Stories for 2021

Friday, August 27th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
ISIS spin-off causes detonations at Kabul airport killing nearly 100 people

At least 85 to 90 people died Thursday after an ISIS detachment attack on Kabul International Airport. US President Joseph Biden promised to avenge the deaths of 13 soldiers from his country. The flag over the White House flies at half-mast.
Friday, August 27th 2021 - 08:50 UTC
Pfizer-BioNTech signs deal for Brazilian production of COVID-19 vaccines

The multinational Pfizer-BioNTech consortium has reached a deal with Brazilian laboratories Eurofarma to produce its famous COVID-19 vaccine in the South American country, it was announced Thursday.
Friday, August 27th 2021 - 08:41 UTC
Uruguayan Lower House expected to consider an investigation committee into 21 years of Tourism ministry affairs

Uruguayan lawmakers from the ruling coalition and opposition finally agreed to propose to the full Lower House an investigation committee to analyze Tourism ministry performance and affairs from 2010 to 2021, particularly in reference to the contracting of publicity.
Friday, August 27th 2021 - 08:15 UTC
Argentina and Uruguay ladies love and celebrate the Falklands

Ladies support for the Falkland Islands in the River Plate is expanding. As happened just a few weeks ago in Buenos Aires when two historians, one of them with an international reputation, acknowledged the Falklands belong to the Falkland Islanders and doubt Argentina's claim, in Uruguay a member from a ruling coalition junior party last 14 August twitted the hashtag “HappyFalklandsDay”.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 17:14 UTC
Protesters rally in front of Uruguayan President during Independence Day celebrations

Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou faced protesters during Wednesday's Independence Day celebrations and even engaged in talks with them amid verbal aggressions.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 11:55 UTC
Falkland’s ExCo agrees to proceed with improved ITQ scheme

Yesterday the Executive Council (ExCo) approved the referral of the Fisheries (Conservations and Management) (Amendment) Bill 2021 to the Legislative Assembly next month.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 09:45 UTC
Uruguayan meat exports surpass Argentina's thanks to restrictions

Restrictions on meat exports imposed on producers by the Argentine administration of President Alberto Fernández, in a failed attempt to curb domestic prices, have led the country to lose ground to Uruguayan and Paraguayan competitors, Infobae reported Wednesday.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 09:14 UTC
Another suspect in Buenos Aires bombing case appointed into Iran's government

A former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who is said to have been at the meeting in which it was decided to attack the Jewish AMIA association in 1994 in Buenos Aires has been appointed Vice President of Economic Affairs by President Ebrahim Raisi, it was announced Wednesday.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 09:08 UTC
“Mercosur needs urgent modernization” and Brazil can't be prisoner of an institutional accord

Brazilian Economy minister Paulo Guedes told Congress that Mercosur no longer has for Brazil the same importance it had when it was launched, a kind of jumping board for the country to advance in competition terms.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 08:50 UTC
Project with Falklands' SAERI to safeguard South Georgia’s Blue Belt

Following a horizon scanning exercise that identified marine invasive species as a key threat, the Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) is embarking on a marine bio-security project with the Falkland Islands based South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI).