International

• Tuesday, October 26th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  China goes back to lockdown and other restrictions as Delta variant keeps spreading

  

  Chinese authorities have decided to go back to restrictive sanitary measures as around 133 cases of COVID-19 were detected in 11 provinces last week. The Beijing marathon has also been suspended.

• Tuesday, October 26th 2021 - 08:10 UTC

  Military forces take control of Sudan; arrest PM and politicians

  

  Sudan's Army Monday has taken control of the capital city of Khartoum and arrested acting Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok as well as members of the sovereign council and other leading politicians. The coup has been condemned around the world, and the US halted US $ 700 million in aid, it was reported.

• Tuesday, October 26th 2021 - 00:31 UTC

  COVID-19 infections back on the rise

  

  COVID-19 had been relatively calm in Argentina until last week the number of cases began soaring again, with 7667 infections detected against 946 the week before.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 17:54 UTC

  Russia decrees “soft” quarantine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 from spreading

  

  Russian health authorities decreed a shutdown from Oct. 28 to Nov. 7 in a move to curb COVID-19 infections, it was announced, after 1,036 deaths in the last 24 hours were reported.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Bolivia's FM says no lithium deal discussed with Russia's Gazprom

  

  Bolivia's Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta Sunday denied press reports according to which he had reached an agreement with the Russian government to exploit lithium from the Salar de Uyuni during his recent trip to Moscow.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Climate change tops agenda during encounter between Argentine, US officials

  

  Argentina's Secretary of Strategic Affairs Gustavo Beliz and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan held a meeting in Washington DC to discuss the climate change agenda and the current negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, it was reported.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Oil tanker captain and FO shot dead off Argentine coast

  

  A sailor with a criminal record killed the captain and first officer of a Maltese-flagged oil tanker and then turned himself into the authorities off the coast of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Old landmines kill six in Senegal

  

  Six people were killed in Senegal by an old landmine in the Casamance region, the local mayor said Saturday. President Macky Sall offered his condolences to the families of the victims in a statement posted on Twitter. A spokesperson for the education minister, also said two of the victims had been primary school age.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 08:39 UTC

  Unprecedented consensus in Chile against newspaper article marking 75th anniversary of Göring's death

  

  Chile's Jewish community, Germany's Embassy in Santiago and the entire country's political spectrum Sunday agreed to condemn an article carried by the large-circulation daily El Mercurio reviewing the life of convicted Nazi leader Hermann Göring.

• Saturday, October 23rd 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Falkland Islands trade with the European Union and Rules of Origin

  

  The Falkland Islands government has released the following, ”Falkland Islands are not deemed part of the European Single Market. However, under the current OAD, the Islands have: