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                                                                                         WORLD NEWS Wednesday 15 June 2022
            Argentina authorities seek data on Iranian, Venezuelan crew



            ALMUDENA CALATRAVA                                                                                                  to international terrorism.
            Associated Press                                                                                                    Rossi said the plane carried
            BUENOS  AIRES,  Argentina                                                                                           cargo for several Argentine
            (AP)  —  Police  officers  on                                                                                       auto parts companies that
            Tuesday  searched  the  ho-                                                                                         it  loaded  in  Mexico  be-
            tel  where  the  Venezuelan                                                                                         fore  stopping  by  Caracas
            and Iranian crew of a mys-                                                                                          and  arriving  in  Argentina
            terious  plane  that  remains                                                                                       on June 6. It first landed in
            stuck at Buenos Aires' main                                                                                         the  central  city  of  Córdo-
            international  airport  have                                                                                        ba  due  to  weather  condi-
            been staying as authorities                                                                                         tions that prevented it from
            blocked  its  exit  amid  sus-                                                                                      landing  in  Ezeiza,  just  out-
            picions about its crew and                                                                                          side Buenos Aires.
            U.S. sanctions against Iran.                                                                                        "The  plane's  cargo  was
            Federal  Judge  Federico                                                                                            verified in all manners pos-
            Villena ordered the raid at                                                                                         sible," Rossi told a local ra-
            Hotel  Plaza  Canning,  out-                                                                                        dio station.
            side  Buenos  Aires,  which                                                                                         The  unusually  large  crew
            has housed the crew of the                                                                                          had earlier raised suspicions
            Venezuelan-owned Boeing                                                                                             in  Paraguay,  where  the
            747  cargo  plane  loaded    A Venezuelan-owned Boeing 747 taxis on the runway after landing in the Ambrosio Taravella air-  plane  landed  last  month
            with automative parts.       port in Cordoba, Argentina, Monday, June 6, 2022.                                      in  Ciudad  del  Este,  close
            The  plane  has  been  stuck                                                                       Associated Press  to the Argentina and Brazil
            at  Argentina's  largest  air-                                                                                      borders, where it remained
            port since June 6 as Argen-  the Quds Force of the Rev-   crewmembers  than  were  guay and Mexico, in earlier  between May 13 and May
            tine authorities have seized  olutionary  Guard  of  Iran,"  actually aboard, an unusu-  months, according to flight  16, Paraguay's interior min-
            the passports of the five Ira-  which  has  been  officially  ally  large  contingent  for  a  tracking services.   ister,  Federico  González,
            nians  who  are  among  the  listed as a terrorist organiza-  cargo plane.             Opposition  leaders  in  Ar-  told a local radio station on
            at  least  17  crew  members  tion by the U.S. government  Until  it  was  sold  to  Emtra-  gentina have criticized the  Wednesday.
            who  arrived  in  Argentina  since 2007.                  sur around a year ago, the  government  for  allowing  The  plane  landed  in  Para-
            aboard the plane.            There do not appear to be  plane had been owned by  the  plane  to  land  in  the  guay  with  "18  crew  mem-
            Argentina's  Security  Min-  any  warrants  out  for  the  Mahan  Air  of  Iran,  which  country.                   bers,  of  which  seven  were
            ister,   Aníbal   Fernández,  arrest  of  any  of  the  crew-  the  U.S.  government  has  Argentine  authorities  insist  Iranians  and  11  Venezu-
            said  that  the  government  members.                     sanctioned  for  allegedly  they  have  not  found  any  elans,"  Douglas  Cubilla,
            received  information  from  There  are  numerous  sus-   aiding the Quds Force and  irregularities  in  the  plane's  head  of  airports  at  Para-
            foreign  intelligence  agen-  picions   surrounding   the  terrorist activities.       crew and the head of the  guay's  National  Civil  Aero-
            cies  that  at  least  some  of  plane,  including  the  way  The  plane  had  stopped  Federal  Intelligence  Agen-  nautics  Directorate,  had
            the Iranian crew were part  in  which  its  operators  re-  in  other  Latin  American  cy,  Agustín  Rossi,  criticized  told a local radio station on
            of  "companies  related  to  ported  a  lower  number  of  countries,  including  Para-  the  opposition  for  linking  it  May 18.q

