Politics

• Tuesday, April 27th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Argentina: Buenos Aires prepares for stricter measures against Covid-19

  

  A group of advisers to the Argentine President assessed the coronavirus situation Monday, after which further restrictive measures to be announced shortly appear inevitable.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2021 - 08:53 UTC

  Chile's borders to remain closed in light of little progress fighting covid-19

  

  Chilean authorities decided Monday not to reopen the borders throughout May to try to prevent the entry into the country of new strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, Health Undersecretary Paula Daza announced.

• 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 - 08:55 UTC

  Crowds disregard social distancing at burial of late Argentine Transport Minister Meoni

  

  Argentina's late Transport Minister Mario Meoni was laid to rest Saturday in his hometown of Junín in the province of Buenos Aires in an event which proved both how much he was appreciated where he had been mayor for eight years and that there are exceptions to the rule of social distancing.

• Monday, April 26th 2021 - 03:52 UTC

  Paraguay takes starker approach at Covid-19 with further restrictions

  

  The government of Paraguay decided this weekend to impose tighter restrictions effective April 27 through May 10 in an attempt to slow down the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, which is reportedly reaching unprecedented records.

• 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 - 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 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentine Transport Minister Meoni dies in car crash aged 56

  

  Argentina's Transport Minister Mario Meoni died Friday evening in a car crash en route to his hometown of Junín in the province of Buenos Aires, 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.

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 23:33 UTC

  Royal Navy takes bomb disposal experts to South Georgia to remove Falklands War munitions

  

  The Royal Navy's HMS Forth has taken bomb disposal specialists to South Georgia as part of a mission to protect the island's wildlife. The ten-day environmental mission set out to remove bombs and ordnance left behind during the Falkland Islands conflict involving the Argentine armed forces in 1982.