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Montevideo, October 28th 2021 - 00:54 UTC

PAHO says more COVID-19 vaccines needed

Chile, Uruguay and Canada have fully injected three-quarters of their population.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Assistant Director Jarbas Barbosa Wednesday urged G20 leaders meeting this coming weekend at Rome's Summit to donate more COVID-19 vaccines because the region's improvements in the fight against the disease were shadowed by ste...

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Brazil envisions plans to cut down Amazon deforestation while developing other activities in the rainforest

”We cannot abandon the possibility of exploiting the great mining wealth of the Amazon,” Mourão said.

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Greenpeace: “Coca Cola, Nestlé, Pepsi, ”world's top corporate plastic polluters”

“This report provides more evidence that corporations urgently need to do more to address the plastic pollution crisis they’ve created”

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Future US Ambassador to Buenos Aires says Argentina needs an economic plan

“Argentina is the third largest economy in Latin America, but a long history of economic instability has affected its productivity and competitiveness,” Stanley said

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Third doses and shots for foreigners announced in Argentina

Vizzotti underlined Argentina's vaccination campaign was faster than the ones in Bolivia and Paraguay

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JetSmart sells tickets by segment

Low cost airline JetSmart to land in Montevideo next year

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Ecuador is living under a state of exception sin Oct. 18

Indigenous groups in Ecuador stage second day of protests

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A 3-month old walrus calf finds refuge on her mother’s back. © Paul Nicklen/National Geographic Stock / WWF-Canada.

BAS and WWF invite the public to work on a “Walrus from Space” census

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The Royal Netherlands Navy Submarine Service tweeted a video of whiskered Freya resting aboard HNLMS Dolfijn, with the message: “Welcome on board shipmate.”

Dutch submariners receive an unexpected visitor on board Walrus class unit

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