International

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 14:38 UTC

  700 people were scammed by the promise of citizenship of an invented country in Antarctica

  

  Twelve individuals have been arrested and 30 are under investigation in Italy for having invented the “Antarctic Theocratic State of San Giorgio” with which they swindled about 700 people by promising nationality in order to be able to pay fewer taxes, have passports, land, and even receive noble titles.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Brazil consolidates as China's main supplier of agriculture produce

  

  A new agreement to facilitate exports from the Brazilian agribusiness sector to China has been described by market experts in Sao Paulo as crucial to inaugurating the “biggest era of market openness in the last ten years” between the two countries.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  Brazil prepares to celebrate 200 years of independence with the embalmed heart of its first emperor

  

  The embalmed heart of Brazil's first emperor, Dom Pedro I, has arrived in the capital Brasilia to mark 200 years of independence from Portugal to be celebrated next 7 September. The heart, which lies preserved in a flask filled with formaldehyde, was flown on board a military plane from Portugal.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Home buyers rebellion in China: protestors in 100 cities refuse to pay mortgages on undelivered homes

  

  China is again facing a challenging real estate situation, with homeowners in different provinces refusing to pay mortgages on their undelivered, unfinished flats. This is happening only two months ahead of the Chinese communist party congress when comrade Xi Jinping is expected to confirm a third five-year term, following on the constitutional change of 2018 that scrapped presidential term limits.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Scientists unlock mysteries of shark and ray species, in an effort to protect their future

  

  Scientists have unlocked the mysteries of how shark and ray species move up and down the ocean water column, in efforts to better understand them and protect their future. A new study published this month provides the first ever global analysis of how the elasmobranch community (sharks, skates and rays) use the vertical dimension of the ocean.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  RRS Attenborough calls at Belfast to pick up a new crew before further scientific research

  

  After a long season in Antarctica, Falkland Islands' flagged exploration ship RRS Sir David Attenborough has docked in Belfast for the first time, to pick up new crew members ahead of carrying out further scientific studies around the UK coastline. The state of the art vessel is owned by the Natural Environment Research Council and operated by the British Antarctic Survey.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Uruguayan peacekeepers hospitalized in Uganda

  

  One Uruguayan soldier needed surgery after sustaining a fractured skull and another was reported to be recovering well after they were both attacked in Uganda while on leave from their peacekeeping group in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Monday, August 22nd 2022 - 13:00 UTC

  Iran asks Argentina to allow the departure of Iranians from Venezuela’s Emtrasur aircraft

  

  The Iranian government urged on Monday that Argentina must allow five Iranians who were part of the crew of a Venezuelan plane held in Buenos Aires to leave its territory.

• Monday, August 22nd 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Malvinas Question incursion to Brazil: Carmona returns with the book, “Brazil and the Malvinas war: between two fires”

  

  The Malvinas Question, Antarctica and Oceans Cooperation, and the revitalization of the Peace and Cooperation Zone in the South Atlantic, ZPCAS, forum were the main points of the agenda addressed by Argentina's special secretary on Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic affairs, Guillermo Carmona during his four-day visit to Brazil.

• Monday, August 22nd 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  While Tories look for a leader, UK hit by strikes: Felixstowe closed for eight days

  

  On September 5, hopefully the conservative party will have a new leader and the British government should be back on track, leaving aside Boris Johnson. However, in the meantime prices of food and energy have soared and the country is under stress from a raft of industrial actions, the latest of which Felixstowe, Britain's largest container port, with staff walking out of their jobs for an 8-day strike on Sunday demanding better pay to meet the cost of living.