Politics

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Syncretism celebration in Bolivia on the Day of the Skulls

  

  Bolivians celebrated the Day of Skulls over the weekend, a colorful tradition rooted in ancient indigenous beliefs that is meant to bring good fortune and protection by honoring the dead.

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Taiwan “locked out” of WHO Covid-19 meeting on objections from Beijing

  

  Taiwan is yet to receive an invite to a key World Health Organization (WHO) meeting this week expected to focus on the COVID-19 pandemic due to “obstruction” from China, the island's foreign ministry said, expressing its displeasure.

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 07:08 UTC

  Queen leads UK on Remembrance Day on a scaled down service at the Cenotaph due to the pandemic

  

  Queen Elizabeth led the United Kingdom in marking Remembrance Sunday, as people around the UK privately paid their respects at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. She was joined by family members and the PM at the scaled-back service at the Cenotaph in London's Whitehall.

• Sunday, November 8th 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Biden's victory speech: time for healing, “let's lower the temperature and listen to each other again”

  

  President-elect Joe Biden declared it was “time to heal” America in his first speech after prevailing on Saturday in a bitter election, even as President Donald Trump refused to concede. Biden made his speech to the Nation from HQ in Wilmington, Delaware, the state he represented in Congress since first elected at age 27.

• Sunday, November 8th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Massive flags protest demonstration across Argentina programmed for Sunday

  

  A massive Argentine flags' protest is scheduled for this Sunday with the support of different sectors of urban communities and farmers throughout the country, similar to the several that have been successfully held so far this year in support of the defense of Liberty, the Republic and Justice. The last one was on 12 October.

• Sunday, November 8th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands commemorates Remembrance Day on Sunday November 8

  

  The Annual Service of Remembrance in the Falkland Islands commemorating the 102nd anniversary of the end of the First World War, will be held this Sunday November 8, beginning with a service at the Christ Church Cathedral commencing at 9.30 am, according to a release from Gilbert House.

• Sunday, November 8th 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  Argentina will receive some 22 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines

  

  Argentina has struck a deal with drug maker AstraZeneca Plc to receive around 22 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine being developed with the University of Oxford, with the aim to start deliveries in the first half of next year.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 18:45 UTC

  Biden defeats Trump and will become President of the United States

  

  The Democratic Party candidate, Joe Biden, was elected on Saturday the 46th President of the United States elections after taking definitive lead in the key state of Pennsylvania, making him the new president-elect of the United States. However, the current president and defeated candidate, Donald Trump, refuses to acknowledge defeat by Biden.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentina wants EU to eliminate zero tariff access for Falklands' exports

  

  Argentina held a meeting with the European Union ambassador and 21 of 27 EU members' representatives in Buenos Aires and formally called for an end of the support for UK Falklands' sovereignty recognition in the ongoing Brexit negotiations between Brussels and London.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Pfizer vaccines for Argentina should be arriving in December, president Fernandez

  

  Argentina President Alberto Fernandez said on Friday his country could receive 750,000 doses of an eventual coronavirus vaccine from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc in December, a glimmer of hope as cases in the South American nation show signs of receding following months of quarantine.