Stories for 2024

Thursday, March 21st 2024 - 09:58 UTC
Uruguay braces for heavy storm

Classes were suspended in Uruguay for Thursday and other precautions were taken after a red alert was declared following the Weather Bureau's forecast of heavy electrical storms. Such a measure is enacted “when the intensity of a meteorological phenomenon in course or forecast implies an extreme or imminent risk level for the population in general.”
Thursday, March 21st 2024 - 09:41 UTC
Brazil's Copom further lowers Selic interest rate in line with market expectations

Brazil's Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) announced Wednesday that it was further cutting the economy's basic interest rate known as Selic by 0.5 percentage points to 10.75% per year, Agencia Brasil reported.
Thursday, March 21st 2024 - 09:37 UTC
Aerolíneas Argentinas' 48-hour strike for Easter Week lifted

The Argentine aviation industry labor unions that had announced a 48-hour strike for the Easter weekend have reached an understanding with local authorities whereby the measure was lifted and Aerolíneas Argentinas travelers were then reassured that their flights would proceed as scheduled.
Thursday, March 21st 2024 - 09:07 UTC
Milei deepens ties with Washington by choosing used F-16 jets

Argentine President Javier Milei announced Wednesday that his country would purchase second-hand US-built F-16 fighter jets from Denmark, which would represent “the biggest advance in Defense in the last 20 years” according to a social media user eventually validated by the head of state.
Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 21:32 UTC
Falkland Islands celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Social Services Department

Tuesday 19 March is World Social Work Day, and 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of Social Services in the Falkland Islands. To mark this milestone the Social Services Department wanted to celebrate the successes that have been made since 1999.
Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 20:42 UTC
Brazil: Dengue cases so far in 2024 surpass previous yearly figures

Brazilian authorities have confirmed 1,889,206 positive cases of dengue fever so far this year, thus surpassing 2015's 1,688,688 and 2023's 1,658,816, it was reported. In addition to 630 confirmed fatalities, another 1,009 deaths are under investigation since Jan. 1 to determine whether they were caused by dengue or by another pathogen.
Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 20:02 UTC
Fish and chips: “The unscrupulous British” had eaten Russian fish for 68 years, says leading ally of Putin

No more fish and chips from Russian waters? A 1956 agreement that allowed British boats to fish in the Barents Sea has been ripped up, in the latest sign of growing tensions between Moscow and London, and the last batch of sanctions imposed on Russia and autocrat Putin criminals by UK.
Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 19:41 UTC
One person killed, over 110,000 left without electricity in storm-hit Buenos Aires

One woman was killed and over 110,000 households in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) were left with no electricity on Wednesday morning as heavy rains hit the Argentine capital and its surrounding areas, leading to the delay or cancellation of some 60 passenger flights among other nuisances such as flooded streets.
Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 18:55 UTC
French company to open world's first solar-powered air traffic control station in Chile

The French company Thales will be opening a 100% solar energy-powered air traffic control (ATC) station in Chile, it was announced in Santiago. The facility will be in the city of Calama in the Atacama Desert in the northern part of the country, it was also explained. The radars consume about one megawatt per hour.
Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 15:08 UTC
Good squid catch news from Argentina: jiggers managing some 30 tons per day

The Argentine current squid season, based on catches reports is considered encouraging because the so called sub-Patagonic, 46 degrees South, resource keeps the jigger fleet fully occupied with average catches of 30 tons per day, and with good sized specimens.