Stories for 2025

Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 18:36 UTC
Emergency declared in Colombia as yellow fever cases soar

Colombia has declared a state of emergency due to a yellow fever outbreak, with 74 cases and 34 deaths reported. The virus, transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, has spread beyond typical risk areas like the Amazon, Catatumbo, and Chocó, affecting regions such as Tolima, where cases rose from 4 to 22 since September 2024.
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Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 18:22 UTC
Humala's wife arrives in Brazil, where she was granted asylum

Former Peruvian First Lady Nadine Heredia arrived in Brazil on Wednesday after seeking asylum to avoid serving a 15-year prison sentence handed down on her and her husband Ollanta Humala, who has already been transferred to the Barbadilo prison already housing former heads of State Alejandro Toledo and Pedro Castillo Terrones.
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Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 10:55 UTC
Argentina records slight trade balance surplus

Although positive, Argentina's trade surplus of US$ 323 million in March 2025 represented a sharp drop from US$ 2,160 million in the same month last year, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) said in a report released Wednesday.
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Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 10:41 UTC
Milei takes heavy flak in Bolivia for remarks alongside Bessent

The Bolivian Government of President Luis Arce Catacora criticized Argentine ruler Javier Milei for his verbal attack on Latin American and Caribbean regional integration. During a press conference on Monday in Casa Rosada alongside US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, the Libertarian leader criticized Bolivia's socialist economic model under the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).
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Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 10:35 UTC
Argentina's Indec to gauge CPI differently

Argentine Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos announced Wednesday that a new methodology for calculating the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to measure inflation more accurately is to be implemented shortly by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec), pending institutional review and an awareness campaign.
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Thursday, April 17th 2025 - 10:27 UTC
Boric condemns presidential hopeful's remarks regarding Pinochet's regime

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font strongly condemned opposition leader Evelyn Matthei’s justification of the 1973 coup d’état that overthrew Salvador Allende. Boric insisted that Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military dictatorship (1973-1990) was “criminal and illegitimate” and noted that nothing justified the murders, disappearances, tortures, and exiles that ensued
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Wednesday, April 16th 2025 - 22:57 UTC
The giant squid trawled by Falklands’ vessel preserved at London’s Natural History Museum

In February 2006, a 8.62 meters giant squid caught off the Falkland Islands April 2005 went on public display at the Natural History Museum in London. Researchers at the museum undertook a painstaking process to preserve the giant creature, which is on display in a 9m long glass tank immersed in a mix of salt water and formalin.
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Wednesday, April 16th 2025 - 22:39 UTC
UK’s advert watchdog bans publicity on Brazilian style Miss Bumbum culture competition

UK’s Advertising Standards Authority, ASA, watchdog has banned adverts from six companies selling liquid Brazilian butt lifts (BBLs), for trivializing the risks and exploiting women's insecurities around body image, reports BBC.
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Wednesday, April 16th 2025 - 22:27 UTC
China comparing Trump with an Empress who is 1900 succumbed to foreign powers and ended the empire

By Wang Wen for South China Morning Post (*) - A viral political cartoon circulating in China shows US President Donald Trump dressed in the imperial robes of the Qing dynasty. He is likened to Empress Dowager Cixi, who in 1900 effectively declared war on the Western powers in China, a disastrous move that helped accelerate the collapse of imperial China
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Wednesday, April 16th 2025 - 19:31 UTC
Brazil more restrictive on gender reassignment procedures

A resolution by Brazil's Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) revising ethical and technical guidelines for treating individuals with gender dysphoria was published in Wednesday's issue of the Diário Oficial da União (Official Gazette). The measure introduces key changes, such as banning hormone therapies for individuals under 18 as well as gender reassignment surgeries.
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