Politics

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Chile submits report on the extended continental shelf west of the Antarctic Peninsula

  

  The Chilean foreign minister Carolina Valdivia on Monday submitted to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf the report on the extended continental shelf to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. This is closely linked to Chile's role in scientific research and conservation issues.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  What will happen in the world wheat market if the Russia/Ukraine conflict is not over by June

  

  The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also caused major disruptions in the agricultural commodities' markets with soaring prices for wheat, corn, soybeans... and much speculation.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:01 UTC

  Turkey prepared to limit Russian warships transit between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean

  

  Turkey has said that the situation in Ukraine has become a “war”, a declaration that authorized Ankara to activate the Montreux Convention which limits Russian war vessels from entering the Black Sea, through the strategic straits of the Bosporus and Dardanelle which link with the Mediterranean.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  CFK decries double standards within UN Security Council regarding Ukraine and Falklands/Malvinas

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Sunday said Western powers had double standards when addressing the Ukraine crisis. The former head of state (2007-2015) recalled that in 2014 -under her presidency-, Argentina supported Kyiv against Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula by force.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:24 UTC

  Cristina Fernández de Kirchner still complaining about Falklands' 2013 referendum

  

  Argentina's main leader and vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recalled on Sunday in Twitter that her government strongly supported Ukraine back in 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, but also complained about the double standard of the “great powers” in their stance regarding the Falkland/Malvinas Islands issue.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:15 UTC

  Steel cutting ceremony to build multipurpose vessels for the Chilean navy

  

  Chilean president Sebastián Piñera headed on Sunday the steel cutting ceremony for the building of the first, --out of four--, multipurpose vessel, to be incorporated to the country's navy. Also present at the ceremony were Defense minister Baldo Prokurica and the commander in chief of the navy, Admiral Juan Andrés de la Maza.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 20:05 UTC

  South Africa becoming a welfare state, finance minister tells Congress

  

  South Africa’s new Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has told Congress the country was becoming a welfare state fast and he sought Parliamentarian approval for his first budget.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro finally reveals where Brazil will stand regarding Ukraine

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro finally made an explicit statement about his country’s stance regarding the Ukraine crisis following Russia’s invasion: The country shall remain “neutral.”

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Russia, Ukraine delegations to meet in Belarus

  

  Talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials are scheduled to start Monday at a venue on the Belarusian border, it was announced Sunday.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Prosecutors behind plot to overthrow Peru’s President?

  

  Peru’s President Pedro Castillo Terrones Sunday hinted the Prosecutor's Office might hold some sort of grudge on him and insisted it carried on with the ongoing investigations at the earliest.