Stories for 2016

Saturday, February 20th 2016 - 04:06 UTC
Lagarde confirmed for a second five year term as IMF Director General

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday selected Christine Lagarde to serve as IMF Managing Director for a second five-year term starting on July 5, 2016. The Board’s decision was taken by consensus.
Friday, February 19th 2016 - 20:18 UTC
The RAF Search and Rescue force disbandment parade

Thousands of people owe their lives to this unique unit whose iconic, but ageing, yellow Sea King helicopters have plucked injured fishermen from raging seas, winched climbers from treacherous cliffs, and airlifted flood victims from the rooftops of their homes.
Friday, February 19th 2016 - 08:04 UTC
Falklands' sovereignty issue “was settled more than thirty years ago”, says Fallon

The Falkland Islands is one of Britain’s biggest military bases and as part of the UK was, “entitled to its cut of the defense budget,” Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon MP said on Tuesday as he visited the Falklands for the first time.
Friday, February 19th 2016 - 04:49 UTC
New study reveals patterns in Antarctic tourism: more visitors but highly concentrated in area

Results from a new study examining 20 years of commercial cruise activity in the Antarctic Peninsula region have important implications for Antarctic visitor management. The paper was published online this week in the journal Antarctic Science, according to the latest release from IAATO.
Friday, February 19th 2016 - 04:35 UTC
Macri and Renzi vow to promote bilateral trade and Italian investments in Argentina

President Mauricio Macri and visiting Italian premier Matteo Renzi vowed to “re-launch bilateral relations”, and emphasized the Italian interest in participating in energy, transport, gas and technology projects in the country which has become home to one of the largest Italian migrations.
Friday, February 19th 2016 - 04:24 UTC
Brazil biggest environmental disaster: compensation agreement could be signed this week

The Brazilian government expects to reach an agreement by Friday with Samarco Mineração to settle a 20 billion-real (US$4.9 billion) lawsuit for damages in the deadly dam disaster which burst in inland Minas Gerais creating a tsunami of mud and waste that killed 17 people and reached the Atlantic ocean.
Friday, February 19th 2016 - 03:52 UTC
Obama's visit is evidence Argentina is reinserting in the world, underlines Malcorra

“The coming visit of President Barack Obama is irrefutable proof of what we have said all along: Argentina is reinserting itself in the world, maintaining but also opening links with all our other partners and potential associates”, Foreign minister Susana Malcorra underlined following the White House statement that the US president will be visiting Argentina next 23/24 of March.
Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 07:16 UTC
Russian Patriarch holds mass at the Bellingshausen Antarctic base

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Wednesday served mass at Russia’s Bellingshausen Antarctic station on Waterloo Island and raised a prayer for the entire world. It was the last leg of the Patriarch's Latin American tour that included a meeting with Pope Francis in Cuba, ending a Christianity schism of almost a thousand years.
Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 07:08 UTC
Obama expected to make a historic visit to Cuba sometime in March

United States President Barack Obama will make a historic visit to Cuba within the next month, the culmination of his efforts to end a half-century of tensions between Havana and Washington, ABC and CNN reported late Wednesday.
Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 06:57 UTC
S&P sends Brazil's credit rating deeper into junk territory; officials 'surprised'

Standard & Poor's downgraded Brazil's credit rating deeper into junk territory on Wednesday, citing its failure to curb its fiscal deficit, in a surprise blow to President Dilma Rousseff`s bid to haul the economy out of its worst recession in decades.