United States

• Saturday, July 10th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Paraguayan President off to Miami, his sister in law among the Champlain Tower dead

  

  Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez Friday announced he would be traveling to Miami in the United States after the bodies of close relatives of his wife were retrieved from the ruins of the Surfside Champlain Towers which collapsed in June.

• Thursday, July 8th 2021 - 17:33 UTC

  Trump files class action lawsuit against big tech giants and their CEOs

  

  Former US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, Google and their CEOs, because of unfairly infringing upon his First Amendment right to free speech as protected by the US constitution.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:36 UTC

  Biden reaffirms support for Guaidó on Venezuela's Independence Day

  

  On the anniversary of Venezuela's independence, July 5, President Joe Biden sent a letter reaffirming US support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 21:18 UTC

  Jeff Bezos no longer CEO of e-commerce giant Amazon

  

  What goes up must come down and even the unthinkable has happened – Jeff Bezos, founder of e-commerce giant Amazon.com has left his position of CEO as of Monday, it was announced. Bezos will be replaced by Andy Jassy, who for years led Amazon's lucrative division of cloud computing AWS.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Biden hosts his first 4th of July celebration as US President

  

  US President Joseph Biden Sunday hosted a party at the White House marking the 245th Anniversary of his country's Declaration of Independence.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  South Florida doomed building demolished as a precaution as Tropical Storm Elsa approaches US coast

  

  As Tropical Storm Elsa was approaching the coast of Florida, authorities decided to demolish in a controlled manner what was left of the Champlain Towers South condo building as a precautionary measure.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 08:07 UTC

  US Judge extends Latam's bankruptcy protection restructuring plan to September 15

  

  The Latam group airlines group reported that the Federal Court from the southern district of New York approved the extension of its restructuring plan to September 15, as part of the bankruptcy protection process initiated last year.

• 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