Stories for August 30th 2022

Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 22:37 UTC
Uruguay, Brazil agree to deepen fight against organized crime along the border

Authorities from Uruguay and Brazil defense authorities have held bilateral meetings towards coordinating joint efforts along the border between the two countries to carry out operations against drug trafficking and organized crime in the area.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 21:35 UTC
Saudi woman sentenced to 45 years in jail for Twitter postings

A woman in Saudi Arabia was handed down a 45-year jail sentence Tuesday after being found guilty of posting messages on social media “to tear [the country's] social fabric,” it was reported.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 21:29 UTC
Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader and father of Perestroika, has died at 91

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 19:08 UTC
Son of Che Guevara dies in Venezuela aged 60

Camilo Guevara March, one of the sons of Cuban guerrilla fighter Ernesto Guevara, nicknamed “Che” for his Argentine origins, died Monday in Caracas, it was reported. He was 60.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:55 UTC
UK tells India, “Britain has no doubts about Falklands sovereignty,” and Islanders right to self determination

Days after India extended support to Argentina's campaign to restart international negotiations on the Falkland Islands sovereignty claim in the South Atlantic, a British official on Monday said there was “no doubt” about the United Kingdom's sovereignty over the Islands.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:43 UTC
Chile's planned Constitution still not likely to survive plebiscite

Chile's planned new Constitution seems to be heading for failure in the upcoming September 4 referendum, according to the latest polls, which show up to 56% of the citizenry would vote against it, between 4 and 12 percentage points above those who would approve it.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:23 UTC
India prepared to eliminate UK components from Tejas jet fighter, of interest for Argentina

On Monday's piece on the visit of Indian External Affairs minister Dr. S. Jaishankar to Buenos Aires we reported the interest of Argentina to strengthen bilateral defense links and cooperation, and at the same time its interest in the fully made Tejas jet fighter to equip the Argentine Air Force.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:20 UTC
Falklands' Beauchene Fishing orders a new trawler to replace “Baffin Bay” sunk in Vigo

Galicia's Copemar and their Falkland Islands partner Beauchene Fishing have contracted Armón Vigo, an affiliate of the Asturian Naval Group Armon, for the construction of a trawler to replace the “Baffin Bay” which caught fire and sunk in the port of Vigo on its return from the Loligo season in the Islands.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:16 UTC
All fuel prices in Brazil down, thanks to Petrobras and tax reductions

A survey from Brazil's National Oil, Gas and Bio-fuels Agency, ANP, showed that the average price for a liter of gasoline in service stations across Brazil had dropped 2,77%, and this way the price is now R$ 5,25 this week, the lowest it has been since February 2021.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:13 UTC
Brazil to become wheat self sufficient in five years, planting the grain in tropical areas

Brazil will become wheat self sufficient in five years time, according to Celso Luiz Moretti, head of EMBRAPA, the Brazilian agriculture surveys and research center, which has helped the country become one of the world's leading food producer and exporter.