MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for November 27th 2021
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Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:32 UTC
Case of Argentine Ambassador in Bolivia to be brought before Congress in BA
Argentine opposition lawmakers have announced they would ask President Alberto Fernández to sack Adrián Basteiro as Ambassador to Bolivia after the diplomat was found engaging in domestic political acts in violation of international conventions regarding Consular representations.
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Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:30 UTC
Falklands member of the Table Tennis Federation, despite Argentina's objection
Argentina lost to the Falkland Islands at the International Table Tennis Federation, ITTF, where overwhelming support had the Islands registered as an independent member. This despite the strong allegations from the Argentine Table Tennis Federation president Fernando Joffre, at the ITTF annual assembly.
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Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:23 UTC
Graf Spee's anchor ferried to future Battle of River Plate memorial site
The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, marking the end to the Battle of the River Plate against British Commonwealth forces at the beginning of World War II, has been ferried by lorry to Punta del Este to be a part of the Memorial site to be opened before the end of the year.
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Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:20 UTC
Honduras to choose new president amid increasing violence
Honduras goes to the polls Sunday amid growing concern over increasing violence, according to the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights (former Chilean two-time President Michelle Bachelet), the Croatian MEP Željana Zovko, head of the European Union's (EU) Observation Mission.
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Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:19 UTC
Italy rescues the green-eyed “Afghan girl” from the Taliban chaotic country
The Italian government announced on Thursday that Sharbat Gula, who in 1985 gained worldwide fame as the green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' image by photojournalist Steve McCurry, is in Rome being evacuated from Afghanistan.
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Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:12 UTC
Canadian rating agency praises Uruguay's fiscal consolidation and raises BBB- trend from stable to positive
Canadian credit rating agency, DBRS Morningstar confirmed Uruguay's Long-Term Foreign and Local-Currency – Issuer Ratings at BBB-, and at the same time, elevated its prospect from stable to positive.
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Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:10 UTC
China's best tennis player sexually abused, censored and disappeared by the Communist Party
By Yan Bennett and John Garrick – Chinese tennis star, Peng Shuai's apparent disappearance may have ended with a smattering of public events, which were carefully curated by state-run media and circulated in online clips. But many questions remain about the three weeks in which she was missing, and concerns linger over her well-being.
