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Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 17:43 UTC
RRS Sir David Attenborough centre stage at “Poles Apart” gallery in National Maritime Museum

Britain’s new polar research ship, RRS Sir David Attenborough, is centre-stage in a new gallery, ‘Poles Apart’, which opened at the Royal Museums Greenwich National Maritime Museum. The exhibition serves as a lasting reminder of the RRS Sir David Attenborough visit to Greenwich in October 2021, ahead of the UN Climate Conference held in Glasgow, and of the contribution the ship will make over its 30-year career to climate science.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 17:35 UTC
A grateful Heathman family remembers when their farm, close to Stanley became a base for British forces

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict, a group of young paratroopers has journeyed to the South Atlantic. In the Islands, they have retraced the footsteps of their predecessors and learned about their regimental history –through the medium of tea and treasure.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 17:34 UTC
WHO admits that antibiotic resistance is winning the innovation battle

Development of new antibacterial treatments is inadequate to address the mounting threat of antibiotic resistance, according to the annual pipeline report by the World Health Organization. The 2021 report describes the antibacterial clinical and preclinical pipeline as stagnant and far from meeting global needs. Since 2017 only 12 antibiotics have been approved, 10 of which belong to existing classes with established mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 17:10 UTC
London ignores European legislation: UK Supreme Court, final arbiter in human rights issues

Britain will not abandon the European Convention on Human Rights but a new Bill of Rights will establish UK Supreme Court in London as the ultimate arbiter on human rights issues. The announcement was done by Dominic Raab, UK Deputy Prime Minister and Justice minister, and follows the European Court ruling which blocked Boris Johnson's efforts to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 09:59 UTC
Argentina again requests UN Secretary General's good offices in the Malvinas sovereignty dispute

Ahead of his address to the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, C24, this Thursday, demanding sovereignty talks with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands sovereignty, Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero met on Wednesday with US Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Prince of Wales arrives in Rwanda for Commonwealth Summit

Prince Charles of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have landed in Kigali for their first-ever trip to Rwanda where they will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), among other engagements.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 09:50 UTC
Russia triggers toothfish conflict between US and UK over catch quotas in South Georgia

A diplomatic row over fish has broken out between the UK and US in response to provocations from Russia. The feud could lead to an import ban on Patagonian toothfish, also known as Chilean sea bass, which US officials claim is being caught illegally near Antarctica, according to an information from Associated Press.
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Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 09:47 UTC
Emtrasur scandal: Pilot's cell phone shows he belonged to Al Quds

The cell phone belonging to the Iranian captain of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 seized by Argentine authorities at the Ezeiza international airport included pictures of a much younger Gholamreza Ghasemi being a fighting member of the Al Quds Revolutionary Guard, it was reported Wednesday in Buenos Aires.
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Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 20:28 UTC
Israel's Embassy in Uruguay says Venezuelan 747 involved in arms traffic

Israel's Embassy in Montevideo Wednesday claimed that the Iranian crewmembers of the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 seized by Argentine authorities in Buenos Aires were involved “in arms trafficking to Syria” and with the terrorist organization Hezbollah.
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Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 10:25 UTC
The “communist” map that irked nationalists because Malvinas are Falklands and don't figure as Argentine

When it's not the father, president Jair Bolsonaro, it's one of his sons, in this case Eduardo Bolsonaro, federal lawmaker who is involved in a controversy over his interpretation of South America's political mood and trend, which he described as mostly pure red communist.
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