International

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:42 UTC

  New Zealand fully reopens borders to build back from COVID isolation

  

  The Government of New Zealand has fully reopened its borders effective August 1 to foreign visitors, thus ending the sanitary restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic. The South Pacific country had one of the toughest travel regimes imposed on health grounds globally. Before Covid-19, tourism accounted for 5.5% of New Zealand's GDP.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 06:52 UTC

  Pelosi not to cancel Asian tour but mum about Taiwan

  

  US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidential succession, has announced she would carry on with her plans to lead a delegation of lawmakers from her country on an Asian tour, but there was no mention of Taiwan.

• Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Praise for FIDF from UK Forces, “one of the best equipped reserve forces”

  

  The Falkland Islands are the UK's most remote overseas territory, being more than 8,000 miles away from Britain. The isolated nature of the Islands means that the troops stationed there must be almost self-sufficient.

• Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 08:21 UTC

  WHO concerned over hepatitis “of unknown origin” among children

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed its concern over an outbreak of hepatitis “of unknown origin” among children. The agency also reported said it was working “side by side” with authorities in the affected countries to understand the cause of this infection.

• Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 08:10 UTC

  No call, just a message from Argentine President to IMF Chief

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez sent International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva a message explaining the cabinet reshuffle currently underway.

• Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 08:01 UTC

  London court rules against Maduro-appointed BCV board to handle gold

  

  London High Court Judge Sara Cockerill Friday ruled against that President Nicolás Maduro's stance in the case involving Venezuela's gold reserves deposited in the Bank of England.

• Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 07:42 UTC

  Prosecutor wants Emtrasur plane and crew to stay pending lab reports

  

  Argentine prosecutors handling the case of the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 seized at the Ezeiza international airport Friday objected to the aircraft's crew being allowed to leave the country.

• Friday, July 29th 2022 - 19:14 UTC

  UK Hydrographic Office will end global paper chart production by late 2026

  

  The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has announced it intends to withdraw from global paper chart production by late 2026. The UKHO said it will develop “viable, official digital alternatives for sectors still using paper chart products”.

• Friday, July 29th 2022 - 19:02 UTC

  Brazilian steel exports to the EU soar 830% in five months because of the Ukraine war

  

  Brazilian steel industry sales have ballooned since the start of the war in Ukraine sparked by the Russian invasion of its territory, which began in February. According to Steel Institute data, shipments of the metal raw material to the European Union increased by more than 830% in the first five months of this year, y-to-y, coinciding with the period of warfare in Eastern Europe.

• Friday, July 29th 2022 - 10:26 UTC

  Dissertation: Spanish-English contact in the Falkland Islands

  

  By Yliana Rodríguez (*) for MercoPress – A cosmic coincidence happened to me some months ago. I was notified that my PhD defense committee only coincided on June 14, meaning that would be the date to defend my thesis about Falkland Islands English in contact with Spanish.