International

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  California lawsuit against online travel agencies “for unscrupulous” business practices

  

  California has launched a lawsuit against online travel agencies FlightHub and JustFly for alleged “unscrupulous business practices, designed to fleece the average consumer.” FlightHub and JustFly’s parent company is Montreal-based FlightHub Group, formerly known as Momentum Ventures.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  “Be in no doubt - independence is coming,” thousands march in Edinburgh

  

  Tens of thousands of Scottish independence supporters marched in Edinburgh on Saturday, as calls grow for a fresh vote on Scotland breaking away from the United Kingdom with Brexit scheduled for within weeks.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  WHO and FIFA agree to promote healthy life-styles through football globally

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) and football’s world governing body, FIFA, agreed on Friday a four-year collaboration to promote healthy lifestyles through football globally. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and FIFA President Gianni Infantino signed the memorandum of understanding at WHO’s Geneva-based headquarters.
“WHO is excited to be working with FIFA. Half the world watched the 2018 World Cup. This means there’s huge potential for us to team up to reach billions of people with information to help them live longer healthier lives,” said Dr Tedros.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Commonwealth brainstorming to tackle effects of climate change

  

  The Commonwealth on Friday launched an ideas-sharing network to tackle the effects of climate change through replicable regeneration projects. The 53-country bloc held a two-day brainstorming of indigenous groups, environmentalists, scientists and climate change experts at its headquarters in London.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 14:57 UTC

  Falklands flagged, BAS latest incorporation: RRS Sir David Attenborough”

  

  The Royal Research Ship RRS Sir David Attenborough, has been flagged to the Falkland Islands and officially named in a ceremony at Birkenhead, near Liverpool on Thursday September 26.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Pope looking into options to recruiting more priests in the Amazon region

  

  A shortage of Catholic priests in the Amazon is eroding the church's influence in the remote region, bishops in Brazil and Peru warn, ahead of a Vatican synod dedicated to the rainforest. Wilmar Santin, one of the scores of Brazilian bishops set to attend the Oct 6-27 gathering, says the church is ceding ground to more nimble Evangelical rivals and needs to lift its game.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Facebook refuses to suspend encryption plan despite impact on criminal activities

  

  Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg defended on Thursday his decision to encrypt the company's messaging services, despite concerns about its impact on child exploitation and other criminal activity.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  OAS develops inter American cooperation network on counterterrorism

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) will launch the Inter-American Network on Counterterrorism, a project aimed at strengthening cooperation between member states to prevent and address terrorist threats in the Western Hemisphere.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentine fisheries coastal research vessel, “Mar Argentino” launched in Galicia

  

  The Argentine coastal fisheries research vessel BIP “Mar Argentino” (Argentine Sea), was launched this week in Vigo, Spain and should be ready to sail and operate by next March. She will join the renovated fleet of research vessels from the country's Fisheries Research and Development Institute, INIDEP, in Mar del Plata.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  FAA complains to ICAO of weakening skills of “manual” aircraft piloting

  

  The United States Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, demanded that International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, address the problem of weakening skills of “manual” aircraft piloting – pilots forgot how to fly aircraft in unusual, crisis conditions and are simply not ready for emergency situations.