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Tue, 31 May 2022 20:48:00 GMTChildren from the Falklands say “Thank you” in a video to veterans who liberated the islands in 1982
As part of the commemoration events for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands war, school children from both the Junior and Secondary schools in the Falkland Islands have created special “Thank you” messages to all the vete...
Tue, 31 May 2022 10:55:00 GMT“Colombian Trump” now 3 weeks from being elected
Non-leftwing voters have all their eggs now in Rodolfo Hernandez's basket, after the candidate many dub the “Colombian Trump” made it to the second round against all forecasts, to face off former M19 guerrilla leader and c...
Tue, 31 May 2022 10:52:00 GMTElimination of a “Brazil cost” item represents a further 1,5 percentage point reduction in tariffs
The Brazilian government is drafting a presidential decree to change tax revenue mechanisms, which the economic team argues it will lead to a 1.5 percentage point reduction in the rates levied on all imported products. This is ...
Tue, 31 May 2022 10:45:00 GMTFalkland Islands Veterans Reunion in Gosport and Portsmouth
As the Falkland Islands Liberation Day approaches, on 14 June, commemoration events and services are being held across the United Kingdom and the Falklands, and over last weekend it was Gosport and Plymouth that marked the 40th...
Tue, 31 May 2022 10:15:00 GMTBoric's negative image keeps growing among Chileans
Chile's President Gabriel Boric Front is recording astonishing levels of disapproval less than three months after taking office, according to Cadem's latest weekly survey released Monday.
Tue, 31 May 2022 10:06:00 GMTDid Volkswagen use slave labor during Brazil's dictatorship?
Brazil's Labor Attorney (MPT) has summoned carmaker Volkswagen for an administrative hearing following reports that the company benefitted from slave labor in the 1970s and 1980s in Santana do Araguaia, in the State of Pará, i...
Tue, 31 May 2022 10:04:00 GMTHurricane Agatha makes landfall in Mexican state of Oaxaca
Agatha Monday made landfall in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca as a Class 2 hurricane, according to reports from the National Meteorological Service (SMN).
Tue, 31 May 2022 10:00:00 GMTBrazilian rice exports booming; challenge for all three Mercosur partners
Brazilian rice exports (husk base) totaled 451.3 thousand tones during the first quarter, more than double the same period in 2021 when 207.7 thousand tons were shipped, reports the Brazilian Rice Industry Association (Abiarroz...
Tue, 31 May 2022 09:55:00 GMTBRICS financing, a life-changer for Amazonia residents
Financing from the BRICS bank has been pivotal in boosting pavement, drainage, basic sanitation and sidewalk construction works in Brazil's Amazonia, it was reported.
Tue, 31 May 2022 09:49:00 GMTWHO says tobacco industry poisoning the planet, and sponsors "polluter pays principle" and banning cigarette filters
The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Tuesday new information on the extent to which tobacco damages both the environment and human health, calling for steps to make the industry more accountable for the destruction i...