International

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 21:29 UTC

  Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader and father of Perestroika, has died at 91

  

  The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  UK tells India, “Britain has no doubts about Falklands sovereignty,” and Islanders right to self determination

  

  Days after India extended support to Argentina's campaign to restart international negotiations on the Falkland Islands sovereignty claim in the South Atlantic, a British official on Monday said there was “no doubt” about the United Kingdom's sovereignty over the Islands.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  India prepared to eliminate UK components from Tejas jet fighter, of interest for Argentina

  

  On Monday's piece on the visit of Indian External Affairs minister Dr. S. Jaishankar to Buenos Aires we reported the interest of Argentina to strengthen bilateral defense links and cooperation, and at the same time its interest in the fully made Tejas jet fighter to equip the Argentine Air Force.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  F-16s for Argentina, --and convincing UK--, US strategy to contain Chinese influence in the South Atlantic

  

  An article published by the United States Naval Institute, USNI, a private, professional military think-tank which since 1873 provides independent ideas for debating US defense issues, has revealed that Washington, fearful of China's advance in South America, offered back in 2020, surplus Danish F-16A/Bs both to Colombia and Argentina, and is “negotiating with the UK to approve the sale”.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  German consul in Rio charged with husband's murder

  

  Germany's Consul in Rio de Janeiro Uwe Herbert Hahn has been formally indicted Monday for the August 5 murder of his husband, the Belgian national Walter Henri Maximilien Biot, in the couple's apartment.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 20:47 UTC

  Uruguay chosen by WHO for hepatitis B and C program

  

  Uruguayan authorities have announced that as of next month healthcare facilities will be surveyed to detect the presence of hepatitis B and C in order to provide input for the development and adjustment of policies regarding these maladies and meet World Health Organization (WHO) requirements to reduce the number of infected people by 2030.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:24 UTC

  India reports Argentina's interest in Indian fighter aircraft, bilateral trade in local currencies and BRICS

  

  Argentina has shown interest in buying India’s fully indigenous Tejas fighter jets, and on Saturday agreed to strengthen defense and trade ties with India. On that very day India’s External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and host minister Santiago Cafiero issued a joint press statement, according to a release from the New Delhi delegation visiting South America.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  “The Arctic is strategic for NATO”; US going to appoint its first ambassador to the polar region

  

  “The Arctic is of great importance for NATO,” and the Western alliance must give priority to its military presence in the polar region, NATO's chief Jens Stoltenberg said in a Sunday interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. The interview comes when Washington is set to appoint its first Arctic ambassador and Russia's increasing military activity in the Arctic..

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  UN fails to approve the High Seas Treaty to protect oceans and marine life

  

  Negotiations on a High Seas Treaty to protect marine life, at the United Nations in New York were suspended on Saturday after diplomats failed to reach an agreement at the end of the fifth round of talks.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Over 25,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel so far this year, BBC report

  

  Over 25,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel to Kent so far in 2022, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Defense. while a total of 915 people reached Kent in 19 small boats on Saturday, according to a report from BBC. Women and children were among a group brought ashore by an RNLI lifeboat at Dungeness.