International

• 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.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Argentina rejects UK's new Maritime Security Strategy, “updated colonialism on the Malvinas Question”

  

  The announcement last week from the UK of its new Maritime Security Strategy as can be expected did not go unnoticed by Argentina and its policy claims over the South Atlantic Islands, including mainly the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  UK launches new National Maritime Security Strategy; complements the £4 billion shipbuilding industry support

  

  Last week, on 15 August, the UK launched a new maritime strategy that sets out how the UK will enhance its capabilities in technology, innovation, and cyber security.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 09:06 UTC

  New beneficiaries of Taiwanese scholarships announced in Asunción

  

  Taiwan's Embassy in Asunción launched this week the 2022 edition of the program for Paraguayan students willing to pursue their educational goals on the Asian island.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 08:01 UTC

  On Humanitarian Day, UK will fund £36 million to help people in Ukraine, East Africa and Syria

  

  The UK has announced £36 million (approx. US$ 42 million) in UK humanitarian funding to help people in Ukraine, East Africa, and Syria.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 07:50 UTC

  HMS Scott, in four weeks, has record scanned an Atlantic Ocean area similar to that of Portugal

  

  The Royal Navy survey ship HMS Scott is on course to smash her record scanning the oceans after just the first four weeks of an epic 15-month deployment.

• Friday, August 19th 2022 - 22:20 UTC

  China under yellow alert over drought

  

  Chinese authorities have declared a yellow alert as the country continues to be hit by a persistent drought following weeks of high temperatures that have dried up parts of the Yangtze river, it was announced. On Beijing's scale of alerts, yellow is two notches below the most severe warning.