Stories for June 11th 2019

Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 20:47 UTC
Argentina: Macri shocks everyone by picking Peronist Pichetto for VP spot

Argentina's incumbent President Mauricio Macri has announced Tuesday he chose Senate Majority (and opposition) Leader Miguel Ángel Pichetto as his running mate for this year's elections.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 19:56 UTC
Madrid ignores Trump's warnings: Huawei 5G service network for Spanish cities

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is set to roll out its 5G service in several Spanish cities on Saturday, making it one of the first European countries with the ultrafast mobile phone network.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 19:29 UTC
New York Times will cease political cartoons in its international edition

The New York Times has announced that it will no longer include daily political cartoons in its international edition, weeks after apologizing for publishing a caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deemed anti-Semitic.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 15:34 UTC
World's most expensive painting, Leonardo's Salvador Mundi currently in a Saudi yacht

Since its sale for a record US$450 million, the whereabouts of the Salvator Mundi, said to be painted by Leonardo da Vinci, has become one of the art world's greatest mysteries.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 09:43 UTC
Buenos Aires ceremony to recall Malvinas rights Affirmation Day

Argentina commemorated on Monday in downtown Buenos Aires the Day of the Affirmation of Argentine rights over the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands in a ceremony to honor the former combatants of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 09:36 UTC
Argentine homosexual bishop criminally charged for sexually abusing seminarians

A homosexual bishop from Argentina undergoing a canonical trial has been criminally charged with sexually abusing seminarians. The prosecutor's office in the Argentine province of Salta publicized the formal charge on Friday. Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta could be facing three to 10 years in prison for “aggravated continuous sexual abuse committed by a minister of a religious organization.”
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 09:31 UTC
Vatican joins gender identity debate: it can “annihilate the concept of nature and destabilize the family institution”

The Vatican has released a new document challenging modern conceptions of gender identity. The 31-page teaching guidance, released on Monday, is titled Male and Female He Created Them. It speaks of an “educational crisis” and says the current debate can “annihilate the concept of nature” and destabilize the family institution.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 09:19 UTC
President Macri and Cristina Fernandez share similar high rejection levels

As the date approaches (end of June) for all political groupings in Argentina to have their hopefuls nominated and ready to compete in the August open, mandatory and simultaneous primaries for each party to select their candidates for the presidential election next October, spotlights are following the polarized scenario with Cristina Fernandez and her presidential candidate on the one side, and president Mauricio Macri's reelection strategy on the other.
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 09:13 UTC
Helicopter crash-lands in the roof of New York skyscraper killing the pilot

A helicopter crash-landed into a high-rise building roof in New York City on Monday afternoon, bursting into flames and killing the pilot, authorities said. The helicopter made a “hard landing or an emergency landing” on the roof of the 54-story building on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters, calling it “not a routine landing.”
Tuesday, June 11th 2019 - 08:05 UTC
Paraguayan president will visit Bolivia and sign a dozen cooperation accords

The first bi-national Bolivia-Paraguay partnership scheduled for this week will result in at least twelve cooperation agreements between the two nations, announced Paraguayan Ambassador in La Paz Terumi Matsuo.