Politics

Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 09:00 UTC
HMS Queen Elizabeth F-35B crashes in the Mediterranean: UK/US effort to retrieve the aircraft

A joint operation is underway, to retrieve the wreck of an F-35B stealth jet after it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last Wednesday. The US is now working with the UK to locate and retrieve the valuable aircraft - some experts suggesting a race is on with adversaries.
Monday, November 22nd 2021 - 08:39 UTC
Town in the state of Maine voted a moratorium on salmon farming

Voters in the town of Gouldsboro, the state of Maine on the US Atlantic coast have placed a moratorium on large-scale fish farms until at least the next boreal spring. The vote took place during a special town meeting.
Sunday, November 21st 2021 - 10:28 UTC
Chile: Far-left and far-right hopefuls poised to make it through to runoff in Sunday's presidential elections

Chile is electing its new President Sunday. But to be more accurate and since no candidate looks poised to a first-round victory, what the South American country is voting for is just the shortlist for Dec. 19's runoff.
Sunday, November 21st 2021 - 10:00 UTC
Venezuela goes to the polls, as world looks on with skeptical eyes

Venezuela, a country that has praised Nicaragua's recent rigged elections most of the world has condemned, is going back to the polls Sunday to choose legislators as well as regional and local authorities.
Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 22:28 UTC
UK to also ban the political wing of Hamas

The United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel on Friday laid before Parliament an order to outlaw the militant Islamist terrorist movement Hamas in its entirety from the UK.
Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina's National Sovereignty Day: “We won't trade the islands for vaccines,” President says

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday insisted the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands belonged to his country, which would never trade them “neither for vaccines nor for debts.”
Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Bolsonaro says Amazon crisis “same old nonsense”

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Friday said the Amazon desertification alert was “the same old nonsense” and blamed the opposition for those reports which were aimed at denting the country's image and scaring away investors.
Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:43 UTC
Nicaragua pulling out from OAS, FM announces

Nicaragua's Foreign Minister Denis Moncada Friday announced his country has started procedures to withdraw from the Organization of American States (OAS), because it does “not respond to the interests of their respective peoples.”
Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:20 UTC
Millions of Argentines do not show up for their second doses of Covid-19 vaccines

Argentine Health authorities Friday expressed a growing concern after over 8 million people who received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine failed to show up at their scheduled appointments to complete the immunization cycle, it was reported.
Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:17 UTC
Why China and India aren’t the climate villains of COP26

By Daniel Parsons and Martin Taylor (*) – The Glasgow Climate Pact urges countries to “accelerate efforts towards phasing down”, rather than “phasing out”, coal power that isn’t mitigated by carbon capture and storage.