Stories for 2024

Thursday, August 22nd 2024 - 08:41 UTC
Colombian gov't targets mercenary market

Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo filed a bill before Congress Wednesday to legislate against the creation, financing, and training of mercenary groups in the country. The initiative took into account the involvement of 26 Colombian nationals in the July 7, 2021, murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, among other notorious incidents.
Thursday, August 22nd 2024 - 08:13 UTC
Antarctic Treaty Secretariat: vacancy for Executive Secretary

The Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting invites applications for the role of Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty. Apply to the FCDO by 30 September 2024.
Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 17:09 UTC
Brazil eager to develop large-scale production of mpox vax

Brazil's newly-formed monkeypox emergency committee underlined this week that one of its main goals was to develop a vaccine as one of its leading strategies with which to fight the malady the World Health Organization (WHO) last week deemed a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), Agencia Brasil reported.
Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 16:42 UTC
Bolivia to focus on biodiesel production

Bolivia's Minister of Rural Development and Lands, Yamil Flores, underlined Tuesday that his country would use biotechnology to produce biodiesel. He also noted that this technology, although promising, must be handled responsibly, considering its impact on people's health as well as on the environment.
Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 15:43 UTC
US sanctions former Haitian president for alleged drug trafficking

The United States' Treasury Department Tuesday imposed a series of sanctions on former Haitian President Michel Joseph Martelly (2011-2016) for allegedly abusing his influence to facilitate drug trafficking. The former head of state is also accused of perpetuating the ongoing crisis in the Caribbean country.
Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 10:45 UTC
Freighter isolated off Argentine port due to suspected mpox case

A Liberian-flagged cereal freighter was isolated off the Argentine port of San Lorenzo, north of Rosario on the Parana River, after a crewmember was reported to have monkeypox symptoms. The vessel stemmed from Spain.
Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 09:45 UTC
Paraguay River downspout reaching historic lows

Paraguay's National Administration of Navigation and Ports (ANNP) reported Tuesday that the Paraguay River had dawned two centimeters below Monday's level at 0.71 meters, dangerously approaching the Oct. 6, 2021, all-time low of -0.75 meters.
Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 09:41 UTC
Jones Huala must leave Chile at the earliest

Argentine-born Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala must leave Chile as soon as he is discharged from the hospital where he was admitted after going on a hunger strike for 50 days to demand his freedom which the Supreme Court granted last week, the authorities in Santiago ruled last Friday.
Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 08:46 UTC
Mpox not the new Covid-19, WHO official explains

Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) regional director for Europe, admitted Tuesday that mpox would not lead to a “cycle of panic” and lockdowns like Covid-19 did, despite the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) declaration.
Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 08:12 UTC
World's oldest person passes away aged 117

María Branyas Morera, a US-born Spanish woman who was believed to be the world's longest-lived person following the passing of French nun Lucile Randon in January last year, died at the age of 117, her family announced on social media Tuesday. In her X account, she described herself as “very old, but not an idiot.” Branyas was living in a home for the elderly in Olot, Girona. Her family planned a strictly private memorial.