MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 15th 2022
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Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:57 UTC
Argentine diplomatic offensive on Malvinas question in the region
This week Argentina's Malvinas, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Secretary, Guillermo Carmona is off to Brazil where he has scheduled several conferences and to request greater support for Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands.
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Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:47 UTC
Partners want to sever all Cartes partnerships
Chilean business associates of disgraced former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartés would be pushing to break up all commercial ties with the man declared as “significantly corrupt” by the US State Department last month.
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Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:30 UTC
Rushdie recovering slowly; repercussions jump worldwide
Author Salman Rushdie's son Zafar Sunday in a statement Sunday said in a statement Sunday that his father was still in critical condition after Friday's stabbing.
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Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:22 UTC
More US lawmakers land in Taiwan - what will China do?
Five US lawmakers landed in Taipei Sunday in yet another trip by Parliamentarians from that country after a recent visit headed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi heated tensions with Beijing, which regard the island as a Chinese rogue province.
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Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:19 UTC
Cairo church fire leaves 41 dead, 55 injured
At least 41 people, 15 children among them, were killed Sunday at the Martyr Abu Sefein Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo's working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in the Giza area. There were also reports of some 55 other people injured.
