International

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Uruguayan exports fall for the 2nd month in a row

  

  Uruguayan exports in the month of October 2022 totaled US$ 842 million, which represented a 6% year-on-year drop, it was reported Tuesday in Montevideo.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  First 50p coins with King Charles III portrait will be circulating next December

  

  Britain's 50p coin has started to be struck at The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales, and will enter tills, wallets and purses in December, reports BBC. Sculptor Martin Jennings, who created the portrait of the King, said that witnessing the coin being produced was a “quite remarkable experience”.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 09:17 UTC

  Bank of England begins QE “tightening”; first successful sale of £750 million bonds

  

  The Bank of England sold on Tuesday £750 million worth of UK government bonds from its quantitative easing stockpile. It was the first Western central bank to do so and received a solid demand from investors at its first auction to sell government bonds from its £838 billion pound quantitative easing portfolio.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Princess Anne will visit the Falkland Islands November 17 to 22

  

  The Governor of the Falkland Islands has announced that Her Royal Highness, Princess Royal will be visiting the Falkland Islands between November 17 and 22. Her Royal Highness will be accompanied by her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Central banks and stubborn inflation, to Hike, Early to Thrive?

  

  By Andrés Velasco – Several central banks that began raising interests well before US and Euro-zone policymakers are still facing persistent inflation. But it was the right choice, because inflation was always likely to prove stubborn in today’s conditions, and waiting would have required even larger hikes later, with a heavier output cost.

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 21:18 UTC

  Colonial era bridge in India collapses killing at least 134

  

  Indian authorities arrested 9 suspects Monday to account for the collapse of an old pedestrian bridge in the small industrial town of Morbi, in the State of Gujarat state, in which at least 134 people have been killed.

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 21:16 UTC

  Users lose followers amid Instagram glitch worldwide

  

  Instagram users were shocked early Monday as Instagram began suspending accounts worldwide for no apparent reason, which also resulted in the loss of followers.

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 10:37 UTC

  Rishi Sunak congratulates Lula: “I look forward to working together on the issues that matter”

  

  United Kingdom's new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, congratulated elected-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on his victory in Brazil's election against incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro, saying he looked forward to coordinating on issues including protecting the planet's natural resources.

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 10:36 UTC

  Falklands included in Russia's list of “unfriendly” territories

  

  Tit for tat. Russia expanded its sanctions list on Sunday to all British Overseas Territories, including the Falkland Islands, accusing them of “unfriendly actions” against Moscow.

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Energy security or clean energy: Germany dismantles wind farm to expand lignite coal mine

  

  With winter around the corner and Europe giving priority to energy security over clean energy in German a wind farm is being dismantled to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine.