Stories for 2021

Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 07:29 UTC
Italy determined to save “Patriarch” a millennial olive tree

Italy is determined to save Patriarch, a millennial olive tree which the forest fires in Sardinia have devoured, but has mobilized tens of experts to try and recover this rare botanic antiquity. Patriarch is a wild olive, with a ten meters circumference trunk, some seventeen meters high which was almost completely destroyed by fire.
Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 07:22 UTC
Bad start for Peruvian president Castillo, two trips in two days

Another bump in the head for the stubborn Peruvian president Pedro Castillo who took office this week. Not only his nomination for prime minister Guido Bellido has been questioned as a former admirer of a terrorist group that ravaged Peru in the eighties and nineties, but now repeats with his foreign minister, Hector Béjar, a former guerrilla member, with academic background who in his books praises armed revolution, “with no forgiveness”.
Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 07:13 UTC
Hard times for Argentine families to remain above the poverty line

An Argentine standard family of two adults and two children needed the monthly equivalent of US$ 664 or US$ 380 (depending on the official or free money exchange market) to be considered above the poverty line during the month of June. July figures will be released in fifteen days.
Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 06:56 UTC
Russia plans to dominate Arctic sea routes with the largest fleet of icebreakers

Hoping to develop the Northern Sea Route across the Arctic into an international shipping lane, Russia is building a group of icebreakers to be powered with liquefied natural gas.
Friday, July 30th 2021 - 09:56 UTC
Third dose of Pfizer coming up globally as Delta variant keeps crawling in

The Government of Israel has become the first in the world to decide on the use of a third dose of the Pfizer anticoronavirus vaccine, a move which some other countries are likely to follow suit shortly.
Friday, July 30th 2021 - 08:37 UTC
Vatican's major trial for financial crimes involving two cardinals takes off

Cardinal Angelo Becciu is one of ten defendants in what is the Vatican’s largest trial for financial crimes in the modern era. The cardinal is going before the Vatican tribunal for the first time since Pope Francis changed norms in April to allow cardinals and archbishops to be tried by lay judges, in this case on charges of embezzlement and abuse of office.
Friday, July 30th 2021 - 08:21 UTC
Former Army Capt., 3 police officers handed down life sentences for crimes during Argentina's last dictatorship

A federal court in the Argentine city of Rosario Thursday handed down life in jail sentence to each of the four defendants in the Klotzman case of human rights violations and murder during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
Friday, July 30th 2021 - 07:59 UTC
First case of Delta variant spotted in Argentine province of Córdoba, carrier disregarded isolation, infected 13 others

One case of the coronavirus Delta variant has been detected in the Argentine province of Córdoba in a traveler who had arrived from Lima, Peru, through Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport on July 19.
Friday, July 30th 2021 - 07:28 UTC
New Peruvian President appoints leftist congressman Guido Bellido as PM

Peru's President Pedro Castillo Thursday appointed Congressman Guido Bellido Ugarte of his Peru Libre leftwing party to become the country's new Prime Minister, while the remaining members of the cabinet are still due to take office.
Friday, July 30th 2021 - 07:23 UTC
Chinese investors eye Paraguay for Bitcoin production

Paraguay is to receive large investments to install 500,000 Bitcoin miners, as at least eight Chinese economic groups have expressed their interest in relocating their operations to the South American country thanks to its favorable legislation.