United States

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 22:32 UTC

  Gen. Powell dies of COVID-19 aged 84

  

  Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, the first African American ever to hold that position, died Monday of complications following a COVID-19 diagnosis. He was 84.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 00:10 UTC

  Maduro associate extradited from Cape Verde to face criminal charges in Miami; Venezuela claims “kidnapping”

  

  The Venezuelan government walked out of negotiations with the opposition following on the extradition of Colombian businessman Alex Saab from Cape Verde to the United States where he faces trial on money laundering and corruption.

• Friday, October 15th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  US returns to UN Human Rights Council next January after a four year absence

  

  The United States is returning to the United Nations Human Rights Council next January, after having withdrawn in 2018 under the Donald Trump administration. Washington secured 168 votes, far more than the simple majority of 97 required and will sit for the next three years.

• Thursday, October 14th 2021 - 21:34 UTC

  Fed minutes: tapering round the corner but inflation remains controversial

  

  The United States Federal Reserve is expected to begin cutting on emergency support for the US economy in mid-December at the latest, if not even in mid-November, according to the minutes from September's meeting released this week.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  In the US it is not about unemployment, but about understaffing

  

  US workers are quitting their jobs in an unprecedented manner, making things harder for employers to fill vacancies, it was reported Tuesday.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Southwest Airlines cancels 2,000 flights, blames weather, ATC

  

  US carrier Southwest Airlines cancelled a large number of flights over the weekend citing weather conditions and air traffic control (ATC) disruptions. Both company and pilot unions denied the events were related to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.

• Sunday, October 10th 2021 - 19:41 UTC

  US will not release strategic reserve and Brent oil climbs to US$ 83 the barrel

  

  By Julianne Geiger for Oilprice.com - The Unite States Department of Energy is walking back previous comments that it was considering a release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and a ban on crude oil exports, Bloomberg’s Javier Blas reported on Twitter.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 04:55 UTC

  Neither Trump nor Biden are genocidal for how they handled the COVID-19 crisis, Brazil's President says

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said his country had suffered relatively little going through the COVID-19 pandemic and wondered “why don't they call [US President Joseph] Biden genocidal?”

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Chile and Interpol break up smuggling ring of Haitians and children to Mexico and US

  

  An operation codenamed ‘Frontera Norte’ has allowed Chile’s Criminal Investigations Police (Policía de Investigaciones – PDI) to arrest nine suspected members of a migrant smuggling ring following an investigation supported by INTERPOL and law enforcement across South and Central America.

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 08:41 UTC

  United States barely avert gov't shutdown, but only for a few months

  

  US President Joseph Biden Thursday signed into law the government funding bill, hours after Congress agreed on it in a last-minute rush to avoid a shutdown.