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Stories for 2024

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 04:54 UTC

    Falklands launches first telecommunication survey, large response is expected

    The survey is an essential part of information gathering, giving FIG and Cambridge MC solid data to work from in making recommendations to Executive Council

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is asking businesses, charities, and residents of the Falklands to take part in a telecommunications survey, which is being run in conjunction with Cambridge Management Consulting (Cambridge MC).

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 11:23 UTC

    Falkland Islands celebrates the birthday of His Majesty King Charles III

    The King’s birthday is a public holiday in the Falkland Islands.<br /> <br />

    On behalf of the people of the Falkland Islands, the Members of the Legislative Assembly wish to extend our warmest congratulations to His Majesty King Charles III on the occasion of His 76th birthday, Thursday 14 November.

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    France wants Mercosur-EU deal not signed

    France will do its utmost to prevent such an agreement from being signed, Armand was quoted as saying

    France will not be signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), the Russian news service Sputnik reported Thursday. In fact, Paris will do its utmost to block it.

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    Milei first world leader to meet Trump post Nov. 5 elections

    “The forces of heaven are on our side,” Milei insisted at the CPAC event

    Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday became the first foreign leader to meet US President-elect Donald Trump after the latter's victory in the Nov. 5 elections. They got together at the Republican's Mar-a-Lago complex in Florida during a CPAC (Conservative Political Action Convention).

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Port Miami cruise industry, Fiscal Year 2024 marked a new record

    Port of Miami, Cruise Capital of the World

    The port of Miami has announced a new record of passengers for the cruise industry, which totaled 8,233,056 travelers in Fiscal Year 2024, (October 1, 2023 to 30 September 30), equivalent to a 12.79% increase in cruise passenger, compared to its previous record of 7,299,294 passengers in Fiscal Year 2023, points out Cruise Industry News.

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    Falklands’ citizen objects to the cancellation of parades on the King’s birthday and Battel Day

    The Falklands naval Battle Memorial in Stanley on Ross Road

    Gerald Cheek a Stanley citizen, much respected and knowledgeable of Falklands’ history has written an open letter, published in the Penguin News, greatly concerned and objecting to the cancellation of parades on important celebrations for the Falklands calendar. They are the sovereign’s birthday, 14th November, and on Battle Day, when 110 years ago on 8th December 1914, the Royal Navy destroyed a powerful German naval squadron ready to take over the Islands. It was also the great first British victory of WW1, and both events mark the closenessof the Falklands with the Royal Family and the UK.

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

    Chile: Monsalve arrested – arraignment hearing set for Friday

    The charges against Monsalve might go beyond those of a sexual nature and include his maneuvers while still in office to conceal the facts

    Former Chilean Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve was placed under arrest Thursday to face rape charges after allegations in this regard by a member of his staff forced him to resign on Oct. 17, three days after the complaint was filed.

  • Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:03 UTC

    Boluarte and Xi Jinping inaugurate Chancay megaport in Peru

    Chancay “is the first smart and green port in South America,” Xi Jinping highlighted

    Presidents Dina Boluarte of Peru and Xi Jinping of China inaugurated Thursday the mega-port of Chancay, some 40 miles north of Lima. The structure, built with financing from the Asian country, is expected to revolutionize South America's Pacific Ocean trade. The opening took place within the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

  • Thursday, November 14th 2024 - 18:56 UTC

    Argentina: No more special pensions for CFK after conviction

    CFK has no honor to collect any pension money, Adorni pointed out

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) will no longer be collecting her pension nor that of her late husband Néstor Kirchner, also a former Argentine head of state, Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni announced Thursday.

  • Thursday, November 14th 2024 - 18:23 UTC

    Brazilian Climate Change Minister says Milei's decision goes against the world's efforts

    Those pulling out of the Paris Agreement will not go unpunished, Silva warned

    Brazil's Environment and Climate Change Minister Marina Silva said Thursday that Argentina pulling its delegation from the Conference of Parties 29 (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, was “a process that goes against the demands that the world is making.” In her view, however, President Javier Milei's decision will not interfere with the ongoing negotiations to have the most advanced countries further finance the adaptation of the less developed ones to the environmental agreements, Agencia Brasil reported.