Stories for August 31st 2020

Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina preparing to draft an oil exploration round in its extended South Atlantic continental shelf

Oil and fisheries will spearhead Argentina's new efforts in its sovereignty claims over the Falkland Islands, according to Martin Dinatale, an Argentine columnist with good contacts in the foreign ministry and who has followed the Islands dispute for years.
Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:51 UTC
Argentina confirms that the humanitarian flights policy with Falklands, stands

Despite denying a recent air trip from Montevideo to the Falkland Islands, the Argentine foreign ministry stated that the “humanitarian flights policy” for the Islanders stands, and said that last Friday a flight from the Islands to Chile, with health risk patients, crossing Argentine space had been approved.
Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:48 UTC
Argentina determined to promote oil and gas production and exports

Argentina’s new energy secretary Dario Martinez plans to promote oil and natural gas production with a view to increasing exports as part of a strategy to pull the economy out of one of its worst crises on record.
Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:45 UTC
In just six months Brazil's Covid-19 death toll has overtaken 120.000

Just over six months after registering its first case of the new coronavirus, Brazil crossed the grim threshold of 120,000 people killed by Covid-19 on Saturday, with no end in sight to the crisis.
Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:44 UTC
Mexico presses ahead with a wide ideological spectrum of Covid-19 virus vaccines

Mexico is pressing ahead with an effort to forge COVID-19 vaccine alliances across a wide ideological spectrum of countries from France to Cuba, as a World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine initiative will fall short of its needs.
Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:43 UTC
Coronavirus cases in Colombia surpass 600.000 on Sunday

Coronavirus cases in Colombia surpassed 600,000 on Sunday as deaths from the virus approach 19,400, ahead of the end to more than five months of lockdown.
Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:39 UTC
An Argentine Earth observation satellite successfully launched in Cape Canaveral

An Earth-observation satellite for Argentina along with two small piggyback satellites were successfully launched on Sunday in a Space X from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 23:18 GMT.
Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:38 UTC
South Georgia announces the launching of a 'Visitor's Guide' film narrated by Sir David Attenborough

The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) is excited to announce the launch of its new film ‘South Georgia – A Visitor’s Guide’, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The film (*) has two key messages; firstly, it encourages visitors to respect and protect the island so their visit can be truly sustainable, but there is another message which is relevant to us all; proof that nature can recover, if we give it the chance.
Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:37 UTC
A Visitor's Guide: Frequently Asked Questions Where is South Georgia?

South Georgia is situated 800 miles SE of the Falkland Islands. The main island of South Georgia is approximately 170 km long and between 2 and 40 km wide and occupies an area of 3,755 km2, more than half of which is permanently ice covered. The coast is rich in wildlife and home to huge collies of penguins, seals and albatross.
Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:37 UTC
Popular Brazilian island establishes strict protocol for tourists

Ferrnando de Noronha, an archipelago 354km off Brazil's northeastern coast famous for abundant sea life, pristine beaches and dramatic mountainsides rising above the coast, is trying a novel method for fighting the coronavirus.