International

• Thursday, July 14th 2022 - 07:34 UTC

  Underdog contender jumps into the limelight in UK PM race

  

  British Foreign Trade Secretary Penny Mordaunt Wednesday came out of near-anonymity and became a serious contender to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and take over as the new Prime Minister following Wednesday's round of voting in which Economy Minister Nadhim Zahawi and former Health Minister Jeremy Hunt were cast aside.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 22:47 UTC

  Still 132 years before gender parity, World Economic Forum report heralds

  

  The planet will reportedly need to wait another 132 years before total parity between men and women is achieved in the economic, political, educational, and health fields, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report on the gender gap released Wednesday.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Milestone Parliament debate on Queen's Guards iconic bear skin caps

  

  A milestone debate took place in the House of Commons on Monday, during which Members of Parliament from several political parties scrutinized the Ministry of Defense’s (MoD) continued use of real bear fur for the Queen’s Guard’s caps and spoke passionately about the need to switch to faux fur.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:14 UTC

  UK Ministry of Defense criticizes BBC Panorama program for putting “armed forces personnel at risk”

  

  British Armed Forces personnel have been put “at risk both in the field and in reputation” by BBC Panorama's episode about SAS operations in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MOD) has said. MOD has put out a strong statement criticizing “unjustified conclusions” in an upcoming hour-long documentary, called SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 23:53 UTC

  Argentina eager to join BRICS, Ambassador tells Moscow

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Moscow Eduardo Zuain Monday told the Russian Government that his country was looking forward to becoming a full member of BRICS, the global alliance formed by his hosts together with Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 20:57 UTC

  Moscow warns US leading world to brink of nuclear conflict

  

  The US Government of President Joseph Biden and its allies are on the brink of a conflict with Russia which might reach nuclear proportions, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Tuesday.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 19:18 UTC

  Srebrenica genocide: The Hague apologizes Dutch troops' failure at massacre of 8,000 Muslim prisoners

  

  The Netherlands offered its “deepest apologies” for the role played by Dutch peacekeepers in the Srebrenica genocide during the Balkans war when some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were brutally murdered by attacking Bosnian Serb forces 27 years ago

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 18:54 UTC

  Euro-zone inflation, things will get worse before they begin to improve

  

  The Euro-group, (countries using the Euro) finance ministers said that combating inflation was their number one priority. The announcement follows on the European Commission revised economic forecast anticipating dwindling growth and increasing geopolitical and natural disruptions to business as the biggest drags on the economy as a whole.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 12:07 UTC

  Voting for next Conservative party leader and to replace Boris Johnson begins

  

  Voting will get underway this Wednesday for candidates striving to become the leader of the Conservative party and the next British prime minister. So far eleven MPs have put themselves forward to replace Boris Johnson which comes after the party increased the number of nominations needed to make it to the first-round ballot, in order to speed up the election process.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Lacalle Pou gave an Uruguayan mare to the Emir of Qatar as a gift and left on Monday: Why is it important?

  

  This Monday, a Criollo horse that the Uruguayan President, Luis Lacalle Pou, promised to send as a gift to the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left Uruguay for Qatar. Last February, the South American president offered the animal during his trip to that country for the international fair Expo Dubai.