International

• Wednesday, September 16th 2020 - 07:12 UTC

  Government House in the Falkland Islands features in new book of official residences

  

  A new book featuring the historic Government House in the Falkland Islands looks at the unique histories of over fifty Vice-Regal Residences of the Crown in the Commonwealth Realms, Crown Dependencies, and Overseas Territories across the world.

• Wednesday, September 16th 2020 - 07:07 UTC

  Taiwanese companies returning to the island because of the growing aggressiveness of Beijing

  

  Taiwan sits squarely in the middle of the worsening dispute between Beijing and Washington with many of its companies operating factories in China manufacturing for American companies.

• Wednesday, September 16th 2020 - 06:20 UTC

  Spain asks Venezuela to offer “democratic guarantees” in parliamentary elections

  

  The Spanish government has asked the Venezuelan authorities to offer ‘democratic guarantees’ in the upcoming parliamentary elections, Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Huge calving at the Arctic ice shelf: the massive chunk is larger than Paris

  

  A massive chunk of ice - larger than the city of Paris - has broken off from the Arctic's largest ice shelf because of warmer temperatures in Greenland, scientists said on Monday. The 113 sq km block broke off the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier in Northeast Greenland, which the scientists said had been expected given the rising average temperatures.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  AstraZeneca Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine trials resume in Brazil

  

  Clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University resumed in Brazil on Monday after the country’s health regulator got confirmation over the weekend that its British equivalent MHRA had approved the restart, a company representative said.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  Picardo reiterates ‘not an inch’ of Gibraltar will be given away during Brexit negotiations

  

  The Government of Gibraltar warns over media speculation arising from reports in the Spanish press, as Gibraltar enters the final stages of Brexit negotiations before the December deadline.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Southern Brazil leads in exports of live cattle: US$ 111 million in seven months

  

  The port of Rio Grande in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul is shipping 4,000 head of cattle for Lebanon and 22,000 destined for Turkey, totaling 26,000 animals to be exported.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Pompeo announces US ambassador to Beijing is stepping down

  

  The US ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, is stepping down, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday. Thanking Branstad for his service, Pompeo said in a tweet that he had “contributed to rebalancing US-China relations so that it is results-oriented, reciprocal, and fair”.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  WHO emphasizes the care of the elderly as a “rights issue”

  

  The World Health Organization's emergencies chief said on Monday that we need to fundamentally rethink our relationship with the elderly after huge losses to COVID-19 in nursing homes across the world “robbed us of a generation of wisdom.”

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Australia and New Zealand iron out quarantine dispute ahead of Wallabies-All Blacks test matches

  

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday she had telephoned Australian counterpart Scott Morrison to defuse tensions over a scheduling dispute between the countries' rugby teams.