Politics

• Tuesday, January 19th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Biden will re impose travel restrictions despite Trump lifting some of the restrictions

  

  The Joe Biden administration plans to quickly re impose travel restrictions barring travel by most people who have recently been in much of Europe and Brazil soon after President Donald Trump lifted those requirements effective Jan. 26, a spokeswoman for Biden said.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Argentina: Jewish community call for truth and justice on sixth anniversary of the killing of prosecutor Alberto Nisman

  

  The main community center serving Argentina’s Jews on Monday called for “truth” and “justice” to prevail in the case of Alberto Nisman, on the sixth anniversary of the federal prosecutor’s assassination.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2021 - 08:41 UTC

  Guatemalan forces beat back to Honduras a migrant caravan heading for the US

  

  While the Mexican government militarized its borders, Guatemalan security forces on Monday cleared a road of hundreds of people in a mostly Honduran migrant caravan that had camped out overnight when authorities barred it from advancing toward the United States.

• Monday, January 18th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands has a “plan of attack” to inoculate Islanders with Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

  

  Falkland Islands Chief Medical Officer Rebecca Edwards has said there is already a “plan of attack” formulated to vaccinate Islanders with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19.

• Monday, January 18th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  Brazil approves two vaccines against Covid-19: AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac

  

  Brazil approved two vaccines for emergency use against the coronavirus on Sunday as the country’s death toll from the disease it causes neared 210,000 and some of its hospitals grappled with an oxygen shortage.

• Monday, January 18th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Falkland’s students wishing to return to UK face mounting difficulties

  

  Falkland Islands elected lawmaker MLA Stacy Bragger, has commented on the difficulties facing Islands students as the UK goes into lockdown. Penguin News contacted MLA Bragger to ask how the UK cancellations of GCSEs and A-Levels will affect locals.

• Monday, January 18th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Massive turnout of Chileans with aspiration of rewriting the Pinochet constitution

  

  Chile's Electoral body reported that more than 3,300 hopefuls have applied for selection to the commission that will rewrite the country's current constitution, a legacy of dictator General Augusto Pinochet who ruled the country from 1973 to 1990.

• Monday, January 18th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Guatemala forces beat back migrant caravan heading for the US

  

  Guatemala beat back on Sunday a large migrant caravan bound for the United States, just days before the inauguration of the new administration.

• Monday, January 18th 2021 - 08:34 UTC

  UK hopes to ease some lockdown restrictions in March

  

  Britain's government hopes to ease some lockdown restrictions in March as it presses ahead with Europe's fastest rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday.

• Monday, January 18th 2021 - 08:32 UTC

  Chinese economy expands 6,5% in IV quarter and 2,3% in 2020

  

  China’s economy grew at a faster-than-expected pace in the fourth quarter of last year, ending a rough coronavirus-stricken 2020 ahead of all major industrialized nations, as well poised to expand further this year.