Stories for 2024

Friday, November 8th 2024 - 21:51 UTC
Ramp handling company out, Aerolíneas Argentinas might follow suit

The Aerolíneas Argentinas pilots agreed not to stage any further strikes as long as wage negotiations with the Argentine government keep going on, pilots union leader
Mateo Ferreira told reporters after Friday's meeting. “We are reassuring passengers that at least the pilots' union will not take measures of force,” he stressed. If no arrangement is reached, “a crisis procedure” would be set in motion, whereby “the arbitrator is the Labor Secretary,” he also explained.
Friday, November 8th 2024 - 19:21 UTC
US Federal Reserve cuts rate by 25 basis points, but future decisions to be conditioned by Trump and Republicans dominance

The US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point, on Thursday, the same week in which Donald Trump was swept in as elected president with a Legislative and Judicial branch packed with his conservative populists.
Friday, November 8th 2024 - 19:17 UTC
Bank of England cut the key interest rate to 4.75%, but anticipates a more cautious approach to further trims

The Bank of England in an almost unanimous decision cut interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday, a boost relief for mortgage holders, but also raised its inflation forecast following on Labor’s government budget and global uncertainty, which most probably conditions future policy easing.
Friday, November 8th 2024 - 19:05 UTC
Falklands orders four new Britten-Norman 2B-26 Islander aircraft

The Falkland Islands Government has signed a Letter of Intent with Britten-Norman with a view to ordering four new BN2B-26 Islander aircraft at a total value of US$9.75 million, reported the British manufacturer
Friday, November 8th 2024 - 10:55 UTC
“Falklands are British”, an unequivocal message from UK Minister for the Armed Forces

Plymouth has a long and rich naval history. It is celebrated as where Sir Francis Drake played bowls as the Spanish Armada loomed in 1588 and as a key embarkation point for invading Allied forces on D-Day. However, the city’s critical role in the Falklands War is perhaps less widely appreciated.
Friday, November 8th 2024 - 10:08 UTC
González Urrutia says Interpol red alert on him stems from his work in exile

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, regarded by many as the true winner of the July 28 elections, insisted Thursday that the red alert issued against him by Caracas' Bolivarian regime through the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), was the consequence of “our work abroad” to gather international strength to ban Nicolás Maduro from remaining in power after January.
Friday, November 8th 2024 - 09:50 UTC
Three people indicted in Buenos Aires in connection with Liam Payne's death

Three people have been arrested in Argentina in connection with the death of British pop musician Liam Payne. Prosecutors are charging them with various crimes, including the abandonment of a person followed by death, in addition to the supply and facilitation of narcotics.
Friday, November 8th 2024 - 09:22 UTC
Pogrom against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam

Israeli football fans were ambushed and some of them went missing Thursday evening in Amsterdam in the aftermath of a match between FC Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent two emergency flights to evacuate Israelis from the Dutch city as observers worldwide concurred on the use of the word “Pogrom,” which historically refers to an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, particularly that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Friday, November 8th 2024 - 09:17 UTC
Cutdown in carbon dioxide emissions reported in Brazil last year

South America's largest country cut down its carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) emissions by 12% in 2023 compared to the previous year, Agencia Brasil reported Thursday citing data from the Climate Observatory. In 2023, Brazil emitted 2.3 billion tons of greenhouse gases, already a reduction from 2022's 2.6 billion tons.
Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 22:21 UTC
ECLAC convention agrees on need to deepen regional cooperation in digital transformation

Dignitaries in Santiago (Chile) attending the two-day Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's (ECLAC) Ninth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society advocated Thursday for deepening regional cooperation in digital transformation through concrete actions and projects.