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  • Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 07:12 UTC

    Miami sea-food sentenced for falsely labeling Chilean salmon as Scottish

    MKG Provisions, (UpRiver Aquaculture), will have to face three years of probation and a US$ 50,000 fine for labeling Chilean salmon as “product of Scotland”.

    A Miami-located seafood company was sentenced in a Federal Court for falsely labeling salmon in December 2012 in violation of the Lacey Act, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) informed.

  • Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 06:40 UTC

    Germany to declassify documents on the secretive Dignity Colony in Chile

    German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that he ordered documents about the colony through 1996 to be declassified.

    Victims of a secretive German colony in Chile hope that Germany's decision to declassify documents will help shine light on human rights abuses committed there. For three decades beginning in 1961, the enclave of Colonia Dignidad, or Dignity Colony, was the site of torture, slavery and child abuse.

  • Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 06:34 UTC

    Falklands government annual reception at Lincoln's Inn on June 15th

    The reception is usually attended by UK officials, Members of Parliament, diplomats, Falkland Islands officials, friends and supporters of the Falklands.

    The annual Falkland Islands Government Reception at Lincoln’s Inn in London this year has been announced on Wednesday 15th June.

  • Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 06:22 UTC

    First visit in ten years of UK foreign secretary to Mexico

    As the 15th largest economy in the world, “Mexico offers significant business and investment opportunities for Britain to our mutual benefit”, said Hammond

    The first visit in ten years to Mexico by a British Foreign Secretary is intended to reaffirm the close and growing relationship between the UK and Mexico. The talks follow the successful State Visit to the UK by President Peña Nieto in March 2015 and each country using 2015 to celebrate the other’s contributions in arts, culture and innovation.

  • Tuesday, May 3rd 2016 - 06:00 UTC

    Venezuela's explosive situation makes Pope Francis send a “personal letter” to Maduro

    “I can say that the Pope did write a personal letter to President Maduro concerning the situation in the country” said papal spokesperson Lombardi

    Pope Francis has sent a “personal letter” to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in which he addresses his concern over the “seriousness” of “the county’s situation”, revealed papal spokesman Federico Lombardi confirmed to journalists this weekend.

  • Monday, May 2nd 2016 - 20:11 UTC

    St Helena postpones official opening of the new airport

    Last week the Island’s Air Service Provider, Comair, brought a Boeing 737-800 aircraft to St Helena on an ‘Implementation Flight’

    The St. Helena Government confirms that further safety and operational work is required prior to the Official Opening of the Island’s new Airport – and that this event has therefore been postponed. While this means that the Airport will not officially open on 21 May 2016 as originally planned, the safety of aircraft and passengers is of course paramount.(MP, 15 and 19 April).

  • Monday, May 2nd 2016 - 08:51 UTC

    With a subsidy production scheme, Argentina is back exporting oil, mainly to China

    Exports are expected to reach a record 91,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude in April, including two cargoes sold by YPF to China

    Argentine oil producers are shipping record volumes of crude this month, spurred by a new government subsidy that has also prompted state-owned oil company YPF to return to the export market for the first time in years.

  • Monday, May 2nd 2016 - 08:39 UTC

    “Adonia”, the first US cruise vessel in fifty years to dock in Havana on Monday

    “Making history and preparing for an even more positive future for everyone is the greatest of honors any company can have,” said Carnival CEO Arnold Donald

    The first US cruise ship bound for Cuba in half a century set sail from Florida on Sunday, marking a new milestone in the rapprochement between Washington and Havana. The Adonia, a vessel from the Carnival cruise's Fathom line, raised its anchors and departed from Miami, the heart of the Cuban diaspora in the United States, around 4:00 pm.

  • Monday, May 2nd 2016 - 07:54 UTC

    Argentine needs US$ 37bn to address the budget deficit and foreign debt payments

    The government will “very soon” issue a new Treasury note to capture dollars that are being stored “under the mattress”, Finance Secretary Luis Caputo said.

    Argentina will issue a fresh round of dollar-denominated debt notes worth an estimated US$8 billion in the next few days, top officials from the Finance Ministry confirmed. The government will “very soon” issue a new Treasury note to capture dollars that are being stored “under the mattress” in a process that will kick off with a meeting with bankers, Finance Secretary Luis Caputo said.The Argentine government hopes to bring in US$5 billion through the issuance.

  • Sunday, May 1st 2016 - 13:45 UTC

    Consumers want seafood traceability, according to survey commissioned by MSC

    In 21 countries 65% of consumers said they would like to know that their fish can be followed along the supply chain to a sustainable source.

    The results of the latest market study commissioned by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) reveal an interest among consumers in seafood traceability. Surveys conducted among more than 16,000 seafood consumers globally indicate that over 55% do not trust the labeling of the seafood they consume. In Spain, this value is even higher: 61% of Spanish seafood consumers doubt whether the products they consume are what their packaging reads.