International

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 16:47 UTC

  US House Speaker Pelosi lands in Taiwan despite China's threats

  

  A United States Air Force aircraft carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her entourage landed Tuesday evening in Taipei, despite China's threat that it would be regarded as an invasion of an island Beijing still regards as a province gone rogue after the 1949 civil war.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  Judge allows 12 crewmembers of Emtrasur's 747 to leave Argentina

  

  Argentine Federal Judge Federico Villena Monday ordered their passports be returned to 12 of the 19 crew members of the Venezuelan-Iranian cargo Boeing 747-300 currently seized at the Ezeiza International Airport.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 09:02 UTC

  Falklands Conservation tracking Southern Right Whales

  

  As part of the Darwin Plus funded project (DPLUS126), Falklands Conservation are aiming to deploy up to 10 satellite tags on southern right whales during the winters of 2022 and 2023. The research questions for southern right whales mean that Falklands Conservation scientists will use two different types of tags:

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 08:56 UTC

  Japanese whaling industry on the brink of collapse: less demand, less subsidies for whale meat

  

  The whaling industry in Japan is on the brink of collapse as young generations tastes have rapidly changed and government subsidies are beginning to shrink. The industry employed thousands of people in the decades immediately after World War II, and sustained entire communities during those difficult economic times, is today losing the government subsidies that has kept it afloat.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 08:07 UTC

  World Breastfeeding Week, the best possible start in life; message from UNICEF and WHO

  

  UNICEF and WHO have underlined the vital importance of breastfeeding as the best possible start in life, as global crises continue to threaten the health and nutrition of millions of babies and children.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 16:51 UTC

  Royal Navy incorporates experimental ship to test state-of-the-art technology

  

  An experimental warship has been unveiled by the Royal Navy to be used to test state-of-the-art technology, including autonomous systems. The unique new test-bed ship – a 42m, 270-ton vessel named after former Royal Navy sailor and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Blackett – arrived in Portsmouth this week.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:35 UTC

  International tourism has recovered to almost half of pre-pandemic 2019 level

  

  According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism saw a strong rebound in the first five months of 2022, with almost 250 million international arrivals recorded. This compares to 77 million arrivals from January to May 2021 and means that the sector has recovered almost half (46%) of pre-pandemic 2019 levels.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:30 UTC

  Venezuela's Conviasa starts weekly flights to Tehran

  

  Venezuela's increasingly deeper ties with Iran have resulted in flag carrier Conviasa starting nonstop services to Tehran once a week as of Sunday, it was announced.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:15 UTC

  Two killed unprovokedly by UN peacekeepers in Congo

  

  Congolese authorities have taken action Sunday after two people were killed by fire stemming from the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the violence-torn African country, it was announced Sunday.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:12 UTC

  Falklands celebrates Daphne's win in Lawn Bowls and England's Euro Women's Cup

  

  Double celebration for the Falkland Islands. The Islands Lawn Bowls Ladies Single Daphne Arthur Almond beat India's Tania Choudhary in a very tense competition from 21 to 20.