Stories for 2021

Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:48 UTC
Castillo wants to sell Peru's presidential airplane

Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones Wednesday announced he would put the presidential aeroplane up for sale in a move towards financial austerity.
Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:30 UTC
Unofficial US dollar crosses 200-peso threshold in Argentina

As next Sunday's mid-term elections loom over and the government of President Alberto Fernández seems headed for inevitable defeat, desperate Argentinians turned to the currency black market to convert their volatile pesos into US dollars, thus piercing the psychological AR $ 200 threshold for the first time.
Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:24 UTC
Opposition lawmaker wants Argentine teenagers accountable for their crimes

Following the assassination of a candy store vendor over the weekend in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, rage got hold of most Argentines as the alleged perpetrators of the robbery gone bad were captured a few minutes after the attack.
Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:14 UTC
US, China agree to fight climate change together

China and the United States and China Wednesday agreed to work together in the fight against climate change, an announcement which was welcomed at the UN's Climate COP26 Summit in Glasgow.
Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:07 UTC
Venezuelan workers demand better salaries

Venezuelan workers Wednesday took to the streets Wednesday to demand a change in the country's policies together with better pay for them and their families.
Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:01 UTC
UK pledges HGVs will be zero-emission by 2040; unveils new chargepoint design

The United Kingdom has announced all-new road vehicles in the country will be zero-emission within the next two decades, while charge points are to be the main focus to adapt to the EV revolution.
Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
Sukey receives her OBE “for services to the people of the Falkland Islands”

Former Falkland Islands Government Representative at Falklands House in London, Sukey Cameron, received her OBE from HRH the Duke of Cambridge at Windsor Castle.
Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 08:55 UTC
Royal Navy's Type 83 destroyer project will enter concept phase early next year

The Royal Navy's Type 83 destroyer project, the replacement for the Type 45, will enter the concept phase early next year, it was announced in Parliament. Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin was responding to being asked when the concept and assessment phase for the Type 83 destroyer would formally begin.
Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 20:31 UTC
Biden, AMLO and Trudeau to meet Nov. 18 in Washington

US President Joseph Biden, his Mexican colleague Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will get together Nov. 18 in Washington DC for the North American Leaders Summit, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced Wednesday.
Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 19:55 UTC
Singapore halts execution because the man to be hanged had COVID

Singapore's Judiciary has decided to halt the execution of a 33-year-old Malayan citizen who had been sentenced to death for drug smuggling after the inmate was diagnosed with COVID-19.