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Stories for October 15th 2024

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 23:10 UTC

    Falklands confirms case of avian influenza at Volunteer Green and Cow Bay

    Volunteer Point, one of the attractions of the Falklands with several kinds of penguins, including King, Magellan and Gentoo which mingle naturally with sheep

    The Government of the Falkland Islands confirmed that on Thursday 10 October 2024 swabs that were taken from dead penguins at Volunteer Point, which returned a positive result for HPAI.

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 22:47 UTC

    Shackleton's original Hope Cross exhibited at the Discovery Point in Dundee

    The Memorial Cross to Sir Ernest Shackleton at Hope Point, South Georgia, overlooking the British Antarctic Survey’s Grytviken station (PA)

    Sir Ernest Shackleton, the great English polar explorer died in 1922 at the age of 47 in Grytviken, South Georgia during his fourth trip and expedition to the Antarctic continent on board the Quest. .

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 21:25 UTC

    Venezuela to seek reparations from Spain's colonialism

    Maduro used his broadcast show to target Spain's colonialism in the past as well as Elon Musk's 21st Century activities

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said his country would be seeking reparations from Spain for what happened during the colonialism years. In the Chavista leader's view, the European kingdom has never “asked for forgiveness” and instead took shelter “in the ideology of negationism.”

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 20:37 UTC

    New coronavirus strain detected in southern Brazil

    Scientists believe that XEC might have emerged through genetic recombination between previously circulating strains

    The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) confirmed the presence in the southern part of the continent's largest country of a sublineage of the Sars-CoV-2 Omicron strain known as XEC, which is rapidly spreading worldwide, Agencia Brasil reported. The variant has been found in the States of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Santa Catarina after Fiocruz made the first discovery in samples from two patients in Rio last month.

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 11:55 UTC

    Argentina: College students rise against Libertarian budgetary constraints

    The protests include classes in the streets

    Last week's veto by President Javier Milei against the University Finance Bill, which survived a parliamentarian challenge, has nevertheless sparked a nationwide conflict between the Libertarian administration and student groups claiming that the tuition-free higher education that has been a pillar of social mobility in Argentina was at stake. Some outlets even defined the uprising as “Estudiantazo” as some classes were held in the streets as part of the surging protests.

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

    Milei welcomes Boris Johnson at Casa Rosada

    The main topic of their encounter was reportedly a meeting between Milei and Mick Jagger. The Falklands/Malvinas case was never discussed

    Argentine President Javier Milei Monday welcomed former UK Primer Minister Boris Johnson at Casa Rosada, after which the South American leader announced he would travel to England for a meeting with musician Mick Jagger at a date yet to be determined. Milei had already discussed rock with another exPM - Lord David Cameron - whom he met as Foreign Secretary.

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 09:29 UTC

    Maduro makes major military brass reshuffle

    Padrino López has been Defense Minister since October 2014

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros announced Monday that he was keeping Vladimir Padrino López as Defense Minister but was otherwise making a major reshuffle within the Bolivarian Armed Forces' brass, including the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) and the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin). Padrino López has been Defense Minister since October 2014.

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 09:15 UTC

    Chilean fisherman rescued from cold Pacific Ocean waters

    Police Lieutenant Carlos Campos said the drones were pivotal for the operation's success

    Chilean authorities used a thermal drone to locate in the Magellan Strait area and later rescue a fisherman from the Pacific Ocean, it was reported Monday. The man later identified as Sergio Brito was wearing adequate clothing, thanks to which he survived the cold temperatures. In addition, he clung to seaweed while waiting for Carabineros and the Navy.

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    EPP guerrilla suspects no longer refugees in Argentina

    Villalba is currently in jail for a kidnapping perpetrated by the EPP

    Relatives of Paraguayan guerrilla leader Carmen Villalba sheltering in Argentina were stripped of their refugee status by the administration of President Javier Milei and could soon be extradited to stand trial, it was reported in Asunción. “The news that we have confirmed is that their political asylum was withdrawn, they are not politicians,” Interior Minister Enrique Riera confirmed.

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 09:00 UTC

    Some 400,000 households still powerless in São Paulo after three days

    “More than 50% of the events were due to trees falling on the medium and low voltage system in São Paulo,” Silveira also explained

    Given that some 400,000 households in São Paulo were without electricity on Monday after problems caused by a storm last Friday, federal Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira gave suppliers Enel 3 days to fully restore supply, Agencia Brasil reported.