Stories for June 2022

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.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 09:53 UTC
The status of 'city' granted to Stanley by the Queen, another Argentine complaint in the next C24, June 23

Next June 23 Argentina will renew its request before the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, for the United Kingdom to resume negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute, which have been suspended for forty years following the South Atlantic conflict.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Another FARC dissident leader gunned down

Colombian President Iván Duque Monday reported a dangerous dissident FARC leader had been gunned down by national forces in Suárez, Cauca.
Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 09:26 UTC
Brazilian team releases outlook ahead of BRICS Summit

Brazil's Center for International Relations (CEBRI) Monday released a report on the country's expectations regarding its involvement in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) bloc.