United States

• Friday, July 2nd 2021 - 07:06 UTC

  Bezos flying to space with a woman pilot, 82, trained to be an astronaut

  

  Aerospace company Blue Origin's owner Jeff Bezos will go to space with an 82-year-old woman pilot, the firm said Thursday. Wally Funk was one of the first women trained to fly to space but was denied astronaut wings decades ago because of her gender.

• Thursday, July 1st 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Soybean rise to US $ 532 a ton in Chicago

  

  The price of soybeans sprang back to above US $ 500 in the Chicago market Wednesday after a US $ 33.2 rise fueled by a new report on stocks and planting from the Department of Agriculture of the United States (USDA).

• Tuesday, June 29th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Biden calls Duque to make sure Colombia remains US top ally in the region

  

  US President Joseph Biden Monday telephoned his Colombian colleague Iván Duque in what the first direct talk between the two leaders since the 78-year-old Democrat took office on January 20.1

• Tuesday, June 29th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  History of corruption and bribes behind doomed Florida building reported

  

  The developers of the building which collapsed last week in Southern Florida were under investigation for allegedly bribing local officials to get the permit to build the condominium which has left around 10 people confirmed dead plus some 150 others yet unaccounted for.

• Tuesday, June 29th 2021 - 07:18 UTC

  Eastern lifts Guayaquil route from Miami but JetBlue adds flights from New York

  

  US carrier Eastern Airlines, which started the nonstop Miami-Montevideo route just last week, has announced that as of July it will be lifting flights to Guayaquil until further notice.

• Friday, June 25th 2021 - 17:45 UTC

  Argentine shares on Wall Street plummet following MSCI downgrading

  

  Friday dawned in Wall Street with the news that MSCI had decided to demote Argentina's economy two notches, from Emerging to Stand Alone and what Buenos Aires analysts feared by Thursday evening has become true.

• Friday, June 25th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Eastern lands at Carrasco, Copa adds flights to/from Montevideo

  

  Montevideo's Carrasco international airport welcomed a new operator this week and more flights from an old one, as Uruguay's reopening to the world gains momentum in the current pandemic scenario.

• Friday, June 25th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Seaside building north of Miami collapses, 3 dead and 100 still unaccounted for

  

  US President Joseph Biden Thursday approved an emergency declaration in the state of Florida after at least three people were found dead and about 100 were still unaccounted for when a Miami Beach 12-story condominium fell to its ashes.

• Thursday, June 24th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Famous computer antivirus developer found dead in Spanish prison

  

  The developer of a worldwide famous computer antivirus software John McAfee was found dead in his Spanish prison cell Wednesday, just hours after his extradition to the United States had been approved.

• Thursday, June 24th 2021 - 03:04 UTC

  Dollar skids as Fed officials testify that stimulus tightening is “still quite a way off”

  

  With U.S. Federal Reserve officials including Chair Jerome Powell reaffirming that tighter monetary policy was still some way off, the US dollar slipped against major peers on Wednesday.