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Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:44:00 GMT
Expo Prado, Uruguay's largest agricultural fair, now without sanitary restrictions: here's everything you need to know
For the first time in almost three years, the International Livestock Exposition will return in a new edition that will be held as it was before the pandemic, without sanitary restrictions, and in the same place: the Rural del ...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:35:00 GMT
Saudi woman sentenced to 45 years in jail for Twitter postings
A woman in Saudi Arabia was handed down a 45-year jail sentence Tuesday after being found guilty of posting messages on social media "to tear [the country's] social fabric," it was reported.

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:29:00 GMT
Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader and father of Perestroika, has died at 91
The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91.

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 19:08:00 GMT
Son of Che Guevara dies in Venezuela aged 60
Camilo Guevara March, one of the sons of Cuban guerrilla fighter Ernesto Guevara, nicknamed "Che" for his Argentine origins, died Monday in Caracas, it was reported. He was 60.

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 18:37:00 GMT
Uruguay, Brazil agree to deepen fight against organized crime along the border
Authorities from Uruguay and Brazil defense authorities have held bilateral meetings towards coordinating joint efforts along the border between the two countries to carry out operations against drug trafficking and organized c...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:55:00 GMT
UK tells India, “Britain has no doubts about Falklands sovereignty,” and Islanders right to self determination
Days after India extended support to Argentina's campaign to restart international negotiations on the Falkland Islands sovereignty claim in the South Atlantic, a British official on Monday said there was “no doubt” about t...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:43:00 GMT
Chile's planned Constitution still not likely to survive plebiscite
Chile's planned new Constitution seems to be heading for failure in the upcoming September 4 referendum, according to the latest polls, which show up to 56% of the citizenry would vote against it, between 4 and 12 percentage po...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:23:00 GMT
India prepared to eliminate UK components from Tejas jet fighter, of interest for Argentina
On Monday's piece on the visit of Indian External Affairs minister Dr. S. Jaishankar to Buenos Aires we reported the interest of Argentina to strengthen bilateral defense links and cooperation, and at the same time its interest...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:20:00 GMT
Falklands' Beauchene Fishing orders a new trawler to replace "Baffin Bay" sunk in Vigo
Galicia's Copemar and their Falkland Islands partner Beauchene Fishing have contracted Armón Vigo, an affiliate of the Asturian Naval Group Armon, for the construction of a trawler to replace the "Baffin Bay" which caught fir...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:16:00 GMT
All fuel prices in Brazil down, thanks to Petrobras and tax reductions
A survey from Brazil's National Oil, Gas and Bio-fuels Agency, ANP, showed that the average price for a liter of gasoline in service stations across Brazil had dropped 2,77%, and this way the price is now R$ 5,25 this week, the...



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