Stories for 2022

Saturday, July 9th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
New bird species spotted in northern Argentina

The red-winged brant (Myiozetetes cayanensis), a member of the brant family that had never before been recorded in Argentina, has been sighted in Iguazú, in the province of Misiones, by a Paraguayan tourist who alerted forest rangers about his findings.
Saturday, July 9th 2022 - 09:30 UTC
Brazil grains crop estimate, 272.5 million tons helped by corn and wheat despite a slide in soybeans

Given more optimistic prospects for the supply of corn and wheat, Brazil's National Supply Company, Conab, increased, slightly, the estimate for the 2021/22 market year grain harvest. Overall this has meant that Brazil is expected to have a crop of 272.5 million tons of grains in the current season, 6.7% greater than the previous season.
Saturday, July 9th 2022 - 09:06 UTC
Food-commodity prices in June remain 23,1% higher than a year ago, FAO report

The barometer for world food commodity prices declined slightly in June for the third consecutive month, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported on Friday
Friday, July 8th 2022 - 22:45 UTC
Lula now wears bulletproof vests during political rallies

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began wearing a bullet-proof vest during a mass rally Thursday evening in Rio de Janeiro after a homemade explosive device containing excrements blew up, although nobody was injured.
Friday, July 8th 2022 - 22:37 UTC
Argentine Navy 2022 social campaign comes to an end

The Argentine Navy has rounded up its 2022 Socio Sanitary Fluvial Campaign with the arrival of patrol boats ARA King and ARA Río Santiago at the Buenos Aires Naval Base, it was announced this week.
Friday, July 8th 2022 - 20:36 UTC
China on war alert over US Senator trip to Taiwan

China is said to be upping its military preparations while US Senator Rick Scott is visiting Taiwan, which Beijing considers to be a rogue province. “These actions by the United States seriously violated the One China principle,” Chinese Defense Ministry Spokesman Wu Qian said Friday.
Friday, July 8th 2022 - 10:28 UTC
Argentina protests the designation of Protected Areas in South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

The Argentine government in a protest note addressed to the United Kingdom pointed out its complete rejection of UK's intended designation of the entire landmass of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) as Specially Protected Areas.
Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe shot dead

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died after taking two shots during an election rally in the western city of Nara Friday after which he was hospitalized in a serious condition, it was reported. A man in his 40s has been arrested and a gun was seized.
Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Gibraltar tells Andalucía, “cooperation YES, joint sovereignty NO, they don't mix!”

The Government of Gibraltar announced it has taken notice of the positive statements by the President of the Junta de Andalucía on cooperation. The President made the comments in the context of the political changes happening in the United Kingdom, and also on the recent June election overwhelming victory of the conservative opposition, Popular Party described as “historic”.
Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:47 UTC
Uruguayan official says judge's ruling on vax was “nonsense”

Uruguay's Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado Thursday admitted that “rulings are obeyed, but they can be criticized and this ruling is nonsense.” He made those remarks after Surrogate Judge Alejandro Recarey ordered vaccination against COVID-19 of children aged under 13 years of age to be halted.