International

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  19-yr-old becomes youngest woman to fly solo around the world

  

  At age 19, Zara Rutherford has become the youngest woman ever to fly solo around the world, after landing back at her Belgian point of departure following a journey of more than 52,000 kilometers (28,000 nautical miles) across several countries and five continents

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  UN General Assembly, except Iran, adopts resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust

  

  On the month of Holocaust Remembrance Day, United Nations General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution rejecting and condemning any denial of the Holocaust following on a joint proposal from Israel and Germany.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Cuba cracks down on free journalism

  

  Following the July 2021 uprisings and how information left the island of Cuba and reached the world, the Communist regime has been revoking visas from foreign journalists, it was reported.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Austria passes law making COVID-19 vax mandatory

  

  The Austrian parliament Thursday approved the introduction of mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 by 137 votes in favor and 33 against. The measure will take effect Feb. 4. Austria has thus become the first European nation to legalize such a practice.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Let us celebrate Penguin Awareness Day with Falklands one of the world's great penguin capitals

  

  Penguin Awareness Day is celebrated annually on the 20th of January and this year was on Thursday. The founder of Penguin Awareness Day is unknown, and there is no information on when this day was first celebrated.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 20:30 UTC

  Latam Airlines drops 777s to the US out of fear of 5G interferences

  

  Latam Airlines has agreed to follow Boeing's advice and not use the 777 models for its services between Brazil and the United States to avoid problems stemming from 5G cell phone antennas which may interfere with navigation gear.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 20:10 UTC

  Maxwell's legal team files for retrial after jury was probably biased

  

  Disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team has formally requested a retrial after details concerning the private life of one of the members of the jury who convicted her became public.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  OAS condemns presence in Nicaragua, of Iranian official accused of aggravated murder by Argentine justice

  

  Twenty-two-country members from the Organization of American States, OAS, on Wednesday approved a strong statement condemning the presence of the Iranian official Mohsen Rezai in Nicaragua during the taking office ceremony of president Daniel Ortega. Rezai has been indicted by Argentine Justice for his alleged masterminding of the 1994 attack on the Jewish organization Amia in Buenos Aires killing 85 people and injuring dozens.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Peru wants Repsol to pay damages for oil spill amid Tonga volcano eruption

  

  Peru's Foreign Ministry Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Spanish oil company Repsol for damages caused by a spill in Ventanilla, in the province Callao province.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Soap opera foreign policy: US tells Argentina keep up negotiations with IMF

  

  Last October when Argentine president Alberto Fernandez left for Rome to the G20 leaders' summit, his office informed that he was expecting to meet with US president Joe Biden to among other issues address support for Argentina in its ongoing exhausting negotiations with the IMF.