Politics

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Mapuche rebels launch warning video in Argentine Patagonia

  

  The Mapuche rebel group Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu Tuesday released a new video urging members of the native community to carry out “more actions” to protect the rewe (space) the native community holds sacred.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Bolsonaro narrows gap with Lula

  

  Brazil's incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro has narrowed the gap between him and former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva to seven percentage points less than two weeks ahead of the Oct. 30 runoffs, according to a survey released earlier this week.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  Update on Falklands commercial air-link with Brazil

  

  Falkland Islands Government has confirmed that commercial air links with Brazil will continue to remain suspended until 2023.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2022 - 08:49 UTC

  Corruption rampant in Chinese party cadres, Global Times Editorial

  

  General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping stressed in a report to the 20th CPC National Congress that the CPC must meet the overall requirements for Party building in the new era and improve the system for exercising full and rigorous self-governance.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 19:14 UTC

  Paraguay is a haven for international crime, Congressional report finds

  

  According to a report from Paraguay's Congressional Bicameral Investigative Committee (CBI) released Tuesday, the country has become “a logistic corridor for international crime,” CBI Chairman Senator Jorge Querey told reporters in Asunción.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 10:44 UTC

  Argentine prosecutor wants Iran's VP arrested in Qatar

  

  Argentine Prosecutor Sebastián Basso asked the Foreign Ministry to take the necessary steps for Iranian Vice President Mohsen Rezai to be arrested in Qatar and extradited to Buenos Aires in connection with the 1994 bombing of the Jewish welfare AMIA association.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Argentine President highlights what a future Macrist gov't would entail

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández said he had started reading his predecessor Mauricio Macri's book Para qué? (What for?) and found profound differences between each other's views of things.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Arbeleche says Uruguay going through economic recovery

  

  Uruguay's Economy Minister Azucena Arbeleche Monday underlined her country was going through a process of economic recovery despite the global scenario.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Bolsonaro accused of tolerating child prostitution

  

  Brazil's incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused by former President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's camp of tolerating child prostitution, less than two weeks before the Oct. 30 runoffs.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Stability, confidence the priorities, and hard times ahead said Chancellor Hunt in a momentous U-turn speech

  

  Financial markets reacted positively Monday after the United Kingdom's new Chancellor of the Exchequer scrapped Prime Minister Liz Truss' tax-cutting economic stimulus package. Jeremy Hunt, who was appointed to the role only on Friday, said the unfunded tax measures had been eliminated and underlined that stability, confidence and helping the most vulnerable, were now the government's goals and number one focus.