Stories for 2024

Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 09:18 UTC
Online bingo is helping the pastime to spread across South America

Prior to the turn of the millennium, bingo wasn’t a major pastime across South America. You could find games in certain places, but it certainly wasn’t mainstream. While the game blew up in the USA and the UK, it never really spread around this continent in the same way.
Monday, January 15th 2024 - 20:59 UTC
Nicaraguan clergymen said to have been freed and deported

Nicaraguan authorities released from prison and deported Catholic Bishops Rolando Álvarez and Isidoro Mora, 13 priests, and three seminarians, it was reported Sunday in Managua. Álvarez was sentenced in February 2023 to 26 years and 4 months in prison for treason.
Monday, January 15th 2024 - 20:34 UTC
Arévalo sworn in as President of Guatemala at last

Although some ten hours later than scheduled, Bernardo Arévalo de León was eventually sworn in early Monday as Guatemala's new president for the period 2024-2028. After his inauguration, he was to offer his first speech as constitutional head of state. Before Arévalo's turn, 160 deputies took their oaths of office, thus extending the ceremony in time beyond projections.
Monday, January 15th 2024 - 16:55 UTC
Violent confrontation leaves five dead and five injured in Argentina

A brutal clash erupted on Sunday afternoon within an occupied area in the Buenos Aires town of González Catán, La Matanza, resulting in a massacre: five dead and five injured, two of them critically.
Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:55 UTC
Milei off to Davos, has meeting arranged with IMF's Georgieva

Argentine President Javier Milei is departing Monday to Davos, Switzerland, on regular airline flights with stopovers in Frankfurt and Zurich to participate in the World Economic Forum (WEF). According to Casa Rosada sources quoted by local media in Buenos Aires, he is also to have a one-on-one meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:43 UTC
ITA Airways flight makes emergency landing in Montevideo due to passenger's death

An ITA Airways flight traveling from Rome to Buenos Aires had to make an emergency landing at Carrasco Airport in Montevideo this morning following the death of a passenger, according to airport sources.
Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:26 UTC
Paraguay cleared to ship beef on the bone to Israel

Paraguay has been authorized by Israel's Veterinary and Animal Health Service (IVSAH) to sell beef on the bone to that country, the National Animal Health and Quality Service (Senacsa) announced Sunday in Asunción. Uruguay Israel's approval on Jan. 8.
Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:21 UTC
Sierra Leone delegation visits Falklands to learn on fisheries and conservation

A delegation from Sierra Leone headed by Mrs. Princess Dugba, Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources together with Ms Harriet Mathews, Director General Africa and the Americas at the Foreign and Development Office are currently in the Falkland Islands as part of a program to share fisheries, environment and conservation policies experiences.
Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:18 UTC
Military exercise in the Falklands at the end of January

The British Ministry of Defense, responsible for the Falkland Islands security, has announced that on January 23 and 24, the Roulement Infantry Company, RIC, will be involved in exercises on Mount Kent and Stanley Common, specifically Mount William and Sapper Hill.
Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:15 UTC
Paraguay's incipient pig farming exported 5,500 tons of pork to Taiwan in 2023

Following on the opening of the Taiwanese market for Paraguay pork exports, 2023 finished with a remarkable growth of 550%, over 2022, both in volume and value. Paraguay is one of the very few countries in the world that still has full diplomatic relations with the Republic of China, better known as Taiwan.