Politics

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentine Senate passes new law on HIV and other diseases

  

  Argentina's Senate Thursday passed a bill whereby the State would take a new approach to health conditions such as HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, and Sexually Transmitted Infections.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Ecuadorian gov't and indigenist protesters reach agreement to lift strike

  

  The Ecuadorian administration of President Guillermo Lasso and indigenist demonstrators have agreed to lift the current series of protests following a cut in the price of fuel, it was reported in Quito.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands War: nuke sub HMS Spartan honors heroes and crew members

  

  Some thirty former crew members of Swift-sure Class nuclear submarine HMS Spartan gathered at the war memorial in Sunderland’s Mowbray Park, county of Durham, and paid their respects to fellow Falklands War heroes who did not make it home.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Foreign Secretary Truss says “women are also capable of terrible and appalling acts”

  

  According to British media reporting, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss had some discordant comments on Boris Johnson's claim that Russian President Putin's invasion of Ukraine was the “perfect example of toxic masculinity” and it wouldn't have been carried out by a female leader.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Peruvian Congress impeaches Interior Minister over inactions

  

  Peru's one-house Parliament has impeached Interior Minister Dimitri Senmache out of office by 78 votes to 29 against and 8 abstentions after he was accused of being politically responsible for the escape of the former Transport and Communications Minister Juan Silva.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Castillo resigns as member of party that took him to Peru's presidency

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones has resigned from Perú Libre, the party under which he ran for office and beat Keiko Fujimori's Fuerza Popular in last year's runoff. Castillo's enrolment as a party member dated from Sept. 30, 2020.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 20:11 UTC

  HRW criticizes Argentine President for his softness regarding Venezuela

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández has been heavily criticized by Human Rights Watch (HRW) for his stance regarding Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his government's unclear record in that regard.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 20:03 UTC

  Petro advised to end compulsory military service in Colombia

  

  Colombia's Truth Commission has requested President-elect Gustavo Petro to bring compulsory military service to an end once he takes office Aug. 7, together with a broad transformation of the Armed Forces, with a focus on the respect for human rights and international law.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Johnson disappointed Falklands issue was brought up by Fernandez, but described the meeting as frank and friendly

  

  Boris Johnson has admitted he was “disappointed” that Argentine president Alberto Fernandez used the G7 summit bilateral meeting to bring up the issue of the Falklands/Malvinas dispute.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Boris Johnson and Putin clash over “toxic masculinity” and Falklands' war

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have started the military offensive in Ukraine if he was a woman, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said during the G 7 leaders summit in Germany.