Politics

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:03 UTC

  Venezuelan NGO claims political prisoners risk never-ending trials

  

  According to a Venezuelan Non-Government Organization, 13 inmates deemed to be political prisoners, have been transferred from the Ramo Verde detention center to regular jailhouses for ordinary criminals, which allegedly jeopardizes the judicial review of these cases.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  UK PM not to resign after early findings from Gray's report are published

  

  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's remaining in office hangs in the balance following the release Monday of a report by senior civil servant Sue Gray which has supplied police investigators with over 300 photographs of the party or parties held at 10 Downing Street while COVID-19 lockdown mandates were in force.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Unemployment in Chile almost back at 2019 levels

  

  Chilean authorities have reported Monday that unemployment nationwide had fallen in 2021 to 7.2% while in the same period of 2020 it had hit 10.3%. In the middle of the social uprisings of 2019 it had been recorded at 7.1%.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 21:50 UTC

  UN Security Council adjourns meeting but Russia only backed by China

  

  US President Joseph Biden Monday dubbed the meeting held by the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Ukraine crisis, although no specific decision has been reached.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 21:40 UTC

  British PM wants to scrap EU red tape incorporated to UK legislation

  

  The Government of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is devising a so-called “Brexit Freedoms” bill to scrap European Union regulations which were introduced into local legislation before departing from the bloc, it was announced Monday.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 21:11 UTC

  Canadian PM tests positive for COVID-19 while sheltering from protesters

  

  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who last week was relocated to an undisclosed residence as the caravan of truckers gathered in Ottawa to protest against vaccination mandates, Monday announced on twitter he had tested positive for COVID-19.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 12:55 UTC

  Argentina decries British “show of force” in South Atlantic

  

  Argentina's Foreign Ministry has labeled a new military deployment by the United Kingdom in the Falkland Islands as “a new and unjustified show of force and a deliberate departure from the calls of the numerous resolutions of the United Nations and other international organizations.”

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Brazil wants to team Guyana and Suriname oil and gas in a regional energy corridor

  

  Brazil is betting strongly to become the main player in the development of oil and gas production in its northeast corner, where the state of Amapá shares proximity with French Guiana, Suriname, and Guyana, these two of which are set to become significant players in the hydrocarbons business.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Diplomatic solution found to crisis of truckers crossing into Chile

  

  Argentine and Chilean authorities have reached a solution to the crisis affecting some 3,000 lorry drivers crossing the Andes through the Cristo Redentor-Libertadores route, it was announced.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Chileans in Iquique stage xenophobic protest against Venezuelan migrants

  

  Xenophobic violence is on the rise in the Chilean area of Iquique and it is specifically targeted at Venezuelan migrants. Iquique is where most undocumented migrants reach from Bolivia.