             Danish-Canadian deal ends 49-year-old feud over Arctic isle


            COPENHAGEN,       Denmark  ish  Foreign  Minister  Jeppe  of  the  flagpole  and  left  a
            (AP) — A territorial dispute  Kofod.  He  said  it  was  "an  note  saying,  "Welcome  to
            between  Denmark  and  important  signal  now  that  the Danish island." Canadi-
            Canada  over  a  barren  there is much war and un-        ans then planted their own
            and  uninhabited  rock  in  rest in the world."           flag and left a bottle of Ca-
            the  Arctic  that  has  led  to  Canada   and   Denmark  nadian brandy. Since then,
            decades of friendly friction  agreed in 1973 to create a  the countries have in turns
            has  come  to  an  end,  with  border through Nares Strait,  hoisted  their  flags  and  left
            the two countries agreeing  halfway  between  Green-      bottles of various spirits in a
            on  Tuesday  to  divide  the  land  and  Canada.  But  sort of tot-for-tot dispute.
            tiny island between them.    they were unable to agree  In  2002,  Nana  Flensburg
            Under  the  agreement,  a  which country would have  was  part  of  a  Danish  mili-
            border will be drawn across  sovereignty  over  Hans  Is-  tary  crew  that  stood  on
            the    1.3-square-kilometer  land, which lies about 1,100  the  cliff  to  perform  a  flag-
            (half-square-mile)  Hans  Is-  kilometers (680 miles) south  raising ceremony. The Poli-
            land  in  the  waterway  be-  of  the  North  Pole.  In  the  tiken  newspaper  on  Tues-  Greenland Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egede, left, Denmark's
            tween  the  northwestern  end, they decided to work  day quote her as saying in        Minister for Foreign Affairs Jeppe Kofod, center, and Canada's
            coast  of  the  semi-auton-  out the question of owner-   her  diary  that  "among  the   Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly share a three-way hand-
            omous  Danish  territory  of  ship later.                 stones in the cairns were lots   shake after signing an agreement that will establish a land bor-
                                                                                                   der between Canada and Denmark on Hans Island, an Arctic is-
            Greenland  and  Canada's  In  the  following  years,  the  of bottles, glasses, etc. with   land between Nunavut and Greenland, Tuesday, June 14, 2022,
            Ellesmere  Island.  The  rock  territorial  dispute  —  nick-  documents  that  informed   in Ottawa.
            has  no  known  mineral  re-  named the "whisky war" by  about previous visits to the                                           Associated Press
            serves of value.             media  —  raised  its  head  island."   The   agreement
            "It sends a clear signal that  multiple times.            enters  into  force  after  the  "It's a win for Canada. It's a  "We're showing other coun-
            it is possible to resolve bor-  In 1984, Denmark's minister  two countries' internal pro-  win  for  Denmark,"  Canadi-  tries how territorial disputes
            der  disputes  ...  in  a  prag-  of Greenland affairs raised  cedures  have  been  com-  an Foreign Minister Mélanie  can  be  resolved  ...  What
            matic  and  peaceful  way,  a Danish flag on the island,  pleted.  In  Denmark,  the  Joly  said,  while  alluding  to  we're  saying  to  President
            where  the  all  parties  be-  buried  a  bottle  of  Dan-  Parliament must first give its  Russian  President  Vladimir  Putin is, 'We have the best
            come  winners,"  said  Dan-  ish  schnapps  at  the  base  consent to the agreement.   Putin's invasion of Ukraine.  way to settle disputes.'"q
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