Stories for 2021

Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 09:21 UTC
Paraguayan Police takes action to clear roads besieged by striking truckers

Paraguay's National Police Monday took action to clear the roads which were being blocked by striking lorries in Guairá and Alto Paraná, it was reported.
Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 09:04 UTC
Polls and proposed prime minister bloat disapproval for Peruvian president

No rest for Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, not only opinion polls show that he is the newly inaugurated president with the lowest approval and highest disapproval since 1980, but his candidate for prime minister is again in trouble this time for alleged money laundering and illegal financing of his political campaign as a member of congress.
Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 08:26 UTC
Germany to sell its Lufthansa shares acquired during the pandemic

The German Finance Agency has announced that in the coming weeks it will proceed to the sale of the state's 20% stake in the flag carrier Lufthansa, which it acquired in the midst of the pandemic to help impede the collapse of the company.
Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 07:10 UTC
Uruguay and Armenia to open reciprocal embassies

Uruguay and Armenia will up their diplomatic relations by opening up reciprocal embassies in Montevideo and Erevan, it was announced Monday.
Monday, August 16th 2021 - 19:48 UTC
How a secret meeting in August 1971 transformed the global economy

By Atish Rex Ghosh (*) - History is a confluence of underlying forces and specific triggering events. Think of the start of World War I: economic, imperial, and nationalistic tensions that had simmered for years exploded into open conflict when Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s motorcade took a wrong turn, putting him in the path of an assassin’s bullet.
Monday, August 16th 2021 - 08:51 UTC
Argentine province of Salta holds local elections under sanitary protocols

The Argentine province of Salta Sunday held local elections of provincial and municipal lawmakers through an electronic ballot system and amid special covid-19 protection measures.
Monday, August 16th 2021 - 08:02 UTC
Death toll from Haiti earthquake reaches 1,297 by Sunday evening

Authorities in charge of the relief efforts after Saturday's earthquake in Haiti Sunday announced the death toll had reached 1,297 and counting. After the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in the Richter scale that struck the southwest of the country, there were five aftershocks, including one of magnitude 5.2 17 kilometers from the town of Chantal, also with an epicenter 10 kilometers deep.
Monday, August 16th 2021 - 07:30 UTC
Taliban regain control of Afghanistan after 20 years

Taliban militias have seized Afghanistan's capital Kabul, while President Ashraf Ghani fled the country after swift military actions over the past week. The war in Afghanistan “is over,” a spokesman for the Taliban's political office announced, adding that “soon” it will be clear what kind of government there will be under the Taliban 20 years after a US-led military invasion had ousted them.
Monday, August 16th 2021 - 07:20 UTC
Falklands Islands (Malvinas): Forensic identification of fallen Argentine soldiers begins

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun a second phase of forensic work to identify Argentine soldiers buried on the Falklands Islands (Malvinas).
Monday, August 16th 2021 - 06:53 UTC
Embraer shares soar as Brazilian aircraft manufacturer shows profits

Stock of Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer went up as the company showed profits last week worth R $ 438.1 million (US $ 87.9 million) despite the pandemic's impact on the airline industry.