International

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Biden on Asian tour amid growing military threats from China, N.Korea

  

  US President Joseph Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Monday at Tokyo's State House to discuss their two countries' joint deterrence and response capabilities in case of a military conflict involving China, which has sent dozens of warplanes into Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone in recent weeks.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 08:55 UTC

  Ukraine war: Poland wants Norway to share windfall gains from oil and gas sales

  

  Norway which is western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer, and also has one of the largest sovereign funds in the world, should share the huge profits it has made from oil and gas exports since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said over the weekend, according to Tsvetana Parakova from Oilprice.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 23:54 UTC

  Lacalle Pou with a green message in London: Uruguay “is among the strongest democracies in the world”

  

  By Graham Bound for MercoPress (London) – Only on the most serene of news-days might a visit to the United Kingdom by the President of Uruguay make headlines in the country’s newspapers and broadcast bulletins. For a little while it actually looked as if there might be just such a benign news environment. But as President Luis Lacalle Pou took his seat at Canning House, the Latin America and Iberia think tank, on Monday evening to deliver a lecture titled “Uruguay, a Reliable Gateway to South America – Opportunities in Green Finance”, he must have known that he had been totally eclipsed by his host, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 20:48 UTC

  Lacalle Pou met with Boris Johnson at Downing Street: find out what they talked about

  

  During his official visit to the United Kingdom, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou visited British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who welcomed him at the door of Downing Street. The meeting lasted approximately one hour.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:33 UTC

  Interpol chief under investigation for alleged torture complicity against two UK citizens

  

  Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi, from the United Arab Emirate Ministry of Interior was voted as head of Interpol in November 2021, but has now been accused of complicity in the torture of two British men, and French authorities have opened an investigation into the allegations.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  'Oui Monsieur Stanley', Boris Johnson's father becomes French citizen

  

  Stanley Johnson, father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week secured French citizenship, but according to the French Justice Ministry, “this decision concerns only Mr. Stanley Johnson and does not extend to his descendants.”

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  Climate change election: Labor pledges to make Australia “a renewable energy superpower”

  

  Australia's Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he wants to improve Australia's image abroad after defeating conservative Scott Morrison. Climate change played a pivotal role in the Saturday vote, with voters unhappy with Morrison's government response to deadly fires and floods that hit Australia in recent years and their support of massive coal exports.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 08:56 UTC

  Uruguayan President lands in London

  

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou has arrived in London to meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Crown Prince Charles of Wales during his 3-day stay.

• Sunday, May 22nd 2022 - 05:25 UTC

  President of Uruguay left for the UK on his first visit to Europe: will meet with Prince Charles, Boris Johnson

  

  The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, traveled this Saturday to London for an official visit to the country, which will last until May 24. Lacalle Pou will be received by Prince Charles and United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson on Monday 23rd.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Endurance Conquered: A conversation with Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration of the Endurance22 project

  

  By Sean Kingsley for Wreckwatch magazine* – Mensun Bound is a fifth-generation Falkland Islander, born to the sea and its mysteries. By fusing academia with firing the public imagination, he creates buzz after buzz around underwater archaeology. In the 1980s he set up and directed Oxford University MARE, England’s first academic maritime archaeological unit, and in 1994 was appointed the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St Peter’s College, Oxford.