Dimon has provided a formal statement in two lawsuits over ties between the US JP Morgan bank and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

• Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:06 UTC

  Same-sex relations can lead to death penalty in Uganda

  

  Ugandan authorities have passed new criminal legislation whereby homosexuality is punishable by death, it was reported in Entebbe. President Yoweri Museveni Monday signed into law the bill that has the support of the country's public opinion.

• Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 06:41 UTC

  Liverpool commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic

  

  Three days of Battle of the Atlantic commemorations have ended in Liverpool with organizers and the public equally delighted by the maritime spectacle.

• Monday, May 29th 2023 - 20:36 UTC

  UK marks one year without any imports of Russian gas

  

  New figures published this week show the UK did not import any Russian gas in the 12 months to the end of March 2023, while UK gas exports to Europe tripled over the same period. The UK has gone a whole year without importing any Russian gas - a boost for the country’s energy security and a blow to Putin’s war machine.

• Monday, May 29th 2023 - 20:31 UTC

  Germany in technical recession, Eurozone expects zero growth

  

  Beware the European Union, Germany has entered technical recession. Germany's economy shrunk slightly in the first quarter of 2023 compared with the previous three months, data showed. A preliminary estimate had shown gross domestic product (GPD) stagnating at zero growth in the first quarter — meaning Germany would have narrowly escaped a recession.

• Monday, May 29th 2023 - 20:20 UTC

  For the first time, global investment in solar power overtakes investment in fossil fuels, IEA report

  

  Global investment in solar power is expected to overtake investment in oil production for the first time ever this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said. The IEA projects investment in solar power to hit US$ 380 billion in 2023, compared to investments in oil exploration and extraction at US$ 370 billion.