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  • Wednesday, January 3rd 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Five killed in aircraft runway crash at Tokyo Haneda airport

    Five killed in aircraft runway crash at Tokyo Haneda airport

    Five crewmembers of a Japanese Coast Guard Bombardier Dash-8 turboprop aircraft that was to carry supplies to the area hit by an earthquake earlier this year died at Tokyo's Haneda airport Tuesday following a crash with a Japan Air Lines (JAL) Airbus 350 airliner at 5.46 pm local time that was landing from Shin-Chitose airport near Sapporo in northern Japan, it was reported.

  • Tuesday, January 2nd 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    At least 30 killed in Japan tremor

    Although the tsunami alert was downgraded, people were advised to evacuate all coastal areas and not return there until further notice

    At least 30 people have been killed following a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Japanese Prefecture of Ishikawa. Around half the casualties were recorded in the town of Wajima, where a fire destroyed several houses. Japan Railways announced that high-speed trains between Tokyo and Ishikawa were interrupted.

  • Tuesday, January 2nd 2024 - 10:34 UTC

    UK, Guyana mocking Venezuela, Maduro warns

    Maduro also said Milei wanted to turn Argentina into the new colony in South America

    In a year-ending interview with Le Monde Diplomatique's Ignacio Ramonet, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said his Guyanese counterpart Irfaan Ali was mocking his country and other regional multilateral organizations who sponsored the St Vincent and the Grenadines understanding whereby the dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo area would not escalate.

  • Sunday, December 31st 2023 - 23:24 UTC

    Argentina sends note rejecting BRICS entry

    Milei prefers the United States and Israel as partners

    The Argentine Government of President Javier Milei this week sent a note announcing that the South American country would not be joining the BRICS group on Jan. 1 as agreed upon with the previous administration of Alberto Fernández.

  • Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

    UK says Venezuela's military maneuvers “unjustified”

    The UK sent the HMS Trent in support of its former colony “for a series of routine engagements in the region”

    The United Kingdom said Venezuelan President Nicolàs Maduro's decision to up his country's military readiness over the Essequibo dispute with Guyana was “unjustified.” The Bolivarian forces deployed over 5,000 troops in response to the arrival in the area of the Royal Navy's HMS Trent.

  • Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 06:33 UTC

    Minister Rutley's second visit to the Falklands in a month: big changes in South Atlantic fisheries policies?

    Some Falklands lawmakers meet with minister Rutley at Gilbert House

    Foreign Office minister for the Americas, Caribbean, and Overseas Territories David Rutley has been to the Falkland Islands again this week, the second visit in a month, and in the meantime this did not prevent him from on December 10, to represent the British government in Buenos Aires for the taking office ceremony of Argentine extreme liberal president, Javier Milei.

  • Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

    Number of visitors to Pele's mausoleum on the rise

    Pele died on Dec. 29, 2022

    German travelers topped the list of foreign visitors to pay their respects to the late football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, it was reported Thursday in Santos, Brazil, one day before the first anniversary of his passing.

  • Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

    When FIC tried to buy Peninsula Valdes and land in Tierra del Fuego

    Peninsula Valdes is currently a nature reserve and a great tourist attraction for whale watching and enjoying sights of other sea mammals and sea birds

    The history section of daily “Diario del Fin del Mundo”, edited in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, extreme south of Argentina, recalls that almost a century and a half ago, more precisely December 1881, the Falkland Islands Company, FIC, “at the time with total control over the Falklands economy”, approached the Argentine government offering to buy the total of Peninsula Valdes, Chubut province and an area in Tierra del Fuego next to San Sebastian Bay, and its surrounding 160 leguas (league) for the rearing of sheep.

  • Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    Essequibo crisis: Venezuela launches defensive military operation

    The Trent's presence in the area has been “synchronized with actions by the United States Southern Command,” Maduro's government also pointed out

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered preventive measures be taken as the Royal Navy's HMS Trent was reaching the area to side with Guyana amid tensions over the disputed oil-rich Essequibo area.

  • Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 08:37 UTC

    Antisemitism case against Roger Waters admitted in Buenos Aires

    Waters' expressions arguably harm the feelings of members of the Jewish community, the plaintiffs insist

    An Argentine court has agreed to review an antisemitism complaint filed by Shoah survivor Carlos Zigelbaum and his son Sergio Zigelbaum against British pop musician Roger Waters, it was reported this week in Buenos Aires.