International

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 11:38 UTC

  Germany resurrecting nuclear, oil and coal powered plants to replace Russian gas

  

  With the Ukrainian war still raging and making arrangements ahead of next winter, Germany despite its original pledges and with a coalition that includes the Green party, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has admitted for the first time that the country could put off the retirement of its nuclear power grid.

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 11:31 UTC

  World food commodity prices dropped significantly in July, FAO report

  

  The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined significantly in July, with major cereal and vegetable oil prices recording double-digit percentage declines, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has reported.

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 11:08 UTC

  Insurance for vessels leaving Ukrainian ports loaded with grains skyrockets

  

  London’s insurance industry is gearing up to cover Ukrainian grain and fertilizer shipments via a safe corridor, which could require up to US$50 million per insured cargo, industry sources said this week.

• Friday, August 5th 2022 - 08:23 UTC

  Applications for UK Chevening Scholarships are open in Chile

  

  The British embassy in Santiago has announced that applications for United Kingdom Chevening Scholarship for the 2023/24 academic year opened on August 2 until November first 2022, via chevening.org.apply

• Friday, August 5th 2022 - 08:08 UTC

  Narcotics shipments from Mercosur to Europe on the rise

  

  A shipment of 5,2 tons of cocaine bound for the Netherlands was seized in June, the Dutch police reported. An Uruguayan company involved in the shipment of 4,5 tons of cocaine was definitively closed by the government. An attempt to introduce cocaine in coffee bags to Europe was caught in Brazil, as well as another intended shipment of 4,5 tons of cocaine destined for Antwerp.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Pelosi's visit: G7 and EU call on China not to use force in the Taiwan dispute

  

  The announced threatening actions by the People's Republic of China, particularly live fire exercises and economic coercion risk unnecessary escalation in the Taiwan Strait,” points out a joint statement released on Wednesday by the foreign ministers of G7 countries and the High Representative of the EU.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  No Uruguayan troops involved in DRC killings

  

  Defense Minister Javier García Wednesday brought peace of mind to the relatives of Uruguayan troops deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO).

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Pelosi leaves Taiwan after less than 24 hours on the island

  

  House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday left Taipei after promising that “the United States will not abandon Taiwan,” thus concluding an official trip that had upped tensions between Washington and Beijing and due to which military preparations on both sides had escalated.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 08:03 UTC

  UK government´s Chevening scholarship for Argentina is now open

  

  Applications for Chevening scholarships to study in the UK are open between 2 August and 1 November 2022.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  Beijing summons US ambassador over Pelosi's Taiwan bravado

  

  The Government of Beijing Tuesday summoned US Ambassador Nicholas Burns after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan despite China's advice against it.