MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for February 13th 2018
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Tuesday, February 13th 2018 - 09:35 UTC
SCAR celebrates sixty year of international collaboration in Antarctica
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), has celebrated six decades of successful international collaboration. Since its first meeting in The Hague on February 1958, SCAR has grown an international network of thousands of scientists who share a common ambition to carry out Antarctic science for the benefit of society.
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Tuesday, February 13th 2018 - 09:29 UTC
Ex investment banker appointed new president of US soccer
The former investment banker at Goldman Sachs became the new president of U.S. Soccer on Feb. 11. He replaces Sunil Gulati after an election in Orlando, Florida that required three rounds of voting to finally crown Cordeiro.
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Tuesday, February 13th 2018 - 09:16 UTC
Oxfam members sexual misconduct in Haiti imperil UK government funding
The deputy head of Oxfam has resigned over what she said was the British charity's failure to adequately respond to past allegations of sexual misconduct by some of its staff in Haiti and Chad.
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Tuesday, February 13th 2018 - 09:07 UTC
WW2 German bomb forces closure of London City Airport
An operation to remove a 500kg World War Two bomb that has forced the closure of London City Airport will continue through the night. The airport has been shut all day and all flights cancelled, affecting up to 16,000 passengers, officials said.
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Tuesday, February 13th 2018 - 08:30 UTC
BAS targets Antarctica marine ecosystem under calved iceberg: nine-country team takes off from Falklands
A team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), heads to Antarctica this week (14 February) to investigate a mysterious marine ecosystem that’s been hidden beneath an Antarctic ice shelf for up to 120,000 years. The iceberg known as A-68, which is four times of London, calved off from the Larsen Ice Shelf in July 2017.
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Tuesday, February 13th 2018 - 08:18 UTC
Barclays Bank PLC charged of “unlawful financial assistance” by UK's serious fraud office
The United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged Barclays Bank PLC with “unlawful financial assistance” related to billions of pounds raised from Qatar in 2008. The same charges were brought against Barclays PLC in June last year.
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Tuesday, February 13th 2018 - 08:01 UTC
UK OTs address oceans and plastic pollution at Council of Environment Ministers
Ministers and senior officials from UK Overseas Territories (OTs) and Crown Dependencies (CDs) travelled to the Isle of Man last week to discuss the future of the environment in their jurisdictions. This was the third Council of Environment Ministers of UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies and took place in Douglas, on 6th and 7th February. Previous meetings took place in Gibraltar in 2015 and continued in Alderney in 2017.
