MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 20th 2025
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Friday, June 20th 2025 - 21:38 UTC
USS Gerald R. Ford Middle East bound
The USS Gerald R. Ford will set sail from Norfolk to the Middle East next Tuesday to strengthen Washington's might in the region, a Defense source confirmed Friday. The deployment was considered “routine” and unrelated to the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
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Friday, June 20th 2025 - 10:28 UTC
Heavy rains kill 2 in Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul
Heavy rains in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul since June 16 have caused significant damage across 90 municipalities, resulting in two deaths and one missing person.
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Friday, June 20th 2025 - 10:13 UTC
Spanish researchers speak of Gibraltar's “tropicalization”
A study by the Málaga-based Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC) documents a “tropicalization” process in the Strait of Gibraltar and Alboran Sea, where rising water temperatures, Atlantic connections, exotic species invasions, and high human activity (e.g., maritime traffic and tourism) are driving changes in fish species composition.
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Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:53 UTC
Chile: Private university joins National Oceanographic Committee
Chile's Universidad San Sebastián (USS) has joined the National Oceanographic Committee (CONA), a public organization coordinated by the Navy's Hydrographic Service (SHOA), bringing together 30 institutions to advance marine science research.
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Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:24 UTC
CFK may show up at balcony, court says
Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), under house arrest for a conviction in the Vialidad corruption case, has been fitted with an electronic anklet to monitor her location, as ordered by Oral Federal Criminal Court No. 2 (TOF 2)
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Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:15 UTC
Jones Huala's detention too strict, lawers say
Facundo Jones Huala, leader of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), is being held under extremely severe conditions following his June 8 arrest in the Argentine Patagonia city of El Bolsón for encouraging acts of violence, a group of lawyers representing him claimed Thursday.
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Friday, June 20th 2025 - 09:07 UTC
Argentina: unemployment hits record figures
Argentina's unemployment rate rose to 7.9% in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2021, up 0.2% from Q1 2024 and 1.5% from Q4 2024, according to a report from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) released Thursday in Buenos Aires.
