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  • Monday, June 6th 2016 - 07:31 UTC

    UK dilemma with Malcorra at the UN, “a candidate favoured by Washington”

    On Tuesday Susana Malcorra will present her vision to the United Nations in a set of hustings that will now be closely watched

    Britain is facing a diplomatic dilemma since it seems quite clear that the US administration of Barack Obama favours the Argentine candidate and current foreign affairs minister Susana Malcorra as the next UN Secretary General, according to an article published on the Sunday edition of The Telegraph and written by Peter Foster, Europe editor and Harriet Alexander, New York editor.

  • Sunday, June 5th 2016 - 23:22 UTC

    Brewery creates organic six-pack rings to protect sea life

    Plastic rings, untold numbers of which end up in rivers and oceans, can be fatal traps for fish, turtles and sea birds

    A Florida brewery in the United States has done something bold to try to help the environment: replacing the plastic six-pack rings that can harm sea life with edible ones. Plastic rings, untold numbers of which end up in rivers and oceans, can be fatal to animals like fish, turtles and birds, and Saltwater Brewery thought there had to be a better way.

  • Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 11:22 UTC

    World Environment Day: UN urges help to end illegal wildlife trade

    Elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory, rhinos for their horns, and pangolins for their scales.

    Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on World Environment Day, to be observed on 5 June:This year’s observance of World Environment Day shines a much-needed spotlight on the illegal trade in wildlife.

  • Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 10:54 UTC

    Argentina and Monsanto reach preliminary agreement on seeds and soy controls

    Dispute blew up after Monsanto started asking Argentine exporters to inspect soybean shipments to ensure growers had paid royalties for using company’s seeds

    After weeks of crossed accusations, Argentina reached a preliminary deal with Monsanto, reportedly agreeing to cancel its controls on soybean shipments. Under the accord the Argentine government will be the one to carry out the inspections, as part of a proper framework for agriculture firms to be paid for royalties.

  • Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 10:36 UTC

    Ali “The Greatest” boxer of all times died in Phoenix

    After a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74.

    Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself “The Greatest” and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead. Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed.

  • Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 09:29 UTC

    OPEC summit fails to agree on a clear oil policy output strategy

    Tensions between the Sunni-led kingdom and Shiite Iran had blighted several previous OPEC meetings, but the strains were less acute on Thursday in Vienna

    The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries failed to agree on a clear oil-output strategy on Thursday as Iran insisted on steeply raising its production, though archrival Saudi Arabia promised not to flood the market and sought to mend fences within the organization.

  • Saturday, June 4th 2016 - 09:11 UTC

    Blatter, Valcke and Kattner pocketed US$ 80 million from FIFA in five years

    Sepp Blatter and Jerome Valcke, when they ruled undisputedly in FIFA

    FIFA's internal investigation by attorneys at world football provides evidence that former FIFA bosses Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner breached their fiduciary duties to the federation.

  • Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 19:40 UTC

    Argentine hopes dashed on Falklands, Antarctica: Continental Shelf Commission refused to consider three major claims

    The Commission is composed of 21 scientists and its Rules of Procedure forbid consideration of “unresolved land or maritime disputes”.

    In April 2009, Argentina submitted a formal claim to sovereignty over an exceptionally large continental shelf, across hundreds of miles of the sea-bed to the east and south of Argentina. This year, in March, newspapers around the world incorrectly reported the whole Argentine submission had been endorsed.

  • Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 19:34 UTC

    Delimitation of the Argentine continental shelf

    Comparison of the Argentine submission with the area approved by CLCS

    By Professor Peter Willetts, South Atlantic Council (*) - The Argentine Foreign Ministry announced on 28 March 2016 that it had gained international recognition of a claim to an exceptionally large continental shelf. But they were mistaken. Argentina had made a submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) on 21 April 2009 to claim sovereignty rights over the resources of the sea-bed.

  • Friday, June 3rd 2016 - 06:40 UTC

    Falklands are “my homeland”, with the right to freely choose our own future

    Ms. Krysteen Ormond, JP, Falkland Islands Government Representative to the United Nations Decolonization Committee

    The Falklands are a people, “my homeland”, with the right to freely choose our own future, as enshrined as leading principle in the UN Charter and safeguarded by the several covenants on civil and political rights, said Falklands' government representative Krysteen Ormond addressing the Pacific Regional Seminar of the C24, Special Decolonization Committee.