International

Wednesday, October 28th 2020 - 09:06 UTC
Guyana extends Noble Corporation drillship rig contract 6,5 years to August 2030

Noble Corporation plc's ultra-deepwater drillship Noble Tom Madden has received about 6.5 years of additional contract term under the commercial enabling agreement (CEA) with ExxonMobil for work offshore Guyana.
Wednesday, October 28th 2020 - 09:00 UTC
China takes 51,4% more soybeans from Brazil than in September last year

China imported 51,4% more Brazilian soy during September, than in the same month a year ago according to a release from the Chinese Customs on 25 October. Brazil exported 7.25 million tons of oilseed to China in September compared to 4.79 million tons in the same period in 2019, according to the agency.
Wednesday, October 28th 2020 - 08:40 UTC
Argentina and Pakistan sign MoU to promote trade and technological cooperation

Pakistan and Argentina signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Sanitary and Phytosanitary issues, during a ceremony conducted in Buenos Aires with the purpose of promoting and sponsoring trade in animals, plants, and by-products, as well as technical cooperation.
Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 09:30 UTC
Argentina calls for “solidarity multilateralism” at UN meeting

Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Sola on Monday called on Latin American and Caribbean countries to embrace “solidarity multilateralism” to overcome the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:49 UTC
The Atlantic ocean first 200 meters water layer holds 12 to 21 million tons of micro plastic waste

Researchers have made micro plastic measurements in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. In the first 200 meters of the water layer, they estimate that there are approximately 12 to 21 million tons of waste.
Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:41 UTC
Falklands awards extension of oil licenses until 2022 to Borders & Southern

Oil company Borders & Southern Petroleum said it has been granted an extension to its Falkland Islands licenses.
Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:35 UTC
NASA confirms for the first time water on the sunlit surface of the Moon

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places.
Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:25 UTC
Falklands and privateer/pirate captain David Jewett 1820 adventure

In response to Argentina’s planned commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the visit to the Falklands by the privateer captain David Jewett in 1820 and his purported “taking of possession” of the Islands for Argentina, historian Graham Pascoe has released the paper ‘David Jewett’s visit to the Falklands, 1820-21: no valid “possession-taking.” Dr. Pascoe notes in his abstract that before David Jewett arrived he had captured a neutral Portuguese ship, and he captured another neutral US ship in the Islands.
Monday, October 26th 2020 - 09:18 UTC
US Coast Guard will increase presence in the Pacific to contain the threat of China's IUU fishing

US national security adviser said the US Coast Guard (USCG) was basing Enhanced Response Cutters in the western Pacific for maritime security missions, citing illegal fishing and harassment of vessels by China.
Monday, October 26th 2020 - 08:55 UTC
Leopoldo López arrives in Madrid; Maduro accuses the Spanish ambassador of assisting a “terrorist”

After more than six years in confinement, Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López is a free man and has been reunited with his family in Madrid. López arrived Sunday in the Spanish capital following what aides described as a whirlwind escape from the Spanish ambassador's residence in Caracas where he had been holed up since leading a failed U.S.-backed military putsch against Nicolas Maduro in April 2019.