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Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:50:00 GMT
Booster doses in Uruguay to always be with the latest version of the drug
Uruguay's Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado Thursday said “there will be an annual revaccination” against COVID-19 and announced the Government had secured a supply of Pfizer's drug for that purpose.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:45:00 GMT
19-yr-old becomes youngest woman to fly solo around the world
At age 19, Zara Rutherford has become the youngest woman ever to fly solo around the world, after landing back at her Belgian point of departure following a journey of more than 52,000 kilometers (28,000 nautical miles) across ...

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:40:00 GMT
First case of flurona in Argentina spotted in Santa Fe
Health officials in the Argentine province of Santa Fe Thursday confirmed the first case of flurona (inFLUenza + coRONAvirus) had been detected in the country in a 3-year-old boy hospitalized in the provincial capital.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:35:00 GMT
UN General Assembly, except Iran, adopts resolution condemning any denial of the Iran
On the month of Holocaust Remembrance Day, United Nations General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution rejecting and condemning any denial of the Holocaust following on a joint proposal from Israel and Germany.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:27:00 GMT
Cuba cracks down on free journalism
Following the July 2021 uprisings and how information left the island of Cuba and reached the world, the Communist regime has been revoking visas from foreign journalists, it was reported.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:24:00 GMT
Bolsonaro's mother dies while the President was on tour in Suriname
Olinda Bonturi Bolsonaro, the mother of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has died early Friday in the city of São Paulo after being hospitalized last Monday. She was 94.

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:10:00 GMT
Austria passes law making COVID-19 vax mandatory
The Austrian parliament Thursday approved the introduction of mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 by 137 votes in favor and 33 against. The measure will take effect Feb. 4. Austria has thus become the first European nation t...

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:05:00 GMT
Let us celebrate Penguin Awareness Day with Falklands one of the world's great penguin capitals
Penguin Awareness Day is celebrated annually on the 20th of January and this year was on Thursday. The founder of Penguin Awareness Day is unknown, and there is no information on when this day was first celebrated.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 20:30:00 GMT
Latam Airlines drops 777s to the US out of fear of 5G interferences
Latam Airlines has agreed to follow Boeing's advice and not use the 777 models for its services between Brazil and the United States to avoid problems stemming from 5G cell phone antennas which may interfere with navigation gea...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 20:16:00 GMT
December 2021 marks record oil output for Argentina in last 9 years
In the last month of 2021, Argentina has recorded a total oil output of around 559,000 barrels per day (BPD), thus reaching the highest production for the country over the past nine years, it was reported Thursday.



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