South America
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:55:00 GMTUK MPs suggest asylum seekers crossing the English Channel be sent to Falklands
According to UK news reports, the British government is becoming quite desperate about the asylum seekers braving the English Channel, a record 25,000 so far this year, and all sorts of radical measures to contain the increase ...
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:50:00 GMTFlorencio Randazzo makes it to the House after edging Libertarian candidate
Former Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo finally made it through to the House of Deputies on his own Vamos con Vos front after the final vote count ended up granting him the votes he needed to snatch the seat from the Libert...
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:40:00 GMTNicaragua's regime arrests yet another dissident voice
Nicaragua's regime has arrested 79-year-old former diplomat Edgar Parrales. The former priest was one of the few critical voices still active within the Central American country, where dozens of opposition leaders have been eit...
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:20:00 GMTBAS team to study quick response to whales mass stranding with satellite technology
An international team of scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey have published research on using new technology to study mass stranding of whales from space and how the technology could be used to help protect populatio...
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:14:00 GMTAntarctica’s fragile ecosystems as human activity grows and the world warms
By Dana M Bergstrom and Shavawn Donoghue – We tend to think Antarctica is isolated and far away – biologically speaking, this is true. But the continent is busier than you probably imagine, with many national programs and t...
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:04:00 GMTPeru's Congressional Committee declares Evo persona non grata
A Committee within Peru's Congress Monday agreed to declare former Bolivian President Evo Morales a persona non grata for meddling with internal politics, it was announced.
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:57:00 GMTElectronic ballot box malfunction strikes Brazil's third-way party internal voting
Brazil's Social Democracy Party (PSDB) of former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) has suspended "for technical reasons" over the weekend the selection process to appoint a candidate to run in the October 2022 president...
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:54:00 GMT"Argentine Bolsonaro" not quite so after taking second dose of Covid-19 vax
Far-right Deputy-elect Javier Milei, whom many had likened to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has been pictured taking what turned out to be his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, very much to the disappointment of his cons...
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:27:00 GMTRussia reopens market to Brazil for 200,000 tons of beef and 100,00 of pork, zero-tariff
Russia announced to Brazil that it was reopening its market for a quota of up to 300,000 tons of meat, at zero tariffs, including 200,000 tons of beef and 100,000 tons of pork. Likewise, Russia lifted restrictions on beef expor...
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:15:00 GMTMontana Senator presents bill to suspend Brazilian beef sales to the United States
United States Senator for the cattle breeding state of Montana, Jon Tester has presented a bill to suspend beef imports from Brazil. The congressman alleges that the Brazilian authorities were slow to notify the World Organizat...