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Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:34:00 GMT
Fears of Islamic State influence in East Congo, where thousands of UN Latam peace keeping forces are deployed
United Nations experts said on Wednesday they had been unable to find evidence of direct support by the Islamic State for an Islamist militia in eastern Congo. Several Latin American countries have deployed under command of UN,...

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:55:00 GMT
Ambassadors back to Moscow and Washington is main outcome of Biden-Putin Summit in Geneva
US and Russia's Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joseph Biden have agreed that the two countries’ ambassadors will return to their workplaces in Moscow and in Washington in what became the most significant announcement after Wed...

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:54:00 GMT
Peru's fortunes start packing up in case Castillo becomes President
Peru's wealthiest people feel threatened by the likelihood of leftwing Pedro Castillo becoming the next president and have therefore started wiring money abroad, it was reported.

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:45:00 GMT
President Fernández not welcome at Salta for 200th anniversary of Argentine hero Güemes' death
Argentine President Alberto Fernández was jeered as he was driven from the Salta airport to the provincial capital downtown for the ceremonies marking the 200th anniversary of the death of national and local hero General MartÃ...

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:40:00 GMT
May's inflation in Argentina was 3.3%: What will happen after the elections?
Argentina's inflation in May was 3.3% for a year-on-year accumulation of 48.8%, the highest mark since March 2020, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC)

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:26:00 GMT
Uruguay's GACH comes to an end
Uruguay's Group of Honorary Advisers to the Presidency in matters regarding the anti-covid-19 fight, known as GACH was dissolved Wednesday after a meeting with President Luis Lacalle Pou at the Executive Tower in Montevideo.

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:22:00 GMT
Brazil: 19 variants of coronavirus spot in Sao Paulo state, but Delta not one of them
Brazil's Butantan Institute has identified 19 variants of the SARS-CoV-2 that were circulating in the state of Sao Paulo, with the Gamma strain -formerly known as P.1 or Manaus- spotted to have a prevalence of 89.9%.

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:04:00 GMT
"Health care corruption" in Europe worsened during the pandemic, Transparency International report
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened corruption across the European Union, Transparency International said in its annual Global Corruption Barometer report for the EU, pointing out that health care has become a "hotspot for co...

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 08:45:00 GMT
Germany's birth rate jumps to its highest since 1998, after the first wave of coronavirus
Germans have been busy during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 10% birth rate jump in March to the highest figure since 1998, the Federal Statistical Office said in a release. Germany had already reported a 6% rise in births in Fe...

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:57:00 GMT
Castillo edged Fujimori by 44,000 votes as counting ends in Peruvian presidential runoff
Peru's electoral authorities have completed counting votes from June 6's presidential runoff, after which left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo was determined to have finished some 44,000 votes ahead of right-wing populist Keiko F...



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