Stories for 2022

Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:07 UTC
Queen's Platinum Jubilee: The military's role in the celebrations

A close look at the military's role this weekend as the Queen prepares to become the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. Nearly 2,000 members of the Armed Forces will make a major contribution to the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations this week.
Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:00 UTC
At Falklands Thursday sunset, Queen's Platinum Jubilee Beacon will be lit

Falkland Islands Chief Fire Officer announced spectators are invited and are welcome to the lighting of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Beacon which will take place at Moody Brook on the site of the old Hovercraft slipway and hangar at 16:51 on June 2nd.
Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:57 UTC
Crown coin commemorating the Liberation of the Falklands for every child in the Islands

The Falkland Islands Commissioners of Currency and the 40th Anniversary Committee are delighted to announce the issue of a Crown Coin to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands.
Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:48 UTC
Colombia: Coal miner dies, other 14 trapped inside after explosion

Miner Fabio Cáceres García died Tuesday as a result of “an explosion of methane and coal dust” in El Zulia in eastern Colombia, while 14 other workers remained trapped, it was reported.
Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Nicaragua's Parliament bans Language Academy and 82 other NGOs

Nicaragua's legal assembly has approved with no debate Sandinista Deputy Filiberto Rodríguez's bill to outlaw the Language Academy and 82 other NGOs which, according to the Ministry of the Interior (Mingob), have failed to comply with financial regulations regarding donations from abroad.
Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:35 UTC
IAPA concerned over Judiciary deployment in Costa Rican newspaper case

Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) President Jorge Canahuati urged Costa Rica's judiciary to handle the process with transparency and to observe the due process of law as legal action has been taken involving Diario Extra.
Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:30 UTC
Russia supports expanding BRICS, but demands consensus on access conditions

Russia supports the proposal to increase membership of BRICS, the organization of the leading developing economies, but before moving in that direction there is a need to establish a consensus on access criteria.
Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:24 UTC
Former ambassador to leave Argentina's diplomatic mission in Tel Aviv

Former Argentina's Ambassador to Israel Sergio Urribarri, who resigned his position after being convicted to eight years in jail for acts of corruption during his tenure as Governor of the province of Entre Ríos, is to leave the diplomatic building where he has been sheltering, it was announced in Buenos Aires.
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 20:48 UTC
Children from the Falklands say “Thank you” in a video to veterans who liberated the islands in 1982

As part of the commemoration events for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands war, school children from both the Junior and Secondary schools in the Falkland Islands have created special “Thank you” messages to all the veterans involved in liberating the Falkland Islands in 1982. The school children are keen that their messages are seen by as wide an audience as possible, so that as many veterans and their families and families of those 255 lost, get to see them and know that what they did 40 years ago is still greatly appreciated and not forgotten, even by the most recent generation of young Islanders.
Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:55 UTC
“Colombian Trump” now 3 weeks from being elected

Non-leftwing voters have all their eggs now in Rodolfo Hernandez's basket, after the candidate many dub the “Colombian Trump” made it to the second round against all forecasts, to face off former M19 guerrilla leader and current Senator Gustavo Petro June 19.