International

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  IMF wires nearly US$ 4bn to Argentina's coffers

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has wired US$ 3,980 million to Argentina, thus boosting the country's reserves to US$ 42,139 million, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil confident of its OECD access roadmap, which should make EU/Mercosur deal more expeditious

  

  Once Brazil has been admitted to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, the ratification process for the Mercosur/European Union trade agreement, will become more viable, according to Brazilian foreign minister Carlos Franca.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Ghislaine Maxwell receives 20-year jail sentence in New York

  

  Former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been handed down Tuesday a 20-year prison sentence by a New York Court for helping her ex-boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein, sexually abuse underage girls.

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  Scotland proposes a second independence referendum on 19 October 2023

  

  Scotland's first minister has proposed 19 October 2023 as the date for another referendum on independence. Nicola Sturgeon said the question would be the same as in the last referendum in 2014: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Drug consumption on the rise worldwide, UN report shows

  

  According to a United Nations report released in Vienna, the number of people who have tried a narcotic substance in their lives has increased by 26% in the last decade. In 2020, 13.6% of users suffered from drug-related disorders to the point of being dependent or requiring treatment.

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 19:35 UTC

  Johnson tells Fernández Falklanders and Ukrainians entitled to self determination

  

  President Alberto Fernández Monday told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that more Britons were living in Argentina than in the Falkland Islands, but that did not change an iota the Conservative's leader stance that there was nothing to talk about in that regard because Falkland Islanders, like all people, have a right to self-determination, according to his post-meeting comments to the press quoted by Clarín.

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:57 UTC

  Falklands in agenda of Fernandez bilateral meeting with Johnson at G7

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez confirmed that this Monday afternoon, at the G7 summit in Munich he will be holding a fifteen minutes bilateral talk with UK prime minister Boris Johnson in which he plans to bring up the issue of the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Uruguay Congress Falklands declaration expected first week of July; differences on the term 'usurpation'

  

  The Uruguayan parliament is expected to make a legislative declaration relative to the Falkland Islands conflict and the 40th anniversary of the war during the first week of July. The initiative was presented by the opposition catch-all coalition (Broad Front) in April, but the final decision has been delayed since the senior member of the ruling coalition which supports president Luis Lacalle Pou, does not agree with the wording.

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Argentina demands UK flagged vessels with toothfish licenses in South Georgia be listed as IUU

  

  British flagged fishing vessels are illegally operating in South Georgia waters, with illegitimate licenses awarded by the United Kingdom, and outside of the multilateral agreement which rules operations in those fisheries, according to a formal complaint from the Argentine foreign ministry made public.

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  US Navy WWII sunken warship found off The Philippines

  

  The remains of the USS Samuel B. Roberts, a warship sunk during World War II, have been found at record depths in the Pacific Ocean, it was reported during the weekend.