International

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  OAS says Hamas is a terrorist group

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) Monday added the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas -founded in 1987- to the list of terrorist groups, following its recent rocket attacks against Israel, it was announced in Washington DC.

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  Rio's Jesus Christ “praises” vaccines and China sends key ingredient for their production

  

  Rio de Janeiro's iconic statue of Jesus Christ was the recipient of an advertising campaign in favour of coronavirus vaccines, which coincided with the news that Brazil would be receiving the key ingredients from China for the local production of immunizers.

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Costa Rica on the verge of joining OECD

  

  Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Monday welcomed the approval by the Legislative Assembly to his country's joining the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

• 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.