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Stories for June 11th 2025

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 21:04 UTC

    Milei confirms Argentina's Embassy in Israel will be moved to Jerusalem

    Milei also recalled the two antisemitic terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires in the 1990s

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced Wednesday during his speech before the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) that the South American country would be relocating its Embassy to West Jerusalem in 2026. The first Argentine president ever to address the Knesset, Milei condemned the Oct. 7 attack by the terrorist group Hamas and demanded the release of all Argentine hostages.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 20:01 UTC

    Canadian PM invites Lula over to G7 Summit

    In a phone call on Wednesday, Carney formalized the invitation

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva of Brazil will be attending the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada, on June 17, following an invitation from Prime Minister Mark Carney. The South American leader will participate in an extended session with other invited nations, including South Africa, Australia, and India, and will also hold a bilateral meeting with Carney.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 18:02 UTC

    Falkland Islands highlight environmental leadership at annual UK reception

    The reception underscored the Islands’ strategic importance as a gateway to the Antarctic and their contributions to conservation and climate science.

    The Falkland Islands Government hosted its Annual Parliamentary Reception on 10 June at the House of Commons, spotlighting the territory’s growing role as a globally significant hub for environmental research and biodiversity.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:46 UTC

    Curfew decreed in downtown LA amid surging violence

    The measure seeks to stop looting, Bass explained

    Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared a local state of emergency and imposed a nighttime curfew from 8 pm to 6 am in a one-square-mile area of downtown Los Angeles, effective Tuesday, to curb vandalism and looting amid protests against President Donald Trump’s anti immigration raids.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    CFK's conviction saga includes attack on TV station and marketing boom

    Opportunity snatchers from both ends of the political spectrum launched T-shirts and other items defending either the former president or the judiciary's ruling mandating her imprisonment

    Following Argentine Supreme Court's (CSJN) ruling Tuesday upholding a six-year prison sentence against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in addition to a lifetime disenfranchisement in the so-called Vialidad case, a group of her supporters stormed into the Canal 13 and Todo Noticias (TN) building in Buenos Aires, breaking glasses, smashing cars, and throwing stones and blunt objects.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    French companies interested in relocating production to Paraguay

    In this scenario, Asunción will host the EU-Paraguay 2025 Investment Forum later this month

    French companies have been reported to be exploring the relocation of their production to Paraguay, drawn by its maquila regime and strategic geographic location, according to Benoit Libourel, president of the Paraguayan-French Chamber of Commerce.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:19 UTC

    Venezuela downplays EU's adding it to list of high-risk countries

    “An anachronistic bureaucracy, aged and disconnected from its people, pretends today to tutor Venezuela,” Gil's office said in a statement

    Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil rejected his country's inclusion by the European Union (EU) in a list of “high-risk” nations, calling it a “ridiculous” attempt by a “decrepit European elite.”

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 09:47 UTC

    Colombian authorities gun down guerrilla leader Cholinga

    Cholinga had links to drug trafficking organizations, including the Sinaloa Cartel

    Colombian Army troops gunned down Wilmar Pazu Rivera, alias “Cholinga,” a leader of the FARC dissidents' Isaías Pardo Bloc within the Central General Staff (EMC), during a Joint Command of Special Operations (CCOES) mission in the hamlet of Las Dalias, in the municipality of Paez (Cauca), President Gustavo Petro announced.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 09:32 UTC

    Milei thanks Macron for France's support before the IMF

    Milei's presence at an event focused on environmental issues came as a surprise

    Before flying to Israel, Argentine President Javier Milei met in Nice this week with his French colleague Emmanuel Macron during the United Nations Oceans Conference to discuss the long-stalled Mercosur-European Union trade agreement.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 08:11 UTC

    The plastic legacy has reached profusely to the bottom of the planet

    Dr Emily Rowlands out on sea ice near the RRS Sir David Attenborough for sampling work. (Pic BAS)

    On 5 June, UN World Environment Day, the campaign motto was “Beat Plastic Pollution”, and with very good reasons, we are surrounded by plastic pollution and a report from BAS indicates that at the bottom of the world, where few humans have ever set foot, an unwelcome visitor has arrived. Antarctica – the vast, frozen wilderness of ice and snow – is no longer untouched by humanity’s most persistent pollutant: plastic.