Stories for July 2022

Friday, July 29th 2022 - 09:43 UTC
Brazil passes law for speedier installation of 5G antennas

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Thursday signed into law the new provisions for the installation of 5G antennas nationwide, it was announced. The head of state passed the bill in full, meaning he chose not to exercise his veto rights on any part of the document.
Friday, July 29th 2022 - 09:40 UTC
Argentine health authorities devise strategies against monkeypox

Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti convened a meeting with “experts” to generate “strategies to strengthen epidemiological surveillance, work together with the jurisdictions to decentralize diagnosis, train health teams and generate information actions for society.”
Friday, July 29th 2022 - 09:39 UTC
Full dinosaur skeleton auctioned for over US$ 6 million

The complete skeleton of a dinosaur that lived at the end of the Cretaceous era has been sold Thursday in a Sotheby's auction in New York for US$ 6.1 million to an anonymous bidder who also purchased the rights to name the fossilized creature at will, it was announced.
Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 22:03 UTC
Bolsonaro lashes back at DiCaprio over social media postings

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro once again aimed his cannons at US actor Leonardo DiCaprio for his denunciations of the devastation of the Amazon.
Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 22:00 UTC
China: Full lockdown reinstated in Wuhan area due to COVID-19

In line with their Zero-COVID policy, Chinese authorities have placed an entire district on the outskirts of Wuhan under strict lockdown for the first time since 2020, it was reported.
Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 21:43 UTC
It is official: Massa to head Argentina's new superministry

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday decided to finally launch a cabinet reshuffle which basically consists of blending the ministries of Economy, Productive Development and Agriculture, and Livestock and Fisheries into one office (known as “superministry”) to be headed by Lower House Speaker Sergio Massa.
Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 20:36 UTC
Uruguay back to vaccinating children against COVID-19

Uruguay Thursday resumed vaccinating children aged 5 to 13 against COVID-19 after an Appellate Court reversed earlier this week Judge Alejandro Recarey's ruling halting the therapeutic procedure.
Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 20:28 UTC
Argentina: Strategic Secretary resigns from Fernández's administration

Gustavo Béliz Thursday turned in his resignation as Secretary of Strategic Affairs to President Alberto Fernández amid a political crisis at Casa Rosada, where an imminent cabinet reshuffle has already started, including the appointment of Lower House Speaker Sergio Massa as Economy Minister despite him denying the possibility Wednesday.
Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina: Massa denies he is to become Economy Minister

Argentina's Lower House Speaker Sergio Massa Wednesday denied rumors that he would take over as Economy Minister but that President Alberto Fernández was delaying the announcement until the incumbent Silvina Batakis returned from her US mission.
Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 09:46 UTC
Unusual dead fauna appearance reported on Uruguayan shores: 80 penguins and a whale

Over 80 penguins, many of them trapped in a fishing net, and a dead whale were reported Wednesday to have appeared on the Atlantic Ocean shores of the Uruguayan department of Maldonado by the NGO SOS Rescate Fauna Marina (RFM).