International

Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:24 UTC
Assange may appeal his extradition before the UK's Supreme Court

British magistrates Ian Burnett and Tim Holroyde Monday ruled there was a legal technicality in Julian Assange's case worth reviewing by the country's highest court and therefore cleared the way for the latter's extradition to the United States to be appealed against.
Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:20 UTC
Ambassadors gather at Buenos Aires' Holocaust Museum to remembers victims

Ambassadors from 14 countries in Buenos Aires paid a tribute to the victims of Shoah, the Jewish Holocaust at the hands of the Third Reich in the 1930s and 1940s during a ceremony at the Museum in Buenos Aires Monday remembered the Holocaust
Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:12 UTC
247 anniversary of South Georgia Possession for the British Crown

Monday, January 17th was South Georgia Possession Day, marking 247 years since the first landing on the island was made by Captain James Cook. The British explorer was on his second world voyage aboard HMS Resolution.
Monday, January 24th 2022 - 20:30 UTC
France eyes new rules which would let Djokovic play at Roland Garros

According to the latest version of the everchanging press reports, France is now said to be eyeing a change in the immigration rules, which would allow Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic to play at the most emblematic French Open at Roland Garros after being deported from Australia for the first Grand Slam event of the year.
Monday, January 24th 2022 - 20:20 UTC
NZ Prime Minister calls off wedding due to sanitary restrictions

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who has announced her country was moving back to “the red traffic light setting” in a move to curb the spread of the coronavirus Omicron variant, has been forced to postpone her own wedding to comply with the sanitary restrictions.
Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Haitian migrants stranded at Santiago's airport in Chile

A group of 23 Haitian migrants were stranded Sunday at Santiago's Arturo Merino Benítez international airport where they have filed for refugee status but nevertheless fear local authorities might deport them back to their country of origin where all lives are “at-risk” due to the ongoing crisis, according to Rodolfo Noriega of the local Migrant Ombudsman's Office.
Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
USS Kitty Hawk en route to the scrap yard in Texas, via the southern tip of South America

USS Kitty Hawk CV63, the last conventionally powered United States Navy aircraft carrier left over the weekend from a naval base at Bremerton, Washington State and pulled by two tugs is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:40 UTC
Seize order for Crystal Symphony because of unpaid fuel

The cruise vessel Crystal Symphony that was supposed to dock in Miami sailed to the Bahamas instead after a U.S. judge granted an order to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over unpaid fuel.
Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:29 UTC
IMF chief warns indebted countries on Fed's announced policy of higher rates

The IMF managing director warned that interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve could have serious implications for counties with high levels of debt in dollars, “cold water” on already weak economic recoveries, or in the process of negotiating debts.
Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:23 UTC
Global Inflation: Brazil's Guedes and Europe's Lagarde have opposing positions

Brazilian economy minister Paulo Guedes said that inflation will become a long-term challenge for Western countries, since “the beast is already out of the bottle”, and central bankers have been caught “sleeping at the driving wheel”.