Politics

Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 09:26 UTC
Uruguay's GACH comes to an end

Uruguay's Group of Honorary Advisers to the Presidency in matters regarding the anti-covid-19 fight, known as GACH was dissolved Wednesday after a meeting with President Luis Lacalle Pou at the Executive Tower in Montevideo.
Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 09:22 UTC
Brazil: 19 variants of coronavirus spot in Sao Paulo state, but Delta not one of them

Brazil's Butantan Institute has identified 19 variants of the SARS-CoV-2 that were circulating in the state of Sao Paulo, with the Gamma strain -formerly known as P.1 or Manaus- spotted to have a prevalence of 89.9%.
Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 08:45 UTC
Germany's birth rate jumps to its highest since 1998, after the first wave of coronavirus

Germans have been busy during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 10% birth rate jump in March to the highest figure since 1998, the Federal Statistical Office said in a release. Germany had already reported a 6% rise in births in February.
Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:57 UTC
Castillo edged Fujimori by 44,000 votes as counting ends in Peruvian presidential runoff

Peru's electoral authorities have completed counting votes from June 6's presidential runoff, after which left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo was determined to have finished some 44,000 votes ahead of right-wing populist Keiko Fujimori.
Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:55 UTC
Falklands dispute: Solá heads the Argentine mission to the C24 conference

June is a hectic month for the dispute between Argentina and UK regarding the British Overseas Territory Falkland Islands, with a string of remembrance dates referred to the ongoing disagreement.
Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:18 UTC
When 26 OAS countries condemned human rights violations in Nicaragua, Argentina was among the 5 who abstained

A resolution by the Organization of American States (OAS) condemning human rights violations and massive arrests of opposition leaders by Nicaragua was supported by 26 countries, opposed by three (one of them Nicaragua), while five nations abstained from voting either way. Argentina was one of them.
Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:12 UTC
World sets eyes on Biden-Putin meeting in Geneva

The world will virtually stop Wednesday at least for five hours when US President Joseph Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin meet in Geneva at a time when ties between the two countries are approaching Cold War lows.
Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:10 UTC
Falklands' fisheries legislation reform, a view from Galicia

A former Galician Fisheries Councilor has published a piece in a newspaper closely linked to the industry in the northwest of Spain, El Faro de Vigo, questioning the long term viability of new Falkland Islands' legislation, particularly the concept of Qualifying Companies and the fact that they must be at least 51% property of Falkland Islanders.
Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 08:56 UTC
Explosion shocks Colombian Army post, opposition CNP halts demonstrations to advance dialogue

Colombian President Iván Duque Tuesday ordered Defense Minister Diego Molano today to open up an investigation into the explosion of a vehicle at Army facilities in Cúcuta, it was reported.
Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 08:50 UTC
Former Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolaños Geyer dies, at age 93

Just when Nicaragua is going through a wave of mass arrests against political opponents of incumbent President Daniel Ortega, former President Enrique Bolaños Geyer, who had beaten him at the 2001 elections, has died Tuesday at the age of 93.