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Stories for 2018

  • Monday, January 22nd 2018 - 07:45 UTC

    Falklands confirms appointment of Chief of Police

    Speaking of his appointment, Mr. McMahon said: “I’m pleased to take up this post and continue to play my part in the security and safety of the Falkland Islands”. In the photo with Governor Mr Nige

    The Falkland Islands government, FIG, announced on 16 January the permanent appointment of Jeff McMahon as Chief of Police within the Royal Falkland Islands Police (RFIP). Mr. McMahon arrived in the Falkland Islands in May 2017 and was promoted to Detective Chief Inspector in July.

  • Sunday, January 21st 2018 - 11:47 UTC

    Go, TARINI Go...

    Team Tarini with Indian PM Narendra Modi

    We all love to dream, and strive hard to achieve them, yet this voyage by the team of six Indian Naval Lady Officers is much bigger than a mere dream! It’s a daunting challenge posed by the stormy seas and fierce weather, which could deter the best of the seafarers! Yet, they chose something for which they had opted. Team Tarini, a name that will be attached to the six brave Navikas’ as they are termed for the rest of their life.

  • Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 10:48 UTC

    Bipartisan efforts failed: US Government shutdown

    Democrats blocked an agreed spending plan after having no solution included for more than 700.000 migrants beneficed by DACA program.

    For first time since 2013, the US government is in shutdown after senators rejected a temporary spending patch. Trump accuses Democrats of taking Americans hostage with their demands.

  • Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 09:33 UTC

    Francis blasts corruption, calls for greater transparency in public entities, private sector, and... the Church

    With President Kuczynski next to him, the pope said that tackling corruption required “a greater culture of transparency”

    Pope Francis made a forceful call to combat corruption in Peru, calling it a social “virus” a month after the Andean nation’s president pardoned a former autocratic leader who had been jailed for graft and human rights abuses.

  • Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 09:26 UTC

    Argentina drastically slashes docking services to lower exports' costs

    “This will improve logistics costs and market transparency. It is one more step that will allow the port sector to keep growing,” said ports' official Jorge Metz

    Argentina has set a maximum rate paid for port docking and undocking services, the government said in its official gazette, a change the Transportation Ministry said would slash docking costs by up to 40%. The move comes as President Mauricio Macri seeks to lower the cost of exporting food from the world’s No. 3 soy and corn exporter and the leading shipper of soybean livestock feed.

  • Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 09:21 UTC

    Argentina posted a primary fiscal deficit of 3.9% of GDP during 2017

    “At the beginning of the year many analysts thought we were not going to meet our goal, but working carefully we were able to do it,” Dujovne said.

    Argentina posted a primary fiscal deficit worth 3.9% of GDP in 2017, below its 4.2% goal and the 4.6% figure posted in 2016, Treasury Minister Nicolas Dujovne told reporters. He said the government’s 2018 target for a primary fiscal deficit remained at 3.2% of GDP, with targets of deficits worth 0.6% in the first quarter, 1.6% in the second quarter and 2.2% in the third quarter.

  • Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

    Argentina's GDP expanded 2.9% in 2017, bouncing from a 2.2% retraction in 2016

    The economy grew 4.2% in the third quarter compared with the third quarter of 2016 and expanded 2.5% in the first nine months of the year, according to Indec

    Argentina’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 2.9% in 2017, and grew 0.7% in the fourth quarter from the third quarter, a Treasury Ministry source said on Friday, bouncing back from a 2.2% contraction the prior year.

  • Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

    Francis strongly sides with indigenous peoples and calls the Amazon, God's “holy ground”

    Bare-chested and tattooed native families, many sporting feathered and beaded headgear, interrupted Francis with applause, wailing horns and beating drums

    From deep in the Amazon rainforest, Pope Francis demanded on Friday that corporations stop their relentless extraction of timber, gas and gold from God's “holy ground,” and called on governments to recognize the indigenous peoples living there as the primary forces in determining its future.

  • Saturday, January 20th 2018 - 07:19 UTC

    Falklands expecting arrival of the all-woman Indian Navy team in INSV Tarini

    The tiny sailboat INVS Tarini with its six member crew left India last September and should be arriving in Goa next April. (Pic by Indian Navy)

    The all-woman Indian Navy team sailing in the INSV Tarini in one of the toughest feats, a global circumnavigation trip has successfully crossed the notoriously rough Drake Passage, rounding Cape Horn off the southern tip of South America and are en route to Stanley in the Falkland Islands, where they will be arriving any moment.

  • Friday, January 19th 2018 - 10:08 UTC

    Global surface temperatures in 2017, the second warmest since 1880, says NASA

    2017 was the third consecutive year in which global temperatures were more than 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) above late 19th-century levels.

    Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 ranked as the second warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 0.90 degrees Celsius (1.62 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean. That is second only to global temperatures in 2016.