Politics

Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 10:28 UTC
Asylum seekers who arrive in UK on small boats will be sent to Rwanda, BBC

Some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats across the Channel will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans, report BBC. Home Secretary Priti Patel is in the African nation to sign a deal for a £120m trial involving mostly single men arriving in Britain via boat crossings.
Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:59 UTC
Blinken highlights Uruguay's role in international forums

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Uruguay had “a strong voice” at the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS), “a voice that we really value.”
Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:56 UTC
Argentina's intelligence bureau to digitize State terrorism files

Argentina authorities have announced a plan to digitize over 250,000 documents on State terrorism carried out under various military regimes in the country's history, it was announced in Buenos Aires.
Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:50 UTC
Four Colombian soldiers killed by dissident FARC group

Four Colombian regular soldiers were killed in a rural area of the department of Meta after they were ambushed by a group of dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Omega Joint Task Force said in a statement.
Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:43 UTC
Argentina: CFK acquitted in gas overpricing case

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) has been acquitted in the case of alleged overpricing in the purchase of Liquefied National Gas. Judge Julián Ercolini's ruling also reached her former aides Julio De Vido, Roberto Baratta, and other officials of her administration.
Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:37 UTC
Buenos Aires: EuroLat due to vote on agreed topics

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernàndez de Kirchner (CFK) welcomed to Buenos Aires' Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) the more than 100 lawmakers who participated in this year's Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) sessions under the slogan “A fair, inclusive, and peaceful economic recovery.”
Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:50 UTC
Lula vows to halt garimpo on Indigenous lands

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Tuesday pledged to halt all illegal gold mining -locally known as garimpo- at Indigenous reserves in the country's northeast if he is elected back into office in October.
Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:44 UTC
Bolsonaro downplays Armed Forces Viagra scandal

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Wednesday downplayed the importance of the alleged scandal regarding the purchase of 35,000 pills of Viagra, a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction.
Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:40 UTC
Warrant issued for preventive arrest of Peruvian President nephews

A Lima judge has ordered the preventive arrest for 36 months of two nephews of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Terrones as well as of his former aide Bruno Pacheco for their alleged involvement in cases of corruption, it was reported.
Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 20:30 UTC
Terrorist who killed British MP gets life in jail

A London Court Wednesday handed down a life imprisonment sentence on convicted terrorist Ali Harbi Ali for the Oct. 16, 2021, murder of British Conservative MP Sir David Amess.