Politics

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  More BA.2 subvariant cases in Uruguay, but fewer deaths

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Tuesday told a group of opposition lawmakers at the Parliament that the latest data showed a sustained growth of the BA.2 subvariant of the SARS-Cov-2 Omicron strain detected in the country since February.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  Mexico questions possible country “exclusions” for coming Americas' Summit, in Los Angeles

  

  Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has warned that he will be absent from the Americans Summit, in Los Angeles next month, if the United States finally decides to exclude from the meeting any country from the region.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 07:35 UTC

  Bachelet urges Ecuador to follow UNHCHR roadmap to end prison massacres

  

  The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged the Ecuadorian Government of President Guillermo Lasso to take concrete measures to bring to an end the ongoing streak of prison massacres, following Monday's riot at a penitentiary which resulted in 44 inmates killed.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 07:20 UTC

  First independent Ukraine President Kravchuk dies aged 88

  

  Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine's first president in the post Societ era, died Tuesday in Kyiv, it was reported by local media. He was 88 years old.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Paraguayan anti-drug prosecutor shot dead while honeymooning in Colombia

  

  Paraguayan Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, whose area of expertise was the fight against drug trafficking, has been shot dead Tuesday while on a honeymoon trip on the Colombian island of Baru near the city of Cartagena, it was reported.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 21:40 UTC

  Czech Republic replaces Russia on UNHRC

  

  The United Nations General Assembly Tuesday decided by 157 votes to none to appoint the Czech Republic onto the UN Human Rights Council to fill the seat vacated by Russia's suspension on April 7 for alleged war crimes committed during the invasion of Ukraine.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 21:38 UTC

  Prince of Wales reads Queen's Speech at House of Lords for the first time

  

  The Prince of Wales has for the first time since 1963 replaced his mother Queen Elizabeth II at the reading of the monarch's traditional “Queen's Speech” before the House of Lords.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 19:55 UTC

  Ukrainian crisis tops agenda in Fernández-Sánchez meeting in Madrid

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Tuesday met in Madrid with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on the first day of his European tour which will also include encounters with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Brazil's Economy Minister in favor of taxing the wealthiest

  

  Brazil's Economy Minister Paulo Guedes Monday expressed his approval to apply an income tax on the extra wealthy citizens in exchange for easing down on collections levied on enterprises, it was reported.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  Three arrested in connection with grenade attack at Bolivian university

  

  Bolivian authorities confirmed later Monday they had arrested three people in connection with the explosion of a gas grenade at the Tomás Frías University in Potosí, which resulted in the deaths of four students who were attending an assembly in a closed room.