Stories for 2022

Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
FT critical of IMF leniency towards perennial defaulter Argentina

A column published by the Financial Times has stressed that the administration of President Alberto Fernández needed “stricter targets” from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to keep a “weak and populist” government from running astray.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Extreme temperatures in Antarctica and annual loss of 150 billion tons of ice

By BAS Atmosphere, Ice and Climate Change team, Floor van Heuvel, Ella Gilbert, Thomas Caton-Harrison, Ryan Williams, Tom Bracegirdle
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:51 UTC
Falklands black browed albatross: from prey feeding to fishery discards

Falklands' located South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, SAERI, PhD researcher Amanda Kuepfer and her collaborators have published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science on discard use by black-browed albatross chicks, and how this relates to natural foraging conditions and breeding success.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Brize Norton diverting flights because of plus 40C soaring temperature: “runway is melting”

Extreme temperatures have forced Britain's biggest air base to halt all of its flights in and out. Aircraft to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, have been forced to divert to other airfields. Brize Norton is also the UK air-bridge head link with MPC in the Falkland Islands.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:27 UTC
Venezuelan gov't speaks of terrorist attack as oil pipe burns

Venezuelan authorities were speaking of a “terrorist attack” Monday after a state-owned gas pipeline went up in smoke Sunday in the country's eastern region.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:25 UTC
Yet another AMIA bombing anniversary and nobody jailed

Relatives of the 85 casualties and the entire Argentine society Monday wondered once again how it could be that 28 years after the bombing of the AMIA welfare Israeli Association nobody has ever been held accountable.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:19 UTC
Petro wants FTA with US repenned

Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro and US Ambassador to Bogotá Francisco Palmieri met Monday to discuss common goals with the incoming administration which might include renegotiating the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed ten years ago between the two countries.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:15 UTC
Pepe Mujica favors legalizing drugs to hurt traffickers

Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica has retired from active politics but his witty statements keep making headlines, even at a time when his wife is about to undergo surgery following a domestic accident.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:11 UTC
Another low-cost airline makes it to Argentina

Wingo, a Colombian budget subsidiary carrier of Panama's Copa Airlines, has been cleared by Argentina's National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) to start operating in the country, although it still needs to confirm its schedules before being allowed to sell tickets.
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:06 UTC
Brazilian unicorns hit by mass layoffs as financing runs scarce

Brazilian startup companies also known as “unicorns” are going through mass layoffs after their momentum seems to have calmed down and the consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns and their ensuing economic crises begin to take their toll, it was reported.