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Thu, 06 Oct 2022 22:06:00 GMT
Ecuadorian military finds more than 750 antipersonnel mines in border with Colombia
More than 750 handmade antipersonnel mines were found in the Amazonian province of Sucumbios, bordering Colombia. The finding in charge of the Ecuadorian military was reported Thursday by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces.

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:57:00 GMT
United States to pardon all those convicted of marijuana possession
U.S. President Joseph Biden will pardon all those federally convicted of marijuana possession through an executive order, the White House announced Thursday. "Sending people to prison simply for possessing marijuana has affecte...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:40:00 GMT
Tebet will vote to Lula and together with Cardoso and Gomes hit Bolsonaro's calculations
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva will be endorsed by Sunday's third-place finisher Simone Tebet of the Movement of Brazilian Democracy (MDB) for Oct. 30's runoff against the incumbent Jait Bolsonaro, it was...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:38:00 GMT
Argentines striving between childhood poverty and indigence, CFK's favorite economist pointed out
Following last week's figures from Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) pointing out that 50% of the country's children under 15 lived in poverty, researcher Agustín Salvia said the data were “in l...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:13:00 GMT
Tension escalates as North Korea fires two more short-range missiles
Just two days after launching an intermediate-range missile that triggered alarms in Japan, North Korea fired two more short-range ballistic missiles into the Pacific Ocean Thursday.

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:09:00 GMT
Liz Truss after long term gas provision deals with Norway and Qatar
The new government of Liz Truss is focusing in long-term gas deals with Norway, Qatar and other countries, as energy supply has become the priority of the United Kingdom and ensuring heating and lights this winter.

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:00:00 GMT
Moscow estimates "annexed" Ukrainian territories will add 5 million tons of grains to Russian harvest
Russia’s grain harvest is set to grow by some five million tons annually because of the recent incorporation of four Russian-majority Ukrainian territories, Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev said this week.

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:57:00 GMT
Argentine scientists studying death of Southern right whales on the Patagonia coast
Members of Argentina's INIDEP, the Fisheries Research and Development Institute, are working in Puerto Madryn to determine the cause of the sudden increase in the death of the Southern right whale, with dead corpses along the c...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:49:00 GMT
"Click chemistry" developers awarded Nobel Prize
Caroline R. Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless of the United States have been awarded the 2022 Chemistry Nobel Prize together with Denmark's Morten Meldal for making difficult things easy, it was announced.

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:38:00 GMT
OPEC+ puts pressure on western countries with strict output cut
The price of gas at pumps for drivers worldwide might soon go up once again after OPEC+ countries at a meeting in Vienna agreed on to deepest production cut since the Covid-19 pandemic.



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