International

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Fires in Australia reach outskirts of Sydney: 50 homes destroyed

  

  A cool change on Wednesday brought relief for firefighters battling massive bushfires in eastern Australia which destroyed 50 homes and saw flames come within meters of homes on the outskirts of Sydney.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  UK unemployment at a 45-year low, but jobs' market softening

  

  British unemployment has hit a fresh 45-year low, official data showed on Tuesday in a mixed labor market snapshot before a UK general election and Brexit.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Some 1.5 million jobs threatened by US/China trade war, warns port of Los Angeles

  

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday took credit for an American economic renaissance but was greeted by another salvo from US industries that blame his trade wars for jeopardizing employment, wounding business and burdening consumers with higher costs.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 01:31 UTC

  Football friendly between Uruguay, Argentina still on for Tel Aviv despite shelling

  

  The football match between the national teams of Argentina and Uruguay scheduled for next Monday in Tel Aviv is still on as planned, Argentine Football Association (AFA) sources consulted by the press Tuesday.

• Tuesday, November 12th 2019 - 05:38 UTC

  Bolivia's Morales flying to political asylum in Mexico, promises to return

  

  Bolivia’s ousted president Evo Morales was flying to political asylum in Mexico on Monday night, the latest step the once-beloved leader’s rapid fall, while military and police deployed in the streets of La Paz to quell violence.

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 18:01 UTC

  Macron invited Alberto Fernandez to Paris, sometime before 10 December

  

  Sometime before 10 December, when Argentine elected president Alberto Fernandez takes office, and agendas permitting, he will be travelling to France to meet with Emmanuel Macron, with whom he had an hour long conversation, according to Argentine sources.

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 11:11 UTC

  Spanish elections: hung parliament and the extreme right doubles seats

  

  Spain's Socialists have won the country’s fourth general election in as many years, but without an absolute majority. The PSOE, led by acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, has taken just 120 seats out of a possible 350 – three less than the April 28 election, while the extreme right Vox party doubled its number of seats

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 11:06 UTC

  Australia bushfires: state of emergency along the eastern coast as it prepares for “catastrophic” conditions

  

  Authorities in Australia's Queensland and New South Wales states on Monday declared a state of emergency as the country's eastern region prepared for “catastrophic” fire conditions.

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 10:24 UTC

  All whales released, secretly, from Russia's Far East “whale jail”, Moscow reports

  

  The last whales held in a notorious facility dubbed the “whale jail” in Russia's Far East were released on Sunday, the institute overseeing the operation said.

• Saturday, November 9th 2019 - 20:11 UTC

  Falklands' Remembrance Sunday observance will be held in Stanley and Fox Bay

  

  The Falkland Islands annual Service of Remembrance, this year commemorating the 101st anniversary of the end of the First World War, will be held in Stanley on Sunday 10 November in Christ Church Cathedral commencing at 9.30 am, according to a release from Gilbert House, seat of the local elected government.