Politics

• Saturday, September 24th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Argentina limits door-to-door purchases abroad

  

  Argentina's Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP) tax bureau has lowered the cap from US$ 3,000 to US$ 1,000 on door-to-door online purchases effective Sept. 23, in a move to curb foreign currency expenditures that drain the Central Bank's reserves.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 19:20 UTC

  Residents in Russian-held territories vote between staying Russian or going back under Kyiv

  

  Residents in the eastern Ukrainian republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbas regions and in other parts of Russian-controlled territories began voting Friday in a referendum with which Moscow seeks to legitimize the military deployment in the area since February.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 19:13 UTC

  Chile's top general resigns over intel leak

  

  Chilean General Guillermo Paiva Hernández has resigned as head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (EMCO) following the leaking of classified information to the press which went viral Thursday

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 18:12 UTC

  Uruguayan authorities tackle arsenic in drinking water

  

  Uruguayan authorities are reviewing their options to tackle the presence of arsenic in faucet water in various towns nationwide, it was reported this week.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  Leak from military brass shows Chile's concerns over current issues

  

  Chile's Defense Minister Maya Fernandez was summoned back to Santiago at the earliest time possible after classified documents involving the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the relationship between President Gabriel Boric Font and his Argentine colleague Alberto Fernández went public.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Spanish coalition plans a “wealth” tax on the richest 1% to support “the middle class and workers”

  

  Spain's fragile left-wing coalition government plans to slap a temporary tax on the wealthiest 1% of the country's population to help pay for inflation and cost of living relief measures.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Another challenge for UK unity: latest census shows Catholics are a majority in Northern Ireland

  

  For the first time in the century of its existence, Northern Ireland has more residents who identify as Catholic than those calling themselves Protestants, a census has shown, according to results published on Thursday.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Argentina's Upper House okays Supreme Curt enlargement

  

  Argentina's Senate Thursday passed the bill to enlarge the Supreme Court from 5 to 15 judges. The bill now passes on to the Lower House for further parliamentary treatment.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Latin America and US agree to sack IDB president, a Trump appointment

  

  The fourteen governors on the board of the multilateral Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have voted unanimously to recommend firing President Mauricio Claver-Carone, Latin American sources revealed on Thursday.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Princess Anne thanks Royal Navy personnel involved in the Queen's funeral

  

  The Princess Royal visited Portsmouth Naval Base on Thursday to offer her personal thanks to sailors involved in Her Majesty the Queen’s funeral. Princess Anne spoke to the men and women about their role hauling the State Ceremonial Gun Carriage bearing the Queen’s coffin and lining the streets of London and Windsor.