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Sat, 19 Feb 2022 17:05:00 GMT
Work to fully reopen Argentina's Petrel Base in Antarctica goes on
Argentine Navy's ARA Puerto Argentino sloop has sucessfully unloaded supplies and machinery this week at the Petrel Base in Antarctica, it was reported. A self-propelled pontoon built entirely at the Tandanor–CINAR shipyard w...

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:43:00 GMT
US Homeland Department to deploy robot dogs along the border with Mexico
A robot dog designed and manufactured in the United States by Ghost Robotics and which had been in the earlier stages of development last year has been given its marching orders for a major assignment.

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:06:00 GMT
IMF says draft of deal with Argentina almost ready
A high-ranking International Monetary Fund (IMF) official Friday announced a full deal with Argentina “is very close,” as the Government of President Alberto Fernández hopes it will be next week, so that it can be put up f...

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:59:00 GMT
Chile is to become a “regional, multinational and intercultural State”, according to the new constitution
Chile is to be defined in the future as a “Regional State, multinational and intercultural” according to the draft approved on Friday afternoon by the constitutional convention that is discussing the new constitution for th...

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:59:00 GMT
Interior Minister wants Chile's northern borders fully closed
Chile's Interior Minister Rodrigo Delgado wants to close the country's northern border as a new stage of the “state of exception” already in force in four provinces where the migration crisis is escalating.

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:38:00 GMT
Canadian police launches foreceful removal of Freedom Convoy protesters
Canadian law enforcement officers have arrested over 100 people in Ottawa who had gathered at the capital city amid the so-called "Freedom Convoy" to protest against Prime Minister Trudeau's COVID-19 vaccination policies.

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:33:00 GMT
Number of fatalities in Petropolis keeps rising as rescue work affected by rain
Rains have kept falling in the Brazilian city of Petropolis in the Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro, which has affected relief work and taken the death toll up to 136, it was reported Friday, as the number of missing people ro...

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:22:00 GMT
WTO Fisheries to end subsidies committee: Agreement to finalize negotiations as soon as possible
The World Trade Organization committee to eliminate subsidies for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and banning certain forms of fisheries subsidies to impede overcapacity and overfishing, have agreed to continue work...

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:19:00 GMT
Ahead of another major blunder, an Argentine haircut for the IMF
By Willem H. Buitter – By approving an unprecedentedly large loan to Argentina in mid-2018, despite the country's failure to meet basic borrowing conditions, the International Monetary Fund committed a major blunder. Rather t...

Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:16:00 GMT
Strong jump in global 2021 trade of goods and services ,to pre-Covid-19 level, UNCTAD report
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD has published the Global Trade Update report, which shows that in 2021, world trade in goods remained strong and trade in services finally returned to its pre-COVID-...



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