Stories for May 2022

Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:30 UTC
Brazil opens situation room to monitor acute hepatitis

Brazilian health authorities have established during the weekend a monitoring room to oversee the development nationwide of the worrying acute hepatitis of unknown origin among children, of which the country has already reported 47 cases under study.
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Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:20 UTC
Macron picks France's Prime Minister

French President Emmanuel Macron Monday announced he had picked Elisabeth Borne as the country's new Prime Minister following Jean Castex's resignation.
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Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:19 UTC
ELN announces ceasefire so that Colombians may vote in peace

Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas Monday announced they would enforce a ceasefire during the upcoming presidential elections, in what has been perceived as a step towards peace talks with the future administration.
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Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:00 UTC
Monkeypox in UK, apparently from Nigeria: extensive contact tracing in Britain

On 7 May 2022, WHO was informed of a confirmed case of monkeypox in an individual who travelled from the United Kingdom to Nigeria. The case developed a rash on 29 April 2022 and returned to the United Kingdom on 4 May. Monkeypox was suspected and the case was immediately isolated.
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Monday, May 16th 2022 - 20:34 UTC
Separate shootings rock US during the weekend

The United States was shaken this past weekend by various shooting sprees nationwide. On Saturday, ten people were killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and three others were injured and on Sunday similar events in California and Texas, have left at least three more people dead.
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Monday, May 16th 2022 - 18:10 UTC
Bolsonaro insists Argentina and Chile might end up like Cuba

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday insisted on social media that he feared Argentina and Chile were following the paths of Venezuela and Cuba because although Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez were already dead, the “consequences of communism” remained.
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Monday, May 16th 2022 - 10:17 UTC
Vanessa Estol is the first Uruguayan person to reach the summit of Mount Everest

The mountaineer and climber Vanessa Estol became on Saturday the first person of Uruguayan nationality to reach the summit of Mount Everest (8,848.86 meters above sea level).
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Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Uruguay is Paraguay's gateway to the world, both Presidents agree

Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez Sunday stressed his country needed Uruguay's help to secure a sovereign presence to have a way out to the sea so that its exports can reach the world and that Montevideo “has always been a port of exit.”
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Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:50 UTC
Milei: “I will not apologize for having a penis”

Argentine Congressman Javier Milei Saturday announced that if he is elected President next year one of his first measures would be to suppress the Ministry of Women (officially known as “Ministry of Women, Gender, and Diversity”).
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Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:49 UTC
Shaky weekend as Santiago mourned slain reporter

Riots rocked the Chilean capital city of Santiago as protesters demanded justice for slain reporter Francisca Sandoval, who died recently after being fatally shot while covering the May 1 Labor Day demonstrations.
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