Stories for May 2021

Monday, May 10th 2021 - 09:52 UTC
Human Rights Watch warns Colombian police uses high-tech projectile launcher against demonstrators

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Executive Director for the Americas José Miguel Vivanco said his organization had never seen police officers use “horizontal high-speed multiple projectile launchers” as it happens in Colombia.
Monday, May 10th 2021 - 09:51 UTC
Duque militarizes Cali and neighbouring areas as situation worsens in Colombia

Colombian President Iván Duque Sunday ordered a mass deployment of troops in the city of Cali and its surrounding area to lift the roadblocks which have kept that place under isolation and deprived of supplies of foods and medicines, it was announced.
Monday, May 10th 2021 - 09:50 UTC
US investors withdrawing from Latin America's three largest economies as populist rulers spark concern

According to a recent report from the Department of the Treasury, investors from the United States are rapidly fleeing the once most promising and three largest countries of Latin America (Brazil, Mexico and Argentina).
Monday, May 10th 2021 - 09:04 UTC
Jiggers bring covid-19 infected crews including one dead seaman in Argentina’s Puerto Deseado

Argentina's Coast Guard (Prefecura Naval) is guarding two fishing trawlers at Puerto Deseado in the Province of Santa Cruz as cases of covid-19 erupted among the crews, one sailor having already died of the disease.
Monday, May 10th 2021 - 08:44 UTC
Argentine President Fernández starts European tour in Lisbon

Argentine President Alberto Fernández started his new European tour by meeting in Lisbon Sunday with his Portuguese counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Monday, May 10th 2021 - 06:08 UTC
Falklands closes first Loligo season earlier; successful catch anticipated

The Falkland Islands Loligo (Falkland Calamari) fishery, which holds two seasons a year, closed its first season of 2021 early – the northern part of the box on April 14 and the south on April 28, three days before the planned last day of May 1.
Sunday, May 9th 2021 - 10:24 UTC
Labour's candidate Sadiq Khan re-elected as mayor of London, some say with an eye on Downing St.

Sadiq Khan, the son of a Pakistani bus driver and the first Muslim mayor of London since being elected in 2016, has been chosen for yet another term in office by defeating Conservative rival Shaun Bailey, it was announced Saturday after vote counting was complete.
Sunday, May 9th 2021 - 10:05 UTC
Chinese rocket disintegrates near Maldive Islands; nobody hurt

The Chinese Long March 5B rocket which was aimlessly earthbound causing fears as to where it might fall have disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, it was reported.
Sunday, May 9th 2021 - 09:31 UTC
SNP falls one seat short of full majority but with help from the Greens 2nd Scottish Independence referendum seems inevitable post covid-19

First Minister Nicola Surgeon's Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) has won Thursday's elections but was kept one seat from a parliamentary majority of its own after vote counting ended Saturday, it was reported.
Saturday, May 8th 2021 - 09:10 UTC
Quarantine has catastrophic consequences on Argentina's economy, report shows

Argentina's Federal Tax Bureau AFIP data shows 235,381 jobs were lost and around 23,000 companies had closed as the result of the contraction in the economy due to the health measures to control coronavirus, it was reported Friday.