Politics

Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:44 UTC
US: Democratic majority in Congress at stake

The ruling Democratic Party of President Joseph Biden risks losing its Congressional majority in Tuesday's mid-term elections while many polls foresee the opposition Republicans are likely to regain some of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 in the Senate.
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:28 UTC
Argentina to create yet another dollar exchange rate

Argentina's Superminister of Economy, Industry, and Agriculture Sergio Massa Monday announced the creation of yet a new parity between the local currency and the US dollar to be applied to regional economies.
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:24 UTC
Argentine president turns to diplomacy

Argentine President Alberto Fernández has withdrawn himself from domestic confrontations within the ruling Frente de Todos (FdT) by focusing on the international agenda that launches him onto the world's center stage in the coming days.
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:20 UTC
Falklands and BOTs delegates invited to the Constituency Garden of Remembrance

The Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle installed on Monday the opening of the Constituency Garden of Remembrance at the New Palace Yard in Parliament grounds and invited representatives from the Overseas Territories to participate.
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 08:58 UTC
Falkland Islands lists Covid-19 as endemic, in the same manner as other viral illnesses

On Wednesday 29 June the Falkland Islands King Edward Memorial Hospital, KEMH, announced that as Covid-19 infection rates continued to be low, following the initial spike in cases seen in May 2022, Covid-19 is now considered endemic in the Falkland Islands.
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 08:51 UTC
Commercial flights resumed between Caracas and Bogota

A Turpial Boeing 737-400 from Caracas landed in Bogota's Eldorado International airport late Monday, thus marking the resumption of air connectivity between Venezuela and Colombia following the return to full diplomatic ties.
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 03:51 UTC
Macron and Maduro bump into each other at COP27

Presidents Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Emmanuel Macron of France held a conversation on the sidelines of the COP27 Climate Summit at the Egyptian Red Sea por of Sharm l-Sheikh during which they agreed to work together toward mutual environmental goals.
Monday, November 7th 2022 - 20:14 UTC
CFK too smart to run for President again, says Pepe Mujica

Former Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica said Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) is too smart to run for the Casa Rosada next year, according to an interview published by Montevideo's El Observador.
Monday, November 7th 2022 - 10:23 UTC
Will Mastodon become a serious threat for Musk's Twitter?

Mastodon is rapidly becoming one of the alternative platforms of Twitter, a social network with over 655,000 users with some 230,000 joining in the last few days, following on the takeover of the huge platform by billionaire Elon Musk.
Monday, November 7th 2022 - 09:52 UTC
“Macri is the enemy,” Máximo Kirchner tells Peronist convention

Argentine Deputy Máximo Kirchner said during a Justicialist Party (PJ) Convention in Mar del Plata that “the adversary of the Argentine society, and not only of Peronism, is former president [Mauricio] Macri.”