Politics

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  A year that will go down in Falklands history

  

  For many people, 2020 has been a year they would like to forget. But it’s a year that will go down in Falklands history for one very positive reason.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Argentina authorizes Sputnik V vaccine; first batch of 300.000 doses expected on Thursday

  

  Argentina's health ministry said on Wednesday it has given the controversial Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine “emergency” authorization, making the country the first in Latin America to do so. The first shipment of the total 25 million doses of the vaccine bought by the Argentine government is due to arrive on Thursday.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  Argentina lockdown until 8 January

  

  Argentina established new requirements for entering and leaving the country, starting on Friday through January 8, the Interior Ministry said in a statement issued on Wednesday, in a bid to rein in the coronavirus.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Chinese vaccine 50% effective, reports Sao Paulo lab, but half of Brazilians reject inoculation

  

  Brazilian researchers said on Wednesday the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech is more than 50% effective based on trial data, but again withheld full results at the company's request, raising questions about transparency.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:33 UTC

  Sao Paulo state doubles lockdown measures over Xmas and New Year

  

  Brazil's southeast state of Sao Paulo, the epicenter of the country's COVID-19 outbreak, said this week it will double down on lockdown measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus over the Christmas and New Year holidays.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Two weeks of industrial action in Argentina's soy crushers and export ports

  

  Soymeal manufacturers in Argentina presented late on Tuesday a proposal aimed at ending a two-week strike by oil and port workers unions that has thrown a wrench in the flow of agricultural exports from one of the world’s main bread baskets.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina extends emergency approval to the Pfizer anti Covid-19 vaccine

  

  Argentina's medicine and food regulator extended on Tuesday an emergency use for the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine in the country. These vaccines are expected to arrive in Argentina sometime between January and March.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:41 UTC

  Colombia to begin mass vaccination in February, announces president Duque

  

  Colombia plans to launch a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus in February, President Ivan Duque announced. In an interview with a local radio station, Duque said a trial vaccination run could begin between this week and the first week of January.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  Brazilian financial analysts upgrade growth forecast for 2020

  

  Brazilian financial analysts slightly upgraded their growth forecast for 2020, from a 4.41% drop in gross domestic product (GDP) to a 4.4% drop, the Central Bank of Brazil reported.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Brexit “final push”: EU prepared to yield in fisheries issue but UK proposal “totally unacceptable”

  

  The European Union is making a “final push” to strike a Brexit trade deal with Britain, although there are still deep rifts over fishing rights, the bloc’s chief negotiator said on Tuesday.