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Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:57:00 GMT
OAS condemns presence in Nicaragua, of Iranian official accused of aggravated murder by Argentine justice
Twenty-two-country members from the Organization of American States, OAS, on Wednesday approved a strong statement condemning the presence of the Iranian official Mohsen Rezai in Nicaragua during the taking office ceremony of p...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:54:00 GMT
Seven years after, death of Argentine special prosecutor and alleged Iran connection remain unresolved
On a rainy evening Tuesday 18th January, dozens toured the streets of Buenos Aires in memory of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of his death, a case which remains unresolved by Argentine...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:53:00 GMT
Peru wants Repsol to pay damages for oil spill amid Tonga volcano eruption
Peru's Foreign Ministry Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Spanish oil company Repsol for damages caused by a spill in Ventanilla, in the province Callao province.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:52:00 GMT
Soap opera foreign policy: US tells Argentina keep up negotiations with IMF
Last October when Argentine president Alberto Fernandez left for Rome to the G20 leaders' summit, his office informed that he was expecting to meet with US president Joe Biden to among other issues address support for Argentina...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:52:00 GMT
Tonga vulcano eruption 500 times stronger than Hiroshima bomb
A NASA scientist has compared this weekend's volcanic eruption off Tonga with the atomic bomb dropped by the United States at the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 and said the recent episode was "500 times" worse.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:51:00 GMT
Argentine lorry drivers stage protest due to Chile's tight sanitary controls
After the Government of Chile reinstated the requirement that people must undergo a PCR test -which must come out negative- to get across the border crossings through the Andes, some 2,000 lorry drivers have been lining up alon...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:45:00 GMT
Argentine President to remain isolated after close contact with COVID-19 case
Argentine President Alberto Fernández is once again under isolation after it was determined he has been in close contact with a positive case of COVID-19, while Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas has already been c...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:38:00 GMT
Beijing and Taiwan jockeying for influence in Honduras
Next January 27, the president-elect of Honduras in Central America, a country known to live off the drugs trade and international aid will be taking office. Xiomara Castro, the first woman president of the country, and an icon...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:33:00 GMT
Europe and the Americas tourism rebounded in 2021, but still below 2019 pre-pandemic level, WTO report
Global tourism experienced a 4% upturn in 2021, compared to 2020 (415 million versus 400 million). However, international tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) were still 72% below the pre-pandemic year of 2019, according to pr...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:22:00 GMT
Venezuela's elderly demand better pensions
Retired Venezuelan health care workers Wednesday staged a protest in demand for better pensions, claiming that what they were earning were "miserable salaries" with which they were being "starved to death"



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