Stories for September 7th 2020

Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina preparing to restart domestic and international flights in October

Argentina could resume international commercial flights in October, the transport ministry said, following the approval of the new passenger and airport protocols for international travel by the ministry of health, the requirement government stated previously for lifting a strict travel ban
Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:51 UTC
NASA pictures show the world's largest wetland lost to fires sweeping across Brazil

A record amount of the world's largest tropical wetland has been lost to the fires sweeping Brazil this year, scientists said, devastating a delicate ecosystem that is one of the most biologically diverse habitats on the planet.
Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
Argentina/Brazil bilateral trade in eight months was 20,5% down, year on year

Argentina's bilateral trade with Brazil resulted in a US$ 107 million deficit in August, which more than doubled the US$ 42 million of the same month a year ago, according to data released by the Brazilian foreign trade office.
Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:49 UTC
Venezuelan government confident it will regain control of the Assembly and thus no need for a new constitution

Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly will not deliver a new constitution, the legislature's chief Diosdado Cabello said on Sunday, despite repeated assurances from assembly members that the body was preparing to update the 1999 Magna Carta.
Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:14 UTC
A quarter of Brazilian population not convinced about having the Covid-19 vaccine

Five percent of Brazilians would refuse under any circumstances to take a vaccine against coronavirus and a further 20% indicated they might not take it, according to a survey published in newspaper O Estado de S Paulo on Sunday.
Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:07 UTC
“El Chapo” Guzmán has appealed against his life sentence incarcerated in US

Mexican drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman has appealed against his life sentence handed down a year ago by a US court for trafficking hundreds of tons of narcotics into the country.
Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:59 UTC
France to UK: Brexit negotiator Barnier is not stepping down or being sidelined

France denied the European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier was about to be sidelined by EU leaders in a bid to break the deadlock in trade talks, as reported by British newspaper the Daily Telegraph.
Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Chile's prosecutors reopen a bungled investigation into the death of a US teacher in Temuco

Chile's prosecutors' office announced it would reopen a bungled investigation into the death of American teaching assistant Erica Faith Hagan, who was beaten to death in a college dormitory in southern Chile in 2014. The prosecutor's office said in a statement late on Friday that it had made the decision following a special request by the victim's mother Regina O'Neal.
Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:21 UTC
UN human rights office demands Paraguay impartially investigates the deaths of two Argentine girls

The Paraguayan government must investigate “impartially and without delay” the deaths of two 12-year-old girls in a police and military operation against a rebel terrorist group in the north of the country, the regional office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Sunday.
Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:18 UTC
US pork with ractopamine controversy in Taiwan

Taiwan's main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) began a push on Sunday for a referendum to block the easing of restrictions on US pork imports, which if passed could threaten a long-mooted free trade deal with Taipei's key ally Washington.