Politics

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 19:19 UTC

  Prince of Wales has COVID-19... again

  

  The 73-year-old Prince Charles of Wales Thursday tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time, the Office of the heir to the British throne announced. His Royal Highness had already been infected early into the pandemic.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Añez goes on hunger strike as coup trial looms over

  

  Carolina Ribera, daughter of former interim Bolivian President Jeanine Añez, has announced her mother had gone on a hunger strike on the eve of the start of her trial for the so-called “Coup d'etat II” case. Áñez is charged with violating the Constitution by proclaiming herself president of that nation.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Chilean Army members to stay in jail for homicide during 2019 uprising

  

  A Chilean court Wednesday upheld a decision to keep an Army captain and two other military officers under preventive detention measures for the death of Ecuadorian student Romario Veloz during the 2019 social uprisings.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  China strongly lobbying to sell jet fighters to Argentina

  

  Next month an Argentine military delegation will be traveling to China as part of a bilateral defense cooperation understanding, which among other issues includes the potential purchase of twelve Chinese fighter aircraft for which the Argentine latest national budget has earmarked a 664 million dollars credit.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  Peruvian president makes yet another cabinet reshuffle

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones has sworn in his fourth cabinet in barely over six months after taking office. A week ago, he had appointed his third cabinet after the resignation of Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Starving Venezuelan pensioners take it to the streets of Caracas

  

  Venezuelan senior citizens Wednesday marched through Caracas' Plaza de La Moneda, not far from the presidential Miraflores Palace, to launch an “SOS” message and call for help as they can barely survive on their pay.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:08 UTC

  Spain: McAfee's death was ruled a suicide, but family appeals decision

  

  A Spanish judge ruled Wednesday that the death of computer antivirus developer John McAfee in a Catalonia prison was a suicide after a new post-mortem report and ordered the case shelved.

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 22:01 UTC

  Cabello judicially seizes Caracas' El Nacional newspaper

  

  Caracas' El Nacional newspaper has been handed over to United Socialist Party of Venezuela Deputy Chairman Diosdado Cabello Rondón, thus executing a judiciary ruling issued late in January in a damages suit against the publication.

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Brazil supports Argentine Malvinas claim but since UK is an 'important partner', authorizes RAF landings

  

  Brazil on Tuesday defended its decision to allow British military aircraft flying to the Falkland Island to call at Brazilian airports, landings that annoyed Argentina. The complaint is not new, and Brazilian policy under different governments over the years has been one of accepting those calls.

• Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Ukraine crisis: US finds Macron's diplomatic efforts encouraging

  

  The Government of the United States said French President Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic attempts to cool off the Ukraine crisis had shown some encouraging signs.