Stories for December 2021

Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:40 UTC
Brazil: Bolsonaro insists his daughter will not be jabbed

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Monday insisted his 11-year-old daughter will not be taking any COVID-19 vaccine.
Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:35 UTC
Paraguayan Gov't honors IACHR ruling favoring indigenous peoples

Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez's Government Monday gave real-estate ownership (occupation) certificates to indigenous peoples plus a monetary compensation in accordance with rulings from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:35 UTC
UK Parliament Defense Committee report, “we're going to need a bigger Navy”

Britain’s parliamentary Defense Committee has fired a broadside at the government, raising significant concerns about the future size and capabilities of the Royal Navy in a report released this month” and reported by Defense News.
Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:33 UTC
Venezuelan leader announces trip to Iran sometime next year

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced he would visit strategic ally Iran sometime next year following an invitation from his Iranian colleague Ebrahim Raisi to discuss further cooperation between the two countries.
Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:30 UTC
Israel launches study about the effectiveness of 4th dose of COVID-19 vax

An Israeli heart surgeon has arguably become the world’s first healthy person to get a 4th dose of COVID-19 vaccine, The Times of Israel reported Monday.
Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:20 UTC
The right enemy a major asset in politics

By Gwynne Dyer – The right enemy can be a major asset in politics, as Chilean voters have just demonstrated once again. All the opinion polls had the two presidential candidates neck and neck before the election, but a few days before the runoff vote it came out that the father of far-right candidate José Antonio Kast was a Nazi.
Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:13 UTC
US halves quarantine time for new COVID-19 cases

Health authorities from the United States have agreed to cut by half the 10-day isolation period people newly-infected with SARS-CoV-2 needed to go through after catching the disease, it was announced Monday.
Monday, December 27th 2021 - 20:45 UTC
Argentina to set up Antarctica observatory to look for exoplanets

Argentina will install an observatory at the Belgrano II base in Antarctica, 1,300 kilometers from the South Pole, which will be operated from Buenos Aires. The automated telescope will be used to detect exoplanets and other celestial bodies which are difficult to watch from other latitudes, it was announced.
Monday, December 27th 2021 - 20:16 UTC
Andean Community lifts roaming charges as of Jan. 1

Roaming charges for cell phone communications is about to become a thing of the past for countries of The Andean Community (CAN - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). Effective Jan. 1, 2022, and thanks to the joint work of its member countries and the institutional strength that it has had for more than 52 years, the citizens of the CAN will not have to pay any additional surcharge for post-paid international roaming and will be able to be more and better communicated.
Monday, December 27th 2021 - 09:56 UTC
Argentina says humanitarian flights “all ready” to fly Falklands-residents to Chile

The Argentine government announced on Sunday that “all is ready” for the two humanitarian charter flights, with an Argentine flagged carrier, to transport Falklands-Malvinas foreign residents that have been stranded in the Islands since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.