International

• Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

  Even rain stops for the spectacular opening of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast

  

  Fireworks followed rain on Thursday as the 21st Commonwealth Games opened on the Gold Coast, Australia, complete with a beach party featuring dancing lifeguards and a floating white whale and a musical soundtrack that included a didgeridoo maestro and aboriginal rapper.

• Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 08:33 UTC

  Russia has ended its help in search for the missing Argentine sub ARA San Juan

  

  The Argentine Navy has confirmed that Russia has ended its help in the search for the missing ARA San Juan submarine that disappeared in the South Atlantic with 44 crew-members aboard in November.

• Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Falklands' 14 strong team takes on the challenge of the Commonwealth Games

  

  Wednesday marked the opening ceremony of the 21st Commonwealth Games which are being held from 4 -15 April at the Gold Coast in Australia. This is the tenth Commonwealth Games that the Falkland Islands have participated in and this time they will be competing alongside more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 70 Commonwealth nations and territories.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:14 UTC

  SGSSI Commissioner’s 12-Day Visit To South Georgia

  

  The Commissioner for South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, Nigel Phillips CBE, returned on March 17th from his visit to South Georgia where he was accompanied by representatives of some of South Georgia’s key partners and stakeholders.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Half of Europe flights grounded as Eurocontrol fails for the first time since 2001

  

  The organization responsible for coordinating European air traffic says it has fixed an earlier fault which led to widespread flight delays on Tuesday. Eurocontrol earlier said that delays could affect up to half of all flights in Europe - about 15,000 trips.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Minister Faurie in France addresses bilateral relations and Mercosur/EU talks

  

  Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie met on Tuesday in Paris with his French peer Jean-Yves Le Drian to address current political and economic bilateral relations, as well as the latest advances in the Mercosur/European Union negotiations.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

  Commonwealth Games program: England listed as part of Africa

  

  England have been listed as an African nation with capital Banjul in the official program for the Commonwealth Games’ opening ceremony, leaving Gold Coast organizers red-faced. The program, being sold at newsagents and merchandise tents around the Queensland resort, has England’s population listed at just over two million and their first Commonwealth Games appearance in 1970.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:04 UTC

  Falkland Islanders react to Argentine Next of Kin Visit

  

  As Mercopress have covered, families of 90 unidentified soldiers visited the Falkland Islands from Argentina last week. They spent the day at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin and paid respects to their sons, brothers and partners whose remains were recently identified after a lengthy DNA process administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 19:06 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community honors first woman submariner, who remains missing in the Atlantic

  

  The first female submarine officer in Argentina, who remains missing in the Atlantic Ocean, was honored by the country’s Jewish community on International Women’s Month. Eliana María Krawczyk, 35, who is Jewish, is one of 44 crew members of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, which remains missing in the Atlantic four months after it fell off the radar with a one week supply of oxygen on board.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 18:56 UTC

  The Kirchners' most trusted official caught in the Odebrecht corruption web

  

  An Argentine judge has charged ex president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner former planning minister in a case involving Brazilian company Odebrecht. Argentina's official Judicial Information Center says that Julio De Vido was charged Tuesday with carrying out incompatible deals while in public office.