Stories for February 2025

Monday, February 24th 2025 - 18:42 UTC
Pope has kidney failure in addition to bout of asthma

The latest medical reports on 88-year-old Pope Francis, who has been hospitalized since Feb. 14, at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli due to a respiratory infection, now mentioned “kidney failure” and a bout of asthma. Vatican sources said he slept well on Sunday night, in good spirits, eating normally and experiencing no pain. However, a rosary is to be held Monday at St Peter's Square at 9 pm Rome's time for the prompt recovery of the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the ill. The event will be presided over by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
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Monday, February 24th 2025 - 10:42 UTC
Milei tells CPAC deeper chainsaw coming up

Argentine President Javier Milei told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the United States that the “era of the omnipresent State” was over ass he pledged to deepen his so-called “chainsaw” efforts cutting expenses.
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Monday, February 24th 2025 - 10:10 UTC
Paraguayan guerrillas EML subdued after two key arrests

Paraguayan authorities considered this weekend that after Saturday's arrest of Lourdes Ramírez de Ramos, wife of the armed group Ejército del Mariscal López (EML) leader Alejandro Ramos, the illegal organization has been fully dismantled. The couple's daughter Lourdes Teresita Ramos has also been detained recently. They are all believed to have been involved in the kidnapping and subsequent disappearance of cattle rancher Félix Urbieta. Prosecutor Pablo Zárate confirmed that the two women had been placed under pre-trial detention.
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Monday, February 24th 2025 - 10:08 UTC
FAU Officer highlights the importance of Uruguay having a space agency

Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) Captain Mariana García underscored in a TV interview this weekend the importance of the South American country having a Space Agency while developing a national policy in this regard.
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Monday, February 24th 2025 - 09:49 UTC
Conservative coalition prevails over far-right AfD in German elections

Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the conservative coalition made up of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) prevailed with 28.5% of the vote in Sunday's elections in Germany, thus averting for now the access to power of the far-right AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), for whom US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Chief Elon Musk had strongly campaigned. The election saw an 83% voter turnout, the highest since German reunification in 1990.
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Monday, February 24th 2025 - 09:24 UTC
Brazil sets new biodiversity targets for 2025-2030 term

Brazil's National Biodiversity Commission (Conabio) has established new national biodiversity targets for the period 2025 to 2030 and recommended a new set of measures for the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP), pursuant to the Dec. 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), of which the South American country is a signatory.
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Monday, February 24th 2025 - 09:22 UTC
China sells corn seeds to Argentina

Citing sources in the eastern city of Qingdao, China's news service Xinhua reported Monday that 20 kilograms of corn seeds were shipped to Argentina in late January after being quarantined by the Asian country's customs. These seeds are known as the “chips of agriculture,” it was also explained as Chinese authorities deemed this export as a milestone.
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Monday, February 24th 2025 - 08:29 UTC
Falklands: two Indian Navy women officers reach Stanley after successfully navigating Cape Horn

Completing their longest and most challenging leg, the Indian Naval Sailing Vessel, INSV, Tarini arrived safely in Stanley, Falkland Islands after travelling 10,400km from New Zealand.
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Monday, February 24th 2025 - 08:25 UTC
Falklands: Mount Pleasant Airport runway repairs completed ahead of schedule

A £20 million project to resurface part of the airfield at Falklands Islands Mount Pleasant Complex has been completed ahead of schedule. Mount Pleasant Complex is the RAF’s airfield in the Falkland Islands and is an important overseas base for the Ministry of Defense (MOD) which is run by UK Strategic Command. It is a vital air link between the Falkland Islands and the UK
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Monday, February 24th 2025 - 07:56 UTC
Falklands U15 girls and boys teams dispute Friendship Cup in Punta Arenas

Punta Arenas city, southern Chile media is giving a great display to the international juvenile football competition that started on Sunday and has one of its main attractions the Falkland Islands Youth Football teams, both girls and boys.
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