Politics

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 22:00 UTC

  Ecuador's native groups to up protests after leader was arrested

  

  Ecuador's Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) Tuesday launched an appeal to up protests against the government of President Guillermo Lasso by staging “a great indigenous and popular revolt.”

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 21:56 UTC

  Venezuela further below oil output target

  

  Venezuela's oil output production fell 5% from May of 2022 to the previous month, according to the latest Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) released Tuesday.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:57 UTC

  Falklands War: end of hostilities, General Menendez surrenders to Major General Jeremy Moore

  

  With the capture of Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Sapper Hill the Falkland Islands conflict was effectively over and at 2100 hours on the 14th June 1982 the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, General Mario Menendez, surrendered to Major General Jeremy Moore.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:31 UTC

  Argentina had been tipped there was something strange with the Emtrasur 747

  

  The Governments of Paraguay and Uruguay had alerted Argentina about the Iranian crew flying the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 cargo airplane now seized at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  That’s a fine mess you got out of, Stanley

  

  By Graham Bound for MercoPress – Images of Stanley captured in 1982 compared with photos taken from the same vantage points 40 years on, show a town – now a city – transformed.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  Mercosur again divided on Ukraine conflict, Argentina and Brazil not in a WTO list condemning “aggression”

  

  Over 50 WTO members agreed a statement at the WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), in full support of Ukraine, and condemning “aggression”. However, Mercosur was divided on the issue, while Uruguay and Paraguay figured among the over fifty, Argentina and Brazil were absent.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Foreign Office and leading Scotland universities launch a new think tank, Scottish Council for Global Affairs

  

  Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has hailed the launch of new think tank, the Scottish Council for Global Affairs (SCGA), at an event in London. The Secretary of State spoke at an event hosted by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) at its historic Lancaster House venue – giving top global affairs experts from Scotland an opportunity to meet with representatives of governments from all over the world.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  The status of 'city' granted to Stanley by the Queen, another Argentine complaint in the next C24, June 23

  

  Next June 23 Argentina will renew its request before the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, for the United Kingdom to resume negotiations on the Falklands/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute, which have been suspended for forty years following the South Atlantic conflict.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Another FARC dissident leader gunned down

  

  Colombian President Iván Duque Monday reported a dangerous dissident FARC leader had been gunned down by national forces in Suárez, Cauca.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 08:25 UTC

  Falklands issues 50p coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth

  

  A brand new 50p coin to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been issued on behalf of the Falkland Islands government, by the Pobjoy Mint.