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Mon, 11 Jul 2022 06:52:00 GMT
Uruguayan gov't to appeal ruling banning C-19 vax for U-13 people
Uruguayan Health Ministry (MSP) legal advisors are to submit Monday an appeal to Judge Alejandro Recarey's decision to suspend vaccination against COVID-19 of people aged, it was reported in Montevideo.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 10:30:00 GMT
Conviasa suspends Caracas-Buenos Aires route
Venezuela's flag carrier Conviasa has announced it will halt its Caracas-Buenos Aires route at least until September in light of the refueling problems all its aircraft face for belonging to a company blacklisted by the US Trea...

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 10:15:00 GMT
Contradicting messages from Batakis herald split devaluation
Argentine Economy Minister Silvina Batakis has been reported Friday to be evaluating several possible scenarios, all of which involve some forms of devaluation of the local peso.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 10:03:00 GMT
Uruguay Central Bank raised interest rate policy 50 basis point to 9,75%
Uruguay's Central Bank of Uruguay this week ordered a 50 basis point increase in the interest rate policy, the eighth straight increase since last August. The move, which brings the monetary policy rate to 9.75%, means the cent...

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:58:00 GMT
Musk backs down on Twitter buy-over deal
South African billionaire Elon Musk finally decided not to move forward with his plans to buy over Twitter and withdraw the US$ 44 billion he had once offered.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:55:00 GMT
Moderna's pediatrics vax to become available in Argentina later this month
Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Friday announced her country was about to receive the first batch of 1,400,000 doses of Moderna's pediatric COVID-19 vaccine to be applied to children between six months and three year...

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:52:00 GMT
Biden signs executive order to lessen effects of Roe overturning on abortion
US President Joseph Biden Friday issued an Executive Order which would mitigate the effects of the recent overturning by the US Supreme Court of the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling which had cleared the way for abortions nationwide.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:49:00 GMT
Russian envoy cast aside by many as G20 Summit of FMs comes to an end
Foreign Ministers of the G20 countries had a bitter day rounding up their two-day meeting Friday in Bali, Indonesia, as the case of the war in Ukraine took center stage and divided positions among attendees.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:45:00 GMT
New bird species spotted in northern Argentina
The red-winged brant (Myiozetetes cayanensis), a member of the brant family that had never before been recorded in Argentina, has been sighted in IguazĂș, in the province of Misiones, by a Paraguayan tourist who alerted forest ...

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:30:00 GMT
Brazil grains crop estimate, 272.5 million tons helped by corn and wheat despite a slide in soybeans
Given more optimistic prospects for the supply of corn and wheat, Brazil's National Supply Company, Conab, increased, slightly, the estimate for the 2021/22 market year grain harvest. Overall this has meant that Brazil is expec...



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