Politics

Monday, July 5th 2021 - 09:47 UTC
Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo hope to find more missing grandchildren thanks to covid-19 vaccination pictures

Argentine victims of disappearances and child abductions during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 are relying on vaccination efforts to help them find some of their 300 missing grandchildren.
Monday, July 5th 2021 - 09:04 UTC
Violence present in fact and thought all across Colombia over the weekend

Violence was present over the weekend all across Colombia either as a factor as a subject of debate.
Monday, July 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
Biden hosts his first 4th of July celebration as US President

US President Joseph Biden Sunday hosted a party at the White House marking the 245th Anniversary of his country's Declaration of Independence.
Monday, July 5th 2021 - 08:47 UTC
Bringing all Argentines stranded abroad back home at a rate of 600 daily passengers might take up to five months

Argentina's Chamber of Airlines (JURCA) issued a statement over this weekend, warning that bringing back all travellers banned from reentering the country following a cap of 600 airborne passengers a day might take up to five months.
Monday, July 5th 2021 - 07:42 UTC
Pope Francis recovering well after colon surgery

Pope Francis was recovering well after undergoing colon surgery Sunday at the Gemelli Polyclinic hospital in Rome, according to the first medical report.
Monday, July 5th 2021 - 07:22 UTC
Chile's Constitutional Convention appoints Mapuche woman to chair it

Mapuche leader Elisa Loncón, a Ph.D. in humanities holder from the Dutch University of Leiden, has been chosen Sunday to preside over the Constituent Convention which will re-write Chile's new Fundamental Law to replace the current text from 1980 passed under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
Monday, July 5th 2021 - 03:15 UTC
Queen Elizabeth awards the George Cross to National Health Service staff, past and present

United Kingdom's head of state, Queen Elizabeth II has awarded the National Health Service, NHS, the George Cross in recognition to its staff past and present. In a handwritten message the Queen says that the NHS staff have done their work “with courage, compassion and dedication” for 73 years.
Saturday, July 3rd 2021 - 11:37 UTC
IATA warns Argentina may face grave consequences for banning international flights

International Air Transport Association (IATA)'s Regional Vice President for America Peter Cerda Friday said Argentina was doing just the opposite compared to the rest of the world regarding aviation services and that such mercurial management might entail unwanted consequences.
Saturday, July 3rd 2021 - 11:26 UTC
Brazilian STF Judge says Prosecution needs to investigate Bolsonaro

Brazil's Supreme Court (STF) Justice Rosa Weber Friday acquiesced to a request from Deputy Attorney General Humberto Jacques de Medeiros to launch an inquiry into President Jair Bolsonaro's involvement in an alleged case of corruption regarding the purchase of Indian-made coronavirus vaccines.
Saturday, July 3rd 2021 - 11:25 UTC
Argentina green lights arrival of US-developed vaccines by means of an emergency decree

Argentine President Alberto Fernández has yet again issued another emergency decree (DNU) which would allow for the purchase of anticoronavirus vaccines from suppliers other than those already cleared to be handled in the country.