Investments

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Magallanes Salmon Association: Tierra del Fuego's decision will have no repercussions for Chilean aquaculture

  

  Magallanes Region Salmon Breeders Association Carlos Odebret downplayed the repercussions for the Chilean aquaculture industry of the recent Argentine legislation banning salmon farms in Tierra del Fuego, adding that the industry in Chile has a thirty-year experience and situations are not comparable.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 07:09 UTC

  Suez Canal blockage: Egypt and Japanese company reach a deal to release vessel

  

  Egyptian authorities and Japan's Shoei Kisen Kaisha finally reached an agreement on compensations for Suez canal lost revenues and the cost of salvaging a huge vessel that blocked the crucial waterway linking Asia with Europe.

• Friday, July 2nd 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Argentine navy incorporates its second OPV, ARA Piedrabuena

  

  Argentina's latest Ocean Patrol Vessel, OPV, ARA Piedrabunea (P52), arrived at Mar del Plata where it was received in a ceremony headed by defence minister Agustín Rossi, the head of the Navy V/A Julio Horacio Guardia plus top military and government officials

• Friday, July 2nd 2021 - 07:06 UTC

  Bezos flying to space with a woman pilot, 82, trained to be an astronaut

  

  Aerospace company Blue Origin's owner Jeff Bezos will go to space with an 82-year-old woman pilot, the firm said Thursday. Wally Funk was one of the first women trained to fly to space but was denied astronaut wings decades ago because of her gender.

• Thursday, July 1st 2021 - 00:07 UTC

  Flying car lands successfully in Slovakia

  

  A Slovak-designed vehicle that can perform both as a car and an aeroplane completed an 80-kilometre stretch from Nitra to Bratislava and eventually left the airport into the streets of the country's capital.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Floods and droughts mean yearly losses worth US $ 1 billion for Argentina, says World Bank

  

  A new report titled “Impact of Climate Crisis on Poverty and the Argentine macroeconomy” points out the serious consequences of the impact of climate change on the Argentine economy, mainly due to losses caused by floods and droughts, the World Bank announced Tuesday.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 00:18 UTC

  Volkswagen goes electric and ends making internal combustion engines in 2035

  

  Germany's Volkswagen will no longer make cars with internal combustion engines in Europe by 2035, a board member said. The announcement comes as carmakers in Europe face mounting pressure to combat climate change and curb emissions under new EU regulations

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 00:16 UTC

  With no budget by Thursday, UN peacekeeping missions to be frozen

  

  United Nations has instructed peacekeeping missions “to make contingency plans” to leave since no agreement has been reached for the financial year beginning July first, and which could lead to a freeze of activities, diplomats revealed. The roadblock allegedly stems from China and African countries making multiple last-minute requests.

• Tuesday, June 29th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  History of corruption and bribes behind doomed Florida building reported

  

  The developers of the building which collapsed last week in Southern Florida were under investigation for allegedly bribing local officials to get the permit to build the condominium which has left around 10 people confirmed dead plus some 150 others yet unaccounted for.

• Tuesday, June 29th 2021 - 07:18 UTC

  Eastern lifts Guayaquil route from Miami but JetBlue adds flights from New York

  

  US carrier Eastern Airlines, which started the nonstop Miami-Montevideo route just last week, has announced that as of July it will be lifting flights to Guayaquil until further notice.