Stories for May 30th 2022

Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Surprise runner-up to take on Petro in Colombia's presidential runoff

Leftwing candidate and former M19 guerrilla leader Gustavo Petro, 62, won Sunday's presidential elections in Colombia, as all polls had foreseen. But he will face 77-year-old populist Rodolfo Hernández at the runoff in three weeks, which nobody saw coming.
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:49 UTC
More prosecutors killed in Latin America

Following the assassination of Paraguay's Marcelo Pecci while honeymooning in Colombia, two other crimes have hit Latin American prosecutors in the last days of May.
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:41 UTC
Bolsonaro going to Pernambuco as death toll from storms keeps rising

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday announced he would be traveling first thing Monday to Recife to see for himself the devastation caused by yet another rainstorm in the country's northeast, which has left at least 84 dead, and over 50 missing as figures are updated constantly.
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:22 UTC
PM Johnson wants to go back to pounds and ounces

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is weighing a possible return to imperial units of measurement in a post-Brexit move to fully part with the remaining vestiges of the European alliance, it was reported in London. He had already pledged to take this path during his 2019 campaign.
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:18 UTC
Car bomb goes off in Ecuador – no victims this time around

Nobody was injured as a car bomb went off in front of a Guayaquil police precinct, it was reported Sunday.
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:10 UTC
Pie thrown at Mona Lisa by fake old woman

A deranged young male visitor disguised as an old lady in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at Leonardo Da Vicini's Mona Lisa painting at Paris' Louvre Museum
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:09 UTC
House of Commons Speaker and Minister Milling at Goose Green Liberation ceremony

On Sunday, marking the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of Goose Green, East Falkland, and despite a brisk wind blowing snow across the monument, a service of commemoration was held to remember those who gave their lives in the battle.
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:09 UTC
Uruguayan pumps ask gov't not to rise price of fuel until next month

Gasoline retailers in Uruguay have asked the Government of President Luis Lacalle Pou to put on hold “for a few more days” the increase in the price of fuel reportedly to be announced shortly.
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:05 UTC
British Antarctic Survey field season has finished; RRS Sir Attenborough returns to UK after seven months

RRS Sir David Attenborough departed Rothera Research Station for the final time earlier in May and is now making its way back to the UK, marking the end of the BAS Antarctic summer field season.
Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:00 UTC
Yuck! Singaporean brewery launches top-notch unique product

A brewery in Singapore has made the headlines worldwide for launching NEWbrew, which -it has been reported- looks and tastes like usual beer despite being made with Newater, or high-quality water recycled from sewage and human urine.