International

• Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 20:51 UTC

  BRICS Bank comes to Rio Grande do Sul's rescue

  

  The Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB) will grant funding worth R$ 5.7 billion (US$ 1.1 billion) to rebuild the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul still grappling to recover from the unprecedented storms since April 29, Agencia Brasil reported Tuesday. The NDB, also known as the BRICS Bank, will release the money through a partnership with the Banco do Brasil (BB), the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social - BNDES), and the Regional Development Bank of the Far South (Banco Regional de Desenvolvimento do Extremo Sul - BRDE).

• Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

  Caricom joins forces to tackle arms trade

  

  Dignitaries of Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries have signed the first-ever international treaty to regulate the trade of conventional weapons and promote peace by preventing the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons in the region.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

  UN staff reported killed in Israeli offensive

  

  UN Secretary-General António Guterres again called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza as one UN worker was killed and another injured during the Israeli deployment in the southern city of Rafah. According to the Hamas terrorist group's press office, both were traveling in a vehicle marked with UN flags and logos.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 10:31 UTC

  Australia planning to end live animals exports; processed lamb and mutton sales overseas booming

  

  Under the influence of animal welfare groups and declining profits, Australia plans to implement legislation to end the export of live animals in some four years time. Under the plan farmers who depend on such a trade will be helped to make the switch to domestic processing, which has turned into a booming success.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 10:26 UTC

  Russia claims to have found huge oil reserves in Antarctica; UK feels it could mean a complete new ball game

  

  The House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) held a special session on Russian oil exploration in the polar region, following on claims that the Rosgeo oil exploration company had reported that its research vessel Alexander Karpinsky has completed a comprehensive subsurface geological survey, mapping very promising oil and gas prospects on the Antarctic oil shelves.

• Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Falklands war: “The secret pact between Chile and the United Kingdom”, ex-head of Argentine Army

  

  A former commander in chief of the Argentine Army, 2003 to 2011, and Malvinas Veteran, Martín Balza in a recent column in the Buenos Aires daily Perfil, wrote a column exposing what he described as 'a secret pact between Chile and UK', to help avoid the defeat of the British Task Force in 1982 during the Falkland Islands conflict with Argentina.

• Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  LatAm and Caribbean hit hard by crises stemming from El Niño and climate change, according to WMO

  

  The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) pointed out last week that Latin America and the Caribbean were going through a series of weather crises linked to the El Niño phenomenon and climate change. The current one in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul was one of the worst.

• Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

  Massive aid promised to Rio Grande do Sul to overcome floods of biblical proportions

  

  The Inter American Development Bank, IDB, has announced a package of emergency measures, plus humanitarian aid and special credits for rebuilding infrastructure in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul currently suffering from the worst floods in a century, with hundreds dead and disappeared, and over a million of the eleven million population forcibly displaced.

• Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:36 UTC

  Recipient of modified pig kidney dies 7 weeks after procedure

  

  Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old man who had received a genetically modified pig kidney on March 16 at Massachusetts General Hospital, died this weekend. He had terminal kidney disease when he received the organ during a four-hour operation that was considered a scientific milestone. The transplantation of organs from one species to another is a growing field known as xenotransplantation.

• Monday, May 13th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentina goes rogue even for Mother's Day celebration

  

  Argentine mothers are unique. They are the addressees of many famous tango pieces and celebrate Mother's Day way apart from all the others worldwide.