MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for July 11th 2022
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Monday, July 11th 2022 - 10:00 UTC
At least 21 killed in separate night outings across South Africa
At least 21 people were killed and 16 others wounded by early Sunday in separate shootings across South Africa during the weekend, as the country undergoes the worst wave of violence since the apartheid era.
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Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:49 UTC
Faroe Islands limit traditional catch of dolphins to 500; 'barbaric practice' killed 1,423 last year
Faroe Islands announced on Sunday that the traditional catch of dolphins to be killed in its water would provisionally be limited to 500. The decision to crack down on the number of hunted dolphins comes after public outcry from last year's hunt, where over 1,423 white-sided dolphins were killed, a spree that shocked even residents who supported the practice.
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Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:46 UTC
Queen's Guards bearskin caps debate in Commons: petition to replace them by fake ones
This Monday 11 July, the House of Commons will debate a petition relating to the use of real bearskin hats by the Queen's Guards.
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Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:40 UTC
Argentine Cpl. paralyzed from the waist down in another welcome rite
Argentine authorities have launched an inquiry into how an Army corporal in the province of Misiones ended up with injuries in his legs just days after a second lieutenant died as the apparent result of a “baptism” party in the neighboring province of Corrientes.
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Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:36 UTC
Nicaraguan reporters placed under arrest for 90 days
A Nicaraguan judge has ruled two workers of the newspaper La Prensa are to spend 90 days in pretrial detention after being arrested for reporting on the expulsion from the country of nuns belonging to Mother Teresa's Congregation.
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Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:29 UTC
Face masks again become mandatory in Punta Arenas because of Covid and respiratory viruses
Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales, southern Chile, have again reinstated the mandatory use of face masks in closed spaces and in open places where people can't keep a physical distance of at least one meter. Likewise massive events will have a maximum presence of 10,000 people with face masks, and there will also be limits to the Mobility Pass, unless space allows a one meter distance minimum.
