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Stories for 2024

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 08:27 UTC

    Paris 2024 Olympic Games come to an end

    Actor Tom Cruise was the main attraction during Sunday's ceremony

    The Paris 2024 Olympics have come to an end. The traditional sporting competition, marred by contradicting arguments over the womanhood or lack thereof of an Algerian boxing fighter, ended with a colorful ceremony featuring US actor Tom Cruise as the main attraction performing a stunt.

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 08:25 UTC

    French rugbiers' future about to be decided

    Lawyer Rafael Cúneo Libarona, brother of the Federal Justice Minister, is representing the two players

    French international rugby players Oscar Jégou and Hugo Auradou might be released Monday from house arrest in the Argentine city of Mendoza where they are facing rape charges. Prosecutor Darío Nora will have to decide whether to file for their continued detention or face the trial in freedom. According to local media, the latter is the most likely option given the new evidence produced by the defense.

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 06:51 UTC

    Machado announces ecumenic protest for Aug. 17

    “The truth is in sight: Edmundo González won. Venezuela won,” Machado insisted on social media

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado announced that on “Saturday, August 17, we will take to the streets of Venezuela and the world” to protest against the alleged fraud committed by the National Electoral Council (CNE) when it announced that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had won the July 28 elections, thus earning the right to remain in office during the 2025-2031 term.

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 06:43 UTC

    Virtual Summit featuring Maduro, Lula, Petro, and AMLO being arranged

    “The purpose is to generate a dialogue that leads to very specific agreements,” Murillo pointed out

    According to Colombia's Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo, a virtual summit bringing together Presidents Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Gustavo Petro (Colombia), and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO - Mexico) has been agreed upon to discuss the crisis triggered by the July 28 elections which both the ruling party and the opposition in Caracas claim to have won.

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 06:33 UTC

    Aerolíneas Argentinas pilots' protests affecting travel arrangements

    The pilots had been made “disposable offers that disrespect our profession,” Biro explained

    Aerolineas Argentinas flights might be canceled or delayed in the coming days as the Airline Pilots Association (APLA) is planning to stage a series of measures over wages pending updating and other claims. In addition, the union grouping flight attendants is also considering a similar attitude, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, August 12th 2024 - 06:20 UTC

    Venezuelan Supreme Court's ruling on elections not open for appeals

    The TSJ's Electoral Chamber ”is the highest judicial instance in electoral matters, Justice Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez explained

    Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) Chief Justice Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez warned that the ruling on the July 28 polls would be definitive and binding. In other words, the decision will be not open to appeals and must be enforced.

  • Saturday, August 10th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Alberto Fernandez's home raided

    The former President also resigned as chairman of the Peronist party

    Former Argentine President Alberto Fernández's apartment in the exclusive Puerto Madero neighborhood of Buenos Aires was raided Friday as a part of the gender violence probe launched on him following the complaint filed by his ex-common-law spouse Fabiola Yáñez. Fernández's cell phone and every other electronic device found on the premises were seized.

  • Saturday, August 10th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Passenger misses doomed Voepass flight for drinking coffee

    “He was doing his job and he saved my life,” the survivor told a local TV crew )TV snapshot)

    Passenger Adriano Assis got delayed drinking coffee and missed the boarding call for the Voepass Linhas Aereas flight that plunged to the ground some 89 kilometers from its final destination at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport. Hence, the total number of casualties was corrected to 61 (57 passengers and 4 crew members) instead of 62.

  • Saturday, August 10th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

    Maduro brings electoral documents to TSJ

    Maduro insisted all his hearings with the judges should be made public knowledge

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Friday delivered to the Supreme Court (TSJ) the electoral records in possession of the parties that supported his candidacy in the July 28 elections, Agencia Brasil reported. The TSJ is conducting an investigation at Maduro's request after the opposition cried “fraud” and insisted Edmundo González Urrutia had been the winner.

  • Saturday, August 10th 2024 - 10:22 UTC

    Elderly woman given 17 year jail sentence in Brasilia's Jan. 8 riot trial

    The defendant said she was to take down De Moraes during the uprising. He was among the ones who voted to keep her in jail for 17 years

    Maria de Fátima Mendonça Jacinto Souza, aged 67 and better known as Fátima de Tubarão, was sentenced Friday to 17 years in prison by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) for her involvement in the Jan. 8, 2023, riots at the Three Powers Square in Brasília (DF). The sentence was announced Friday after an STF virtual plenary session.