International

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 06:45 UTC

  Afghanistan: Western armies always lose guerilla wars in the “Third World,” but it never really matters.

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - “I will never kneel before such a destructive force (as the Taliban),” declared Ashraf Ghani, the ex-president of Afghanistan before fleeing. “We will either sit knee-to-knee for real negotiations at the table or break their knees on the battlefield.” Good luck with that, Ashraf.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 05:32 UTC

  “I will use force to defend the Falklands”, Boris Johnson to the UK media

  

  The United Kingdom confirmed that it will maintain a military presence in the Falkland Islands, whose sovereignty is claimed by Argentina, to “protect it from state and non-state threats,” according to an advance of the strategic review of security, defense and foreign policy that prime minister Boris Johnson will present this Tuesday, the first after the departure of the European bloc.

• Saturday, August 14th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Walling off “paradise” for freedom loving Germans: 13 August 1961

  

  Germany is recalling that sixty years ago the communist half of the divided country started to build the Berlin Wall, which would stand as a symbol of oppression and division, until the reunification of the country in late 1989.

• Saturday, August 14th 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Maduro regime rejects ICC Prosecution condemnatory report; warms up to new prosecutor, UK's Karim Khan

  

  The regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela rejected point blank the condemnatory report from the International Criminal Court, ICC, Prosecution which confirmed that Chavista forces repeatedly committed crimes against humanity in the country.

• Saturday, August 14th 2021 - 08:46 UTC

  UK signs partnership in Central America to boost trade

  

  UK Export Finance (UKEF) signed this week a historic partnership with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), Central America’s leading development bank and the highest-rated borrower in Latin America.

• Saturday, August 14th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Gibraltar welcomes first official cruise call since the beginning of the pandemic

  

  The Gibraltar Chronicle is reporting that this Friday saw the first official cruise call to the Rock since the pandemic started. “Wind Surf”, from Windstar Cruises arrived at 8.00 am and was expected to depart Gibraltar at 18.00 hours, local time. Gibraltar was included in its itinerary as part of their Mediterranean Cruise.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 21:04 UTC

  WHO calls on countries to depoliticize investigation into origin of Covid 19

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) called on countries to depoliticize the investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and how it jumped to humans, pressing for more raw data to review and suggesting that more can be done within its current framework to track lab safety around the world, including China.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 10:19 UTC

  Argentina wants to prove it existed as such 200 years ago

  

  Argentina officially invited the Portuguese president and Prime Minister to visit the country as part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the recognition by Lisbon of Argentina's independence.

• Thursday, August 12th 2021 - 14:31 UTC

  Some 2,5 billion tons of food goes to waste, WWF

  

  WWF and Tesco released Driven to Waste, a new report that quantifies the total amount of food lost on farms globally; revealing an estimated 2.5 billion tons of food goes uneaten around the world each year.

• Thursday, August 12th 2021 - 08:34 UTC

  South Korea/Mercosur round of trade talks at the end of the month

  

  South Korea wants to advance with trade negotiations with Mercosur. Discussions started back in 2018 and at the end of the month, a seventh-round is slated to take place.