International

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Ukraine: Bolsonaro offers humanitarian help but Brazil shall remain neutral

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro Monday vowed to grant humanitarian visas to Ukrainian refugees but insisted on his country’s neutral stance regarding Russia’s invasion.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  “China does not agree with unilateral sanctions that lack the basis of international law”, foreign ministry spokesperson

  

  China's foreign ministry spokesperson during the daily media conference called for an end to the Cold War mentality and emphasized that Beijing does not agree to resolve issues with sanctions that lack the basis of international law.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentine Foreign Minister insists UK needs to explain what happened to 1982 nukes

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Monday insisted the United Kingdom had sent nuclear weapons to the Falkland Islands in 1982 and claimed British authorities should come clean about the issue.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Chilean president-elect again condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine

  

  Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric has again strongly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and called on public opinion to watch and listen closely to the nine minutes message of Ukrainian president Volodimir Zelenski to the Russian people.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  IPCC reveals global impact of human induced climate change

  

  A new report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published on Monday 28 February, has outlined the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  What will happen in the world wheat market if the Russia/Ukraine conflict is not over by June

  

  The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also caused major disruptions in the agricultural commodities' markets with soaring prices for wheat, corn, soybeans... and much speculation.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:01 UTC

  Turkey prepared to limit Russian warships transit between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean

  

  Turkey has said that the situation in Ukraine has become a “war”, a declaration that authorized Ankara to activate the Montreux Convention which limits Russian war vessels from entering the Black Sea, through the strategic straits of the Bosporus and Dardanelle which link with the Mediterranean.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  CFK decries double standards within UN Security Council regarding Ukraine and Falklands/Malvinas

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Sunday said Western powers had double standards when addressing the Ukraine crisis. The former head of state (2007-2015) recalled that in 2014 -under her presidency-, Argentina supported Kyiv against Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula by force.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:24 UTC

  Cristina Fernández de Kirchner still complaining about Falklands' 2013 referendum

  

  Argentina's main leader and vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recalled on Sunday in Twitter that her government strongly supported Ukraine back in 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, but also complained about the double standard of the “great powers” in their stance regarding the Falkland/Malvinas Islands issue.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:20 UTC

  OPEC+ meeting this week expected to increase another 400,00 bpd

  

  The OPEC+ alliance is set to approve this week another 400,000 bpd increase in monthly production targets, despite the fact they have been supplying below the announced volume. Russia and OPEC's de facto leader Saudi Arabia manage the OPEC+ group, which has been running supply to the market since the beginning of 2017