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Wednesday, October 26th 2022 - 08:39 UTC
US requests confiscation of Emtrasur's 747

A District of Columbia Court Tuesday filed a request before Argentine authorities to confiscate the Venezuelan-Iranian Boeing 747-300 freighter aircraft grounded at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza international airport, it was reported.
Saturday, October 22nd 2022 - 10:14 UTC
US: Bannon sentenced to 4 months in jail

Former US President Donald Trump's advisor Steve Bannon has been sentenced to four months in jail after Judge Carl Nichols acquiesced to the US Attorney's Office's request which also included a monetary fine the magistrate lowered from US$ 200,000 to US$ 6,500.
Saturday, October 22nd 2022 - 10:11 UTC
WaPo: Trump took home secret documents on Iran and China

Highly classified intelligence documents on Iran and China were retrieved from the raid on former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in August in Palm Beach, Florida, the Washington Post reported Friday.
Thursday, October 20th 2022 - 08:01 UTC
“BlackRock’s role in a net-zero carbon

The world's largest assets manager BlackRock (with US$10 trillion in assets under management as of January 2022), will not stop investing in oil, natural gas, or coal, told a UK parliamentary committee in written responses to an inquiry on the role of the financial sector in the UK’s net-zero transition.
Saturday, October 15th 2022 - 14:18 UTC
Uruguay seeks to become attractive to global meeting organizers

Uruguay's Tourism Minister Tabaré Viera headed the South American country's delegation at IMEX America 2022, a convention held in Las Vegas to promote the industry of global meetings, ceremonies, and incentive travel and arguably the largest event on the subject.
Friday, October 14th 2022 - 10:24 UTC
Biden administration extends COVID-19 emergency

President Joseph Biden's administration Thursday announced an extension for 90 more days of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency declaration. The measure has been in practice since January 2020.
Friday, October 7th 2022 - 10:20 UTC
Blinken discusses bilateral issues with Boric in Santiago

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday at the Palacio de la Moneda, in Santiago, to discuss further investments in the South American country, it was reported.
Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 21:57 UTC
United States to pardon all those convicted of marijuana possession

U.S. President Joseph Biden will pardon all those federally convicted of marijuana possession through an executive order, the White House announced Thursday. “Sending people to prison simply for possessing marijuana has affected too many lives and has meant that there are people incarcerated for conduct that is legal in many states,” Biden said in a video to announce the decision.
Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 10:13 UTC
Tension escalates as North Korea fires two more short-range missiles

Just two days after launching an intermediate-range missile that triggered alarms in Japan, North Korea fired two more short-range ballistic missiles into the Pacific Ocean Thursday.
Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 09:49 UTC
“Click chemistry” developers awarded Nobel Prize

Caroline R. Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless of the United States have been awarded the 2022 Chemistry Nobel Prize together with Denmark's Morten Meldal for making difficult things easy, it was announced.