International

• Tuesday, January 9th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Argentine FM to meet with Chinese ambassador amiid growing tension

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino is to meet on Thursday or Friday with Chinese Ambassador Wang Wei to discuss a US$ 6.5 billion currency swap brokered by former Economy Minister Sergio Massa last year, among other topics.

• Monday, January 8th 2024 - 12:06 UTC

  During January, HMS Protector will help witha a research on increased tourism and pollution

  

  The consequences of increased tourism and pollution in Antarctica, are two of the tasks the Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector will be checking during this month in the frozen continent. For this purpose it has invited two scientists from the University of Portsmouth, Professor Fay Couceiro and Dr. Clare Boston.

• Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

  Jewish leader in Buenos Aires sparks controversy regarding Gaza

  

  Contradicting reports in Buenos Aires Friday concurred that Sergio Pikholtz was no longer Vice President of the Delegation of Argentine-Israeli Associations (DAIA) after posting on social media that there were “no innocents in Gaza.”

• Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:19 UTC

  Paraguayan pork exports record significant increase

  

  According to a report from Paraguay's National Service of Animal Quality and Health (Senacsa) released this week in Asunción, pork exports have been recording growing numbers since 2019 and reached a 173% increase from 2022 to 2023.

• Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

  Argentina: Malvinas claim recognizes Islanders “interests” and a “mature relation” with Britain

  

  The third of January has been an iconic date for Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands, since on that day but in 1833, the “United Kingdom forcibly occupied the Malvinas Islands over which ”a recently independent Argentine Nation was exercising sovereignty, given her condition of heir to such possessions of Spain in South America.”

• Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:23 UTC

  Venezuela supports Argentina's claim to Malvinas

  

  Despite criticizing a judge's decision to hand over to the United States the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 freighter aircraft seized in Buenos Aires, Venezuela's Foreign Ministry also issued Wednesday a declaration insisting that the Malvinas [Falkland] Islands were Argentine.

• Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:18 UTC

  Argentine authorities arrest three people suspected of terrorism

  

  Argentine authorities arrested three men in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) Wednesday. The suspects were believed to be linked to plans to stage terrorist attacks in the country, it was explained.

• Wednesday, January 3rd 2024 - 10:36 UTC

  Jet fuel developed from human feces in UK

  

  A British scientific team in Gloucestershire has successfully developed jet fuel from human feces. The product has been reported to be almost identical to the conventional kerosene used in modern aviation. “We wanted to find a really low-value feedstock that was highly abundant; and of course poo is abundant,” Firefly Green Fuels CEO James Hygate explained.

• Wednesday, January 3rd 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Argentina lifts restrictions on beef exports

  

  The Argentine Government of President Javier Milei has authorized the export of seven “popular cuts” of beef which had been banned from sales abroad under Alberto Fernández, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, January 3rd 2024 - 10:18 UTC

  Royal Navy sailor fired for producing porn on HMS Prince of Wales

  

  A Royal Navy sailor, Zak Blackman, has been dismissed from service for creating and selling explicit content aboard the HMS Prince of Wales, Britain's largest warship, following a three-month deployment to the US.