Stories for June 19th 2021

Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 15:17 UTC
Argentina records first “black fungus” death

A 35-year-old man who had had coronavirus and medical history of diabetes has been recorded as Argentina's first death caused by “black fungus,” it was announced Friday.
Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 14:09 UTC
Brazil: Henrique Cardoso turns 90 and thinks tomorrow “could be better than today”

Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) defended the alliance of political forces to oppose authoritarianism in a newspaper interview marking his 90th birthday, Friday, June 18.
Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 12:15 UTC
Brussels drops tariffs for 75,000 tonnes of Falklands squid

The European Commission has reached an agreement to allow 75,000 tonnes of Falklands loligo to be imported tariff-free into the European Union, according to reports in Galician daily Faro de Vigo.
Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 09:53 UTC
Uruguay makes donation of 12,000 AstraZeneca vaccines to Paraguay

Uruguayan health authorities Friday made a donation to Paraguay of 12,000 doses of the AstraZeneca anticovid-19 vaccine, some of which are due to expire June 28 and the rest by the end of August, it was announced.
Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Mines-free Falklands will remove fences of fields that remained out of bounds for almost forty years

The Falkland Islands Executive Council (ExCo) approved a proposal to remove the fences which secured former minefield sites around the Islands over a three-year period of 2021 to 2024.
Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Retired military officers call for annulment of Peru's elections as political unrest mounts

Peru's President Francisco Sagasti has ordered the Minister of Defense to investigate the sending of a letter by retired military officers which may imply a breach “to the constitutional order.”
Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 09:09 UTC
Delta variant becoming the globally dominant variant; steep rise in the UK

The World Health Organization's (WHO) chief scientist said on Friday that the Delta variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, is becoming the globally dominant variant.
Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 08:05 UTC
Chilean scientists sell marketing rights of alpaca-based antibody to German company

The German company NanoTag Biotechnologies has purchased from The Austral University of Chile (AUCh) the marketing license for the W25 antibody, it was announced Friday in Santiago.
Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 08:01 UTC
Little turnout leaves hardliner Raisi poised to become Iran's next president

Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi looks poised to become Iran's next president after Friday's elections amid surging coronavirus cases and voter apathy in a devastated economy.
Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 08:00 UTC
New study finds links between red meat diet and colorectal cancer incidence

AFP – A new paper in the journal Cancer Discovery has identified specific patterns of DNA damage triggered by diets rich in red meat - further implicating the food as a carcinogen while heralding the possibility of detecting cancer early and designing new treatments.