Politics

Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 09:02 UTC
Falklands Conservation tracking Southern Right Whales

As part of the Darwin Plus funded project (DPLUS126), Falklands Conservation are aiming to deploy up to 10 satellite tags on southern right whales during the winters of 2022 and 2023. The research questions for southern right whales mean that Falklands Conservation scientists will use two different types of tags:
Monday, August 1st 2022 - 21:07 UTC
Paraguay has only 83 park rangers; it needs 5,000

Paraguayan authorities have admitted they only had 83 properly trained park rangers to guard some 2.4 million protected hectares, way below international standards of one for every 500 hectares.
Monday, August 1st 2022 - 20:38 UTC
CFK's links with Báez proven beyond doubt, Argentine prosecution claims

Argentine Prosecutor Diego Luciani Monday claimed there was “enormous relevant evidence” against current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and 12 other defendants in a corruption case regarding public works in the province of Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015.
Monday, August 1st 2022 - 16:51 UTC
Royal Navy incorporates experimental ship to test state-of-the-art technology

An experimental warship has been unveiled by the Royal Navy to be used to test state-of-the-art technology, including autonomous systems. The unique new test-bed ship – a 42m, 270-ton vessel named after former Royal Navy sailor and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Blackett – arrived in Portsmouth this week.
Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:40 UTC
Falklands peaty soil spread in the main ring of the Palermo cattle show in Buenos Aires

The main Argentine agriculture and business show is annually held on the grounds of Palermo, since Saturday in its major ring where the best cattle, sheep, and horses of the event are paraded, has in the center peaty soil from the Falkland Islands.
Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:30 UTC
Venezuela's Conviasa starts weekly flights to Tehran

Venezuela's increasingly deeper ties with Iran have resulted in flag carrier Conviasa starting nonstop services to Tehran once a week as of Sunday, it was announced.
Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:23 UTC
Paraguayan President pledges to up intelligence funding

Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez last week announced he would up funding for the National Intelligence Secretariat (SNI), an agency created in 2018. Abdo justified his move on the body's precarious budget, due to which it relies on foreign cooperation to fulfill its mission.
Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:22 UTC
Argentine seminar of South Atlantic fishery challenges and the “Malvinas Question”

The legal and political challenges in the South Atlantic fishery, particularly those related to the fishing activities neighboring Argentina's EEZ, and implications of the Falklands/Malvinas Question were the central discussion of a seminar held at the Argentine foreign ministry.
Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:15 UTC
Two killed unprovokedly by UN peacekeepers in Congo

Congolese authorities have taken action Sunday after two people were killed by fire stemming from the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the violence-torn African country, it was announced Sunday.
Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:42 UTC
New Zealand fully reopens borders to build back from COVID isolation

The Government of New Zealand has fully reopened its borders effective August 1 to foreign visitors, thus ending the sanitary restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic. The South Pacific country had one of the toughest travel regimes imposed on health grounds globally. Before Covid-19, tourism accounted for 5.5% of New Zealand's GDP.