South America
Tue, 31 May 2022 07:35:00 GMTPresidents of Paraguay and Argentina oversee dam project
Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez Monday welcomed his Argentine counterpart Alberto Fernández in Ayolas, 305 kilometers from Asunción, to attend a series of events involving joint undertakings in energy production.
Mon, 30 May 2022 09:55:00 GMTSurprise runner-up to take on Petro in Colombia's presidential runoff
Leftwing candidate and former M19 guerrilla leader Gustavo Petro, 62, won Sunday's presidential elections in Colombia, as all polls had foreseen. But he will face 77-year-old populist Rodolfo Hernández at the runoff in three w...
Mon, 30 May 2022 09:49:00 GMTMore prosecutors killed in Latin America
Following the assassination of Paraguay's Marcelo Pecci while honeymooning in Colombia, two other crimes have hit Latin American prosecutors in the last days of May.
Mon, 30 May 2022 09:41:00 GMTBolsonaro going to Pernambuco as death toll from storms keeps rising
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday announced he would be traveling first thing Monday to Recife to see for himself the devastation caused by yet another rainstorm in the country's northeast, which has left at least 84 dea...
Mon, 30 May 2022 09:22:00 GMTPM Johnson wants to go back to pounds and ounces
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is weighing a possible return to imperial units of measurement in a post-Brexit move to fully part with the remaining vestiges of the European alliance, it was reported in London. He had alr...
Mon, 30 May 2022 09:18:00 GMTCar bomb goes off in Ecuador – no victims this time around
Nobody was injured as a car bomb went off in front of a Guayaquil police precinct, it was reported Sunday.
Mon, 30 May 2022 09:10:00 GMTPie thrown at Mona Lisa by fake old woman
A deranged young male visitor disguised as an old lady in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at Leonardo Da Vicini's Mona Lisa painting at Paris' Louvre Museum
Mon, 30 May 2022 09:09:00 GMTHouse of Commons Speaker and Minister Milling at Goose Green Liberation ceremony
On Sunday, marking the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of Goose Green, East Falkland, and despite a brisk wind blowing snow across the monument, a service of commemoration was held to remember those who gave their lives in t...
Mon, 30 May 2022 09:09:00 GMTUruguayan pumps ask gov't not to rise price of fuel until next month
Gasoline retailers in Uruguay have asked the Government of President Luis Lacalle Pou to put on hold “for a few more days” the increase in the price of fuel reportedly to be announced shortly.
Mon, 30 May 2022 09:05:00 GMTBritish Antarctic Survey field season has finished; RRS Sir Attenborough returns to UK after seven months
RRS Sir David Attenborough departed Rothera Research Station for the final time earlier in May and is now making its way back to the UK, marking the end of the BAS Antarctic summer field season.