International

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2024 - 09:35 UTC

  Chile's Council of Former Foreign Ministers discusses Venezuela and Hezbollah

  

  Chile's Council of Former Foreign Ministers convened Monday to discuss the current state of affairs with Venezuela and Hezbollah's threat to the region, among other topics, it was reported in Santiago.

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2024 - 06:32 UTC

  Namibia en route to becoming another Guyana oil discovery success story

  

  Portugal's oil company Galp Energia shares skyrocketed on Monday after the company announced that the first phase of its exploration in the Mopane field in offshore Namibia could contain some 10 billion barrels of oil.

• Monday, April 22nd 2024 - 06:09 UTC

  Milei reinstates ambassador Foradori, who signed the Falklands 2016 Joint Communiqué

  

  An Argentine professional diplomat, who was vilified by the Kirchnerite political establishment for having signed during the mandate of ex-president Mauricio Macri (2015/2019), a Joint Communiqué with Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan in September 2016, has been reinstated as ambassador, head of the different organizations that function in Geneva, Switzerland.

• Sunday, April 21st 2024 - 16:15 UTC

  Wreckwatch Magazine special issue calls for 'decolonization' of San José treasure ship

  

  Wreckwatch, the foremost publication dedicated to maritime archaeology, has released a groundbreaking special issue shedding light on the controversial history and future of the San José, a Spanish galleon lost off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, in 1708.

• Friday, April 19th 2024 - 22:20 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego Governor angered by Falklands presence at tourism fair in Sao Paulo

  

  Governor Gustavo Melella of the Argentine Province of Tierra del Fuego which technically includes the the Falkland/Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands sent this week notes of protest regarding the “WTM Latin America” tourism fair in Sao Paulo where the British Overseas Territories have a desk. Melella sent letters to Brazil's Ambassador in Buenos Aires and the Argentine Embassy in Brasilia.

• Friday, April 19th 2024 - 21:14 UTC

  Brazil's Finance Minister hopes G20 will tax the super‑rich to tackle world's debt crisis

  

  During his trip to Washington DC to attend International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) engagements, Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said he hoped the G-20 would approve later this year a new taxation for the planet's super-rich so that the global economy could adjust amid an unprecedented debt crisis, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Friday, April 19th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Conflict in Middle East could escalate after latest Israeli attacks

  

  Israeli forces attacked Iranian Air Force positions in Isfahan, in the center of the country in retaliation for last weekend's bombardment with unmanned explosives and missiles, it was reported early Friday. Other hits were recorded in the As-Suwayda governorate in southern Syria, the Baghdad area, and the Babil governorate in Iraq.

• Friday, April 19th 2024 - 10:19 UTC

  Palestine denied UN full membership through US veto

  

  The United States exercised its veto power Thursday within the United Nations Security Council to cut Palestine short from full statehood and membership, it was reported in New York. Hence Palestine remained a “permanent observer state” with no voting rights within the global organization.

• Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 23:14 UTC

  Argentina applies for NATO global partnership

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Luis Petri Thursday filed a request from President Javier Milei's government to become a “global partner” of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Earlier this week, Petri went to Denmark to sign the purchase of 24 second-hand US-built supersonic F-16 fighter jets.

• Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 19:56 UTC

  Iran's Foreign Ministry says BA Court ruling against Tehran was politically motivated

  

  Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Naser Kanani said Thursday that a ruling by a Buenos Aires court that found his country to be behind terrorist attacks against a building of the Jewish community in the Argentine capital in 1994 was “politically motivated.” He also said the decision lacked any legal basis and merely followed the “new political project” undertaken by the “enemies of Iran.”