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Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:46:00 GMT
Boric will not travel to Colombia with Piñera: priority is "organizing my administration's team"
Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boris announced he contacted president Sebastián Piñera to thank him for the invitation to attend the January 26/27 Prosur and Pacific Alliance summits in Colombia, --the current head of govern...

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:45:00 GMT
Uruguay consolidates climate change policy, minister says
Uruguay's Environment Minister Adrián Peña Monday forecast that by 2035 ANCAP's La Teja refinery will be closed and vehicles will be 100% zero emissions, as the country advances towards its carbon-neutral goals for 2050

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:43:00 GMT
HMS Protector breaks polar record and involved in scientific research on penguins and climate change
Icebreaker HMS Protector has broken a record, becoming the first Royal Navy ship to enter both polar circles within the same year. The Navy's only icebreaker, Protector left Plymouth in August for Antarctica, – her first visi...

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:40:00 GMT
Brazil: Bolsonaro insists his daughter will not be jabbed
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Monday insisted his 11-year-old daughter will not be taking any COVID-19 vaccine.

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:35:00 GMT
Paraguayan Gov't honors IACHR ruling favoring indigenous peoples
Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez's Government Monday gave real-estate ownership (occupation) certificates to indigenous peoples plus a monetary compensation in accordance with rulings from the Inter-American Court of Hu...

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:35:00 GMT
UK Parliament Defense Committee report, "we're going to need a bigger Navy"
Britain’s parliamentary Defense Committee has fired a broadside at the government, raising significant concerns about the future size and capabilities of the Royal Navy in a report released this month" and reported by Defense...

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:33:00 GMT
Venezuelan leader announces trip to Iran sometime next year
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced he would visit strategic ally Iran sometime next year following an invitation from his Iranian colleague Ebrahim Raisi to discuss further cooperation between the two countries.

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:30:00 GMT
Israel launches study about the effectiveness of 4th dose of COVID-19 vax
An Israeli heart surgeon has arguably become the world’s first healthy person to get a 4th dose of COVID-19 vaccine, The Times of Israel reported Monday.

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:20:00 GMT
The right enemy a major asset in politics
By Gwynne Dyer – The right enemy can be a major asset in politics, as Chilean voters have just demonstrated once again. All the opinion polls had the two presidential candidates neck and neck before the election, but a few da...

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:13:00 GMT
US halves quarantine time for new COVID-19 cases
Health authorities from the United States have agreed to cut by half the 10-day isolation period people newly-infected with SARS-CoV-2 needed to go through after catching the disease, it was announced Monday.



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