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Montevideo, October 18th 2026 - 12:02 UTC

International

  • Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

    Falklands' 14 strong team takes on the challenge of the Commonwealth Games

    This is the tenth Commonwealth Games that the Falklands have participated in and this time will be competing alongside more than 6,600 athletes and team officials

    Wednesday marked the opening ceremony of the 21st Commonwealth Games which are being held from 4 -15 April at the Gold Coast in Australia. This is the tenth Commonwealth Games that the Falkland Islands have participated in and this time they will be competing alongside more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 70 Commonwealth nations and territories.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:14 UTC

    SGSSI Commissioner’s 12-Day Visit To South Georgia

    Participants of the visit headed by Commissioner for South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, Nigel Phillips CBE.

    The Commissioner for South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, Nigel Phillips CBE, returned on March 17th from his visit to South Georgia where he was accompanied by representatives of some of South Georgia’s key partners and stakeholders.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

    Half of Europe flights grounded as Eurocontrol fails for the first time since 2001

    Eurocontrol manages up to 36,000 flights a day. Some 29,500 were scheduled on Tuesday when the fault occurred.

    The organization responsible for coordinating European air traffic says it has fixed an earlier fault which led to widespread flight delays on Tuesday. Eurocontrol earlier said that delays could affect up to half of all flights in Europe - about 15,000 trips.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

    Minister Faurie in France addresses bilateral relations and Mercosur/EU talks

    Faurie and Jean-Yves Le Drian agreed that the world is immersed in a debate between economic nationalism and multilateralism

    Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie met on Tuesday in Paris with his French peer Jean-Yves Le Drian to address current political and economic bilateral relations, as well as the latest advances in the Mercosur/European Union negotiations.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

    Commonwealth Games program: England listed as part of Africa

    Both England and Gambia had taken it in good humor, he said. England had also declined the offer of a complete re-print.

    England have been listed as an African nation with capital Banjul in the official program for the Commonwealth Games’ opening ceremony, leaving Gold Coast organizers red-faced. The program, being sold at newsagents and merchandise tents around the Queensland resort, has England’s population listed at just over two million and their first Commonwealth Games appearance in 1970.

  • Wednesday, April 4th 2018 - 08:04 UTC

    Falkland Islanders react to Argentine Next of Kin Visit

    Throughout the process the Falklands government have actively allowed for and facilitated the work, seeing it through purely humanitarian terms.

    As Mercopress have covered, families of 90 unidentified soldiers visited the Falkland Islands from Argentina last week. They spent the day at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin and paid respects to their sons, brothers and partners whose remains were recently identified after a lengthy DNA process administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 19:06 UTC

    Argentine Jewish community honors first woman submariner, who remains missing in the Atlantic

    Eliana María Krawczyk, 35, who is Jewish, is one of 44 crew members of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, which remains missing in the Atlantic

    The first female submarine officer in Argentina, who remains missing in the Atlantic Ocean, was honored by the country’s Jewish community on International Women’s Month. Eliana María Krawczyk, 35, who is Jewish, is one of 44 crew members of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, which remains missing in the Atlantic four months after it fell off the radar with a one week supply of oxygen on board.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 18:56 UTC

    The Kirchners' most trusted official caught in the Odebrecht corruption web

    De Vido (next to a good friend) is suspected of illegally favoring Odebrecht with US$ 2.3bn contracts for the construction of liquefied natural gas projects

    An Argentine judge has charged ex president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner former planning minister in a case involving Brazilian company Odebrecht. Argentina's official Judicial Information Center says that Julio De Vido was charged Tuesday with carrying out incompatible deals while in public office.

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:58 UTC

    Anti Iran coalition: Saudi crown prince touring the US moves closer to Israel

    The Crown prince said Palestinians and Israelis have the right to have their own land, but a peace agreement is needed to assure the stability for everyone

    Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land in an interview published on Monday in U.S. magazine The Atlantic, another public sign of ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv appearing to grow closer. Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of their ancestral homeland, Mohammed bin Salman was quoted as saying:

  • Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 08:08 UTC

    Moscow and Falklands' war: “ironically the Soviet Union came on the side of anti communist Argentina”

    Argentine Air Force received information from Soviet space forces in a “classic” Cold War scenario, only the sides had switched

    Sputnik, the official Russian news agency has recalled the 1982 South Atlantic conflict on the 36th anniversary, and offers an interesting interpretation of events previous to the war, the fighting itself and prospects for the future, making emphasis on the overall world scenario at the time.