International

• Monday, May 17th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Uruguay: tourism almost back to normal by October – travel pass on the way

  

  Uruguay's Tourism Undersecretary Remo Monzeglio Sunday explained in a radio interview that his country envisions a quasi total return to normalcy for this coming October and that “we are preparing for the (summer) season.”

• Monday, May 17th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Israel sees no imminent end to Gaza air strikes

  

  Israel was still pounding Hamas positions inside the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Monday morning, just hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that there was no end in sight to the operations.

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 18:52 UTC

  Argentine scientist Kini Roesler wins Whitley Award for nature conservation in Patagonia

  

  In 2009, he had a plane ticket to the United States and everything set as a young biologist to start a PhD on tropical Andean birds. However, Argentine biologist Ignacio “Kini” Roesler, decided to stay at home to investigate the dire situation of the Hooded Grebe and help it from extinction. Twelve years later, Kini won a Whitley Award for its work with the Patagonia Programme for the conservation of the vulnerable Patagonian bird.

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  Argentine President tells IMF head no more efforts from Argentine people acceptable

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday rounded up his one-week European tour with meetings in Rome with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva and former US Secretary of State John Kerry before flying back to Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Diplomatic rift with China results in shortage of active ingredient to produce vaccines in Brazil

  

  São Paulo Governor Joao Doria Friday blamed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for a diplomatic crisis with China, which led to the suspension of supplies to manufacturing vaccines against the coronavirus.

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 08:49 UTC

  Brazil bans entry of foreign travellers from India due to rising number of covid-19 cases

  

  The Brazilian government has banned the entry of travellers from India as a result of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the Asian country, an extra edition of the Diário Oficial da União (Official Gazette) published on Friday.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 09:31 UTC

  Brazil could have bought Pfizer vaccines much earlier, but Bolsonaro ignored the offer

  

  Carlos Murillo, general manager for Latin America at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, said Thursday that three offers were made to Brazil during 2020 to supply vaccines against coronavirus, but all were rejected by President Jair Bolsonaro's government.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Investor confidence in Uruguay allows for local currency bond issue

  

  Uruguay placed on the market a new 10-year peso bond for the equivalent of US $ 1,166 million at an interest rate of 8.25% per year, reported the Minister of Economy, Azucena Arbeleche. It is the lowest interest rate in the historical comparison of emissions by Uruguay.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentine President meets Italian PM, the Pope and a top World Bank official

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday met with his Italian counterpart, Sergio Mattarella, with Prime Minister Mario Draghi and with Pope Francis in another stop of his one-week European tour.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 08:36 UTC

  US advises against travel to Israel as violence escalates in conflict

  

  The Government of the United States has advised against travel to Israel after evacuating some 120 Pentagon staff members from the war-torn region, it was announced Thursday.