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  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Praise for Milei’s stabilization program: IDB approves 2 billion dollars in loans for Argentina

    The loans will assist the country in key measures to strengthen public finances, energy sector sustainability, and child development

    The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Executive Board approved four operations, totaling over 2 billion US dollars to support Argentina's strategy to promote fiscal sustainability and lay the groundwork for sustainable and equitable growth. The loans will assist the country in key measures to strengthen public finances, energy sector sustainability, and child development. Additionally, the IDB will support the City of Buenos Aires in improving access to public health services.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 09:20 UTC

    Pope Francis wants South Atlantic to remain a region of peace

    Mayor Pérez held an interesting talk with the “Pope from the End of the World” regarding the South Atlantic's importance

    Pope Francis, the Argentine-born leader of the Catholic Church, urged Rio Grande Mayor Martín Pérez Wednesday in a private audience to defend with “much strength” the sovereignty of the South Atlantic and continue “working for peace” in that area, it was reported Thursday. The Pontiff highlighted the region's fundamental role in the “balance of the Common Home.”

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 08:47 UTC

    The grand finale for JMC 2024, with PM Starmer and King Charles

    King Charles III and Camila at the Diplomatic Corps Reception

    It was a grand finale for the two days Joint Ministerial Council held in London between the democratic representatives from Britain’s Overseas Territories and the new UK government’s cabinet ministers, chaired by Foreign minister Stephen Doughty. In effect, Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the group at the end of the event, reaffirming his government’s commitment to the OTs and the principle, “nothing about you, without you”. The Prime Minister also mentioned the Falkland Islands, when remembering his family’s despair during the 1982 war, after HMS Antilope went down with much loss of lives, and hours later it was reported that Starmer’s mother brother, miraculously survived.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 08:27 UTC

    A must see, ‘Our Oceans,’ a Bewitching Natatory Experience narrated by Barack Obama

    Images are courtesy of Netflix

    The following article, written by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi for CinemaDailyUS refers to the spectacular Netflix film on “Our Oceans”, which is a must see.

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 19:38 UTC

    French supermarket chain to halt sales of Mercosur meat to boycott FTA

    Mercosur meat might “flood the French market with meat that does not meet its requirements and standards,” Carrefour's CEO feared

    Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard announced this week that his company would not be selling meat imported from the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) in a move to prevent the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union from pulling through. France's largest supermarket planned on suspending meat imports from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay “in solidarity with the agricultural sector.”

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 13:43 UTC

    ICC issues arrest warrants against Israel's PM and others

    The measure was in acquiescense to Chief Prosecutor Karin Khan's request filed back in May

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) Thursday issued arrest warrants against
    Israel's Primer Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as well as Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif, for crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, it was announced at The Hague. The measure was in acquiescense to Chief Prosecutor Karin Khan's request filed back in May. Khan had also sought warrants for two other senior Hamas figures, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, who have since been killed by Israeli forces.

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    UK to ax amphibious assault ships, a frigate 31 helicopters and obsolete drones

    Defense Secretary John Healy addressing the Commons and announcing plans to save £500m over five years

    Two former Royal Navy flagships, a frigate and a pair of RFA support tankers will be decommissioned under a series of cost-saving measures announced on Wednesday to the House of Commons by Defense Secretary John Healey.

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    The astonishing sagacity and intelligence of Falklands Caracaras revealed in an IFLScience report

    The Striated caracaras will eat whatever is going on, including penguins (and their eggs) and seal pups

    Scientists challenging the problem-solving capacities of rare birds of prey on the Falkland Islands have found them astonishingly quick to learn when food is on offer – and remember those skills a year later. The finding supports Darwin’s assessment of the birds’ remarkable intelligence when he visited during the voyage of the Beagle, and also shows the sorts of intelligence we most admire are more widespread among birds than has previously been acknowledged.

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:55 UTC

    The Gibraltar Chapter of Abraham Accords launched by Picardo and Sir Liam Fox

    Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and former UK minister Sir Liam Fox, chairman of the Abraham Accords, make the announcement at the Rock

    The Gibraltar Chapter of the Abraham Accords Group was launched last week at the Rock, when Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo KC MP, welcomed Sir Liam Fox, Chairman of the Abraham Accords. Sir Liam was previously UK Secretary of State for International Trade from 2016 to 2019 and Secretary of State for Defense from 2010 to 2011. to No 6 Convent Place.

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:44 UTC

    Argentina gets IDB and WB loans

    These announcements are linked to Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo's participation last month in Washington at the WB annual meeting, it was reported

    Argentina's Libertarian Government has been granted loans from the World Bank (WB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) worth around US$ 4 billion, the Economy Ministry in Buenos Aires announced Wednesday. “The IDB and the World Bank approve financing for more than 4 billion dollars for projects in our country,” the ministry said in a statement.