International

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  China slowly lifting some COVID-19 restrictions

  

  As Chinese authorities are beginning to announce a gradual easing of the harsh measures imposed as per the country's zero-COVID policy, one episode in Beijing has resulted in additional restrictions, it was reported.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Monkeypox far from becoming a pandemic, WHO experts explain

  

  A leading World Health Organization (WHO) scientist has been reported as saying there were no concerns about the monkeypox outbreak ever evolving into a pandemic like COVID-19.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  French newsman killed in Russia-Ukraine conflict

  

  Newsman Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff has been killed Monday by a Russian grenade thrown against a humanitarian convoy in Donbass, French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  PM Johnson wants to go back to pounds and ounces

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is weighing a possible return to imperial units of measurement in a post-Brexit move to fully part with the remaining vestiges of the European alliance, it was reported in London. He had already pledged to take this path during his 2019 campaign.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Pie thrown at Mona Lisa by fake old woman

  

  A deranged young male visitor disguised as an old lady in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at Leonardo Da Vicini's Mona Lisa painting at Paris' Louvre Museum

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:09 UTC

  House of Commons Speaker and Minister Milling at Goose Green Liberation ceremony

  

  On Sunday, marking the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of Goose Green, East Falkland, and despite a brisk wind blowing snow across the monument, a service of commemoration was held to remember those who gave their lives in the battle.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey field season has finished; RRS Sir Attenborough returns to UK after seven months 

  

  RRS Sir David Attenborough departed Rothera Research Station for the final time earlier in May and is now making its way back to the UK, marking the end of the BAS Antarctic summer field season.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Yuck! Singaporean brewery launches top-notch unique product

  

  A brewery in Singapore has made the headlines worldwide for launching NEWbrew, which -it has been reported- looks and tastes like usual beer despite being made with Newater, or high-quality water recycled from sewage and human urine.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 07:47 UTC

  Royal Navy and Air Force will support Qatar during the World Cup

  

  The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense has announced it will support Qatar with military capabilities to counter terrorism and other threats to the international football tournament.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  FTA with China would not make Uruguay dependent, Lacalle tells BBC

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said in an interview with the BBC that in case or reaching a Free Trade Agreement with China, it would not generate dependence, because in his country politics and economics were separate issues.