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Stories for September 4th 2024

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 22:26 UTC

    Starlink now says it will ban X in Brazil

    Starlink's mother company SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is advising people against traveling to South America's largest country

    Satellite internet service provider (ISP) Starlink backtracked on its initial decision and acquiesced to banning social media platform X nationwide as ordered by Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes and supported by fellow magistrates Luis Roberto Fux, Cármen Lúcia, Cristiano Zanin and Flávio Dino. Both X and SpaceX (Starlink's parent company) are owned by South African-born tycoon Elon Musk.

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Uruguay inaugurates fishing port terminal

    “The Argentine government understood, after 200 years of struggle,” that Montevideo's port offers better conditions than that of Buenos Aires

    Uruguayan authorities inaugurated a new fishing port in Capurro on Tuesday after a US$ 110 million investment, an “important milestone” that will house the activity in Montevideo, President Luis Lacalle Pou explained. The head of state also pointed out that “it has been many years since a public port was built here.”

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 10:18 UTC

    International community concerned about arrest warrant against González Urrutia

    Expecting Venezuelan authorities to do justice is “a legal absurdity,” according to the OAS

    Multiple voices from the international community expressed their concern Tuesday after Venezuela's Judiciary issued an arrest warrant against opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, whom many regard as the true winner of the July 28 presidential elections at which the incumbent Nicolás Maduro claims to have prevailed but without submitting any evidence.

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

    New Zealand to triple tax for foreign tourists, from £16.52 to £47.20

    Tourism Minister Matt Doocey argued the new tax cost would not be a huge deterrent, as NZ$100 would make up less than 3% of most tourists' average spend

    New Zealand will triple its tax for foreign tourists, beginning October first. The cost of the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy will jump to NZ$100 (£47.20) from NZ$35 (£16.52).

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 10:02 UTC

    Maduro announces Xmas celebration for Oct. 1

    Maduro's measure came the same day that an arrest warrant against González Urrutia was issued

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro brought forward Christmas to Oct. 1 for the third time in his administration, he announced Tuesday in his TV show “Con Maduro+” broadcasted on YouTube.

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 09:57 UTC

    Argentine man with monkeypox dies in Mexico

    Molina had also tested positive for HIV

    Santiago Molina, a 28-year-old man who contracted monkeypox and was hospitalized in Mexico, has died or a cardiac arrest, it was reported Tuesday. The patient passed away Sunday but the case only went public Tuesday.

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 09:53 UTC

    Falklands/Brize Norton airbridge flights fully booked; recommendations for challenging September

    Mount Pleasant Complex International Airport

    The Falkland Islands Government with the UK Ministry of Defense is working on bookings and waiting lists for the airbridge, during the month of September and announced the following release, ”Our community will be aware of the current strain on Airbridge flights where all flights are fully booked, and nearly every flight waitlisted. The cancelled and returned flights in late August has added additional pressure on the availability of Airbridge seats.

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 09:53 UTC

    Falklands commemorates Merchant Navy Day and honors the Red Ensign

    The Red Ensign flying in windy Falkland Islands

    On Merchant Navy Day, 3 September, the Falkland Islands remember all those merchant seafarers who helped to liberate the Falkland Islands in 1982 and those, past and present, who do so much to keep our waters safe.