Stories for January 2022

Friday, January 21st 2022 - 20:38 UTC
Convicted Mapuche leader granted parole in Chile

A Chilean court from Temuco Friday granted parole to Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala, who was serving a prison sentence for the burning of a house and also for possessing firearms.
Friday, January 21st 2022 - 20:37 UTC
Little progress results from US, Russia's top diplomats meeting in Geneva

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Friday met in Geneva to discuss the escalating military tensions in Europe, particularly about a possible invasion of Ukraine.
Friday, January 21st 2022 - 20:35 UTC
Most of Chile's future ministers will be women, Boric announces

Chile's President-elect, Gabriel Boric, Friday chose former Central Bank President Mario Marcel as the country's future Finance Minister of Finance, and former mendica College Head for Minister of the Interior as he announced his cabinet, which shall be made up of mostly women. Boric will take office on March 11.
Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:50 UTC
Booster doses in Uruguay to always be with the latest version of the drug

Uruguay's Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado Thursday said “there will be an annual revaccination” against COVID-19 and announced the Government had secured a supply of Pfizer's drug for that purpose.
Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:45 UTC
19-yr-old becomes youngest woman to fly solo around the world

At age 19, Zara Rutherford has become the youngest woman ever to fly solo around the world, after landing back at her Belgian point of departure following a journey of more than 52,000 kilometers (28,000 nautical miles) across several countries and five continents
Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:40 UTC
First case of flurona in Argentina spotted in Santa Fe

Health officials in the Argentine province of Santa Fe Thursday confirmed the first case of flurona (inFLUenza + coRONAvirus) had been detected in the country in a 3-year-old boy hospitalized in the provincial capital.
Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:35 UTC
UN General Assembly, except Iran, adopts resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust

On the month of Holocaust Remembrance Day, United Nations General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution rejecting and condemning any denial of the Holocaust following on a joint proposal from Israel and Germany.
Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:27 UTC
Cuba cracks down on free journalism

Following the July 2021 uprisings and how information left the island of Cuba and reached the world, the Communist regime has been revoking visas from foreign journalists, it was reported.
Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:24 UTC
Bolsonaro's mother dies while the President was on tour in Suriname

Olinda Bonturi Bolsonaro, the mother of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has died early Friday in the city of São Paulo after being hospitalized last Monday. She was 94.
Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:10 UTC
Austria passes law making COVID-19 vax mandatory

The Austrian parliament Thursday approved the introduction of mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 by 137 votes in favor and 33 against. The measure will take effect Feb. 4. Austria has thus become the first European nation to legalize such a practice.