International

• Friday, August 5th 2022 - 08:23 UTC

  Applications for UK Chevening Scholarships are open in Chile

  

  The British embassy in Santiago has announced that applications for United Kingdom Chevening Scholarship for the 2023/24 academic year opened on August 2 until November first 2022, via chevening.org.apply

• Friday, August 5th 2022 - 08:08 UTC

  Narcotics shipments from Mercosur to Europe on the rise

  

  A shipment of 5,2 tons of cocaine bound for the Netherlands was seized in June, the Dutch police reported. An Uruguayan company involved in the shipment of 4,5 tons of cocaine was definitively closed by the government. An attempt to introduce cocaine in coffee bags to Europe was caught in Brazil, as well as another intended shipment of 4,5 tons of cocaine destined for Antwerp.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Pelosi's visit: G7 and EU call on China not to use force in the Taiwan dispute

  

  The announced threatening actions by the People's Republic of China, particularly live fire exercises and economic coercion risk unnecessary escalation in the Taiwan Strait,” points out a joint statement released on Wednesday by the foreign ministers of G7 countries and the High Representative of the EU.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  No Uruguayan troops involved in DRC killings

  

  Defense Minister Javier García Wednesday brought peace of mind to the relatives of Uruguayan troops deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO).

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Pelosi leaves Taiwan after less than 24 hours on the island

  

  House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday left Taipei after promising that “the United States will not abandon Taiwan,” thus concluding an official trip that had upped tensions between Washington and Beijing and due to which military preparations on both sides had escalated.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 08:03 UTC

  UK government´s Chevening scholarship for Argentina is now open

  

  Applications for Chevening scholarships to study in the UK are open between 2 August and 1 November 2022.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  Beijing summons US ambassador over Pelosi's Taiwan bravado

  

  The Government of Beijing Tuesday summoned US Ambassador Nicholas Burns after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan despite China's advice against it.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:55 UTC

  Detractor of Falklands people's rights, Argentina's candidate to the International Law Court of The Hague

  

  Dr. Marcelo Kohen is an Argentine lawyer who for more than three decades has been living in Switzerland where he is a professor of International Law at the University Institute of International High Studies in Geneva, He is also currently secretary of the prestigious International Law Institute created in 1843.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:47 UTC

  US Navy building up on its Pacific armada around Taiwan

  

  The United States Government of President Joseph Biden is taking additional military precautions in case China decides to retaliate after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went ahead with her plans to visit Taiwan.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:37 UTC

  South Georgia consultation period for Special Protected Area Management Plan

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands has announced the opening of the consultation period for the Specially Protected Area Management Plan and Regulations.