Politics

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 17:37 UTC

  International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: time to uphold and enforce rights

  

  The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) (*) is celebrating the cultural and linguistic richness of indigenous populations. We recognize their knowledge of the natural world that can provide leadership and guidance to preserve ecosystems in the face of the environmental climate crisis.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Argentine plans opening of land borders as Uruguay gets ready to allow tourists in, among many improvements

  

  Uruguay will start allowing foreigners in as of September 1 while Argentina announced the reopening of its common land borders is being eyed for September 6, as tourism seems headed for a gradual return to pre-pandemic levels.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 08:48 UTC

  Replacements picked for Argentina's cabinet

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday picked new replacements, so that cabinet ministers who will seek a seat in Congress later this year may focus on their campaigns.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  UN climate change report heralds “unprecedented” disasters

  

  A new study released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) foresee the planet's temperature would reach +1.5 ºC compàred to pre-industrial levels by the year 2030, which is ten years earlier than forecast in 2018.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 08:25 UTC

  UK universities, a service industry funded by foreign students

  

  UK universities have received a record number of applications from China, which is helping to compensate financially for the drop in EU students, because of Brexit. EU applications fell 43% to 28,400 while from China the number is 28,490, more than double in four years, according to UK universities admission service, UCAS.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 07:59 UTC

  “Malvinas are Argentine”, but thinking differently is not a crime in Argentina, Patirica Bullrich

  

  Recent statements by representatives from Argentina's intellectual elite referred to the Falklands being a British territory and belonging to the Kelpers, and that Argentina did not exist as such at the time, are still reverberating, but the country is holding primaries and elections next month and in November so some political amendments seem necessary.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 07:49 UTC

  Brazilian indigenous group APIB files criminal charges against President Bolsonaro before ICC

  

  Indigenous lawyers have filed genocide charges against Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro before the International Criminal Court (ICC) based in The Hague, it was announced Monday.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 07:27 UTC

  Argentine President wants to make internet “a public utility”

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday vowed to make internet “a public utility and make those who have to get angry get angry.” Fernández made those remarks during the launching ceremony of the Argentina Program, a government initiative regarding public access to technology.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 10:13 UTC

  Chile in mourning for two days over those who died from COVID-19

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera decreed two days of national mourning Monday and Tuesday (August 9 and 10) in memory of all those who passed away due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Team of forensic experts arrives in Falklands for second phase of Humanitarian Project

  

  An international team of six forensic experts, including two Argentines, and coordinated by the International Committee of the Red Cross is scheduled to arrive this Monday to the Falkland Islands for the second phase of the Humanitarian Project Plan to identify remains of Argentine combatants fallen during the 1982 conflict.