International

• Wednesday, October 6th 2021 - 05:09 UTC

  Tension between France, UK escalates over fishing licenses vs. electricity supply

  

  French authorities have warned they would cut power supply to the United Kingdom Tuesday in the latest episode of the English Channel fisheries saga, it was reported.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 21:51 UTC

  Two climate change experts and one Italian theorist win Nobel Physics Prize

  

  The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two climate change experts in addition to an Italian scientist, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:22 UTC

  WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook collapse globally for seven hours: can it happen again?

  

  Monday was a day when people had to go back to making old-fashioned phone calls after messaging applications run by Facebook (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) collapsed worldwide for around 7 hours.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Falklands: Rockhopper targets lower costs for Sea Lion project and potential entry of Navitas Petroleum

  

  Rockhopper Exploration presented on the last day of September its half-year interim report, which follows on the shock announcement from Harbour Energy that it will seek to exit the Sea Lion Project in the North Falkland Basin.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  US Scientists win Medicine Nobel Prize for findings regarding human nervous system

  

  David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian of the United States have been awarded the Medicine Nobel Price for their advances in understanding how the human nervous system perceives temperature.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 07:58 UTC

  Busy start for Falklands' stand at Manchester Conservative conference

  

  A delegation from the Falkland Islands is now installed in Manchester City attending the Conservative Party Conference21, which took off on Sunday 3 October and will extend until Wednesday 6 October.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 07:06 UTC

  Pope Francis tells Judges that there is “no democracy with empty stomachs”

  

  Pope Francis last week sent a video to a meeting of the Committee of Pan American Judges for Social Justice and Franciscan doctrine, recalling particularly to Argentine magistrates that “there is no democracy with hungry people”.

• Monday, October 4th 2021 - 18:42 UTC

  Arrival into UK made easier: it's all about country of origin being on red list or not

  

  The United Kingdom has launched a simplified system regarding the processing of arriving passengers effective Monday, Oct. 4. Following long queues and no practical improvement, British authorities have decided that arriving travelers are to be measured as coming from a country within the red list... or not.

• Monday, October 4th 2021 - 17:20 UTC

  Newly-appointed Japanese PM calls for elections Oct. 31

  

  Former Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida was sworn in Monday as the country's 100th Prime Minister to succeed Yoshihide Suga. In his first relevant measure and after making up a cabinet of political veterans, he called for elections scheduled for Oct. 31 where he will seek support for his ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

• Monday, October 4th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Three LatAm Presidents among scores of leaders and celebrities singled out by “Pandora Papers” research

  

  Current Presidents Sebastián Piñera of Chile, Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador and Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic were listed on the so-called “Pandora Papers” among the world leaders and celebrities who have money saved in tax havens, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).