Stories for June 22nd 2019

Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 11:32 UTC
Battleship Graf Spee Nazi eagle must be sold, orders Uruguayan court

Uruguay's government must sell a huge, bronze Nazi eagle, and gun ranging telemeter, salvaged from a sunken World War II era Nazi Germany warship, a court ruled on Friday. The nearly 350 kilo eagle with a swastika held in its claws was part of the stern of the German “pocket battleship” Admiral Graf Spee that was sunk off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, that is almost eighty years ago.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 11:18 UTC
Argentina with a multi-party delegation to claim the Falklands at the C24 meeting

It's an election year in Argentina so a pluralistic delegation will be travelling to New York to make the country's annual claim over the Falkland Islands sovereignty before the United Nations Decolonization Committee, next Tuesday, according to reports in the Buenos Aires media.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 09:51 UTC
Bachelet urged Maduro to release prisoners and facilitate access to Justice

U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Friday urged Venezuela’s government to release prisoners who were arrested for peacefully protesting, and confirmed that a delegation would remain in the country to monitor the human rights situation.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 09:39 UTC
The Economist: “Despite turmoil, Brazil is starting to fix its pension system”

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, likes romantic metaphors. “Our marriage is stronger than ever,” he said in May after the press speculated that he was at odds with the economy minister, Paulo Guedes. “The marriage ended with no hard feelings,” he said this month after sacking Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, a minister who had said that others in government should be more careful on social media—thus outraging Bolsonaro fans who tweet about the virtues of military rule and the horrors of homosexuality.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 09:17 UTC
Typical Boris: Tory leadership campaign takes off with a domestic incident involving police

Police was called to the home of leadership candidate Boris Johnson and his partner after reports of a heated row, according to British media, hours after he was named in the final two in the race to become prime minister.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 09:11 UTC
Interpol crackdown on US$ 117 million dangerous counterfeit food and drink

Police in 78 countries have arrested 672 people as part of a coordinated global crackdown on potentially dangerous counterfeit food and drink, international police agency Interpol announced on Friday.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 08:56 UTC
Iran conflict: Trump “cocked and locked”, but proved the dove among his hawkish advisors

United States president Donald Trump said on Friday he aborted a military strike to retaliate for Iran's downing of an unmanned US drone because it could have killed 150 people, and signalled he was open to talks with Tehran.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 08:56 UTC
Brazilian evangelical pastor and husband of a lawmaker killed by two of 51 adopted children

Police in Brazil suspects an evangelical pastor, the husband of a prominent federal lawmaker, was shot dead this week by two of their 55 children following an extramarital “betrayal,” according to news reports on Friday.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 08:13 UTC
Brexit: EU reiterates, no changes to divorce deal and praises ex PM Theresa May

The EU's top leaders on Friday fired a Brexit warning to whoever wins the battle to become the next British prime minister, saying the existing divorce deal could not be changed.