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  • Friday, April 15th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

    No more PCR tests or vax cards to enter Chile

    Unvaccinated travelers will be allowed into the country but they might still be banned from certain activities, Cuadrado explained

    Chile has lifted the requirement to submit a negative PCR test or proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for foreigners wishing to enter the country, effective Thursday, it was announced.

  • Friday, April 15th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

    European central bank will raise interest rates after ending assets' purchasing program

    Monthly net purchases under the Asset Purchase Program, APP, will amount to €40 billion in April, €30 billion in May and €20 billion in June

    The European Central Bank Governing Council said on Thursday that in the current conditions of high uncertainty it will maintain “gradualism and flexibility” as the guidelines for its monetary policy anticipating that the assets purchase program will be concluded by the third quarter.

  • Friday, April 15th 2022 - 09:28 UTC

    “Inflation pandemic” displaces Covid-19 in leading countries

    UK faces what economists say will be the biggest drop in living standards since the mid-1950s with rocketing energy costs, rising food prices and tax increases

    United Kingdom inflation accelerated to 7% in the 12 months through March, the highest annual rate since March 1992, the Office for National Statistics said. A day before the United States US Labor Department said that its consumer price index jumped 8.5% last month.

  • Friday, April 15th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

    Gibraltar reduces duties on fuel until July first, to help consumers

    The duty on diesel will be reduced by 15 pence so that 40 pence of duty per liter has been reduced to 25 pence of duty per liter.

    Given the increased cost of automotive diesel and petrol, the Government of Gibraltar is taking action to reduce the price of fuel to help consumers.

  • Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 21:34 UTC

    Russia urges Argentina, UK to resume sovereignty talks over Falkland Islands

    Zakharova insisted that solving the dispute meant abiding by UN resolutions

    Russia's Foreign Ministry has released a statement from Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova urging for the resumption of negotiations between Argentina and the United Kingdom regarding sovereignty over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.

  • Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 21:32 UTC

    Germany to allow pride flag on certain occasions

    The iconic rainbow flag will not be allowed to fly on national holidays

    Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has authorized the hoisting of the rainbow flag on public buildings, sparking an unprecedented controversy: how many more minority flags can fly next to the black-red-gold and also that of the European Union?

  • Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 21:15 UTC

    Food Security becomes global agencies priority challenge

    World Bank estimates warn that for each one percentage point increase in food prices, 10 million people are thrown into extreme poverty worldwide.”

    The heads of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and WTO issued a joint statement on 13 April urging coordinated action to help vulnerable countries address growing threats to food security. The proposed actions include providing emergency food supplies and deploying financial support to households and countries, facilitating unhindered trade, and investing in sustainable food production and nutrition security.

  • Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

    Drones give HMS Protector the cutting edge to punch through polar ice

    Protector’s task is to update seafaring charts of Antarctic waters, deliver supplies and personnel to remote research stations, monitor wildlife and the environment

    Drone experts from Culdrose have given the Royal Navy’s Antarctic research ship ‘eyes in the sky’ to help Ice Patrol HMS Protector punch through the polar ice. Seventeen of the icebreaker’s crew are now qualified in operating drones from the deck of the ship, which has just completed her stint around the frozen continent for this season.

  • Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 10:28 UTC

    Asylum seekers who arrive in UK on small boats will be sent to Rwanda, BBC

    UK Home Secretary Priti Patel is in the African nation to sign a deal for a £120m trial involving mostly single men arriving in Britain via boat crossings.

    Some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats across the Channel will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans, report BBC. Home Secretary Priti Patel is in the African nation to sign a deal for a £120m trial involving mostly single men arriving in Britain via boat crossings.

  • Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

    Buenos Aires: EuroLat due to vote on agreed topics

    CFK stressed that international law must be respected by all countries

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernàndez de Kirchner (CFK) welcomed to Buenos Aires' Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) the more than 100 lawmakers who participated in this year's Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) sessions under the slogan “A fair, inclusive, and peaceful economic recovery.”