Stories for September 2024

Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:35 UTC
Power cuts inevitable in Argentina during next summer

Argentina's Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos reckoned there might be scheduled power cuts during the summer despite recent fare adjustments that represented a significant increase for most households. He argued that the measure would be the consequence of the lack of investments in recent years.
Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:31 UTC
Falklands Pound among the ten world oldest currencies still circulating

The Falkland Islands pound is listed among the top ten oldest currencies still circulating in the world with the pound Sterling leading the ranking, having taken off back in the Middle Ages sometime in the 800s, according to the World of Statistics.
Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:29 UTC
Bluetongue virus, BTV 3, has spread to the whole of South East England

As more cases were found temporary restriction zones have been brought in to help stem the spread of the bluetongue virus (BTV-3), some 95 cases, which now cover the whole of the South East England.
Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:16 UTC
UK Forces News, Armed Forces alert to the new kind of warfare

The triggering of hundreds of pagers to kill or maim members of the militant group Hezbollah has raised concerns about the UK's own military supply chain and the use of smart-phones.
Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:14 UTC
Exploding pagers, what do we know what really happened

By Gwynne Dyer

The exploding pagers that killed at least 12 people and injured 2 800 others in Lebanon and adjacent places on Tuesday were mostly just a new wrinkle on the exploding cell-phones that Israel has used to assassinate its opponents in the past, but there was one major innovation.
Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:02 UTC
HMS Protector involved in practicing boarding operations with navies from four countries

Ice Patrol HMS Protector has provided the perfect training platform during Exercise Unitas, the world's longest-running multinational maritime exercise. Teams from the UK, US, Chile, Mexico and Colombia used the Royal Navy's ice patrol ship for practicing boarding operations, where personnel move between vessels.
Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 10:31 UTC
Buenos Aires holds talks with Gol regarding Aerolineas Argentinas' future

Argentina's Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos and Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo met Friday with representatives from the Brazilian airline Gol to discuss the possible handover of Aerolíneas Argentinas operations amid threats of additional strikes by pilots and cabin crewmembers. Earlier this month, some 37,000 travelers were affected by the protests seeking wage increases to cope with inflation.
Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 10:28 UTC
X appoints legal representative in Brazil

Tycoon Elon Musk's social media network X appointed a legal representative in Brazil as requested by Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes just before the deadline 9.29 pm deadline, Agencia Brasil reported. The company chose Lawyer Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova for the position.
Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 10:08 UTC
Paraguay exports US$ 665 million worth of beef to Chile

During a gathering this week at Chile's Embassy in Asunción to celebrate the 214th anniversary of the country's independence, Ambassador Manuel Francisco Gormaz Lira highlighted that Paraguay was Chile's fifth-largest trading partner in the region and the tenth-largest in the world. Yearly trade between the two countries amounted to US$ 1.8 billion.
Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 09:14 UTC
Brazil: Bruno and Dom case defendant granted house arrest

Fisherman Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, one of the three people detained in connection with the 2022 murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist activist Bruno Pereira, was granted house arrest Friday by case rapporteur Justice Marcos Augusto de Sousa of Brasilia's Federal First Region Regional Court (TRF1), Agencia Brasil reported.