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Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:20:00 GMT
Historic event: Stanley, City status proclamation to a round of applause from some 400 Falkland Islanders
Continuing with the Liberation Day celebrations on Tuesday 14 June 2022, the Falkland Islands community gathered in the Town Hall for the formal presentation by the Governor of the Letters of Patent granting Stanley, City Statu...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:06:00 GMT
HMS Forth, permanent presence in the Falklands, and South Atlantic naval guardian
HMS Forth, naval guardians of the Falklands have spoken of their pride of patrolling the Islands at keeping the eternal flame of 1982 burning. As such they joined the Falklands' fortieth anniversary of liberation and end of th...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:51:00 GMT
Satellite images and artificial intelligence systems facilitate whales census and conservation work
A new dataset featuring hundreds of satellite images of whales has been published to support the development of artificial intelligence systems which will aid crucial conservation work.

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:39:00 GMT
Brazil's central bank raises Selic rate to 13,75%, hoping to contain inflation
Brazil's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the 11th straight time on Wednesday, bringing the Selic rate to 13,75%, in an attempt to contain inflation in Latin America’s biggest economy.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:40:00 GMT
Paraguay's opposition agrees to endorse joint presidential candidate
Leaders of Paraguay's opposition have announced they will run together for the presidency in 2023 with a ticket yet to be defined, under what is known in local electoral law as a "concertación" (a group of various political fo...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:38:00 GMT
Ecuadorian indigenist leader released from jail
An Ecuadorian judge has ordered the release from custody of indigenist leader Leónidas Iza after spending almost 24 hours in a detention facility.

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:36:00 GMT
Canada, Denmark agree on territorial dispute over Arctic island
Canada and Denmark have agreed on a mechanism to settle a sovereignty dispute over Hans' Island, an uninhabitable 1.2-square-kilometer territory in the Arctic Ocean which will be split into two roughly equal parts using a natur...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 10:15:00 GMT
“People everywhere have a right to decide their own future,” PM Johnson at Falklands' Liberation ceremony
At a ceremony Tuesday morning held at Staffordshire's National Memorial Arboretum, British prime minister Boris Johnson praised the daring bravery of Veterans, recalling that on the very day, exactly forty years ago, British so...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 10:07:00 GMT
Uruguayan Defense Minister to be summoned over 747 case
Uruguayan lawmakers of the opposition Frente Amplio (FA - Broad Front) Tuesday announced they would summon Defense Minister Javier García before Congress' Defense Committee to explain why he had banned from national airspace t...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 10:05:00 GMT
Gibraltar government officials meet with C24 Chair
Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, together with the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia, met privately with the Chair of the United Nations Committee of 24, Ambassador Keisha McGuire, (Grenada), at the UN headquarters...



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