United States

• Monday, May 10th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  US investors withdrawing from Latin America's three largest economies as populist rulers spark concern

  

  According to a recent report from the Department of the Treasury, investors from the United States are rapidly fleeing the once most promising and three largest countries of Latin America (Brazil, Mexico and Argentina).

• Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 06:44 UTC

  United States in favor of waiving covid-19 vaccine patents

  

  United States President Joseph Biden has made it clear that after weighing all the pros and cons he was in favor of waiving intellectual property rights on anticovid-19 vaccine patents so that they can be produced faster and the world can finally overcome the current pandemic.

• Wednesday, May 5th 2021 - 06:47 UTC

  US Government praised for joining conservation efforts in Antarctic Southern Ocean

  

  The government of the United States has been praised by The Pew Charitable Trusts for its decision to co-lead in matters concerning Southern Ocean Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), special climate envoy John Kerry announced during a virtual ministerial meeting hosted by the European Union.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  CFK amazed at Biden plan's similarities with Argentina's economic policies

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) Monday was full of praise for US President's Joseph Biden's message before Congress, citing resounding Keynesian resemblances to her economic policies both in the current term since 2019 and also when she was President between 2007 and 2015.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  Uruguay: “Unicorn” dLocal eyes Wall Street and new Ford plant offers around 200 jobs to produce

  

  Uruguay's first “unicorn” (an emerging technology-based company worth over US $ 1 billion) local is reportedly planning to land on Wall Street, according to Bloomberg.

• Friday, April 30th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Sputnik V developers file libel suit against Anvisa for “false and inaccurate” rejection

  

  The Russian manufacturers of the Sputnik V vaccine have filed a libel lawsuit in Brazil against the country's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) for “intentionally spreading false and inaccurate information” about the covid-19 inoculator after prohibiting its import, citing lack of data, the immunizer's Twitter account (@sputnikvaccine) reported.

• Thursday, April 29th 2021 - 07:12 UTC

  Apollo 11 astronaut who orbitted the Moon dies at age 90

  

  Apollo 11 Mission “odd-man-out” Michael Collins died Wednesday of cancer at the age of 90, his family announced.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Europe willing to welcome US tourists if vaccine passport question is worked out

  

  European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen admitted this past weekend there was a growing interest in welcoming tourists from the United States.

• Sunday, April 25th 2021 - 14:12 UTC

  Biden tells it like it is: The killing of Armenians in WWI was “genocide”

  

  US President Joseph Biden tells it like it is and calls the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire during World War I “a genocide.”

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 05:07 UTC

  Biden's climate summit starts on Mother Earth's Day

  

  US President Joseph Biden Thursday pledged to reduce his country's greenhouse gas emissions by at least half by 2030 during the opening speech of a virtual Climate Summit he convened featuring several world leaders and which is regarded as a preliminary encounter leading up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this coming November.