International

Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 20:40 UTC
UK adds brands of COVID-19 vaccines to list of treatments admitted for travelers

Health authorities from the United Kingdom have added Sinovac, Sinopharm Beijing and Covaxin to the list of immunizers to be accepted in order to spare incoming travelers a mandatory quarantine.
Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:49 UTC
Ortega reelected in Nicaragua with 75.92% of the votes

After 97.74% of the votes had been counted, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega secured his reelection for another five years in office with a 75.92% support amid notorious abstention and world criticism. Turnout was 65.23%.
Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:22 UTC
Colombian President says his country and Israel are sister nations

Colombian President Iván Duque Monday said his country and Israel were “sister nations” that share principles of defence of democracy and private initiative.
Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:10 UTC
A UK-EU trade war?

By Gwynne Dyer – International treaties are serious business. A lot of time and effort goes into negotiating them and they become part of international law. It’s very rare for a politician to say, only a couple of years after negotiating a treaty, that his country always felt it was “a little bit provisional and open to review.
Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 08:11 UTC
Falklands' Representative marks century of Remembrance with Speaker of Commons

The Falkland Islands Representative, Richard Hyslop, joined the Speaker of the UK House of Commons at the planting of the first-ever ‘Constituency Garden of Remembrance’ in London.
Monday, November 8th 2021 - 19:39 UTC
Obama says world is nowhere near Paris Agreement goals

Former US President Barack Obama Monday protested the world was “too far” from the goals set at the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate action. “We are nowhere near where we should be,” Obama told the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, Scotland.
Monday, November 8th 2021 - 14:06 UTC
Musk pushed to sell 10% of his Tesla stock by Twitter users

Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk is now compelled to sell 10% of his holdings after 57.9% of Twitter users voted in favor of it, which has already had a negative impact on Frankfurt's trading table.
Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Uneventful elections poised to secure new term for Ortega in Nicaragua

When voting closed at 6 pm local time Sunday, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was expecting confirmation of his reelection following a low turnout for the elections in which every likely opponent was either jailed or in exile, it was reported from Managua.
Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:14 UTC
Royal Navy Type 21 Association will honor HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope at Falklands' Remembrance Sunday

The Royal Navy Type 21 Association will be represented both nationally and internationally on Remembrance Sunday with the laying of poppy wreaths bearing the Type 21 Association Crest in Remembrance of all those that lost their lives whilst serving on Type 21 ships, and all those that lost their lives in the service of their country in war and peace.
Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
Second bus in two weeks torched in unionist neighborhood of Belfast

Four men hijacked and set fire to a double-deck bus in Newtownabbey, Belfast, Northern Ireland. According to the police report, the driver and a small number of passengers were able to leave the bus before it was torched, with no reports of injuries, but the vehicle was a total loss.