Stories for October 2021

Wednesday, October 6th 2021 - 05:09 UTC
Tension between France, UK escalates over fishing licenses vs. electricity supply

French authorities have warned they would cut power supply to the United Kingdom Tuesday in the latest episode of the English Channel fisheries saga, it was reported.
Wednesday, October 6th 2021 - 04:12 UTC
IACHR finds Paraguay guilty of arbitrary dismissal against two Supreme Court Justices in 2003

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has ruled Paraguay was liable for violating judicial independence after arbitrarily dismissing Supreme Court Justices Bonifacio Ríos Ávalos and Carlos Fernández Gadea through impeachment in 2003.
Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 21:51 UTC
Two climate change experts and one Italian theorist win Nobel Physics Prize

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two climate change experts in addition to an Italian scientist, it was announced Tuesday.
Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 18:34 UTC
Argentina: Supreme Court's only female Justice resigns

Supreme Court Justice Elena Highton de Nolasco Tuesday turned in her resignation before President Alberto Fernández, effective Nov. 1.
Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 18:10 UTC
Amateur radio call signs: VP8 for Falklands and VP0 for South Georgia, South Sandwich and BAT

Due to an administrative oversight in the new Falkland Islands Communications Ordinance implemented way back in 2017, new VP8 licenses for use in the former Falkland Islands Dependencies have not been available for some years now.
Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:30 UTC
Argentine FM needs to solve international mess to rebuild credibility

Argentine Foreign Ministry Santiago Cafiero is to travel to Brasilia by the end of the week in a move to patch things up between President Alberto Fernández and his Brazilian colleague Jair Bolsonaro, ahead of the upcoming Mercosur summit.
Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:22 UTC
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook collapse globally for seven hours: can it happen again?

Monday was a day when people had to go back to making old-fashioned phone calls after messaging applications run by Facebook (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) collapsed worldwide for around 7 hours.
Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:20 UTC
Falklands: Rockhopper targets lower costs for Sea Lion project and potential entry of Navitas Petroleum

Rockhopper Exploration presented on the last day of September its half-year interim report, which follows on the shock announcement from Harbour Energy that it will seek to exit the Sea Lion Project in the North Falkland Basin.
Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
Chile and Interpol break up smuggling ring of Haitians and children to Mexico and US

An operation codenamed ‘Frontera Norte’ has allowed Chile’s Criminal Investigations Police (Policía de Investigaciones – PDI) to arrest nine suspected members of a migrant smuggling ring following an investigation supported by INTERPOL and law enforcement across South and Central America.
Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
The bridge linking Venezuela and Colombia cleared for resumption of bilateral ties

The land crossing between Venezuela and Colombia through the Simón Bolívar international bridge has been reopened Monday after 32 months, following the removal of the three containers which blocked the way, it was announced.