Politics

Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 07:56 UTC
Calendar of May events and commemorations of the Falklands War

Sunday May first
Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 07:54 UTC
Pope Francis admits to having a limp

Pope Francis welcomed a group of pilgrims Saturday and told them he would rather stand up but this time around he would have to pay attention to his doctors, who had advised him not to walk. “My leg is not well,” the Argentina-born 85-year-old Pontiff said.
Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 07:48 UTC
Former Cuban FM Ricardo Alarcón dead at age 84

Former Cuban Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Cuban National Assembly, Ricardo Alarcón died Saturday night in Havana, President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced Sunday. Alarcón was 84. He was a widower and is survived by a daughter and a grandson.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:58 UTC
Foradori/Duncan deal ignores Argentina: only reflects British interests in Malvinas, claims minister Taiana

Argentine Defense minister Jorge Taiana said that leaving aside former Deputy Foreign minister's alleged conduct during negotiations with British diplomats, --if proven true would be “shameful”--, what is really “serious, negative and disturbing” is that the joint communiqué put an end to Argentine sanctions on foreign companies involved in illegal fishing and oil exploration activities in Malvinas Islands with the authorization of British authorities.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:57 UTC
ARA Libertad to expose UK's 'disproportionate and provocative' military presence in Malvinas

Argentina plans to reaffirm its sovereign rights over the Falkland Islands and expose the 'disproportionate' British military presence in the Islands when the instruction tall ship ARA Libertad calls on different ports of the world.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Turkish FM signs bilateral agreements on his Caracas visit

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu Friday signed in Caracas a series of agreements between his country and Venezuela in areas such as financial economy, agriculture and fishing, tourism, sports, health and medicine, and education, it was announced.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Slowdown deepens in Latin America with regional growth forecasted at 1,8% this year, ECLAC report

The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean face a complex situation in 2022 because of the Russia/Ukraine war with its shadow of uncertainty for the world economy. This is negatively affecting global growth, and at regional level, lower expected growth will be accompanied by higher inflation and slower employment recovery.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:50 UTC
State of emergency declared in violence-torn Ecuadorian provinces

President Guillermo Lasso Friday decreed a state of emergency for two months in three of Ecuador's provinces where the crime rate has reached historic levels, it was announced.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:48 UTC
Major UK troop deployment in mainland Europe announced

UK defense authorities Friday confirmed they were deploying some 8,000 of its troops to continental Europe between April and June from Finland to North Macedonia in what is regarded as the largest movement of military resources since the Cold War.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Presidents Biden, López Obrador discuss migration over the phone

US President Joseph Biden and his Mexican colleague Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) were reported Friday to have had a “very constructive and cordial” telephone conversation, according to White House sources.