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  • Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:16 UTC

    UK Forces News, Armed Forces alert to the new kind of warfare

    Defense Secretary John Healey said he was confident in the kit the Armed Forces are equipped with. “Really what has been going on is still emerging – unique circumstances in Lebanon.”

    The triggering of hundreds of pagers to kill or maim members of the militant group Hezbollah has raised concerns about the UK's own military supply chain and the use of smart-phones.

  • Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:14 UTC

    Exploding pagers, what do we know what really happened

    To maximize the damage, Mossad reportedly sent a message alert to the pagers less than a minute before the actual “explode” command

    By Gwynne Dyer

    The exploding pagers that killed at least 12 people and injured 2 800 others in Lebanon and adjacent places on Tuesday were mostly just a new wrinkle on the exploding cell-phones that Israel has used to assassinate its opponents in the past, but there was one major innovation.

  • Monday, September 23rd 2024 - 08:02 UTC

    HMS Protector involved in practicing boarding operations with navies from four countries

    US, Chilean, Mexican, Colombian and UK teams practice boarding ops during Exercise Unitas

    Ice Patrol HMS Protector has provided the perfect training platform during Exercise Unitas, the world's longest-running multinational maritime exercise. Teams from the UK, US, Chile, Mexico and Colombia used the Royal Navy's ice patrol ship for practicing boarding operations, where personnel move between vessels.

  • Saturday, September 21st 2024 - 10:28 UTC

    X appoints legal representative in Brazil

    Lawyer Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova was chosen by Musk's company for the position

    Tycoon Elon Musk's social media network X appointed a legal representative in Brazil as requested by Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes just before the deadline 9.29 pm deadline, Agencia Brasil reported. The company chose Lawyer Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova for the position.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:00 UTC

    Haitian gov't announces security measures for merchant ships sailing to and from Port-au-Prince

    Conille's government is faced with shipping companies threatening to halt operations in the country as gangs favor smuggling to formal foreign trade

    Haitian authorities have announced that merchant ships will be escorted then entering a leaving Port-au-Prince given the mounting insecurity in the Caribbean country. Interim Prime Minister Garry Conille made this decision after four ships left to avoid gang violence.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 09:04 UTC

    Argentine woman in England killed by her son

    Juliana had moved to England at the age of 20

    A 48-year-old Mar del Plata-born woman living in England was shot dead at her Luton home. The perpetrator appears to have been her 18-year-old son who would have also killed his two siblings. The suspect, named Nicholas Prosper, has been placed in custody. At the time of his detention some 600 meters from the crime scene he was still in possession of the gun used to assassinate Juliana Falcón, her son Kyle (16), and her daughter Giselle (13).

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 18:49 UTC

    European Parliament says González Urrutia is Venezuela's President-elect

    González Urrutia said he would continue to work for a democratic Venezuela from abroad and hoped to be back in his country in January for his intended inauguration

    The European Parliament Thursday recognized Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate winner of Venezuela's July 28 controversial presidential elections at which the incumbent Nicolás Maduro claims to have prevailed. Strasbourg reached this decision with 309 votes in favor, 201 against and 12 abstentions. Disenfranchised politician María Corina Machado has also been recognized as leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 14:12 UTC

    Israel reopens Embassy in Asunción

    From left to right: Magen, Peña, and Ohana cut the traditional ribbon during Wednesday's ceremony

    Israel reopened its Embassy in Asunción after six years Wednesday in a ceremony attendedd by President Santiago Peña, Foreign Minister Ruben Ramírez Lezcano, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, and Israel's Ambassador to Uruguay and Paraguay Yoed Magen, among other high-ranking dignitaries. The mission had been closed in 2018 after then-President Mario Abdo Benítez moved the Paraguayan Embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 07:56 UTC

    Harland & Wolff shipbuilders will initiate administration proceedings

    The Titanic under construction at a Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. The ship hit an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912.

    Loss making Belfast shipbuilder Harland & Wolff, the firm that among other great vessels built the Titanic, has declared itself insolvent after failing to secure funding to continue trading, and will be initiating administration proceedings.

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 07:35 UTC

    Bank of England decides on interest rate; UK August consumer inflation, 2,2%

    This Thursday the Bank of England meets to decide on interest rates which stand at 5%, and are expected to remain unchanged

    Consumer inflation in UK during August remained at an annual 2,2%, helped by lower fuel prices together with hotels and restaurant services, as reported by the Office of National Statistics, ONS Wednesday.