Politics

Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 09:40 UTC
Bachelet's last report critical of China regarding Uighurs

Former two-time Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Wednesday filed a report on China's “Crimes against humanity” on her last day as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) as she left her office to a standing ovation.
Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 19:15 UTC
LGBTIQ+ political party seeking registration in Venezuela

Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) has received a petition to record the name of the first-ever LGBTIQ+ community party, it was reported in Caracas.
Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 19:09 UTC
New British PM to be appointed at Balmoral Castle

According to a Buckingham Palace announcement released Wednesday, Queen Elizabeth II will for the first time in her historic 70-year reign appoint the new prime minister at Balmoral, in Scotland, due to mobility issues affecting the monarch.
Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 10:15 UTC
Paraguay: Chilavert's conviction upheld

A Paraguayan Criminal Court of Appeals in Asunción Tuesday upheld the one-year suspended jail sentence against former international goalkeeper José Luis Chilavert.
Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Argentine minister Cafiero collects more “ignorant” expletives

Lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, openly replied to Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero, who had called him ignorant after Bolsonaro Jr criticized the judicial situation of Argentine vice-president Cristina Fernandez for whom federal prosecution is requesting twelve years of imprisonment on charges of corruption and benefitting with public works distribution.
Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:47 UTC
Republican Governor lands in Taiwan in yet another chafing mission for Beijing

Arizona's Republican Governor Doug Ducey Tuesday landed in Taipei in yet another US delegation trip enraging Beijing over direct ties between sovereign countries and the island the Asian giant deems a rogue province.
Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:37 UTC
Chile: Mapuche protester arrested after demonstration in Araucania

One person was arrested Tuesday in the Chilean region of La Araucanía after the radical Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM) Mapuche indigenist movement staged a demonstration on Route 5 South demanding the release of their incarcerated comrades.
Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:33 UTC
Bolsonaro makes promises for next year

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Tuesday says he would readjust the salary of civil servants in 2023, although, to do that beyond January 1, he would have to be reelected in October.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 22:37 UTC
Uruguay, Brazil agree to deepen fight against organized crime along the border

Authorities from Uruguay and Brazil defense authorities have held bilateral meetings towards coordinating joint efforts along the border between the two countries to carry out operations against drug trafficking and organized crime in the area.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 21:29 UTC
Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader and father of Perestroika, has died at 91

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91.