International

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Bachelet's last report critical of China regarding Uighurs

  

  Former two-time Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Wednesday filed a report on China's “Crimes against humanity” on her last day as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) as she left her office to a standing ovation.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Mysterious respiratory disease in Argentine province kills two

  

  Health authorities in the Argentine province of Tucumán (center, north) have reported the second death of a still unidentified lung disease that has spread locally over the past few weeks, it was announced.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 19:14 UTC

  Millions of Chinese citizens again under lockdown amid zero-COVID policies

  

  Chinese authorities have once again placed millions of people under lockdown following the resurgence of an outbreak of COVID-19 of the Omicron variant and as a consequence of the national government's zero-COVID policy.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 19:09 UTC

  New British PM to be appointed at Balmoral Castle

  

  According to a Buckingham Palace announcement released Wednesday, Queen Elizabeth II will for the first time in her historic 70-year reign appoint the new prime minister at Balmoral, in Scotland, due to mobility issues affecting the monarch.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Republican Governor lands in Taiwan in yet another chafing mission for Beijing

  

  Arizona's Republican Governor Doug Ducey Tuesday landed in Taipei in yet another US delegation trip enraging Beijing over direct ties between sovereign countries and the island the Asian giant deems a rogue province.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 21:35 UTC

  Saudi woman sentenced to 45 years in jail for Twitter postings

  

  A woman in Saudi Arabia was handed down a 45-year jail sentence Tuesday after being found guilty of posting messages on social media “to tear [the country's] social fabric,” it was reported.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 21:29 UTC

  Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader and father of Perestroika, has died at 91

  

  The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  UK tells India, “Britain has no doubts about Falklands sovereignty,” and Islanders right to self determination

  

  Days after India extended support to Argentina's campaign to restart international negotiations on the Falkland Islands sovereignty claim in the South Atlantic, a British official on Monday said there was “no doubt” about the United Kingdom's sovereignty over the Islands.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  India prepared to eliminate UK components from Tejas jet fighter, of interest for Argentina

  

  On Monday's piece on the visit of Indian External Affairs minister Dr. S. Jaishankar to Buenos Aires we reported the interest of Argentina to strengthen bilateral defense links and cooperation, and at the same time its interest in the fully made Tejas jet fighter to equip the Argentine Air Force.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  F-16s for Argentina, --and convincing UK--, US strategy to contain Chinese influence in the South Atlantic

  

  An article published by the United States Naval Institute, USNI, a private, professional military think-tank which since 1873 provides independent ideas for debating US defense issues, has revealed that Washington, fearful of China's advance in South America, offered back in 2020, surplus Danish F-16A/Bs both to Colombia and Argentina, and is “negotiating with the UK to approve the sale”.