Argentine authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of an Islamist individual who was allegedly planning an imminent attack on home soil. The plan was very advanced, in its last stage..., Security Minister Patricia Bullrich explained. The suspect posed a concrete threat to national security, she also pointed out. We thwarted his plans before he could cause any harm, she insisted.
Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI) went up 2.7% in December 2024 for an accumulated 117.8% last year, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) said Tuesday in a report released in Buenos Aires. It was the lowest monthly rate since July 2020 amid strict Covid-19 lockdowns, when inflation reached 1.9%.
The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the Antarctic ice sheet which is more than 1.2 million years old.
This week Norway awarded 53 offshore oil and gas exploration licenses to 20 companies in its latest annual licensing round. Norway has increased offshore oil and gas exploration over the past couple of years as it looks to meet Europe’s surging demand after the continent ditched Russian energy.
The United Kingdom government has formed the Steel Council to advise and implement a new steel strategy, to help revitalize the steel industry and has pledged financial support of steelmakers Tata Steel and British Steel.
A busy week for Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina with some fourteen cruise vessels, mostly heading for Antarctica calling at the capital of Tierra del Fuego province, and involving 4,500 passengers.
A scientist team aboard the Royal Navy icebreaker is uncovering the damage plastic waste is having on Antarctica. As part of efforts to preserve one of the world’s most unique and fragile environments, critical work has been carried out by researchers from the University of Portsmouth aboard polar research vessel HMS Protector.
Brazilian farmers should harvest 322,2 million tons of grains from the 2024/25 crop, representing an 8,2% increase over 2023/24, equivalent to an additional 24.5 million tons, according to the latest estimates from Conab, the county’s National Supply Company.
Uruguay's Parliament passed Tuesday a unilateral declaration from the ruling Multicolor coalition stating that no one can deny there is a dictatorship in Venezuela. The opposition Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) of President-elect Yamandú Orsi, who is to take office on March 1, submitted a text of its own excluding the word dictatorship and hence no consensus. However, the FA reckoned that the Venezuelan government has deepened its distancing from the institutional framework and that the absence of audits in the electoral process erodes the legitimacy of the result and questions any democratic transition.
Venezuela's Foreign Ministry Tuesday instructed The Netherlands, France, and Italy to cut down their diplomatic missions in Caracas to three members each following what the Bolivarian regime described as meddling in internal affairs.