Stories for January 20th 2022

Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 20:30 UTC
Latam Airlines drops 777s to the US out of fear of 5G interferences

Latam Airlines has agreed to follow Boeing's advice and not use the 777 models for its services between Brazil and the United States to avoid problems stemming from 5G cell phone antennas which may interfere with navigation gear.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 20:16 UTC
December 2021 marks record oil output for Argentina in last 9 years

In the last month of 2021, Argentina has recorded a total oil output of around 559,000 barrels per day (BPD), thus reaching the highest production for the country over the past nine years, it was reported Thursday.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 20:10 UTC
Maxwell's legal team files for retrial after jury was probably biased

Disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team has formally requested a retrial after details concerning the private life of one of the members of the jury who convicted her became public.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:57 UTC
OAS condemns presence in Nicaragua, of Iranian official accused of aggravated murder by Argentine justice

Twenty-two-country members from the Organization of American States, OAS, on Wednesday approved a strong statement condemning the presence of the Iranian official Mohsen Rezai in Nicaragua during the taking office ceremony of president Daniel Ortega. Rezai has been indicted by Argentine Justice for his alleged masterminding of the 1994 attack on the Jewish organization Amia in Buenos Aires killing 85 people and injuring dozens.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Seven years after, death of Argentine special prosecutor and alleged Iran connection remain unresolved

On a rainy evening Tuesday 18th January, dozens toured the streets of Buenos Aires in memory of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of his death, a case which remains unresolved by Argentine justice. With umbrellas, dressed in black some carrying candles, flashlights, and flowers, the march reached the Le Parc flats complex, in a posh area of Buenos Aires, where Nisman was found dead with a shot in the head, and an investigation that still has to decide if it was a homicide or suicide.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:53 UTC
Peru wants Repsol to pay damages for oil spill amid Tonga volcano eruption

Peru's Foreign Ministry Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Spanish oil company Repsol for damages caused by a spill in Ventanilla, in the province Callao province.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:52 UTC
Soap opera foreign policy: US tells Argentina keep up negotiations with IMF

Last October when Argentine president Alberto Fernandez left for Rome to the G20 leaders' summit, his office informed that he was expecting to meet with US president Joe Biden to among other issues address support for Argentina in its ongoing exhausting negotiations with the IMF.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:52 UTC
Tonga vulcano eruption 500 times stronger than Hiroshima bomb

A NASA scientist has compared this weekend's volcanic eruption off Tonga with the atomic bomb dropped by the United States at the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 and said the recent episode was “500 times” worse.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:51 UTC
Argentine lorry drivers stage protest due to Chile's tight sanitary controls

After the Government of Chile reinstated the requirement that people must undergo a PCR test -which must come out negative- to get across the border crossings through the Andes, some 2,000 lorry drivers have been lining up along the Cristo Redentor-Los Libertadores international crossing, which links Mendoza to Valparaíso.
Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Argentine President to remain isolated after close contact with COVID-19 case

Argentine President Alberto Fernández is once again under isolation after it was determined he has been in close contact with a positive case of COVID-19, while Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas has already been confirmed as having the disease.