Politics

• Sunday, February 6th 2022 - 19:49 UTC

  Castillo embraces Conservative values, Bolsonaro says after meeting

  

  Despite mounting opposition against each one of them in their own countries, Presidents Jair Bolsonaro and his Peruvian colleague Pedro Castillo Terrones met last week (Thursday) at the Brazilian Amazonian state of Rondonia, after which both leaders said their differences were a thing of the past.

• Sunday, February 6th 2022 - 19:32 UTC

  Cuban official says ok to withhold surplus earnings of foreign company workers

  

  Cuba's Foreign Trade Minister Rodrigo Malmierca has said in an interview with local current news magazine Bohemia last week that he saw a contradiction in workers of global companies earning more than those who did the same job for the local State.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 15:42 UTC

  Argentine Judge rules Mapuche group entitled to State-owned land

  

  Bariloche Federal Judge María Silvina Domínguez has ruled that State-owned lands must be handed over to members of a local Mapuche community in a decision many fear might constitute dangerous case-law for future claims, it was reported Friday.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 14:03 UTC

  Ambassador Stanley holds talks with Argentine Cabinet Chief Manzur

  

  Following Argentine President Alberto Fernández's remarks to his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin in Moscow, according to which the South American country needed to be freer from the United States and the International Monetary Fund, Washington's envoy to Buenos Aires held a meeting Friday with Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 13:53 UTC

  Despite Western boycott, Beijing Winter Olympics begin

  

  The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are underway despite a diplomatic boycott and after a ceremony held at the National Stadium - built for the 2008 Summer Games - amid strict health protocols to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 10:22 UTC

  Argentina expects more support from the EU on the “Malvinas issue” after Brexit

  

  Since the Falkland Islands ceased to be a European Union (EU) Community overseas territory after the Brexit, Argentina seeks more support from the bloc in the negotiation claim with the United Kingdom on the South Atlantic British territory. It was explained by the Argentine Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica, and South Atlantic, Guillermo Carmona in an interview with EFE.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands: Update on Humanitarian Project Plan 2 to identify remains of Argentine combatants

  

  On Friday Falkland Islands lawmakers, MLAs John Birmingham and Roger Spink met, via video link, with Laurent Corbaz from the International Committee of the Red Cross and members of his team to discuss the progress made in HPP2 (Humanitarian Project Plan 2) work.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Former German chancellor criticized for being member of Russian energy companies' boards

  

  In the midst of the conflicting situation between NATO and the US, with Russia, regarding a possible invasion of Ukraine and which has the European continent on the edge, a former German chancellor was appointed to the supervisory board of the Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom, one of the largest energy corporations in the world.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  Iceland to end commercial whaling by 2024 and plans to further promote whales' sightseeing

  

  Iceland will end commercial whaling by 2024, announced Fisheries minister Svandis Svavarsdottir in a piece published in the Reykjavik daily Morgunbladid. The lawmaker representing the ruling coalition led by the Left Greens said, “there are few justifications to authorize the whale hunt beyond 2024,” adding “there is little proof that there is any economic advantage to this activity”.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 04:53 UTC

  Cuban prosecutors liken protests to sedition against July 11/12 demonstrators

  

  Cuba's regime Friday ratified charges were being filed against participants in the July 11 and 12 nationwide demonstrations. Prosecutors also made it clear that in the country's legal system protests and sedition were considered to be the same offense.