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  • Tuesday, April 23rd 2024 - 06:32 UTC

    Namibia en route to becoming another Guyana oil discovery success story

    The Mopane field in offshore Namibia could contain some 10 billion barrels of oil.

    Portugal's oil company Galp Energia shares skyrocketed on Monday after the company announced that the first phase of its exploration in the Mopane field in offshore Namibia could contain some 10 billion barrels of oil.

  • Monday, April 22nd 2024 - 06:09 UTC

    Milei reinstates ambassador Foradori, who signed the Falklands 2016 Joint Communiqué

    Ambassador Carlos Foradori (R) and ex Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan

    An Argentine professional diplomat, who was vilified by the Kirchnerite political establishment for having signed during the mandate of ex-president Mauricio Macri (2015/2019), a Joint Communiqué with Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan in September 2016, has been reinstated as ambassador, head of the different organizations that function in Geneva, Switzerland.

  • Sunday, April 21st 2024 - 16:15 UTC

    Wreckwatch Magazine special issue calls for 'decolonization' of San José treasure ship

    Secrets of the San José Galleon, a Wreckwatch magazine special, is published on Saturday 20 April 2024. It is available for free from www.wreckwatchmag.com.

    Wreckwatch, the foremost publication dedicated to maritime archaeology, has released a groundbreaking special issue shedding light on the controversial history and future of the San José, a Spanish galleon lost off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, in 1708.

  • Friday, April 19th 2024 - 22:20 UTC

    Tierra del Fuego Governor angered by Falklands presence at tourism fair in Sao Paulo

    Melella also wants to file a protest before the organizers of the “WTM Latin America” event

    Governor Gustavo Melella of the Argentine Province of Tierra del Fuego which technically includes the the Falkland/Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands sent this week notes of protest regarding the “WTM Latin America” tourism fair in Sao Paulo where the British Overseas Territories have a desk. Melella sent letters to Brazil's Ambassador in Buenos Aires and the Argentine Embassy in Brasilia.

  • Friday, April 19th 2024 - 21:14 UTC

    Brazil's Finance Minister hopes G20 will tax the super‑rich to tackle world's debt crisis

    Haddad recalled that Biden's government was holding thoughts along the same lines regarding the wealthiest people

    During his trip to Washington DC to attend International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) engagements, Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said he hoped the G-20 would approve later this year a new taxation for the planet's super-rich so that the global economy could adjust amid an unprecedented debt crisis, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Friday, April 19th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Conflict in Middle East could escalate after latest Israeli attacks

    Iran said it will respond to any attack by Israel.

    Israeli forces attacked Iranian Air Force positions in Isfahan, in the center of the country in retaliation for last weekend's bombardment with unmanned explosives and missiles, it was reported early Friday. Other hits were recorded in the As-Suwayda governorate in southern Syria, the Baghdad area, and the Babil governorate in Iraq.

  • Friday, April 19th 2024 - 10:19 UTC

    Palestine denied UN full membership through US veto

    Palestine should not be admitted into the UN as long as Hamas controls Gaza,  Wood argued

    The United States exercised its veto power Thursday within the United Nations Security Council to cut Palestine short from full statehood and membership, it was reported in New York. Hence Palestine remained a “permanent observer state” with no voting rights within the global organization.

  • Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 23:14 UTC

    Argentina applies for NATO global partnership

    Petri (L) met in Brussels with NATO Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana

    Argentina's Defense Minister Luis Petri Thursday filed a request from President Javier Milei's government to become a “global partner” of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Earlier this week, Petri went to Denmark to sign the purchase of 24 second-hand US-built supersonic F-16 fighter jets.

  • Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 19:56 UTC

    Iran's Foreign Ministry says BA Court ruling against Tehran was politically motivated

    Kanani blamed “the Zionist regime” for the Buenos Aires Court's decision

    Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Naser Kanani said Thursday that a ruling by a Buenos Aires court that found his country to be behind terrorist attacks against a building of the Jewish community in the Argentine capital in 1994 was “politically motivated.” He also said the decision lacked any legal basis and merely followed the “new political project” undertaken by the “enemies of Iran.”

  • Thursday, April 18th 2024 - 19:13 UTC

    Expedition Confirms Wreck in Argentine Waters is a Submarine

    April 2024 sonar image of Attack periscope extending from submarine conning tower

    By Laurence de Mello

    In a significant milestone, an international Expedition team headed by the ‘Eslabon Perdido Group’ has successfully pinpointed the location of a sunken submarine, resting 4 kilometers off the Argentine coast of Necochea at a depth of 28 meters.