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  • Wednesday, May 7th 2014 - 23:26 UTC

    UK MPs hosted at the Argentine embassy in London with a typical barbecue

    Ambassador Castro with the MPs delegation that last year visited Argentina

    The Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alicia Castro, underlined “the importance of dialogue and the historical and cultural ties that link Argentina with Wales” when she hosted this week a traditional Argentine barbecue at the Ambassador´s residence in London for a delegation of British parliamentarians who visited Argentina in March.

  • Wednesday, May 7th 2014 - 23:07 UTC

    Falkland Islands and Crimea the new cold war

    Dr. Ivanov says Cristina has chosen to acclaim President Putin’s action in Crimea, hoping in return support the Argentine Falklands' claim.

    In an article for Penguin News, distinguished political and scientific Bulgarian author Dr Lyubomir Ivanov (*) discusses the Crimean conflict and its parallel with the Falklands.The Argentine President Cristina Kirchner praised the recent Crimean status referendum as, “one of the famous referendums of self-determination.”

  • Wednesday, May 7th 2014 - 00:11 UTC

    Vatican admits having defrocked 848 priests over ten years for sex abuse

    Ambassador Archbishop Tomasi, said the Vatican also doled out lesser punishments to another 2,572 accused of molesting children

    For the first time, the Vatican has revealed a statistical picture of the internal fallout from the church's sex abuse epidemic. According to the Vatican's U.N. Ambassador Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Pope defrocked 848 priests over the past 10 years, and doled out lesser punishments to another 2,572 accused of molesting children. That includes punishments handed down by John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 22:52 UTC

    Why hasn't the U.S. gone after Gazprom?

    Russia supplies one third of the gas consumed by the European Union

    By John C.K. Daly - Amidst the deepening war of words over Moscow's annexation of Crimea, U.S. President Barack Obama on April 28 added more Russian individuals and companies to a sanctions list that already included influential members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and Bank Rossiya, which has close ties to the Russian leadership.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 21:22 UTC

    Three women become the first females to serve in a Royal Navy submarine

    Left to right: Lieutenants Maxine Stiles, Alex Olsson and Penny Thackray

    Three women have become the first females to serve in the Royal Navy Submarine Service: they are pioneering lieutenants Maxine Stiles, Alex Olsson and Penny Thackray, reports UK defense news.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 07:55 UTC

    Mujica says Obama has 'his hands and feet tied' so that 'he can't do a thing'

    The Uruguayan president is scheduled to meet Obama and Kerry next Monday

    Less than a week before meeting with Barack Obama in Washington, Uruguayan president Jose Mujica described his peer as a 'progressive leader who has his feet and hands tied” and described the fact he made it to the White House, a complete surprise, 'almost unconceivable'.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 07:44 UTC

    Time to end “war on drugs” and the “one-size-fits-all approach” says academic report

    Global efforts to thwart the drugs trade have failed and the time has come for a radical rethink, according to a group of Nobel-prize winning economists, a former US secretary of state, the deputy prime minister of Britain and others.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 06:41 UTC

    WHO declares a polio international public health emergency

    Assistant director general Aylward said that 74 cases have been detected this year

    The World Health Organization warned Monday that polio has reemerged as a public health emergency, after new cases of the crippling disease began surfacing and spreading across borders from countries like Syria and Pakistan.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 06:32 UTC

    India, Brazil and South Africa want Argentina to join the BRICS club

    Ambassador Khatua believes both countries have a tremendous potential in relations to develop

    India, Brazil and South Africa are interested in having Argentina join the BRICS group of emerging economies which also includes Russia and China, according to Indian ambassador in Buenos Aires Amarenda Khatua in an interview with Clarin.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 06:26 UTC

    NASA catches images of volcanic activity in South Sandwich Islands

    The images from 19 April refer to the Zavodovski island and Mount Michael volcano on Saunders island

    The South Sandwich Islands, in the far southern Atlantic Ocean, are often shrouded with thick cloud, making it difficult to view the region from space. Sometimes, however, the use of false-color imagery can be used to reveal events that would otherwise be obscured under cloud cover.