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Stories for April 2023

  • Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    Argentine veterans want Foradori sacked from Foreign Ministry

    Foradori was allegedly drunk when he signed th3e agreement with Alan Duncan

    A group of Argentine war veterans Monday filed a petition before Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero to dismiss former Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Mario Foradori from the country's diplomatic corps for “having acted recklessly” in the conclusion, in 2016, of the joint declaration known as the Foradori-Duncan agreement to the “detriment of the interests of the Argentine Republic relating to the Malvinas question.”

  • Tuesday, April 11th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Brazilian President announces alliance with Indonesia and Congo

    With his previous experience as president, Lula said that “we will do more in four years -proportionally more- than we did in eight years.”

    In an exclusive TV interview marking his first 100 days in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced on Monday (10) that he will meet in June with his colleagues from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia to launch an alliance between the countries that hold the largest rainforests on the planet, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 12:59 UTC

    The defense of the Falkland Islands with the Quick Reaction Alert Typhoons

    Four Typhoon FGR4 from 1435 Flight are currently based at Mount Pleasant Complex. Photo: RAF

    During the Easter holiday period, the RAF detachment in the Falkland Islands continued to deliver air operations in the South Atlantic. One element of the air operations is a Quick Reaction Alert response carried out by the Typhoons of 1435 Flight.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 12:54 UTC

    More dramatic estimates from Argentine agriculture and soy crop

    The latest estimate points to a drop of 6.6 million tons in Argentine soy production. The previous harvest year was 43 million tons.

    The Safras & Mercado consultancy revised Argentina's soybeans production estimate for 2022/2023 of some 24.8 million tons, dramatically down from the previous forecast in March of 31.4 million tons.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 12:45 UTC

    Biden visit to Ulster and Ireland to remember the Good Friday peace agreement

    Rishi Sunak will welcome the US president Joe Biden to Northern Ireland on Tuesday evening.

    UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has praised the “bravery, perseverance and political imagination” shown by the leaders who shaped Northern Ireland's peace deal, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement which ended Northern Ireland's decades-long violent conflict known as the Troubles, reports BBC.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 12:42 UTC

    UK offshore Oil Workers anticipate biggest strike in a generation

    John Boland, Unite industrial officer, added: “Unite has received an emphatic mandate in support of strike action”

    Hundreds of oil and gas platforms will stage a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay and other working conditions. Unite has warned that the standstill by the walkout has been planned for April 24. Industry experts agree that contractors and operators can afford to give the Unite members a decent pay rise.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

    Mercosur, Canada to resume trade deal talks

    A Canadian team is due in Brasilia next month to resume the negotiations that were left aside due to the Covid-19 pandemic

    Negotiations for an agreement between Mercosur and Canada to eliminate tariffs on industrial and agricultural goods, services, intellectual property, and government purchases are to resume after more than three years, CNN Brazil reported. The initiative had been halted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    Russia says China has the right to respond to “provocations” with military exercises

    “In a very short period of time, we have witnessed many actions that were provocative towards the People's Republic of China,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

    Russia today considered that China has the right to respond with military maneuvers to the “provocations” taking place around Taiwan, exercises that Beijing successfully completed on Monday.

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Petro OK with meeting former paramilitary leaders

    Petro still wants millions of Colombians to organize themselves to achieve total peace

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro Sunday said he was willing to meet with former paramilitary leaders to discuss the peace process. The head of state, a former guerrilla fighter himself, insisted that those who have served their sentences and who have publicly expressed their willingness to meet should explain “to what extent” the “peace process ... can be finished and finalized.”

  • Monday, April 10th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

    Golan Heights: Uruguayan peacekeepers near line of fire

    Violence is spiraling in the Middle East

    Uruguay's Army Sunday reported that its peacekeeping troops in the Golan Heights were in good shape after missile attacks were recorded Saturday in the area they are patrolling. However, the group's mission was temporarily suspended.