International

• Monday, April 26th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Venezuela remains the most “miserable” country - Argentina not far behind

  

  Venezuela easily held to the dubious honour of being at the top of the list of the 2020 Global Economic Misery Index, while Argentina was merely seven notches behind.

• Monday, April 26th 2021 - 08:41 UTC

  Anvisa expected to decide Monday on fate of Sputnik V vaccine in Brazil

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) will evaluate this coming week the feasibility of importing the Russian-manufactured Sputnik V vaccine against covid-19.

• Monday, April 26th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Indonesian submarine found at sea bottom cracked in three - all 53 crew dead

  

  The Government of Indonesia has announced the missing KRI Nanggala-402 submarine, which disappeared about 60 miles off the coast of Bali early on Wednesday morning, has been found split in three on the seafloor - none of the 53 crew survived.

• Monday, April 26th 2021 - 06:19 UTC

  Guardiola's Manchester City win League Cup, shake up books of records

  

  Spanish football manager Pep Guardiola Sunday became the first manager to win the League Cup in four consecutive seasons when Manchester City beat Tottenham Hotspurs 1-0 in the Carabao Cup final in front of 8,000 fans at Wembley.

• Sunday, April 25th 2021 - 23:59 UTC

  Recapture of South Georgia will always be a part of the story of the Falkland Islands

  

  39 years ago, Operation Paraquet – a subsidiary of Operation Corporate – led to the successful recapture of South Georgia by British Armed Forces. This followed an initial incursion on 3 April by the Argentine military, which was one of the earliest flashpoints of the Falkland Islands War.

• Sunday, April 25th 2021 - 23:21 UTC

  World Penguin Day once again celebrated in times of Covid-19

  

  This Sunday, April 25, is World Penguin Day's celebration, a creation by researchers at the McMurdo Station, an American scientific center on Antarctica's Ross Island to mark every year's migration of Adeline penguins to the north.

• Sunday, April 25th 2021 - 14:12 UTC

  Biden tells it like it is: The killing of Armenians in WWI was “genocide”

  

  US President Joseph Biden tells it like it is and calls the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire during World War I “a genocide.”

• Saturday, April 24th 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Apple retailer iPlace lands in Montevideo thanks to better tax conditions than those in Argentina

  

  Apple's largest retailer in South America, iPlace, which is present in 27 Brazilian states has landed this week in Uruguay. The company iPlace chose Montevideo to start its international expansion to be able to keep an eye on the Argentine market thanks to its geographical proximity, iPlace CEO Matheus Mundstock explained.

• Saturday, April 24th 2021 - 08:48 UTC

  Argentine Navy takes delivery of brand new patrol vessel in France

  

  The Argentine Navy last week took delivery in Concarneau, France, of the brand new Ocean Patrol Vessel (OPV) 87 ARA Piedrabuena which is expected to arrive at its future home base in Mar del Plata to start operating along with her sister ship of the Gowind class, the ARA Bouchard, it was reported.

• Saturday, April 24th 2021 - 07:37 UTC

  Canada bans air traffic to and from India, Pakistan as covid-19 cases soar

  

  Canada has banned all flights arriving from Pakistan and also from India, where the spread of the coronavirus pandemic seems to have to ceil.