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  • Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:01 UTC

    Argentine passenger among those killed in Nepalese airliner crash

    Palavecino was on a mountaineering trip to Nepal

    An Argentine 57-year-old woman was confirmed to be aboard the Yeti Air ATR 72 twin-engined European-built turboprop airliner that crashed Sunday while trying to land in Pokhara, a tourist town in central Nepal.

  • Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 18:01 UTC

    Iran hangs alleged British spy

    Türk said the executions in Iran were nothing but “state-sanctioned killings”

    Former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Ali Reza Akbari (1997-2005) has been hanged after being found guilty of spying for the British government, it was reported in Tehran Saturday by the Mizan news service, although the exact moment of the execution was not revealed.

  • Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    HMS Protector scans active underwater volcanoes on Antarctic edge for tsunami research

    Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector in the South Sandwich Islands (Picture: Royal Navy).

    Royal Navy personnel are helping scientists warn of potentially catastrophic tsunamis by researching huge underwater volcanoes on the edge of Antarctica. Navy icebreaker HMS Protector has used her state-of-the-art sensors to scan peaks in the South Sandwich Islands – one of the world’s most remote territories.

  • Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:37 UTC

    Covid-19 Kraken variant detected in Gibraltar

    The GHA and Public Health Gibraltar will continue to closely monitor the development of this strain

    The Government of Gibraltar as advised by Public Health Gibraltar can confirm that the Kraken variant of COVID-19 has been detected from samples taken last week.

  • Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Brazilian Finance and Environment ministers will attend the Davos Forum

    Fernando Haddad and Marina Silva will make the round of bilateral contacts to ensure Economy and Environment in Brazil are working together

    Brazil's Minister of Finance Fernando Haddad and the Minister of Environment Marina Silva will be the official representatives to the World Economic Forum, (WEF) scheduled for January 16/20 in Davos, Switzerland and the message from the delegation to global investors is that the weekend's turmoil “belongs to the past and Brazil is ready to play its important role in international politics”.

  • Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

    Princess Royal congratulates FIGAS for their outstanding support in Falklands

    A FIGAS Islander landing kith a Falklands flag flying

    Following the visit of Her Highness the Princess Royal in November 2022, FIGAS have received a letter of congratulation following their work in enabling the Princess to visit the Camp and the Outer Islands
    A well deserved a letter to all the staff at FIGAS who work hard to ensure their passengers get the best services.

  • Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:21 UTC

    World Economic Forum says more green sector workers needed

    South Africa, Brazil, and Spain are the three countries with the highest deficits in these fields

    A report released by the Davos-based World Economic Forum (WEF) highlighted that countries should increase by 66% the number of employees in the green economy, which includes agriculture and fisheries, sustainable construction, environment, civil, and chemical engineering sectors. The document also pointed out that 37% more doctors and teachers were needed.

  • Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:06 UTC

    WHO updates isolation recommendations for Covid-19 patients

    The UN health agency report specifies that these were only recommendations and that each country should issue its own guidelines

    The World Health Organization Friday shortened to 10 the number of days that a patient testing positive for Covid-19 should remain in isolation. Before Friday, WHO suggested people with symptoms stayed 13 days in isolation while 10 days was only for asymptomatic cases.

  • Thursday, January 12th 2023 - 18:58 UTC

    UK, Japan sign reciprocal defense treaty for troop deployments

    The “Reciprocal Access Agreement” signed by Sunak and Kishida made the UK the first European state to have a reciprocal access deal with Japan. Photo: gov.uk

    Following an agreement signed Wednesday between Prime Ministers Rishi Sunak and Fumio Kishida, Japan and the United Kingdom will be able to deploy military forces in one another’s territory, as Tokyo draws closer to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) concerns over Chinese warfare growth in recent years.

  • Wednesday, January 11th 2023 - 20:06 UTC

    WHO favors return of facemasks for long-haul passenger flights

    XBB.1.5, now the globally dominant and most contagious variant of the virus

    The World Health Organization Wednesday issued a recommendation whereby countries should foster the wearing of facemasks on long-haul flights amid a growing spread of the XBB.1.5 subvariant of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron strain.