Stories for 2018

Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:21 UTC
Video Assistant Referee will be used at the World Cup in Russia

Video assistant referees will be used at the World Cup for the first time after Fifa formally approved the technology for this year's tournament. VAR has been trialed in some domestic English cup games this season, and has been used in Germany and Italy.
Sunday, March 18th 2018 - 10:36 UTC
Ushuaia at Seatrade in Miami praised for the port services improvements

The port of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego expects to end the current 2017/18 cruise season with over 339 calls, fifty more than in the previous season, revealed governor Rosana Bertone who attended the SeaTrade International Fair in Miami, the world's major event of the industry.
Sunday, March 18th 2018 - 10:13 UTC
Another four years for Putin, and with a landslide

By Gwynne Dyer - Vladmir Putin is going to win another six years in power by a landslide in the Russian election on March 18 — probably between 60 and 70 per cent of the popular vote. The real question is what happens after that, because he will be 72 by the end of his next term and will not legally be allowed to run for president again.
Sunday, March 18th 2018 - 10:00 UTC
Dr. Fang Liu of China reelected as Secretary General of UN's ICAO

The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has reappointed Dr. Fang Liu of China by acclamation as Secretary General of the UN Specialized Agency for a second three-year term, beginning 1 August 2018.
Saturday, March 17th 2018 - 16:55 UTC
Transparency International denounces “Venezuelan apartheid”

NGO Transparency Venezuela denounced through a follow-up that the Carnet de la Patria (homeland card), identity document devised by the government of Nicolás Maduro, is a tool of social control that seeks, among other purposes, the loyalty to the ruling party at the polls.
Saturday, March 17th 2018 - 06:58 UTC
Boris Johnson points directly to Putin, the dictator. Furious reaction from the Kremlin

Russian President Vladimir Putin is “overwhelmingly likely” to have ordered the nerve agent attack on an ex-spy and his daughter, Boris Johnson has said. The foreign secretary underlined that “our quarrel is with Putin's Kremlin, and with his decision” over the Salisbury incident.
Saturday, March 17th 2018 - 06:51 UTC
British police launch murder investigation into the death of another Russian exile

British police launched a murder investigation Friday after an autopsy revealed that a Russian exile who was critical of Vladimir Putin was strangled in his home. Nikolay Glushkov, whose body was found on Monday, died as a result of “compression to the neck,” London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
Friday, March 16th 2018 - 10:38 UTC
Three Caribbean nations blacklisted as tax havens by the European Union

European Union (EU) finance ministers have added the Bahamas, the US Virgin Islands and St Kitts and Nevis to a tax haven blacklist, while removing St Lucia from the list. And Trinidad and Tobago remains on the list which was created last December.
Friday, March 16th 2018 - 10:28 UTC
Western leaders abhor nerve-agent attack and point to Russia: “no plausible alternative explanation”

The leaders of France, Germany, the US and UK say there is “no plausible alternative explanation” to Russia having been behind the nerve agent attack in the UK. They condemned the “first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War”, calling it an assault on UK sovereignty.
Friday, March 16th 2018 - 10:24 UTC
Argentina gradually organizing natural gas production and consumption priorities

Argentina plans to increase natural gas exports to Chile, helping to encourage production growth in the giant Vaca Muerta shale play, while importing supplies from that country to meet peak demand, Energy Minister Juan Jose Aranguren said on Thursday.