Stories for June 14th 2022

Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 22:01 UTC
Brazilian Senate to oversee Amazonia investigations

Brazil's Senate Monday approved an initiative to create a temporary committee to oversee the probe into the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips, a correspondent for The Guardian, and his indigenist guide Bruno Araújo Pereira, a National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) official on leave.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 22:00 UTC
Ecuador's native groups to up protests after leader was arrested

Ecuador's Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) Tuesday launched an appeal to up protests against the government of President Guillermo Lasso by staging “a great indigenous and popular revolt.”
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 21:56 UTC
Venezuela further below oil output target

Venezuela's oil output production fell 5% from May of 2022 to the previous month, according to the latest Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) released Tuesday.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:57 UTC
Falklands War: end of hostilities, General Menendez surrenders to Major General Jeremy Moore

With the capture of Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Sapper Hill the Falkland Islands conflict was effectively over and at 2100 hours on the 14th June 1982 the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, General Mario Menendez, surrendered to Major General Jeremy Moore.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:31 UTC
Argentina had been tipped there was something strange with the Emtrasur 747

The Governments of Paraguay and Uruguay had alerted Argentina about the Iranian crew flying the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 cargo airplane now seized at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:30 UTC
That’s a fine mess you got out of, Stanley

By Graham Bound for MercoPress – Images of Stanley captured in 1982 compared with photos taken from the same vantage points 40 years on, show a town – now a city – transformed.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:30 UTC
Brazilian scientists trace more transmissible COVID-19 strains

Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Rio de Janeiro has identified, by genomic analysis, the replacement of strain BA.1 by strain BA.2 in samples analyzed between May 20 and June 2. Both are subvariants of Omicron.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:25 UTC
Brazil's trade balance positive, but below last year's figures

Brazil's trade balance for the first five months of the year accumulates a surplus of US$ 25.128 billion, it was reported Monday.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:19 UTC
Mercosur again divided on Ukraine conflict, Argentina and Brazil not in a WTO list condemning “aggression”

Over 50 WTO members agreed a statement at the WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), in full support of Ukraine, and condemning “aggression”. However, Mercosur was divided on the issue, while Uruguay and Paraguay figured among the over fifty, Argentina and Brazil were absent.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:00 UTC
Foreign Office and leading Scotland universities launch a new think tank, Scottish Council for Global Affairs

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has hailed the launch of new think tank, the Scottish Council for Global Affairs (SCGA), at an event in London. The Secretary of State spoke at an event hosted by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) at its historic Lancaster House venue – giving top global affairs experts from Scotland an opportunity to meet with representatives of governments from all over the world.