Stories for February 2022

Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:16 UTC
COVID-19 not the only infectious threat in Argentina

Argentine vacationers can catch diseases other than COVID-19, which can even bring on worse symptoms, it was reported after the Health Ministry announced it had detected cyanobacteria in AMBA (City of Buenos Aires and territories around it) and in the provinces of Entre Ríos, Córdoba and Santa Fe
Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:13 UTC
New gas well found in Bolivia, expected to generate millions of dollars

Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora has confirmed over the weekend the discovery of large gas reserves which -he hoped- would yield substantial profits to the country.
Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:10 UTC
Argentina joins Belt and the Silk Road as Fernández and Xi meet in Beijing

President Alberto Fernández has rounded up the Chinese stop of his new international tour by arranging Argentina's entry into the Belt and the Silk Road which will represent financing in excess of US $ 23 billion for the South American country.
Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:10 UTC
Elizabeth II endorses Camilla to be “Queen Consort” in Platinum Jubilee atmosphere

Queen Elizabeth II Sunday became the first-ever British monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee. Aged 95, she spent the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne on her own and actively attending to official businesses.
Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:09 UTC
Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee celebrations begin; when Charles becomes King, Camilla will be Queen consort

On Sunday 6th February, Queen Elizabeth II became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking seventy years since the sovereign acceded the throne.
Monday, February 7th 2022 - 06:18 UTC
Buckingham Palace releases new portrait of Queen Elizabeth

On the celebration of Queen Elizabeth's historic Platinum Jubilee, Buckingham Palace has released a new portrait of the 95-year-old, who on Sunday marked 70 years on the throne.
Sunday, February 6th 2022 - 19:49 UTC
Castillo embraces Conservative values, Bolsonaro says after meeting

Despite mounting opposition against each one of them in their own countries, Presidents Jair Bolsonaro and his Peruvian colleague Pedro Castillo Terrones met last week (Thursday) at the Brazilian Amazonian state of Rondonia, after which both leaders said their differences were a thing of the past.
Sunday, February 6th 2022 - 19:32 UTC
Cuban official says ok to withhold surplus earnings of foreign company workers

Cuba's Foreign Trade Minister Rodrigo Malmierca has said in an interview with local current news magazine Bohemia last week that he saw a contradiction in workers of global companies earning more than those who did the same job for the local State.
Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 23:49 UTC
Endurance22 expedition nosed its course for Antarctica in search of the whereabouts of Shackleton's shipwreck

Today, February 5th at 0700 GMT, a chunky, cherry-red ice breaker nosed its way out of Cape Town’s famous Table Bay, and shaped a course for Antarctica, 3000 nautical miles to the South West.
Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 15:45 UTC
Omicron subvariant found in 57 countries, WHO says

The World Health Organization has released a report this week saying a new sublineage of the SARS-Cov-2 Omicron variant has already been detected in 57 countries. According to some researchers, the new version is more contagious than the original Omicron.