Stories for June 22nd 2021

Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 11:30 UTC
Falkland Islands representatives arrive in New York for C-24

Falkland Islands' Chair of the Legislative Assembly, MLA Mark Pollard, and Deputy Chair MLA Leona Roberts have arrived in New York in order to attend the main session of the Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24).
Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 09:56 UTC
Peruvian judge allows Keiko Fujimori to stay out of jail, for now

Peruvian presidential contender Keiko Fujimori has been allowed to stay out of jail Monday, but the judge's decision bars her from meeting with her closest campaign aides.
Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Argentina to take additional measures against Delta coronavirus variant spreading into the country

Argentine health and migration authorities are analysing additional measured to curb the arrival into the country of the coronavirus Delta variant, which has already been detected in three cases of passengers flying in from abroad.
Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 09:49 UTC
Former Brazil President Lula Da Silva acquitted in yet another corruption case

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was acquitted due to lack of evidence Monday in one of the corruption cases for which he was being tried, it was announced.
Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 09:45 UTC
Bolsonaro lashes out at Brazil media giant Globo for its “journalists who do not help at all” regarding covid-19

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Monday lashed out at national media giant Globo for its stance on covid-19, which differs completely from what the Government calls “an early treatment,” a cocktail made up of controversial drugs such as chloroquine.
Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 09:44 UTC
Mitigating the impact of longline fisheries on seabirds: the South Georgia experience

Seabird mortality in fisheries is a global problem and a major driver of the continued decline of many seabird populations. Unless appropriate mitigation is in place, longline fishing can cause high levels of seabird mortality.
Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 09:41 UTC
Argentina and Mexico recall ambassadors to Nicaragua out of concern for human rights violations

The Governments of Mexico and Argentina Monday recalled their respective ambassadors in Managua, where Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is undertaking a dubious campaign towards his reelection by having his political challengers arrested.
Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 09:33 UTC
OECD's May report foresees 5.8% growth for 2021

The world's economy is forecast to grow 5.8% in 2021, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), “Economic prospects: an unusual recovery. Navigating towards the transition,” it has been announced.
Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 09:30 UTC
Patagonia university to develop noodles made of algae which shall taste like squid

Argentina's National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco from Comodoro Rivadavia, in the province of Chubut, is undertaking the development of noodles with a 30% substitution of wheat flour for algae which shall taste like squid, it was announced.
Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 08:38 UTC
Returning US “war powers” from the White House to Congress stalled in Senate

Republican Senators are delaying an upper House committee's vote on the repeal of the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, (AUMF), the so-called wide-ranging war powers that allowed the war in Iraq, and other military actions.