Stories for 2024

Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 12:49 UTC
Guterres becomes persona non grata in Israel

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was declared persona non grata Wednesday by Israel after failing to condemn Tuesday's rocket attack by Iran, Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced on X. The former Portuguese Prime Minister has thus been banned “from entering the country,” Katz explained.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 09:48 UTC
Orsi and Cosse reach out to Uruguayan voters living in Argentina

Uruguay's presidential hopeful Yamandú Orsi of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) and his running mate Carolina Cosse were in Buenos Aires this week in a campaign maneuver seeking to lure residents in neighboring Argentina to “cross the pond” and vote for him in the Oct. 27 elections.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 09:23 UTC
Lula's presidential airplane makes emergency landing

Brazilian Air Force's (FAB) VC-1 aircraft carrying President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spent five hours flying in circles, presumably to burn fuel, before making an emergency landing due to technical problems at the Felipe Angeles International Airport, a commercial terminal serving Mexico Valley metropolitan area, Agencia Brasil reported.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 09:04 UTC
Assange says he was free not because the system worked

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday in his first public appearance after his release from the Belmarsh maximum security prison in the United Kingdom in late June that he was “free because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 08:38 UTC
The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution, according to The Economist

The graffiti are still visible. Walls shout: “Death to the police!” Bus shelters demand: “No more private pensions!” Yet the occasionally violent social upheaval that rocked Chile from 2019 to 2022 is past. And the radical left-wing movement it propelled to power is now unpopular, having discovered that governing is harder than protesting.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 08:31 UTC
China opens up to 4 Argentine meat plants

A total of four new Argentine meat plants were allowed by China to send beef shipments to the Asian country, it was announced this week by Buenos Aires' Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Secretariat. The new clearance was said to have resulted from negotiations with Beijing's Animal and Plant Quarantine Department of the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC).
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 07:13 UTC
Falklands Tourist Board and cruise lines working on solutions for clash days

The issue of the controversial clash days during the cruise summer season was also addressed by ExCo in its end of September meeting. It was noted that the Falkland Island Tourist Board (FITB) is currently taking cruise ship bookings out to the 2026/27 season and intends to continue monitoring future clash days during the 2024/25 season.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 07:01 UTC
UK “green milestone”, the last power station fueled by coal has finished

UK's last coal power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, finished operations on Monday September 30th, after running since 1967 and ending 142 years of reliance on the fossil fuel. The milestone is a major event in UK's ambitions to reduce its contribution to climate change. Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel producing the most greenhouse gases when burnt.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 06:48 UTC
LATAM with improved performance results looking to refinance debts

LATAM Airlines has announced an interest in refinancing its US$450 million 13.375% Senior Secured Bonds maturing in 2027, and its current US$1.1 billion term loan agreement. The debt was issued in October 2022 in connection with its exit from the reorganization proceedings under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code.
Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 06:28 UTC
Falklands, “Ring of Fire” solar eclipse begins peaking at 17:30

This Wednesday afternoon a spectacular “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse will be visible for some parts of South America. While southern Chile and Argentina, Patagonia, will see a ring of the Sun as the Moon passes in front of it, those in the Falklands Islands will see a large solar eclipse.