International

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 18:27 UTC

  Corporal punishment of children banned by law in Wales

  

  Effective Monday, Wales has banned all sorts of bodily punishment on children, which are still legal in England and Northern Ireland. Slapping or even shaking a child is tantamount to assault perpetrated against an adult, according to the new rules in force. Until Sunday, slapping was tolerated if it was a “reasonable punishment.”

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 18:00 UTC

  Chinese airliner crashes with 132 people on board

  

  A US-built Boeing 737-800 belonging to China Eastern Airlines crashed Monday in the southern province of Guangxi, presumably killing all 132 people on board instantly, in what has become the worst civilian air disaster in the country since 2010.

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands Liberation 40th anniversary: April calendar of events

  

  The April calendar of events listed includes those taking place in the Falkland Islands and separately in the United Kingdom:

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  British soldier arrested after unauthorized trip to join Ukraine's foreign legion

  

  An elite British serviceman has been arrested after returning from Ukraine, where he allegedly went to join the so-called International Legion of Territorial Defense, which brings together foreign fighters wishing to engage Russian troops, it was reported.

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk crossed to the Atlantic after a brief call at Punta Arenas

  

  The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas and too large to slip through the Panama Canal, the ship must sail around South America.

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  South Orkney Sunshine glacier shrunk one seventh in 20 years, HMS Protector confirms

  

  The Royal Navy’s polar research ship HMS Protector found an enormous Antarctic glacier vanishing at an alarming rate. The mighty Sunshine Glacier has shrunk by one-seventh in 20 years – an area the size of more than 130 football pitches has melted away.

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 08:13 UTC

  Duke and Duchess of Cambridge land in Belize

  

  Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton have landed Saturday evening in Belize, marking the first stop of a Caribbean tour by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who are next to visit Jamaica and The Bahamas. William is not new to the area; he spent several months in the country when he served in the Welsh Guards.

• Sunday, March 20th 2022 - 14:50 UTC

  Boris Johnson compares Ukraine's war with Britons voting for Brexit

  

  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson came under strong criticism for comparing the struggle of the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion with Britons voting for Brexit in 2016.

• Sunday, March 20th 2022 - 14:44 UTC

  Ukraine's lesson: you need to have your own nukes

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – Would Vladimir Putin’s Russia have invaded Ukraine three weeks ago if it had 1,900 nuclear warheads on 176 ICBMs and 2,600 tactical nuclear weapons?

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 21:27 UTC

  30 years later, Israeli community in Buenos Aires pays tribute to those killed in embassy bombing

  

  Hezbollah was once again singled out as the organization behind the 1992 bombing of Israel's Embassy in Buenos Aires, a crime for which, after 30 years, nobody has ever been held accountable.