Stories for February 2020

Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 06:11 UTC
Argentine meat industry suffering great losses because of coronavirus and closure of Chinese market

Argentina's meat industry is becoming highly complicated because of the drop in exports to its main market, China, warned Daniel Urcía, vice-president of the Argentine regional abattoirs industry, FIFRA.
Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 00:25 UTC
Falkland Islands Falkland Islands expenses figures for 2019

Gilbert House, seat of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly has released its expenses figures for 2019, detailing the money paid on claims by each of the Members of the Legislative Assembly. The expenses are broken down into headings such as flights, accommodation, meals, telephone, and internet.
Monday, February 17th 2020 - 09:05 UTC
Elected members of Uruguay's new Legislative branch take the oath of office

Uruguay's new Senators and Deputies which emerged from the general election results of last October were sworn in on Saturday during a ceremony held at the Legislative Palace. The ceremony not only confirmed 99 members of the Lower House and 30 Senators but also marked the opening of ordinary sessions of the XLIX legislative period.
Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:55 UTC
Talks in Geneva for further remains identifications at the Falklands' Argentine military cemetery

Argentina and the United Kingdom are holding talks in Geneva, with the International Red Cross for a new agreement on the identification of soldiers' remains in the Argentine Memorial cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands, where there is still at least one grave with uncertainty as to the name/names of who are buried.
Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:54 UTC
Incoming Uruguayan foreign minister invited by Argentina's Felipe Solá

This Tuesday the incoming Uruguayan foreign minister Ernesto Talvi will be in Buenos Aires on an invitation from his future peer Felipe Solá, which has been interpreted as the first formal contact between the Kirchnerite government of Alberto Fernandez and that of president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou, who takes office on March first.
Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Venezuela urgently shipping oil to fuel-short Cuba and its crippled its sugar and tourism industries

Venezuela's state energy firm PDVSA has been shipping more oil this month to close ally Cuba, as tighter U.S. sanctions have worsened fuel shortages on the Caribbean island, according to sources.
Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:35 UTC
IMF admits coronavirus epidemic could damage global economic growth

The coronavirus epidemic could damage global economic growth this year, the IMF head said on Sunday, but a sharp and rapid economic rebound could follow. “There may be a cut that we are still hoping would be in the 0.1 to 0.2 percentage space,” the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, told the Global Women's Forum in Dubai.
Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:34 UTC
Women hound Mexican president following the horrific murder of Ingrid and pictures or her dismembered body

Demonstrators in Mexico City, outraged by the horrific murder of a 25-year-old woman, sprayed graffiti on the presidential palace and disrupted President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's daily press conference.
Monday, February 17th 2020 - 07:50 UTC
Snakes mating season date forces closure of public park in Florida

A city in Florida closed off part of a park after residents spotted dozens of snakes that had apparently gathered for their annual coupling.
Monday, February 17th 2020 - 07:45 UTC
US calls for the immediate release of Guaidó's uncle detained on “preposterous charges” by the Maduro regime

The US State Department on Saturday condemned the detention in Venezuela of an uncle of opposition leader Juan Guaido, saying the man was being held on “preposterous charges.”