Stories for 2017

Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:10 UTC
Chile creates new 11.000 km2 marine eco-region in Juan Fernandez Island

The alfonsin, the orange roughy and the cod, as well as a variety of species of fragile environments, are part of the ecosystem that is now located in the new Coastal Marine Protected Area of Multiple Uses (AMCP-MU) called “Mar de Juan Fernandez”, placed in the archipelago of the same name.
Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 09:36 UTC
Brazil's ex first lady dies; Lula da Silva allows donations of her organs

The wife of Brazil's embattled former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva died on Thursday, a week after she was hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage, doctors in Sao Paulo said.“An absence of blood flow in the brain was identified,” doctors at the Sirio-Libanes hospital said, declaring Marisa Leticia Lula da Silva brain-dead.
Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 09:13 UTC
Falklands' Police appealing to Darwin cemetery visitors to advance damages' investigation

The Royal Falkland Islands Police are continuing to investigate reported damage within the Argentine Cemetery near Darwin which was discovered during the last week of January. The damage refers to the vandalized case containing a statue of the Virgin of Lujan, and the image, overlooking the lines of crosses at the cemetery.
Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 17:53 UTC
Tillerson sworn in as Secretary of State; he was approved by a Senate 56-43 vote

Rex Tillerson was sworn in as secretary of state by Vice President Mike Pence in a ceremony presided over by President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday evening. Before Tillerson was sworn in, Trump spoke briefly in the Oval Office.
Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 17:35 UTC
Petrobras scandal reaches Chile: Bachelet denies receiving any financial support

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday denied reports she received financial support for her 2013 campaign from a construction conglomerate that is involved in Brazil's huge Petrobras corruption scandal. Grupo OAS is among dozens of Brazilian companies that are embroiled in a kickback scheme that is the biggest corruption scandal in Brazil's history.
Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 17:28 UTC
Argentine night air patrolling reveals “city of floating lights” in the South Atlantic

A floating “city” of lights belonging to hundreds of jiggers, “mostly Asians”, operating in the grey fringes of the South Atlantic Argentine Economic Exclusive Zone, EEZ, at the 200 miles borderline have been filmed and monitored night after night by Argentine navy patrol aircraft, reports the Patagonia media.
Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 11:44 UTC
Parliament backs by clear majority Brexit negotiations

MPs have voted by a majority of 384 to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to get Brexit negotiations under way. They backed the government's European Union Bill, supported by the Labour leadership, by 498 votes to 114. However the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats opposed the bill, while 47 Labour MPs and Tory ex-chancellor Ken Clarke rebelled
Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 11:17 UTC
Mexico denies Trump threatened to send troops to stop the “bad hombres”

The Mexican government on Wednesday vehemently denied reports that President Trump threatened to send US soldiers into Mexico during a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Such a threat “did not happen during that call,” said a government statement released on Twitter Wednesday night.
Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 11:12 UTC
Industrial output in Brazil dropped 6.6% last year compared to 2015

Brazil's industrial output rose in December at its fastest monthly pace in two and a half years, in a likely one-time boost that did not reverse the sharp losses of one of the worst years on record for local manufacturers.
Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 10:32 UTC
White Paper on Brexit planning to be released on Thursday, announces PM May

Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed that Downing Street will publish a white paper on Brexit planning on Thursday. Speaking from the dispatch box at Prime Minister's Questions, May confirmed the arrival of the paper in response to a question from Tory backbencher Maria Miller.