Politics

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 09:41 UTC

  Royal Navy incorporates state of the art mine hunting operations vessel

  

  A specialist ship bought to support Royal Navy mine-hunting operations – a mother ship to launch drones to find and destroy undersea threats – has arrived in Plymouth. When deployed, the platform will support the safeguarding of UK waters from the threat of mines at sea, operating a range of uncrewed systems that will help keep personnel at a safe distance.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 09:34 UTC

  Bolsonaro applies for six-month tourist US visa

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has applied for a tourist visa to stay in the United States for another six months, it was reported Monday.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  In three years of Brexit, migration in UK trebled, June 21/22

  

  The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that the country had a net migration gain of 504,000 people between June 2021 and June 2022. That number was nearly triple the 173,000 registered the year prior.

• Monday, January 30th 2023 - 23:38 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government strongly condemns Argentina’s decision to refuse permission for Brazilian airlink

  

  In a Monday release, the Falkland Islands government condemned Argentina's refusal of over flight permission for the air link with Brazil and accused Buenos Aires of denying the Islands self-determination, ”enforcing sanctions on our people and another attempt to isolate us from South America and impede our economic development.”

• Monday, January 30th 2023 - 17:16 UTC

  Mapuche rebel Jones Huala arrested in Argentine Patagonia

  

  Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) leader Facundo Jones Huala has been arrested by Río Negro provincial police in the Argentine city of El Bolsón after being a fugitive from Chile's Judiciary since Feb. 11, 2022.

• Monday, January 30th 2023 - 11:18 UTC

  Tourism and mining industries cutting operations in Peru because of political protests

  

  The tourism industry and mining corporations in Peru are suspending or cancelling operations because of the escalating political protests in the country with dozens of people killed in clashes with security forces.

• Monday, January 30th 2023 - 11:10 UTC

  Boric and Scholz review human rights and clean energy

  

  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Santiago this past weekend from Argentina and met with Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font at the La Moneda Palace. Both leaders discussed bilateral issues in what was their second encounter after the one in September last in New York during the 77th UN General Assembly.

• Monday, January 30th 2023 - 11:07 UTC

  Universal Periodic Review of human rights: UK statement on Argentina

  

  The UK's International Ambassador for Human Rights, Rita French, gave the following statement during Argentina’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council:

• Monday, January 30th 2023 - 11:03 UTC

  National Trans Visibility Day celebrated in Brazil

  

  Members of Brazil's LGBT+ movements and of the transsexual and transvestite community celebrated National Trans Visibility Day with parades nationwide, the largest two being in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, it was reported.

• Monday, January 30th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

  Fernández and Scholz discuss Ukraine, climate change, and energy resources

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met Saturday at the Palacio San Martín (Foreign Ministry) in Buenos Aires, during the first stop of the South American tour of the European leader, who was scheduled to travel to Chile and Brazil.