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Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:55:00 GMT
Argentina's National Sovereignty Day: “We won't trade the islands for vaccines,” President says
Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday insisted the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands belonged to his country, which would never trade them “neither for vaccines nor for debts.”

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:50:00 GMT
Bolsonaro says Amazon crisis “same old nonsense”
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Friday said the Amazon desertification alert was “the same old nonsense” and blamed the opposition for those reports which were aimed at denting the country's image and scaring away investo...

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:43:00 GMT
Nicaragua pulling out from OAS, FM announces
Nicaragua's Foreign Minister Denis Moncada Friday announced his country has started procedures to withdraw from the Organization of American States (OAS), because it does "not respond to the interests of their respective people...

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:24:00 GMT
“Crystal Endeavor” with sanitary protocols tested, off to Antarctica
Polar class vessel Crystal Endeavor departed from Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina on her first-ever expedition voyage to Antarctica, after receiving the epidemiological clearance from local sanitary authorities on We...

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:20:00 GMT
Millions of Argentines do not show up for their second doses of Covid-19 vaccines
Argentine Health authorities Friday expressed a growing concern after over 8 million people who received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine failed to show up at their scheduled appointments to complete the immunization cycle, i...

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:17:00 GMT
Why China and India aren’t the climate villains of COP26
By Daniel Parsons and Martin Taylor (*) – The Glasgow Climate Pact urges countries to “accelerate efforts towards phasing down”, rather than “phasing out”, coal power that isn’t mitigated by carbon capture and stora...

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:15:00 GMT
The Netherlands: scores wounded, arrested amid rioting against anticovid harsh measures
Scores of protesters were wounded or arrested by police Friday in Rotterdam as people took to the streets in response to the Government's intentions to impose harsh, restrictive measures to curb the number of COVID-19 cases.

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:12:00 GMT
Tierra del Fuego soul searching: 25 November, "Day of Selk-nam indigenous people genocide"
The Tierra del Fuego provincial legislative has done some soul searching and has voted unanimously to declare next November 25, "Day of the Selk'nam people genocide." It will be a day of provincial mourning with flags at half-m...

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:03:00 GMT
Wishful declarations after three-leader Summit in Washington
Leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico have achieved little to no progress after their first three-part Summit in Washington this week. Nevertheless, there were some coincidences regarding arms trafficking, migration a...

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 07:35:00 GMT
“OTs are an integral part of Global Britain and benefit from a confident UK”, Liz Truss
At the conclusion of a two-day meeting at the Foreign Office, the Joint Ministerial Council, JMC, which brings together UK ministers and Overseas Territories leaders agreed on a joint communiqué which included the agenda of is...



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