International

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Russia launches attack on Ukrainian port of Odessa despite truce

  

  Just one day after signing a truce with Ukraine to allow for the export of grains through three Black Sea ports, Russia launched an attack on Odessa to destroy a ship and a shed containing U.S. missiles, the Kremlin argued.

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Pope lands in Canada to seek forgiveness from native communities

  

  The Argentina-born Pope Francis Sunday arrived in Canada despite his walking impairment on a mission to seek the forgiveness of native communities for abuses perpetrated at education institutes run by the Catholic Church, which have been unearthed recently.

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 08:47 UTC

  July 1942: Nazi Germany begins the systematic extermination of Polish Jews

  

  In July 1942, Nazi Germany ordered the systematic extermination of the Jewish population in the Polish capital of Warsaw. Jews had been confined to the Warsaw Ghetto from November 1940, life was terrible. In the Ghetto to the northwest of the city some 450,000 men, women, and children lived crammed together behind the high walls. Around 100,000 people had died of hunger or disease, or been killed in summary executions. But the worse was to come on 22 July 1942.

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 08:18 UTC

  Monkeypox a global emergency, WHO declares

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the onset of monkeypox constituted a global emergency after cases of the malady were detected in over 70 countries.

• Sunday, July 24th 2022 - 14:06 UTC

  The great multicultural experiment: half the contenders vying to be Britain’s next prime minister were not white

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – Here’s an interesting fact: only 14 percent of people in England and Wales are Black, Asian, mixed or other (i.e. non-white). Yet, half the candidates that were ying to take the place of disgraced British prime minister Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party — and therefore the new prime minister — are non-white. Four out of eight

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 22:58 UTC

  Price of wheat slumps following Black Sea truce

  

  The price of wheat in global markets went back to pre-war figures Friday, after Ukraine and Russia agreed on a truce to allow for the departure of exports from Black Sea ports under Kyiv's control.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Plenty of business opportunities available with China, Argentine report says

  

  A report released Thursday by Argentina's Undersecretary for Trade and Investment Promotion Pablo Sívori highlighted the progress over the past 20 years of trade between his country and China, which rose from US$ 1 billion to nearly US$ 20 billion yearly.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  European Central Bank raises benchmark interests, first time in eight years

  

  The European Central Bank on Thursday raised key interest rates for the first time in over a decade with the purpose of combating inflation, reflected in consumer prices of the Euro-zone which reached 8,6% in the first half of the year.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 07:11 UTC

  Ukraine, Russia agree on safe corridor for wheat exports

  

  Russian authorities and dignitaries from the Kyiv government are to sign Friday the first deal since the beginning of the war in February. Brokered by Türkiye, the belligerent states will agree in Istanbul on safe corridors through the Black Sea for the export of Ukrainian wheat from its own ports.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 07:00 UTC

  Draupadi Murmu to become India's next president

  

  India, the country slated to have the world's largest population by the end of the year, and a member of BRICS, Thursday announced the name of the person to become the next head of state.