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WHO Chief Warns of Six to Eight-Week Hantavirus Time Bomb as New Cases Are Confirmed in France and the US

The WHO warns that the hantavirus outbreak linked to a South Atlantic cruise ship is likely to worsen, with confirmed cases in France and the US. The virus has a six-to-eight-week incubation period.

International Business Times UK

Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship; 40 passengers disembark on South Atlantic island

Dutch officials confirmed about 40 passengers disembarked on St. Helena after a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, including the wife of a deceased Dutch man who later died in South Africa. Another passenger who disembarked at St. Helena tested positive for the virus in Switzerland.

The Times of India

World’s largest iceberg A23a from Antarctica is finally breaking apart after 40 years at sea

One of the largest and oldest icebergs is now melting very quickly, ending its 40-year journey across the southern ocean. According to Dr Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey, the largest iceberg on the planet, A23a, is breaking up fairly dramatically because the South Atlantic waters are…

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Commercial Metals To Acquire CP&P In $675 Million Push Into Precast Market

Commercial Metals Co. (NYSE:CMC) said Thursday it will buy Concrete Pipe Precast LLC for $675 million in cash, expanding into the U.S. precast concrete sector with operations across the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic regions.

Benzinga

See the world's largest iceberg stranded in the South Atlantic (satellite photo)

A new image from Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite shows the huge Antarctic iceberg A-23A stuck 45 miles (73 kilometers) off the coast of South Georgia Island.

Space

'Queen of icebergs' A23a grounds off South Atlantic wildlife haven

The world's largest iceberg has run aground just off the coast of South Georgia. But what does this mean for the wildlife there?

LiveScience

Tristan da Cunha: The most remote inhabited island on Earth, forged from a supercontinent breakup

Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Today, it's home to a tiny and extremely isolated farming community.

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Sir John Nott, defence secretary during Falklands War, dies aged 92

He is remembered for being in post during the South Atlantic conflict and storming out of a TV interview

Evening Standard

UK says Falklands are British as Argentina seeks new talks

Britain has reasserted its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands after Argentina pulled out of a cooperation agreement and demanded new talks over the South Atlantic territory that sparked war between the two countries in 1982

The Independent UK

‘Dark activities’ of Russian-linked oil tankers have doubled, analysis shows

Maritime intelligence firm points to rise in tankers switching off trackers for sanctions-busting transfers

The Guardian - UK

Javier Sotomayor: Full time hairdresser, part time paddler makes CWG history

BIRMINGHAM: Javier Sotomayor, Falkland Islands' sole table tennis representative at the Commonwealth Games, works fulltime as a hairdresser in one of the only three salons on the South Atlantic archipelago.

The Times of India

What is the British military presence in the Falkland Islands?

A number of British forces remain permanently deployed in the Falkland Islands, 40 years since the Argentine surrender in the Falklands War.

The Independent UK

Inside incredible lives of Falklands War veterans who found lasting love during conflict

While they served with the British Army in the ten-week Falklands War over the South Atlantic colony, John Graham and Andy Butterworth met the women they would marry

Daily Mirror

British sovereignty over the Falklands is an absurd imperial hangover that must end

Forty years after the war in the South Atlantic, common sense demands a negotiated settlement with Argentina, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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The Independent UK

Lord Luce: Minister who resigned over Falklands conflict reflects 40 years on

Richard Luce, who resigned from the Foreign Office over the Falklands war 40 years ago, reveals to Liam James how diplomacy failed

Wales Online

The forgotten stories of the Falklands War 40 years on

Today is the 40th anniversary of the start of the conflict that claimed hundreds of lives

Daily Record

Scots veteran recalls moment gun failed to fire during the Falklands War

Norman McDade signed up to the Navy in 1978 aged 17 and trained as a chef but four years later, he found himself embroiled in the war in the South Atlantic ocean.

Axios

The U.K. just created a huge marine sanctuary in the remote South Atlantic

Over 260,000 sq. miles will be protected from human activity.

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