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Stories for April 2024

  • Monday, April 8th 2024 - 07:41 UTC

    Colombia: Rebels demand ceasefire honored, or else...

    “It is necessary to reestablish the bilateral and national ceasefire,” the guerrillas insisted

    A dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Sunday asked President Gustavo Pedtro's administration to reestablish a nationwide ceasefire or else Colombian Army facilities would be attacked. The rebel Central General Staff (EMC) also asked civilians to stay away from military and police officers.

  • Saturday, April 6th 2024 - 11:16 UTC

    Brazil: Mercury detected in Yanomami people's hair samples

    Illegal mining has been linked to health issues among the Yanomami population

    The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) conducted a series of tests among Yanomami indigenous people in the state of Roraima in northern Brazil which detected the presence of mercury in 84% of the hair samples taken from them in October 2022, Agencia Brasil reported this week. These findings were linked to illegal gold mining in the area.

  • Saturday, April 6th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

    Milei ratifies Argentina's alignment with US

    Milei also criticized Argentina's foreign policy under Alberto Fernández (2019-2023)

    Argentina President Javier Milei announced Friday that his country's alliance with the United States had become a part of his administration's “new foreign policy doctrine” because both nations “share a tradition based on freedom, the defense of life and private property.”

  • Saturday, April 6th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Mexican embassy in Quito stormed by police, diplomatic ties with Ecuador severed

    Ecuador's measure was in breach of international law, AMLO stressed

    The Government of Mexico announced it was cutting off all diplomatic ties with Ecuador after local authorities stormed Friday into the Embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorean Vice President Jorge Glas, who has sought asylum in the diplomatic mission.

  • Saturday, April 6th 2024 - 04:09 UTC

    Airfield resurfacing project in the Falkland Islands completed

    Workers taking part in the resurfacing of the alpha loop. MOD Crown Copyright MOD – Cpl Laura Wing.

    The British Government Defense Infrastructure Organization (DIO) has completed an £8.9 million project to resurface the alpha loop at Mount Pleasant Complex airfield on the Falkland Islands.

  • Friday, April 5th 2024 - 21:34 UTC

    Kicillof blames Milei for writing himself off from battle against dengue

    Milei's health strategy “seems like a joke, but it is very serious,” Argentina's main opposition leader stressed

    Buenos Aires province governor Axel Kicillof accused Argentine President Javier Milei of writing himself off the country's plight with dengue fever and leaving it all up to the different jurisdictions. Kicillof, a political figure akin to Kirchnerism and arguably the most prominent opposition leader these days, said the federal government behaved as one of a “deserting and absent national State.” The Libertarian administration has no State strategy to tackle the problem, he also argued.

  • Friday, April 5th 2024 - 21:04 UTC

    Maduro angered by Milei's calls to sanction Venezuela

    The Venezuelan president argued that his Argentine colleague represented Zionism and fascism

    President Nicolás Maduro Thursday criticized his Argentine counterpart for promoting sanctions against Venezuela. The Bolivarian successor of Hugo Chaves Frías stressed that with Milei came “fascism” and “Zionism, which is the new fascism.”

  • Friday, April 5th 2024 - 19:49 UTC

    Rare earthquake hits New York City area

    Although rare, previous seisms have been recorded in the New York area

    No victims were reported after a 4.8º magnitude on the Richter scale hit the vicinity of New York City and parts of neighboring New Jersey. According to local media citing United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports, the epicenter was located some 60 miles from Manhattan, in the town of Lebanon in New Jersey State at a depth of 5,000 meters. The quake was also felt in parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts as well as in Philadelphia.

  • Friday, April 5th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Milei makes snap trip to Ushuaia to meet Southern Command Chief Richardson

    Milei gave a press conference in the early hours of Friday after meeting Richardson

    Argentine President Javier Milei made a snap trip to Ushuaia late Thursday to meet US Southern Command Chief General Laura Richardson after Governor Gustavo Melella refused to welcome her and insisted she was “persona non grata.”

  • Friday, April 5th 2024 - 10:58 UTC

    Uruguayan Senator and former Minister Adrián Peña killed in car crash

    Peña was at the wheel of his car. He was not wearing his seatbelt and his driver's license had expired two years ago. Photo: Sebastián Astorga

    Uruguayan Senator Adrián Peña was killed Thursday in a head-on car crash in the department (province) of Canelones on Route 36. He had actively represented his country as the first Environment Minister at the Glasgow 2021 Conference of Parties. He was forced to resign amid a scandal involving his college degree (or lack thereof) in January last year, after which he effectively took his Senate seat on Jan. 30, 2023.