International

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 06:30 UTC

  Armed Forces loyalty parade to the Queen at her official Scotland residence

  

  On Tuesday the Queen attended an Armed Forces act of loyalty parade at her official Scottish residence. Members of all three services took part in the service at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh to celebrate her visit to Scotland and mark her Platinum Jubilee there.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Russia endorses Argentine, Iran joining BRICS

  

  Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Tuesday said his country would welcome the enlargement of the BRICS bloc made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa by adding Argentina and Iran to the list of member nations.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  United Nations “Ocean emergency” conference opens in Lisbon

  

  With climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution exacting a devastating toll on the world’s ocean — critical to food security, economic growth, and the environment — the 2022 UN Ocean Conference opened in Lisbon, Portugal with a call for a new chapter of ocean action driven by science, technology and innovation.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  IMF wires nearly US$ 4bn to Argentina's coffers

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has wired US$ 3,980 million to Argentina, thus boosting the country's reserves to US$ 42,139 million, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil confident of its OECD access roadmap, which should make EU/Mercosur deal more expeditious

  

  Once Brazil has been admitted to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, the ratification process for the Mercosur/European Union trade agreement, will become more viable, according to Brazilian foreign minister Carlos Franca.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Ghislaine Maxwell receives 20-year jail sentence in New York

  

  Former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been handed down Tuesday a 20-year prison sentence by a New York Court for helping her ex-boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein, sexually abuse underage girls.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  Scotland proposes a second independence referendum on 19 October 2023

  

  Scotland's first minister has proposed 19 October 2023 as the date for another referendum on independence. Nicola Sturgeon said the question would be the same as in the last referendum in 2014: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Drug consumption on the rise worldwide, UN report shows

  

  According to a United Nations report released in Vienna, the number of people who have tried a narcotic substance in their lives has increased by 26% in the last decade. In 2020, 13.6% of users suffered from drug-related disorders to the point of being dependent or requiring treatment.

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 19:35 UTC

  Johnson tells Fernández Falklanders and Ukrainians entitled to self determination

  

  President Alberto Fernández Monday told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that more Britons were living in Argentina than in the Falkland Islands, but that did not change an iota the Conservative's leader stance that there was nothing to talk about in that regard because Falkland Islanders, like all people, have a right to self-determination, according to his post-meeting comments to the press quoted by Clarín.

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:57 UTC

  Falklands in agenda of Fernandez bilateral meeting with Johnson at G7

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez confirmed that this Monday afternoon, at the G7 summit in Munich he will be holding a fifteen minutes bilateral talk with UK prime minister Boris Johnson in which he plans to bring up the issue of the Falkland Islands.