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  • Sunday, April 1st 2018 - 09:45 UTC

    Argentina welcomes 2018 WTTC Global Summit

    The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC)’s 2018 Global Summit will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 18-19 April.Industry leaders from public and private sector will discuss the theme of ‘Our People, Our World, Our Future’, debating how the sector is placed to create sustainable jobs in a future of transformational technology, increasing environmental pressures, and in a world where security concerns are paramount.

  • Sunday, April 1st 2018 - 03:31 UTC

    Stephen Hawking laid to rest alongside Newton and Darwin

    As the funeral procession arrived at St. Mary the Great church, bells rang 76 times -- once for each year of Hawking's life

    People gathered by the hundreds in the English city of Cambridge Saturday to pay their last respects to famed British scientist Stephen Hawking as his remains arrived at St. Mary the Great church where some 500 guests had been invited to the private funeral.

  • Saturday, March 31st 2018 - 21:43 UTC

    Church of Colombia donates Venezuela wafers for Easter

    The donation was led by Monsignor Víctor Manuel Ochoa, Bishop of the Diocese of Cúcuta

    Venezuela's shortage of food and medicines reached the Catholic religious field when a donation of wafers from the Church of Colombia became necessary for the current Easter week.

  • Friday, March 30th 2018 - 22:16 UTC

    A humanitarian triumph in the aftermath of war

    Watching Sergio Fernandez and Geoffrey Cardozo together conveys a message of hope that in this time and age is refreshing.

    By Nicholas Tozer -Buenos Aires.
    THE visit by over two hundred of Argentine next-of-kin to the Argentine Military Cemetery in Darwin in East Falkland earlier this week undoubtedly marks a new milestone in the so-often troubled relations between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands dispute.

  • Friday, March 30th 2018 - 04:07 UTC

    Falklands: Argentine families visit graves of previously unidentified soldiers

    Families of the 90 Falklands/Malvinas War soldiers recently identified through DNA testing visited the islands,. (Photo via Human Rights Secretariat, Télam)

    As readers of Penguin News will be aware, the project leading to the identification of 90 of the 121 previously unidentified soldiers whose graves are found in the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin faced many difficulties.

  • Friday, March 30th 2018 - 02:19 UTC

    Venezuela sanctioned by Switzerland for human rights violations

    Switzerland's Federal Council has expressed its concern in light of the repeated violations of individual freedoms in Venezuela

    Switzerland Wednesday aligned itself with other European countries by imposing sanctions on Venezuela for “human rights violations and
    undermining the rule of law and democratic institutions,” the Federal Council announced.

  • Thursday, March 29th 2018 - 14:19 UTC

    Falklands: Argentine professor visits Stanley and offers proposal to “end the dispute”

    According to Mr Kohen 20 point proposal, residents would be given dual Argentine/British nationality.

    Argentine Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva, Marcelo Kohen, has studied disputes and resolutions in different parts of the world. Last Monday Kohen was in the Falkland Islands and at a public meeting in Stanley, he presented a proposal to put “an end to the dispute”.

  • Wednesday, March 28th 2018 - 22:51 UTC

    Moreno's government cuts Assange's internet access at London embassy

    Lenin Moreno, who took office in May 2017, has called Assange “a hacker.”

    The Ecuadorean government of President Lenin Moreno has left Wikileaks founder Julian Assange without access to the internet at their embassy in London, it was reported Wednesday. The decision was made following Assange's recent activity on social media decrying the arrest of a Catalonian separatist leader.

  • Wednesday, March 28th 2018 - 22:41 UTC

    Gunsmith Viktor Kalashnikov passes away

    Viktor Kalashnikov, son of the legendary Soviet small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, began his weapon designing career in 1966 by conducting a series of tests of the AK-47.

    Viktor Kalashnikov, son of the legendary Soviet small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, died in Izhevsk on March 27, the Izhevsk State Technical University announced on Wednesday.

  • Wednesday, March 28th 2018 - 22:01 UTC

    Lima Summit on as planned, says Peru's new president

    Martin Vizcarra, who took office on Friday after the resignation of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, said several leaders in the region have confirmed their participation in the April 13 and 14 Summit

    Martin Vizcarra explained he received supporting phone calls from various regional leaders for the April gathering. Maduro's invitation is a matter for the Foreign Ministry to decide.