International

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  CCAMLR fails to designate marine protection areas in East Antarctica, Pew regrets

  

  The Pew Charitable Trusts expressed disappointment that for an eighth consecutive year, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) ended its annual meeting without designating marine protections in the waters off East Antarctica. Member governments also failed to reach consensus on the designation of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Weddell Sea and Antarctic Peninsula.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Forty eight states pledge to ratify the fishing vessel safety Cape Town Agreement

  

  Forty-eight states have signed a public declaration to indicate their determination to ratify the 2012 Cape Town Agreement on fishing vessel safety at a Ministerial Conference held in Torremolinos, Spain, this week.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Spanish Supreme Court issues international warrants for ex Catalan officials

  

  Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday issued international arrest warrants for three former Catalan regional government officials who fled abroad after the failed independence bid of 2017, court documents showed. A similar arrest warrant was issued on Oct 14 for former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, just hours after the Supreme Court handed long jail terms to nine other separatist leaders on charges of sedition.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  China will resume imports of Canadian beef and pork, PM Trudeau announces

  

  China has agreed to resume imports of Canadian beef and pork, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday, signaling a breakthrough in their tense relations.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  WHO recommends 15 minutes daily walking to improve productivity and life expectancy

  

  The world economy could be boosted by as much as US$100 billion a year if employers successfully encouraged their staff to meet World Health Organization guidelines on exercise, according to an analysis of the economic impact of the activity.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 20:37 UTC

  Google data center project in Uruguay under way

  

  Google plans to build a data centre for storage and server management within Uruguay's Science Park in the Canelones area, it was announced. It will be Google's second such facility in Latin America, the other one being in Chile.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Malvinas “Virgin of Lujan” image finally arrives to Buenos Aires

  

  An image of Argentina Patroness, the Virgin of Lujan which was left behind by the Argentine soldiers at the end of the Falklands/Malvinas war, and was recently returned by the United Kingdom and blessed by Pope Francis in the Vatican, finally arrived in Buenos Aires early morning Monday, 37 years after the conflict was over.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Protests all over the world: are we witnessing an emerging global society?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – Journalists don’t just travel in packs; they write in packs, too. And what they’re writing this week is endless pipe-sucking ruminations about what’s driving the seemingly synchronized outbreak of protests in a large number of very different countries around the world.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Several countries members of OAS Joint Declaration on the situation in Bolivia

  

  Following a presentation by Bolivian foreign minister Diego Pary to an extraordinary session of the Organization of American States' (OAS) permanent council in Washington, the following declaration was issued:

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Xi calls on the world “to tear down the walls” of protectionism and unilateralism

  

  President Xi Jinping on Tuesday pledged to further open China's economy, declaring the world must “tear down walls” as he opened an annual trade fair in Shanghai.