Politics

Saturday, May 8th 2021 - 03:40 UTC
Chinese delegation in Argentina to offer the Air Force, the supersonic aircraft JF-17

A top-ranking delegation from China's National Aero-Technology import-export corporation, CATIC, is currently in Argentina to discuss defense cooperation and with the proposal to offer the Argentine Air Force supersonic capable aircraft, according to InfoDefensa.ar, an Argentine site which specializes in defense industry issues.
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Friday, May 7th 2021 - 09:13 UTC
Colombia still shattered by unrest and demonstrations

Colombia's National Unemployment Committee, an opposition group which brings together some 40 organizations, Wednesday staged another row of demonstrations nationwide against policies carried out by President Iván Duque, who insisted on regarding these actions as “extreme vandalism and urban terrorism”
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Friday, May 7th 2021 - 09:05 UTC
Brazilian FM underscores China's significance to the South American country

Brazil's Foreign Minister Carlos França Thursday expressed his country's intentions to expand and diversify its economic and trade relations with China, which has grown to become its largest trading partner.
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Friday, May 7th 2021 - 09:01 UTC
Warlike tensions between UK, France over Jersey fisheries subside, for now

The Royal Navy late Thursday withdrew two vessels off Jersey Island, thus easing tensions with France over fishing rights and a demonstration by trawlers in demand of access to waters under a different legal status since Brexit.
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Friday, May 7th 2021 - 08:57 UTC
China open to trade deal either with Uruguay or with all of Mercosur, says Ambassador

China's Ambassador in Montevideo Wang Gang Wednesday underlined his country's “open attitude” towards a trade agreement “either bilateral or en bloc” with Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) “when Uruguay or the bloc as a whole are ready.”
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Friday, May 7th 2021 - 08:55 UTC
Butantan head points fingers at Bolsonaro for shortages of covid-19 vaccines

Butantan Institute Director Dimas Covas Thursday blamed President Jair Bolsonaro's anti-Chinese stance for the delay in the arrival and distribution of anti-covid-19 vaccines into Brazil.
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Friday, May 7th 2021 - 08:40 UTC
Deadliest clash with police leaves 25 dead in Rio de Janeiro favela

An anti-drug raid by Rio de Janeiro law enforcement agents Thursday left 24 suspects and one police officer dead in the precarious Jacareizinho favela.
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Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 19:09 UTC
Falkland Islands Government supporting works to determine possible presence of unidentified Argentine graves at Teal Inlet

The Falkland Islands Government is to support efforts to establish whether there is unidentified Argentine military personnel buried at Teal Inlet, according to a statement released this afternoon.
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Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 08:58 UTC
Does Colombian President Duque grasp the seriousness of the situation?

In a country where 24 people have died in clashes with police and some 800 have been injured, Colombian President Iván Duque woke up Wednesday and gave a radio interview during which he addressed this year's Copa America football competition, which his country is to co-host with Argentina, and guaranteed everything will go on as planned.
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Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 08:40 UTC
Covid-19 spreading even among Mount Everest climbers

Despite a Nepalese Health Ministry warning last week that “hospitals have run out of beds,” there is no cancellation of expeditions to Mount Everest insight.
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