International

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 23:56 UTC

  Luis Lacalle Pou won’t attend UN General Assembly

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou will not attend the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations to be held in New York. Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo will attend in his place, reported El Observador and confirmed MercoPress with sources from the Foreign Ministry.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 23:13 UTC

  Tories pick Liz Truss to become UK's next PM

  

  Foreign Secretary Liz Truss beat former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak by 81,326 votes to 60,399 and will thus become the British Conservative Party's New Leader who is to be appointed Prime Minister Tuesday by Queen Elizabeth II in Balmoral Castle.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 18:31 UTC

  OPEC to cut down oil output to keep price stable

  

  The Organization of Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC) Monday decided to cut their output of crude and put on sale on international markets 100,000 bpds less daily as fears of a recession keep bringing down the price of crude.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Falklands' Veteran hero paratrooper who acted on a BBC show on the war dies in air crash

  

  An inquest has been opened into the death of Chris Waddington, the Falklands War Veteran who was tragically killed in a plane crash in Herefordshire reports the HerefordTimes. The Parachute Regiment veteran, who served for more than 20 years in the British Armed Forces, was killed five days before his 60th birthday when the plane he was flying hit the ground at Shobdon Airfield, near Leominster.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Greenpeace dropped a chain of boulders in UK's MPA South West Deeps to prevent industrial trawling

  

  Greenpeace UK activists have dropped boulders into the English Channel at the South West Deeps (190 kilometers south of Land's End Cornwall) to prevent industrial trawling. The South West Deeps is one of the UK’s Marine Protected Areas and Greenpeace says the boulder barrier will stop industrial bottom trawlers from dragging weighted nets across the sea floor.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Brits dumping their pets because of rising cost of living

  

  The UK's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, RSPCA, has revealed it received more than 100 reports of animals being abandoned every single day throughout 2021 and sadly these figures are on the rise this year.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  World's largest offshore wind farm is Hornsea project 2, in Yorkshire

  

  The world's largest offshore wind farm is now fully operational, 55 miles off the coast of Yorkshire. The Hornsea 2 project with 165 turbines can generate enough electricity to power about 1.3 million homes - that's enough for a city the size of Manchester.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 05:02 UTC

  Liz Truss promises to cut taxes and boost energy supplies, but won't say how until she's at 10 Downing Street

  

  Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Secretary Mary Elizabeth Truss, who this week most probably will become the United Kingdom´s next prime minister has pledged to act within a week to tackle the cost-of-living situation, fueled by soaring energy bills and food prices, arguing she understands the magnitude of problems faced by the country.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2022 - 10:26 UTC

  Dr. Tedros hopeful about future of monkeypox

  

  World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Friday told reporters that the recent decline in monkeypox cases in North America and Europe proved that shows that the current outbreak of the malady can be stopped.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  US to increase military aid to Taiwan

  

  Funding worth more than US$ 1.1 billion has been pledged from the United States to Taiwan, according to Pentagon sources quoted Friday by the press. The measure will help the island strengthen its missile and radar systems, a State Department spokesman also said.