International

• Monday, July 1st 2024 - 18:20 UTC

  Bolivia says BA's remarks regarding coup were “unfriendly and reckless”

  

  Bolivia's Foreign Ministry Monday said that comments from the Office of Argentine President Javier Milei on the June 26 attempted coup d'état in La Paz were “unfriendly” and “reckless.” Casa Rosada had contended that the military uprising had been staged and therefore calling it a revolt was a “false denunciation.”

• Monday, July 1st 2024 - 09:32 UTC

  French far-right party on the brink of forming gov't

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron called on all non-rightwing supporters to rally against the Rassemblement National party of Marine LePen winning Sunday's snap first-round parliamentary elections. In any case, the head of state announced he would not be resigning. These political events unfold just days before the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

• Monday, July 1st 2024 - 08:44 UTC

  Lord Ahmad, “The UK has no doubt about Falkland Islanders right to self determination”

  

  Lord Ahmad, UK Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Commonwealth, and United Nations, addressed the 54th regular session of the OAS general assembly in Asunción, Paraguay.

• Saturday, June 29th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  OAS General Assembly salutes Argentina's stance regarding Malvinas and issues Declaration of Asunción

  

  The 54th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) concluded Friday in the Paraguayan capital with the Declaration of Asunción, a document promoting the elimination of violence against women and girls, the fight against climate change, and the fight against organized crime.

• Friday, June 28th 2024 - 23:41 UTC

  The whistleblowers a free, well informed world most needs

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is a free man at last after spending almost all of the past 14 years in jail or other forms of confinement. He has just arrived home in Australia to be greeted by his family, including two young sons who have never seen him except in Belmarsh Prison in London. But it is the bad guys who won.

• Friday, June 28th 2024 - 08:12 UTC

  3 fun activities you can do from your smartphone

  

  You will never find yourself bored with nothing to do if you have your trusted smartphone with you. There are an endless amount of exciting activities you can do from your smartphone. This article is going to give you just 3 of these fun activities that you can do from your smartphone that you can try out whenever you feel boredom coming your way.

• Thursday, June 27th 2024 - 20:39 UTC

  Falklands MLAs in US and Canada, including “moving the dial at C24” on self determination

  

  The Falklands team has ended its successful tour and contacts in Canada, following on a very busy June in the US holding meetings with members of the US Congress, State Department, and NGOs, plus the annual farce of the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, or C24, where its members, many of them with governments in open violation of the UN charter principles, particularly when it comes to human rights and peoples' rights, have the time to openly support Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, June 27th 2024 - 19:24 UTC

  Denmark plans to tackle animal gas emissions with a livestock tax

  

  Denmark's coalition government agreed this week to tax livestock owners the equivalent of US$96 per head per year from 2030 due to greenhouse gases produced by animal flatulence, Tax Minister Jeppe Bruus announced. The move on cows, pigs, and sheep is expected to result in a 70% reduction from 1990 levels by the end of the decade on the path to carbon neutrality, Bruus explained. “We will take a big step towards climate neutrality in 2045,” he emphasized. The tax is expected to be approved by Parliament later this year.

• Wednesday, June 26th 2024 - 19:08 UTC

  Assange lands in Canberra after 14-year ordeal

  

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finally landed in his native Australia after completing a series of formalities with US authorities in the Mariana Islands. But it was his wife Stella who spoke to the press to celebrate his arrival after a 14-year ordeal which included a spell at Ecuador's Embassy in London plus a stay at the Belmarsh maximum security prison in the British capital. Assange was expected to appear in front of the media after arriving in Canberra on a private flight from Saipan.

• Wednesday, June 26th 2024 - 09:12 UTC

  Falklands Museum Sea Harrier and Lynx Helicopter presented in UK media

  

  Forces.net, a UK armed forces platform has published that a Royal Navy Sea Harrier and a Lynx helicopter – a combat veteran of the Falklands War – have completed their 8,000-mile journey to the Falkland Islands. The Sea Harrier ZH801 and Lynx XZ725 were taken by road on the final leg of their trip to Stanley where they will become main exhibits in the city's museum.