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Stories for 2023

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

    China's President not attending G20 Summit in New Delhi

    Premier Li Qiang will be representing China in India

    China's President Xi Jinping Monday announced he would not be attending the Sept. 9-10 G20 Summit in New Delhi and that his country would be represented by Prime Minister Li Qiang. Xi has attended every G20 summit since coming to power except Rome in 2021 when he participated by video link.

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

    Extratropical cyclone kills 4 in southern Brazil

    An extratropical cyclone forming in the west of Rio Grande do Sul had been forecast

    At least four people were killed in Brazil's southeastern State of Rio Grande do Sul after an extratropical cyclone hit the area Monday leaving hundreds of homes without electricity, Agência Brasil reported.

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

    South Georgia Biosecurity Handbook Update Released

    The Handbook details the procedures which are in place to help reduce the risk of harmful non-native species and disease entering the Territory,

    The latest version of the Government of South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands Biosecurity Handbook is now available online. The Handbook details the procedures which are in place to help reduce the risk of harmful non-native species and disease entering the Territory, along with the steps in place to detect them and limit their spread should they arrive.

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    Massa, Indian Ambassador discuss bilateral trade ahead of G20 Summit

    It was the second encounter between Massa and Bhatia in just three weeks

    Argentina's Economy Minister and presidential candidate Sergio Massa met Monday in Buenos Aires with India's Ambassador Dinesh Bhatia ahead of the Sept. 9-10 G20 Summit in New Delhi.

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    A backward Church or an ideologically combative and confused Pope?

    Pope Francis last week called the US branch of the Church “backward”, accusing right-wing American Catholics of replacing faith with ideology

    By Gwynne Dyer – Javier Milei, who is very likely to be elected president of Argentina in the October election, is fairly frank in his view of Pope Francis, a fellow Argentine. He calls Francis “a Communist turd” and “the representative of the Evil One on Earth”. Even for a ranter like Milei, who ranks very high on the Trump scale of invective, that’s rare praise.

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Chancellor Olaf Scholz attempts some German humor

    “Thanks for the well wishes, it looks worse than it is!” Scholz wrote under the picture on his official account. “Excited to see the memes”

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz released a photo of himself wearing an eye patch on Monday after he fell while jogging. Scholz, an avid jogger, sustained bruises and grazes to the right side of his face.

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 09:40 UTC

    Peru: Shining Path attack results in 6 people killed

    “My deepest condolences to the families of the four courageous members of the Peruvian army who died in Putis, Ayacucho,” Boluarte said on social networks

    Four Peruvian troops and two members of the Shining Path terrorist group were killed in a gunfight in the department of Ayacucho where a law enforcement patrol was performing “territorial control actions,” it was reported from Lima by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. Remnants of the Maoist rebel group once focused on overthrowing the government have turned to drug trafficking.

  • Monday, September 4th 2023 - 11:35 UTC

    Argentina: Leftwing terrorism victims' event sparks reaction from human rights groups

    Congresswoman Villarruel has long pressed for the reopening of the statute-barred crimes of Montoneros and ERP

    Human rights organizations in Argentina Sunday expressed their rejection of Libertarian Congresswoman and Vice-Presidential candidate Victoria Villarruel offering a “tribute” on Monday to the victims of terrorism in the 1970s at the Buenos Aires City Legislature.

  • Monday, September 4th 2023 - 11:26 UTC

    Peru: State of Emergency around Ubinas volcano extended

    The Ubinas is, together with Sabancaya, the most active volcano in Peru

    Peru's Government extended for another 60 days starting Monday the State of Emergency decreed around the erupting Ubinas volcano in the Moquegua region, some 1,250 km south of Lima, it was published Sunday in El Peruano (Official Gazette).

  • Monday, September 4th 2023 - 11:22 UTC

    Syphilis cases mounting in Argentine province of Chubut

    “Syphilis has a cure and its treatment is very simple,” Restuccia explained

    Health authorities in the Argentine province of Chubut have expressed their concern about an increase in the number of cases of syphilis. The provincial Health Ministry is working on different strategies and policies aimed at promoting the prevention of this disease and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), according to local media in Rawson.