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Stories for 2024

  • Saturday, November 23rd 2024 - 10:29 UTC

    Bolsonaro denies any knowledge of plans to kill Lula and Alckmin

    “Discussing with me a plan to kill someone, that never happened,” Bolsonaro underlined

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro insisted Friday that “discussing a plan to kill someone never happened,” despite what has been widely published in local media. Several military officers from his days in the Planalto Palace have been arrested for allegedly planning to take down Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin after winning the runoff, in addition to Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes. In an interview via videoconference with Veja, Bolsonaro also downplayed his relationship with those apprehended.

  • Saturday, November 23rd 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Monsalve case saga: Former official threatened in prison by criminal gang

    Monsalve was to be housed in a special module isolated from the rest of the inmates in Rancagua but that was not enough

    The case of former Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve keeps making headlines in Chile even after the former official has been placed under pre-trial detention to face rape charges against a female worker under him. A judge ordered him transferred Friday from the Rancagua Jailhouse to the Capitán Yáber detention facility in Santiago's Metropolitan Region out of security concerns.

  • Saturday, November 23rd 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    WHO Chief recalls that mpox remains a public emergency

    “I call on affected countries to step up their responses,” Tedros insisted

    World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recalled through a posting on X that mpox remained a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) after an emergency committee meeting Friday.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 20:24 UTC

    Uruguayan company to sell biofuel to The Netherlands

    This biomass fuel is highly appreciated in Europe for its environmental advantages

    Uruguay is to ship to The Netherlands 300 tons of biofuels from ALUR's corn oil distillery in the Capurro neighborhood of Montevideo. These are the first biodiesel productions from distillery corn oils, it was also reported this week.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 19:47 UTC

    At least 12 arrested in Ecuador anti-gov't demonstration

    Villavicencio said the mobilization was in rejection of the economic crisis, the insecurity hitting the country, and the energy crisis that has affected employment

    Ecuador's law enforcement forces arrested at least 12 people during Thursday's anti-government protests in Quito, which also left three policemen injured out of 2,000 deployed to disperse the demonstrators who opposed the administration of President Daniel Noboa amid an unprecedented energy crisis that made electricity a scarce commodity as daily blackouts last up to 14 hours. The mobilization had been called by the United Workers' Front (FUT) and by several student federations to protest against Noboa's policies.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 19:27 UTC

    Eight former Argentine Army officers convicted for death of 2nd Lt in ritualistic party

    Chirino endured abusive treatment during his “baptism”

    Former Argentine Army officers Rubén Darío Ruiz, Claudio Andrés Luna, Hugo Reclus Martínez Tárraga, Exequiel Emanuel Aguilar, Darío Emanuel Martínez, Luis Facundo Acosta were sentenced Thursday to 8 years in jail for the crime of abandonment of person in concurrence with abuse of authority in the death of Second Lieutenant Matías Ezequiel Chirino in a ritualistic initiation known as “baptism” at the Artillery Group 3 in Paso de los Libres in the province of Corrientes on June 19, 2022. Meanwhile, former privates Gerardo Sebastián Bautista, Franco Damián Grupico, and Claudia Daniela Cayata were acquitted.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:53 UTC

    Milei regrets ICC's measure against Netanyahu

    Israel has an ally in Argentina, insisted Milei

    Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday expressed his “profound disagreement” with the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In the Libertarian leader's view, the ruling “distorts the spirit of international justice.”

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    PM Starmer and Brazil’s Lula da Silva announce Joint Statement to accelerate global green power transition

    UK Prime Minister Starmer is received by President Lula da Silva on arrival at the G20 summit held in Rio do Janeiro

    The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer, and the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met in the margins of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the UK-Brazil relationship and to announce new areas of cooperation in a Joint Statement

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Gibraltar Chief Minister first formal bilateral meeting with IK PM Starmer

    Chief Minister Picardo and Falklands MLA Roger Spink among the OTs representatives at the JMC with Overseas Territories Minister Stephen Doughty MP

    Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo held his first formal bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday. The ongoing negotiations for a UK - EU Gibraltar agreement and support for Gibraltar were the main issues discussed.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Praise for Milei’s stabilization program: IDB approves 2 billion dollars in loans for Argentina

    The loans will assist the country in key measures to strengthen public finances, energy sector sustainability, and child development

    The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Executive Board approved four operations, totaling over 2 billion US dollars to support Argentina's strategy to promote fiscal sustainability and lay the groundwork for sustainable and equitable growth. The loans will assist the country in key measures to strengthen public finances, energy sector sustainability, and child development. Additionally, the IDB will support the City of Buenos Aires in improving access to public health services.