Politics

Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 20:30 UTC
Latam Airlines drops 777s to the US out of fear of 5G interferences

Latam Airlines has agreed to follow Boeing's advice and not use the 777 models for its services between Brazil and the United States to avoid problems stemming from 5G cell phone antennas which may interfere with navigation gear.
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Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:57 UTC
OAS condemns presence in Nicaragua, of Iranian official accused of aggravated murder by Argentine justice

Twenty-two-country members from the Organization of American States, OAS, on Wednesday approved a strong statement condemning the presence of the Iranian official Mohsen Rezai in Nicaragua during the taking office ceremony of president Daniel Ortega. Rezai has been indicted by Argentine Justice for his alleged masterminding of the 1994 attack on the Jewish organization Amia in Buenos Aires killing 85 people and injuring dozens.
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Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Seven years after, death of Argentine special prosecutor and alleged Iran connection remain unresolved

On a rainy evening Tuesday 18th January, dozens toured the streets of Buenos Aires in memory of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of his death, a case which remains unresolved by Argentine justice. With umbrellas, dressed in black some carrying candles, flashlights, and flowers, the march reached the Le Parc flats complex, in a posh area of Buenos Aires, where Nisman was found dead with a shot in the head, and an investigation that still has to decide if it was a homicide or suicide.
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Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:52 UTC
Soap opera foreign policy: US tells Argentina keep up negotiations with IMF

Last October when Argentine president Alberto Fernandez left for Rome to the G20 leaders' summit, his office informed that he was expecting to meet with US president Joe Biden to among other issues address support for Argentina in its ongoing exhausting negotiations with the IMF.
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Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:51 UTC
Argentine lorry drivers stage protest due to Chile's tight sanitary controls

After the Government of Chile reinstated the requirement that people must undergo a PCR test -which must come out negative- to get across the border crossings through the Andes, some 2,000 lorry drivers have been lining up along the Cristo Redentor-Los Libertadores international crossing, which links Mendoza to Valparaíso.
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Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Argentine President to remain isolated after close contact with COVID-19 case

Argentine President Alberto Fernández is once again under isolation after it was determined he has been in close contact with a positive case of COVID-19, while Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas has already been confirmed as having the disease.
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Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:38 UTC
Beijing and Taiwan jockeying for influence in Honduras

Next January 27, the president-elect of Honduras in Central America, a country known to live off the drugs trade and international aid will be taking office. Xiomara Castro, the first woman president of the country, and an icon of the left-wing progressive parties of Latin America promised during her campaign that her administration would cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan and establish full relations with Beijing, as recently happened in neighboring Nicaragua.
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Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:22 UTC
Venezuela's elderly demand better pensions

Retired Venezuelan health care workers Wednesday staged a protest in demand for better pensions, claiming that what they were earning were “miserable salaries” with which they were being “starved to death”
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Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:05 UTC
Royal Navy has her first ever female admiral: “someone has to be the first”

The Royal Navy's first-ever female admiral has taken command – smashing a century-old glass ceiling in the service. After 25 years' service, Jude Terry takes the helm as Director of People and Training and Naval Secretary.
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Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 08:06 UTC
PM Mottley poised for landslide reelection victory in Barbados

Mia Mottley looked poised to be re-elected as Prime Minister of Barbados, while projections heralded the Barbados Labor Party (BLP) will hold more than two-thirds of the seats in Parliament following Wednesday's (Jan. 19) elections.
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