Politics

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 21:00 UTC

  Britain approves Moderna's “#bivalent” COVID-19 vaccine

  

  British health authorities Monday greenlighted the use of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine with a new formula designed to fight old strains as well as new variations in what has been dubbed a “bivalent” approach and will be used primarily as a booster for people aged 50 and over starting in the fall.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Ecuador: Terrorist act leaves 5 dead and many others in critical condition

  

  A bombing in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil has left at least five people dead and some 20 others injured, in what the government believes to be the doings of organized crime groups.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Petro shakes-up Colombia's military brass

  

  Just one week after his inauguration, Colombian President Gustavo Petro sent 52 generals into retirement. The biggest sweep in Colombia's history is aimed at putting together a corruption-free brass.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Russia almost doubles exports' value to Brazil in first half of 2022: mainly fertilizers and fuel

  

  Russia almost doubled the value of its exports to Brazil in the first half of this year and has climbed to fifth supplier of Latin America's largest economy. This despite the trade, financial and diplomatic sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom following its invasion of Ukraine.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Man kills himself after firing shots in the air before SCOTUS building

  

  A man in Washington DC Sunday drove his car outside the US Supreme Court and started firing gunshots in the air before committing suicide just before 4 am. The building at East Capitol Street NE and 2nd Street SE is also one block from Capitol Hill.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentine diplomatic offensive on Malvinas question in the region

  

  This week Argentina's Malvinas, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Secretary, Guillermo Carmona is off to Brazil where he has scheduled several conferences and to request greater support for Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:47 UTC

  Partners want to sever all Cartes partnerships

  

  Chilean business associates of disgraced former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartés would be pushing to break up all commercial ties with the man declared as “significantly corrupt” by the US State Department last month.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:30 UTC

  Rushdie recovering slowly; repercussions jump worldwide

  

  Author Salman Rushdie's son Zafar Sunday in a statement Sunday said in a statement Sunday that his father was still in critical condition after Friday's stabbing.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:22 UTC

  More US lawmakers land in Taiwan - what will China do?

  

  Five US lawmakers landed in Taipei Sunday in yet another trip by Parliamentarians from that country after a recent visit headed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi heated tensions with Beijing, which regard the island as a Chinese rogue province.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:19 UTC

  Cairo church fire leaves 41 dead, 55 injured

  

  At least 41 people, 15 children among them, were killed Sunday at the Martyr Abu Sefein Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo's working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in the Giza area. There were also reports of some 55 other people injured.