Politics

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 20:48 UTC

  Colombia: Survey shows Hernández two points ahead of Petro

  

  Colombia's surprising runner-up in last Sunday's elections Rodolfo Hernández is poised to become the country's next president, according to a survey conducted by the Centro Nacional de Consultoría.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentina switches on new radar to monitor South Atlantic airspace

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana presided over the entry into operation of an air surveillance and control radar in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego. The equipment (model RPA -170M) was designed and built entirely in Argentina.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:27 UTC

  Calls for Bachelet's resignation from UN human rights agency pile up

  

  A leading scholar from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and other human rights watchdogs have called for the resignation of the former two-time president of Chile Michelle Bachelet her total lack of criticism of China's record on the issue.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  Falklands war: Argentina insists HMS Invincible was hit by an Exocet; Taiana recalls the joint navy/air force mission

  

  While in Tierra del Fuego Argentine defense minister Jorge Taiana participated with Malvinas War Veterans of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the joint operation attack on the Royal Navy's carrier, HMS Invincible, while again condemning UK for the “illegitimate” occupation of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Texas shootings: Norway and Finland have similar levels of gun ownership, but far less gun crime

  

  By Peter Squire, Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton – In the wake of the most recent US mass school shooting in Uvalde School, Texas, where 19 pupils and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old armed with an assault rifle, a comparison considering how the US compares with other countries on children’s deaths caused by guns is compelling.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Queen's Platinum Jubilee: The military's role in the celebrations

  

  A close look at the military's role this weekend as the Queen prepares to become the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. Nearly 2,000 members of the Armed Forces will make a major contribution to the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations this week.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  At Falklands Thursday sunset, Queen's Platinum Jubilee Beacon will be lit

  

  Falkland Islands Chief Fire Officer announced spectators are invited and are welcome to the lighting of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Beacon which will take place at Moody Brook on the site of the old Hovercraft slipway and hangar at 16:51 on June 2nd.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  Crown coin commemorating the Liberation of the Falklands for every child in the Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands Commissioners of Currency and the 40th Anniversary Committee are delighted to announce the issue of a Crown Coin to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Colombia: Coal miner dies, other 14 trapped inside after explosion

  

  Miner Fabio Cáceres García died Tuesday as a result of “an explosion of methane and coal dust” in El Zulia in eastern Colombia, while 14 other workers remained trapped, it was reported.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Nicaragua's Parliament bans Language Academy and 82 other NGOs

  

  Nicaragua's legal assembly has approved with no debate Sandinista Deputy Filiberto Rodríguez's bill to outlaw the Language Academy and 82 other NGOs which, according to the Ministry of the Interior (Mingob), have failed to comply with financial regulations regarding donations from abroad.