Politics

• Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Colombia-Ecuador border to reopen Dec.1, presidents agree

  

  The Presidents of Colombia (Iván Duque) and Ecuador (Guillermo Lasso), Sunday agreed to reopen the borders between the two countries as of Dec. 1 after they were closed in March 2020, due to COVID-19 restrictions.

• Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  German state places unvaxxed under curfew; violence spreads across Europe

  

  The German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg has determined unvaccinated residents will be kept under curfew in three of its districts between 9 pm and 5 am unless they have authorization for work reasons or a medical emergency as COVID-19 cases in the country have been reported to be on the rise.

• Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  HMS Queen Elizabeth F-35B crashes in the Mediterranean: UK/US effort to retrieve the aircraft

  

  A joint operation is underway, to retrieve the wreck of an F-35B stealth jet after it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last Wednesday. The US is now working with the UK to locate and retrieve the valuable aircraft - some experts suggesting a race is on with adversaries.

• Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 08:39 UTC

  Town in the state of Maine voted a moratorium on salmon farming

  

  Voters in the town of Gouldsboro, the state of Maine on the US Atlantic coast have placed a moratorium on large-scale fish farms until at least the next boreal spring. The vote took place during a special town meeting.

• Sunday, November 21st 2021 - 10:28 UTC

  Chile: Far-left and far-right hopefuls poised to make it through to runoff in Sunday's presidential elections

  

  Chile is electing its new President Sunday. But to be more accurate and since no candidate looks poised to a first-round victory, what the South American country is voting for is just the shortlist for Dec. 19's runoff.

• Sunday, November 21st 2021 - 10:00 UTC

  Venezuela goes to the polls, as world looks on with skeptical eyes

  

  Venezuela, a country that has praised Nicaragua's recent rigged elections most of the world has condemned, is going back to the polls Sunday to choose legislators as well as regional and local authorities.

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 22:28 UTC

  UK to also ban the political wing of Hamas

  

  The United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel on Friday laid before Parliament an order to outlaw the militant Islamist terrorist movement Hamas in its entirety from the UK.

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina's National Sovereignty Day: “We won't trade the islands for vaccines,” President says

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday insisted the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands belonged to his country, which would never trade them “neither for vaccines nor for debts.”

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro says Amazon crisis “same old nonsense”

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Friday said the Amazon desertification alert was “the same old nonsense” and blamed the opposition for those reports which were aimed at denting the country's image and scaring away investors.

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  Nicaragua pulling out from OAS, FM announces

  

  Nicaragua's Foreign Minister Denis Moncada Friday announced his country has started procedures to withdraw from the Organization of American States (OAS), because it does “not respond to the interests of their respective peoples.”