Stories for 2022

Monday, June 27th 2022 - 09:15 UTC
Most Uruguayans favor legalizing euthanasia

A survey released this weekend has shown that 55% of Uruguayans are in favor of legalizing euthanasia, while 25% opposed it and the rest still has to make up their minds on the controversial issue.
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Monday, June 27th 2022 - 08:45 UTC
Monkeypox not a global emergency for now, says WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) has come to the conclusion following an emergency meeting that 3,200 cases and only one death due to monkeypox globally are not enough to consider the malady a global emergency, it was announced.
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Monday, June 27th 2022 - 08:37 UTC
Slain British reporter buried in Rio de Janeiro

British reporter Dom Phillips, who was murdered earlier this month while venturing into Amazonia to gather material for a book, has been laid to rest in Niterói, in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro.
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Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 11:08 UTC
Uruguay is back in the oil exploration business; three companies awarded four off shore blocks

Uruguay's oil refining and fuel distribution company Ancap announced on Friday that three blocks and exploration licenses in the country's maritime shelf had been awarded. Two of them were acquired by Shell and the third by Apache Corporation, including an exploratory well, in the framework of the Open Uruguay Round.
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Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 10:20 UTC
Emtrasur: Judge asks US for information on aircraft and crew link to terrorism

Argentine Federal Judge Federico Villena has sent rogatory letters to United States authorities to determine whether the Emtrasur Boeing 747-300 held at the Ezeiza airport was subject to any formal embargo or restriction, it was reported Friday in Buenos Aires.
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Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 10:05 UTC
President says Argentina would like to join BRICS

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday made a virtual appearance at this week's BRICS Summit, during which he asked that his country be admitted into the bloc alongside Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
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Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 10:01 UTC
Nearly 20 million lives saved by Covid-19 vaccines, study shows

Scientists from Imperial College London have released a study explaining that COVID-19 vaccines have saved nearly 20 million lives during their first year of existence, although more could have been achieved had international targets been met.
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Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 09:46 UTC
Local transmission of monkeypox confirmed in Brazil

The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro Friday confirmed the existence of local transmission of the monkeypox virus, after two more cases were detected in men aged 25 and 30 without either a recent travel record or contact with anyone with one.
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Saturday, June 25th 2022 - 09:44 UTC
Faulty lithium batteries caused the fire that killed Jewish family in Buenos Aires

Argentine prosecutors handling the case of Thursday's fire at a building in Buenos Aires' Recoleta neighborhood where 5 members of a Jewish family were killed Friday explained that according to preliminary forensic assessments the cause of ignition was a faulty skateboard lithium battery.
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Friday, June 24th 2022 - 21:15 UTC
Ecuador's Conaie decries death of 4th protester during general strike

Ecuador's Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) has denounced a fourth protester who has died during demonstrations, while human rights groups insisted that repression coupled with abuse of force jeopardized the lives of people exercising their right to express themselves against the policies of President Guillermo Lasso's administration.
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