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Fri, 13 May 2022 08:11:00 GMT
Cuba in mourning over 45 dead from hotel explosion
Cuban authorities Thursday decreed a 42-hour official mourning period starting at dawn Friday to honor the 45 victims of the Saratoga Hotel explosion in Havana last week.

Thu, 12 May 2022 20:32:00 GMT
Colombian media say international terrorism had to do with prosecutor's killing
Two Lebanese nationals and a Brazilian citizen are suspected of having been involved in the murder of Paraguayan Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci while he was honeymooning in Colombia with his wife Claudia Aguilera earlier this week, i...

Thu, 12 May 2022 20:12:00 GMT
Finland to apply for NATO membership after all
The Government of Finland Thursday confirmed its country's intention to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced Thursday.

Thu, 12 May 2022 19:32:00 GMT
CAM calls for Mapuche armed resistance in southern Chile
Despite the head of state's pro-Native People's rights stance, a Mapuche group in southern Chile Wednesday likened current President Gabriel Boric Font to his rightwing predecessor Sebastián Piñera and called for armed resist...

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:56:00 GMT
Argentina a reliable partner, German Chancellor says
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Wednesday said Argentina was “a reliable partner” upon welcoming President Alberto Fernández in Berlín on the second stop of the South American leader's new European tour.

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:54:00 GMT
Mensun Bound will lecture on the discovery of “Endurance” onboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2
Mensun Bound, who as Director of Exploration of the team that on March 5 discovered Sir Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ship Endurance in the Weddell Sea, will deliver talks onboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 in 2022 and 2023.

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:53:00 GMT
New poll says Lula may not need a runoff to win Brazil's elections in October
Following weeks of uncertainty during which incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro was closing in on challenger and former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva in most polls, the Workers' Party (PT) leftwing leader has been onc...

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:53:00 GMT
Southern Brazil ports and Montevideo have become drugs exporting hubs
The seizure by Brazilian police of 136 kilos of cocaine on a docked ship in the port of Rio Grande, state of Rio Grande do Sul, clearly indicates the existence of an international drug trafficking route, in the south of the co...

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:52:00 GMT
EU wants to sign stalled trade agreements, but with Mercosur objections persist
The European Union aims to finalize and sign at least three stalled trade agreements this year as the bloc looks to reinforce strategic alliances amid the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:45:00 GMT
Constitutional Court greenlights medically assisted suicide in Colombia
Colombia's Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled by 6 votes to 3 to decriminalize medically assisted suicide. Euthanasia in Colombia is already legal, but in this case, it is the patient and not the doctor who executes the actio...



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