Stories for January 2014

Monday, January 6th 2014 - 19:13 UTC
Record Spanish incursions into Gibraltar waters in the last twelve months

Spain has made a record number of illegal incursions into Gibraltar waters in the past year, new figures show. The Sunday Telegraph said the figures capped a 12 month period in which relations between the Rock and Madrid “reached their lowest ebb since the rule of General Francisco Franco.”
Monday, January 6th 2014 - 19:07 UTC
RAF Tornado fighter jets fly with parts made using 3D printing technology

Royal Air Force Tornado fighter jets have flown with parts made using 3D printing technology for the first time, defense company BAE Systems has said. The metal components were used in test flights from the firm's airfield at Warton, Lancashire, late last month.
Monday, January 6th 2014 - 06:57 UTC
Ballot test this year in Latam: Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Uruguay, Panama, Costa Rica and El Salvador

Seven out of 19 Latin-American countries will be holding elections this year and in four of them, Brazil, Bolivia, El Salvador and Uruguay, left leaning catch-all coalitions will try to hold on to power. Likewise with two conservative governments, Colombia and Panama.
Monday, January 6th 2014 - 06:48 UTC
Brazilian opposition ready to present attractive, balanced presidential ticket

Former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva has agreed to run for vice president in October elections on the presidential ticket of Eduardo Campos, the governor of Brazil’s Pernambuco state, O'Globo newspaper reported. Silva, who will make her intention publicly known by mid-February, could announce her candidacy at a January 17 meeting of leaders of Campos’ Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB).
Monday, January 6th 2014 - 06:47 UTC
Midwestern US warned of 'life-threatening' temperatures of up to minus 51 Celsius

Residents of the Midwestern United States braced for the coldest weather in two decades, temperatures that forecasters warned would be life-threatening. An estimated one third of the US population has been affected by the extreme weather conditions that also reached neighboring Canada.
Monday, January 6th 2014 - 06:36 UTC
Falkland Islands: Tory MPs furious with Cameron over aid programs to Argentina

Even when there has been no official reply from London to Argentina's message to mark the 181th anniversary (January 3) of what it considers “the usurpation of our Malvinas Islands”, there was a strong reaction from Tory MPs when it was revealed that UK contributes several million pounds in aid programs to Argentina.
Sunday, January 5th 2014 - 14:48 UTC
Malvinas Secretariat officially inaugurated on Monday with Filmus as head

Argentine former senator Daniel Filmus on Monday afternoon will be inaugurated as head of the newly created Secretariat of Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and adjoining maritime spaces in the South Atlantic Affairs, which will press forward with Argentine claims over those territories.
Sunday, January 5th 2014 - 14:41 UTC
US icebreaker sent to Antarctica to rescue Chinese and Russian trapped vessels

A U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker left Australia for Antarctica on Sunday to rescue more than 120 crew members aboard two icebreakers trapped in pack ice near the frozen continent’s eastern edge, officials said. The 122-meter cutter, the Polar Star, is responding to a Jan. 3 request from Australia, Russia and China to assist the Russian and Chinese ships.
Sunday, January 5th 2014 - 13:07 UTC
Falklands looks to South America and Scotland to service its oil industry development

Successful trade missions to Uruguay and Chile and the growing support and know-how links with Scotland for the development of the Falkland Islands oil and gas industry were mentioned as some of the 2013 highlights by Roger Spink, president of the Falklands Chamber of Commerce in his Christmas speech.
Saturday, January 4th 2014 - 06:46 UTC
Argentina sanctions power companies for repeated outages that affected millions

Argentina announced sanctions on electricity companies Edesur and Edenor following the power outages suffered by hundreds of thousands of citizens in Buenos Aires City and surrounding areas, amid a historic heat wave that brought stifling temperatures for 18 days.