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  • Friday, December 13th 2024 - 10:17 UTC

    Milei off to Italy once again this year

    It will be Milei's sixth official encounter with Meloni

    Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday resumed his mileage accruing spree after departing for Rome to meet with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, among other engagements.

  • Friday, December 13th 2024 - 07:33 UTC

    Falklands: final deadline for British Passport

    The rate of embarkation tax will increase from £30 to £32 with effect from 01 January 2025.

    The Falkland Islands Customs and Immigration Service would like to advise the public that the last date for the submission of British passport applications for forwarding to the United Kingdom Passport Agency during 2024, is by no later than 11.30 am on Friday 20 December 2024.

  • Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 22:29 UTC

    Argentina now reportedly redlights RRS James Cook mission

    The Foreign Ministry's reported decision had negative repercussions within the Libertarian government of President Javier Milei

    Argentina's Foreign Ministry has been reported to have backtracked on the clearance previously given to the RRS James Cook to perform a scientific mission in the Argentine Sea. According to Buenos Aires' Clarín, Deputy Foreign Minister Eduardo Bustamante gave the order.

  • Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

    Football: 2030 World Cup opening game to be played in Montevideo

    “Football is what unites the world,” Infantino stressed

    World football's governing body FIFA confirmed Wednesday that the opening game of the 2030 World Cup will be played at Montevideo's Centenario Stadium, which also hosted the 1930 edition that launched the series of one of the most successful events in contemporary history.

  • Thursday, December 12th 2024 - 08:54 UTC

    Peña announces reopening of Paraguay's Embassy in Jerusalem

    “We understand very well what is currently happening here,” Peña said

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Wednesday told Israel's Parliament (known as the Knesset) in Tel Aviv that his government's decision to relocate the Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem meant that the South American country “will not abandon Israel.” Peña plans to reopen the building on Thursday.

  • Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

    Labour pledges 150 major infrastructure projects and 1.5 million homes, biggest building boom in half century

    The extensive Plan for Change program announced by the Prime Minister “will deliver a decade of national renewal”.

    The new Labour government in Britain is pledging more giga-factories, solar farms, roads, and railway lines are set to be green-lighted in the next five years, adding billions to the economy, as part of stretching new milestones.

  • Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 09:01 UTC

    November FAO Food Price Index, highest since April 2023, boosted by dairy and vegetable oils

    Additionally, the weakening of the Brazilian Real against the United States dollar and lower international crude oil prices contributed to the decline in world sugar prices

    The FAO Food Price Index, FFPI, averaged 127.5 points in November 2024, up 0.5 percent from the October level and reaching its highest value since April 2023. The increase was driven by higher price quotations for dairy products and vegetable oils, which slightly outweighed declines in the meat, cereals, and sugar quotations. Compared to historical levels, the FFPI in November was 5.7 percent higher than its corresponding value a year ago but remained 20.4 percent below its peak of 160.2 points reached in March 2022.

  • Tuesday, December 10th 2024 - 13:25 UTC

    The atomization of Syria, following the collapse of 53 years of Assads dictatorship

    The Russians, the Iranians and Hezbollah in Lebanon supported Bashar al-Assad through the last 13 years of hot and cold civil war in Syria

    By Gwynne Dyer - Take a moment, first, to celebrate the fall of a regime of surpassing evil even by the demanding standards of the Middle East. Father and son, the Assad regime oppressed and abused the Syrian people for 53 years, and now it is gone in a week. Even the American-backed regime in Afghanistan did not fall that fast.

  • Tuesday, December 10th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    Rebels reveal lavish lifestyle of Bashar al-Assad after palace invasion

    ”Al-Assad decided to leave his mandate and the country to enable a peaceful transition of power,” stated Russian officials

    Rebel forces in Syria have unveiled the opulent lifestyle of former President Bashar al-Assad after storming his presidential palace in Damascus. Videos circulated online show a fleet of luxury cars, including Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Aston Martins, and Mercedes-Benz vehicles, as well as boxes of Louis Vuitton items, fine art, and high-end furniture.

  • Monday, December 9th 2024 - 21:27 UTC

    UN Chief condemns massacre in Haiti

    Guterres also pressed Haiti's government to speed up the political transition

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres Monday condemned the slaughtering of over 180 people between Dec. 6 and 8 near Port-au-Prince after a gang leader was told that the victims, all or most of them aged over 60, had rendered a son of his ill through witchcraft.