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Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:01:00 GMT
Brazilian Senate to oversee Amazonia investigations
Brazil's Senate Monday approved an initiative to create a temporary committee to oversee the probe into the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips, a correspondent for The Guardian, and his indigenist guide Bruno AraÃ...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:00:00 GMT
Ecuador's native groups to up protests after leader was arrested
Ecuador's Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) Tuesday launched an appeal to up protests against the government of President Guillermo Lasso by staging "a great indigenous and popular revolt."

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:56:00 GMT
Venezuela further below oil output target
Venezuela's oil output production fell 5% from May of 2022 to the previous month, according to the latest Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) released Tuesday.

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:57:00 GMT
Falklands War: end of hostilities, General Menendez surrenders to Major General Jeremy Moore
With the capture of Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Sapper Hill the Falkland Islands conflict was effectively over and at 2100 hours on the 14th June 1982 the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, General Mario M...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:31:00 GMT
Argentina had been tipped there was something strange with the Emtrasur 747
The Governments of Paraguay and Uruguay had alerted Argentina about the Iranian crew flying the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 cargo airplane now seized at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport.

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:30:00 GMT
That’s a fine mess you got out of, Stanley
By Graham Bound for MercoPress – Images of Stanley captured in 1982 compared with photos taken from the same vantage points 40 years on, show a town – now a city – transformed.

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:30:00 GMT
Brazilian scientists trace more transmissible COVID-19 strains
Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Rio de Janeiro has identified, by genomic analysis, the replacement of strain BA.1 by strain BA.2 in samples analyzed between May 20 and June 2. Both are subvariants of Omicron.

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:25:00 GMT
Brazil's trade balance positive, but below last year's figures
Brazil's trade balance for the first five months of the year accumulates a surplus of US$ 25.128 billion, it was reported Monday.

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:19:00 GMT
Mercosur again divided on Ukraine conflict, Argentina and Brazil not in a WTO list condemning "aggression"
Over 50 WTO members agreed a statement at the WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), in full support of Ukraine, and condemning "aggression". However, Mercosur was divided on the issue, while Uruguay and Paraguay figured am...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:00:00 GMT
Foreign Office and leading Scotland universities launch a new think tank, Scottish Council for Global Affairs
Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has hailed the launch of new think tank, the Scottish Council for Global Affairs (SCGA), at an event in London. The Secretary of State spoke at an event hosted by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Deve...



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