International

• Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  South Georgia releases Blue Belt Program stamps

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands is releasing a stamp set to celebrate its involvement in the UK Blue Belt Program.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 08:16 UTC

  The difference between the Scottish and English poppies: botanically incorrect

  

  Did you know that not all Remembrance poppies look the same? Although the poppy is a universal symbol of Remembrance, the way each country makes them is very different.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 20:50 UTC

  Italian pharmaceuticals to be produced in Chile with Bill Gates grant

  

  The Bill Gates Foundation has allocated a grant to Italian company ReiThera Srl to produce Chile vaccines against COVID-19, it was announced.

• 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.