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Fri, 06 Aug 2021 08:09:00 GMT
Uruguay will not change vaccination plans despite WHO's request
Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Thursday denied his country was to change course in its coronavirus immunization drive despite the World Health Organization's (WHO) requested that countries with a surplus of vaccines s...

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:52:00 GMT
In thirteen years Venezuela has eliminated 14 zeroes from the Bolivar currency
Because of the hyperinflation process, as of next October the Venezuelan currency, Bolivar, will lose six zeroes, the central bank announced on Thursday, This is the third time in thirteen years that monetary officials in the c...

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:44:00 GMT
Foreign airlines may continue to lift operations in Argentina if restrictions continue
Foreign airlines still operating in Argentina have voiced yet again their concerns over their future due to the country's restrictions on the number of flights allowed through Buenos Aires' Ezeiza international airport.

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:34:00 GMT
Latin America and Caribbean FDI in 2020 was the lowest since 2010, ECLAC annual report
Latin America and the Caribbean received US$105.48 billion in Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, in 2020 – 34.7% less than in 2019, 51% less than the record high achieved in 2012, and the lowest since 2010, the Economic Commissi...

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:28:00 GMT
Green light to build an International Antarctic Center in Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile will host the International Antarctic Center, CAI, a long-time project several times delayed but which finally was given the green light, and should begin to be built in the near futur...

Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:13:00 GMT
FC Barcelona announces Messi will not stay
Argentine international football legend Lionel Messi will no longer play for Spanish League top team FC Barcelona after a 21-year spell, it was announced Thursday. The Rosario-born Messi arrived in Barcelona when he was 12 year...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:37:00 GMT
Another court case and six more months of jail for ex interim Bolivian president
Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Añez will have to spend at least a whole year in jail since a Judge this week extended her preventive imprisonment for another six months when she is about to complete her first half-year of reclu...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:28:00 GMT
Bolsonaro rapidly losing support from the powerful Evangelic churches in Brazil
Brazilian president Jair Mesias Bolsonaro is rapidly losing footing among the powerful evangelists, one of his main electoral supporters and who voted massively for him in 2018. “Bolsonaro's message is no longer the message o...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:17:00 GMT
US promoting Endangered Species Act for Emperor penguin colonies
By Stephanie Jenouvrier (*) Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice, trips to br...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:06:00 GMT
Mexico files law suit against US main gun manufacturers
Mexico on Wednesday filed a major lawsuit against the United States gun manufacturers for the massive damage caused by “the unlawful trafficking of guns to drug cartels and other criminals in Mexico”.



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