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  • Thursday, April 23rd 2015 - 04:50 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez invites Russian investors to Argentina; Thursday she meets Putin

    Argentina is a country not only of natural resources but also human resources, said Cristina Fernandez, praising the country's recovery since 2001/2002

    “Argentina is a country where it is worth investing in and producing, not only because of its natural resources, also because of the human resources we have” said president Cristina Fernández in Moscow on an official visit to Russia. She praised the “recovery of Argentina's flag carrier that allows connectivity among all the zones in the country, not only the richest ones.”

  • Thursday, April 23rd 2015 - 02:09 UTC

    Record high temperatures over land and sea in March, says NOAA and NASA

    March average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 0.85°C above the 20th century average, the highest for March in the 1880–2015 record

    The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for March 2015 was the highest for the month since record keeping began in 1880. The year-to-date (January–March) globally averaged temperature was also record high, reports the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, together with data from NASA.

  • Thursday, April 23rd 2015 - 02:00 UTC

    “We have yet to change our ways” says Ban Ki-moon UN on Mother Earth Day

    Mother Earth Day, marked on 22 April, Ban called Earth humanity’s “ultimate mother, an astounding planet that has, since time immemorial, supported life in myriad forms.”

    Humanity is well aware of the devastating damage and pollution it have wrought on planet Earth, and “even with this knowledge, we have yet to change our ways,” United Nations Secretary-General said on Wednesday, urging people to reset their relationship with nature and every living being it sustains.

  • Wednesday, April 22nd 2015 - 15:37 UTC

    Spain to invest 421m Euros to promote and develop aquaculture

    Spain's Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Isabel Garcia Tejerina, made the announcement to implement between 2014/2020.

    Spain's Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, MAGRAM, Isabel Garcia Tejerina, announced that 421 million Euros will be allocated to the Multiannual Aquaculture Strategic Plan 2014/2020. The plan outlines how aquaculture will be conducted in coming years in the framework of the new EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).

  • Wednesday, April 22nd 2015 - 06:35 UTC

    Petrobras receives financial support from China and local banks

    The deals announced include a 1.48bn export-credit note with Banco do Brasil, where current Petrobras CEO Aldemir Bendine worked before

    Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras approved a series of financial agreements with local and international banks that will meet its financing needs in 2015, the company announced. In a filing with local stock regulators, Petrobras said that the deals will provide the company with access to about 6.2 billion dollars, including a 3.5bn financing contract reached with China Development Bank on April 1.

  • Wednesday, April 22nd 2015 - 05:55 UTC

    Gazprom and YPF will sign agreement to develop Argentina shale oil and gas deposits

    YPF CEO Galuccio in Moscow to sign a contract on joint exploitation of the rich Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas fields

    Argentine energy company YPF CEO Miguel Galuccio is scheduled to sign on Wednesday in Moscow a contract on joint exploitation of shale oil and gas in the rich Vaca Muerta fields of Patagonian province Neuquén. The contract is part of the bilateral agenda to be addressed by visiting Argentine president Cristina Fernandez on Thursday, when she meets with Vladimir Putin.

  • Wednesday, April 22nd 2015 - 03:18 UTC

    Falklands' Argentine cemetery remains' identification turns into controversy

    According to a piece in La Nación, Argentina claims the UK is deliberately delaying the process of identifying the NN graves at the Darwin cemetery

    The United Kingdom regretted that Argentina was 'making politics out of a humanitarian issue”, following the claim from the administration of President Cristina Fernandez that UK was delaying the identification process of 123 Argentine soldiers, who died during the 1982 Falklands War and were buried as the Unknown Warriors on the Islands Argentine cemetery.

  • Wednesday, April 22nd 2015 - 01:58 UTC

    Argentina sues Falklands' oil and support companies involved in hydrocarbons drilling

    “Argentina will defend its natural resources,” said Filmus, arguing that the companies are performing illegal acts by drilling near the Islands

    The Argentine government on Tuesday sued several energy and support companies that are drilling for oil near the Falkland Islands, the latest chapter of a longstanding dispute over the South Atlantic archipelago, though analysts say it will have little practical effect. The criminal case was filed in Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego province which according to the Argentine constitution includes the Falklands and Antarctica.

  • Tuesday, April 21st 2015 - 07:22 UTC

    Significant blow to toothfish poaching in Antarctica and Patagonian waters

    In early April the 'Thunder' was scuttled in waters of Sao Tome and Principe off the West African coast, following 110 days of pursuit by the 'Bob Barker'

    Operation Icefish, Sea Shepherd's first campaign to target Illegal, Unregulated, Unreported (IUU) fishing of toothfish in the waters of Antarctica, and the organization's longest, continuous at-sea campaign to date has concluded with unexpected success.

  • Monday, April 20th 2015 - 23:59 UTC

    China makes effective 5bn dollars loan to Venezuela for 'development plans'

    Maduro made the announcement during a public ceremony, and said the funds would go to unspecified 'development plans'

    China has awarded Venezuela 5 billion dollars for unspecified “development plans,” President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday, approximately three months after an official visit to China. According to published reports, the loan is part of a 10 billion deal to be completed in the following months.