Stories for 2025

Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 08:20 UTC
Falklands, “knowledge gap” with the Loligo fishery, environmentally sensitive

The second Loligo squid season in the Falkland Islands fishery has been brought to an early close, finishing around a week sooner than expected. The daily monitoring of the catch showed the biomass had reached the minimum threshold required to safeguard the long-term sustainability of the stock.
Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 08:01 UTC
“Argentina’s finances just got even more surreal”, by The Economist

On September 22nd, 15 minutes before Argentina’s foreign-exchange markets opened, America’s government made an intervention. “Argentina is a systemically important US ally,” Scott Bessent, America’s treasury secretary, wrote on X, a social network. He added that the United States would “do what is needed” and that “all options for stabilization are on the table.”
Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 22:35 UTC
Vieira: Bolsonaro's conviction not open for discussion with Trump

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said Wednesday during a hearing before the Lower House's Foreign Affairs Committee that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's openness to trade negotiations with his US counterpart Donald Trump was not to be taken for a prelude to a pardon for the convicted Jair Bolsonaro.
Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 22:08 UTC
CFK fears peso devaluation after Oct. 26 midterm elections

As the Argentine Government of Javier Milei grapples to keep the local peso from plunging against the US dollar, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner posted from her house arrest that everybody knew about the impending devaluation after the Oct. 26 midterm elections. “Oh, Milei! ... It seems to me that they realized that after Sunday the 26th, you would devalue,” CFK wrote.
Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:55 UTC
Milei announces new meeting with Trump at White House

Argentine President Javier Milei will meet on Oct. 14 with his US counterpart, Donald J. Trump, at the White House, just a few days ahead of the midterm elections in the South American country, Casa Rosada confirmed Tuesday. “MEETING AT THE WHITE HOUSE. End,” Milei posted on X.
Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:32 UTC
Milei restores ties with Macri after Buenos Aires defeat

Argentine President Javier Milei has resumed dialogue with former president Mauricio Macri after more than a year of political distance. The rapprochement comes in the wake of La Libertad Avanza’s electoral defeat in Buenos Aires province, where Peronism won by more than one million votes.
Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:08 UTC
Israeli community in Argentina seeks legal remedy to anti-Semitism episode

The Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (DAIA) has filed a dual complaint—legal and educational—following the viral spread of a video showing high school students chanting overtly anti-Semitic slogans (“Today we burn Jews”) during a graduation trip.
Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 10:01 UTC
Air France, Airbus back on trial for doomed Rio-Paris flight

Air France and aircraft manufacturer Airbus are back in court to face an appeal against their 2023 acquittal on charges of corporate manslaughter related to the 2009 crash of flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, which killed all 228 people on board.
Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 09:58 UTC
Netanyahu insists Israel is not recognizing a Palestinian state

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his support for the 20-point peace initiative presented by US President Donald Trump to end the conflict in the Gaza Strip. However, he was emphatic in rejecting the creation of a Palestinian state, despite the document mentioning a path toward self-determination.
Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 08:39 UTC
Tony Blair eyed for leading role in Trump's Gaza peace plan

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair resurfaced onto the international political arena after being tapped to play an oversight role in US President Donald Trump's peace plan for the Gaza Strip.