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  • Tuesday, January 4th 2022 - 05:44 UTC

    The “Expulsion Myth” – Argentina’s Greatest Historical Falsehood

    The ruins of the warehouse at Port Egmont, where Commodore Byron claimed the Falklands for Britain in January 1765

    Falkland Islands Association - Britain did not expel an Argentine population in January 1833 when Britain re-asserted its sovereignty in the Falklands. But no piece of Argentine propaganda has been more successful than its falsehood that Britain expelled an “Argentine population”.

  • Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 21:53 UTC

    Kenyan paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey dies at age 77

    Leakey's most notorious discovery was that of the Turkana Boy in 1984

    Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, whose surname is tantamount to the origins of mankind, has died Sunday at his native Nairobi, it was announced. He was 77.

  • Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 09:50 UTC

    Belgian station in Antarctica hit by COVID-19 infections

    The current International Polar Foundation research season has been already cut short and two campaigns have been postponed

    Although Project Manager Joseph Cheek said the situation was “not dramatic,” at least 16 of the 25 workers at Belgium's Princess Elisabeth polar station have tested positive for COVID-19 and the whole staff will remain isolated until Jan. 12, it was reported.

  • Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 09:20 UTC

    The Euro at 20

    The ECB has helped quell Euro zone exit speculation, ensuring that borrowers in all member states have access to similarly priced credit

    By Jean Pisani-Ferry (*) – Twenty years ago, on January 1, 2002, citizens of 12 European countries began using new euro banknotes and coins. A larger-than-life project – emblematic of a time when European leaders were bold enough to step into the unknown – thus became a tangible reality.

  • Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 09:19 UTC

    China cuts subsidies to the manufacture of electric vehicles

    The subsidies will definitively be eliminated by the end of 2022

    China has announced it will cut subsidies for green energy vehicles such as electric cars by 30%, beginning January this year. A release from the Ministry of Finance said that the subsidies policy, NEV 2022 will be definitively closed by 31 December 2022.

  • Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 09:13 UTC

    Nobody hurt as South Africa's Parliament burns

    Ramaphosa spoke of his sadness at “this destruction of the home of our democracy”

    South Africa's Parliament building in Cape Town was severely deteriorated by a huge fire Sunday. Although nobody has been reported injured, the event has sparked national security concerns. A suspect has been arrested. Firefighters worked for hours to extinguish the blaze.

  • Friday, December 31st 2021 - 18:15 UTC

    Boris Johnson celebrates success of vaccine program in New Year's message

    “Get that jab and do something that will make 2022 a happy New Year for us all”.

    British Prime Minister will deliver his New Year’s message today (Friday 31 December) where he will celebrate the achievements of the vaccination program over the last year with over 7 in 10 eligible adults in England boosted so far - an increase of 8 million top-up jabs (45%) since the target was brought forward on 12 December.

  • Friday, December 31st 2021 - 09:39 UTC

    Nicaragua hands over Taiwanese Embassy to Chinese authorities

    Ortega chose to side with China

    Nicaragua's Government has seized former Taiwan's Embassy in Managua and handed it over to China, which maintains the Asian island is nothing but a rogue province.

  • Friday, December 31st 2021 - 09:34 UTC

    France now tolerant to Britons willing to return to their EU countries of residence

    Britons are no longer citizens of the EU and need “compelling” reasons to drive through France, which has banned all non essential travel out of COVID-19 fear

    The Government of France Thursday announced it had decided to show some “tolerance” for Britons wishing to return to their homes elsewhere in the European Union, thus reversing a surprise ban that affected thousands of travelers on the grounds that they were no longer citizens of the EU and deserved no special treatment.

  • Friday, December 31st 2021 - 09:00 UTC

    South Africa loosens up COVID-19 restrictions

    New infections dropped by 29.7 percent last week

    South African health authorities have agreed to lift a midnight curfew after the number of omicron cases of COVID-19 was beginning to slow down, it was reported Thursday. South Africa is the country hardest hit by the coronavirus in Africa, with more than 3.4 million cases recorded and 91,000 deaths.