MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for December 31st 2024
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Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 14:23 UTC
Journal bought for Falklands Museum gives first-hand account of 1914 Battle
A journal recently acquired at auction by the Friends of the Falklands Museum and Archives (FIMA Friends) gives a remarkable personal account of the 1914 Battle of the Falklands. The unique manuscript, illustrated with contemporary newspaper cuttings, reveals that, despite the appalling carnage, a strong sentiment of mutual respect survived.
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Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 10:55 UTC
La Niña projected to take its toll in the Southern Cone
Meteorologists foresee that the La Niña weather phenomenon will not go unnoticed in the Southern Cone next year after the Brazilian agency Metsul reported signs of unusual activity in the Pacific Ocean. The main impact will be reflected in mercurial temperatures, MetSul's warning noted.
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Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 10:30 UTC
After hectic month, Paraguay's yearly inflation barely above 2023's
Paraguay's Consumer Price Index (CPI) grew 0.7% this month, which represented a setback from 0.3% in the same month last year. Nevertheless, Asunción confirmed closing 2024 with a 3.8% inflation, barely over 2023's 3.7%, according to the Central Bank (BCP), and therefore within the target range of 4%, it was explained Monday. On a brighter note, core inflation stood at 0.3% in December for a yearly variation of 3.4%, which meant progress from the 3.6% registered in 2023.
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Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 10:20 UTC
Venezuelan FM speaks the worst about his Argentine colleague
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil told his Argentine colleague Gerardo Werthein on social media he had “no morals to talk about Venezuela” and insisted that the latter's true legacy lay “in the fortunes amassed in the shadow of any opportunist government and under the complicity of the darkest dictatorship that devastated Argentina.” Gil also insisted that Buenos Aires' “terrorist plans” had ”failed categorically, just as any attempt to impose their hypocrisy and arrogance on us will fail.
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Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 09:43 UTC
Five suspects arraigned in death of former One Direction's Liam Payne
Argentine prosecutors Monday arraigned 5 people in connection with the Oct.16 death of former One Direction's British singer Liam Payne in Buenos Aires, which was ruled not a suicide.
