Politics

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:13 UTC

  Uruguayan Defense Minister reviews troops in Middle East

  

  Uruguay's Defense Minister Javier García reviewed the South American country's peacekeeping mission in Sinai 40 years after its deployment.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Cuban music legend Pablo Milanés dies aged 79

  

  Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés died Monday in Madrid, after being hospitalized for a series of cancer-related infections. He was 79.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Lula back home from larynx surgery

  

  Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from the Hospital Sírio Libanês in São Paulo after undergoing larynx surgery Sunday for a lesion in his left vocal cord.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Eight people killed in Medellín air crash

  

  Eight people were reported dead after a light aircraft crashed in a residential area after declaring an emergency following takeoff at Medellín's Olaya Herrera Airport, the same air terminal where famous tango singer Carlos Gardel and his band were killed in an airplane crash on June 24, 1935.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 08:37 UTC

  Fourth Kirchner government climax, 12 month food inflation at 100%

  

  The basic food basket, CBA, in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, Argentina soared 9,5% during October while the overall food basket, CBT, 9%, according to the latest figures from Indec, the country's stats office. This is 50% higher than the inflation rate for the month of October which stood at 6,3%.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 08:31 UTC

  PM Sunak committed to “no turning back on Brexit”, and rejects CBI appeal for closer trade links with EU

  

  UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rejected calls from the strongest business lobby, the Confederation of British Industry, CBI, for closer ties with the European Union to address damaging trade barriers born out of Brexit, and also ruled out softer immigration rules to help with labor shortages.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 18:31 UTC

  Maduro urges like-minded regional leaders to seize the opportunity

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged his fellow leftwing Latin American leaders to seize the opportunity to strengthen regional integration and “agree on the construction of a common economic space” and of “a common monetary system.”

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 18:29 UTC

  Iran's Judiciary keeps handing down death penalties to protesters

  

  The Islamic Republic of Iran has handed down yet another death sentence against a demonstrator taking part in activities following the Sept. 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who was arrested for violating the strict dress code that requires women to wear the veil in public.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 16:27 UTC

  COP27 ends in “historical” deal short of Europe's goals

  

  Delegates from the world over agreed Sunday on the need that wealthier nations should provide loss and damage funding to the countries most affected by climate change.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Mothers of Plaza de Mayor Leader Hebe de Bonafibi dead at age 93

  

  Hebe Pastor de Bonafini, Argentina's iconic Mother of Plaza de Mayo, died Sunday. She was 93. She had been discharged on Oct. 13 from a La Plata hospital but was admitted again on Nov. 12 after her health deteriorated.