Stories for 2022

Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:35 UTC
International tourism has recovered to almost half of pre-pandemic 2019 level

According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism saw a strong rebound in the first five months of 2022, with almost 250 million international arrivals recorded. This compares to 77 million arrivals from January to May 2021 and means that the sector has recovered almost half (46%) of pre-pandemic 2019 levels.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:30 UTC
Venezuela's Conviasa starts weekly flights to Tehran

Venezuela's increasingly deeper ties with Iran have resulted in flag carrier Conviasa starting nonstop services to Tehran once a week as of Sunday, it was announced.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:23 UTC
Paraguayan President pledges to up intelligence funding

Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez last week announced he would up funding for the National Intelligence Secretariat (SNI), an agency created in 2018. Abdo justified his move on the body's precarious budget, due to which it relies on foreign cooperation to fulfill its mission.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:22 UTC
Argentine seminar of South Atlantic fishery challenges and the “Malvinas Question”

The legal and political challenges in the South Atlantic fishery, particularly those related to the fishing activities neighboring Argentina's EEZ, and implications of the Falklands/Malvinas Question were the central discussion of a seminar held at the Argentine foreign ministry.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:15 UTC
Two killed unprovokedly by UN peacekeepers in Congo

Congolese authorities have taken action Sunday after two people were killed by fire stemming from the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the violence-torn African country, it was announced Sunday.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:12 UTC
Falklands celebrates Daphne's win in Lawn Bowls and England's Euro Women's Cup

Double celebration for the Falkland Islands. The Islands Lawn Bowls Ladies Single Daphne Arthur Almond beat India's Tania Choudhary in a very tense competition from 21 to 20.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:42 UTC
New Zealand fully reopens borders to build back from COVID isolation

The Government of New Zealand has fully reopened its borders effective August 1 to foreign visitors, thus ending the sanitary restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic. The South Pacific country had one of the toughest travel regimes imposed on health grounds globally. Before Covid-19, tourism accounted for 5.5% of New Zealand's GDP.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:06 UTC
Peru totals 282 cases of monkeypox

Peruvian health authorities have reported the number of monkeypox cases in the country had reached 282 Sunday, 34 days after the first infection was confirmed.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:00 UTC
Biden tests positive again for COVID-19 after just a few days

US President Joseph Biden has tested positive again for COVID-19, the White House reported. According to his head physician, he “continues to feel well” and is asymptomatic but will nonetheless work from isolation.
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Monday, August 1st 2022 - 06:52 UTC
Pelosi not to cancel Asian tour but mum about Taiwan

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidential succession, has announced she would carry on with her plans to lead a delegation of lawmakers from her country on an Asian tour, but there was no mention of Taiwan.
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