Stories for 2017

Wednesday, January 25th 2017 - 07:35 UTC
Falklands and Argentine governments regret and repudiate damages at the Darwin cemetery

The governments of the Falkland Islands and Argentina have regretted and repudiated damaging actions at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, while an investigation into the vandalizing has been launched by the Falklands Royal Police, RFIP.
Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 18:46 UTC
UK Supreme Court scheduled to make landmark ruling on Brexit

The United Kingdom Supreme Court will rule whether Parliament or ministers have the power to begin the Brexit process. The landmark judgment, to be announced early Wednesday will decide how the EU's Article 50 exit clause is triggered.
Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 18:40 UTC
Trump keeps his promise: dumps TPP and pledges to lower corporate taxes to 20% from 35%

President Donald Trump has fulfilled a campaign pledge by signing an executive order to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The 12-nation trade deal was a linchpin of former President Barack Obama's Asia policy.
Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 12:17 UTC
Dutch premier joins elections' anti-immigration wagon: “act normal, or go away”

Weeks before Dutch voters go to the polls, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that anyone who rejects the country's values should leave. “Act normal, or go away,” he says, in a message seen as taking on the anti-immigration Freedom party currently running high in the opinion polls. Elections are taking place on 15 March.
Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 12:10 UTC
Ushuaia out off internet: beavers cut the optic fiber to build dens

Ushuaia, capital of Tierra del Fuego in the extreme south of Argentina was left without internet and cellular phone communications most of last Friday because beavers had bitten pieces of the optic fiber for their dens.
Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 11:52 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas negotiations have no third leg, “they are bilateral, Argentina and UK”

Argentina's Lower House Foreign Affairs committee formally constituted the All parties Parliamentary Observatory on the Malvinas Question, claiming congressional participation in all bilateral agreements with the UK referred to Falklands/Malvinas resources and underlining that there is no such thing as a third leg, Falklands residents in negotiations with the UK.
Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 11:16 UTC
“Dancing for Falklands”, MLA Gavin Short takes on Argentina's most mediatic personality

Falkland Islands lawmaker, MLA Gavin Short has picked a dispute with possibly the most mediatic character in Argentina, a simple soccer commentator who in three decades has built a powerful entertainment corporation and is the showman of one of the evening programs which for years has had the highest ratings.
Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 19:53 UTC
Trump has a new species of moth named after him: Neopalpa donaldtrumpi

What has a scaly-looking head of gold? Well, Donald Trump, of course... but also a moth. The Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, a new species of tiny moth, has been named after the president-elect due to the striking physical resemblance between the moth's yellow and white scales and Trump's hair.
Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 19:01 UTC
Temer has the delicate task of naming a successor of Justice Zavascki

Brazil's president Michel Temer said that he would wait to name a replacement for the Supreme Court justice who died in a plane crash until after the court reassigns a major corruption case he was handling.
Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 18:32 UTC
State of emergency in Chile because of wildfires; smoke cloaked Santiago

Chile declared a state of emergency on Friday as more than a dozen wildfires that have scorched nearly 50,000 hectares threatened to encroach on towns, factories and vineyards. Firefighters, forestry service personnel and members of the military are battling 18 separate blazes in the center and south of the country that have been fueled by strong winds and a heat wave.