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Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:32:00 GMT
Brazil ends the Car Wash anti corruption unit, which sent top politicians and business leaders to jail
Brazil’s Car Wash anti-corruption unit has officially been disbanded putting an end for a team of prosecutors that sent dozens of Brazilian and regional political and business leaders to jail, including several former preside...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:31:00 GMT
Falklands announces Covid-19 vaccination program beginning 8 February and for everybody over 50
As the first batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines have arrived in the Falkland Islands, the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) announced it will start the Covid-19 vaccination programme on 8 February. “We plan to admi...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:29:00 GMT
Argentine president asks Putin to guarantee supply of the Sputnik V vaccine
Supply of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine and the possible elaboration of the shots in Argentina were among the issues addressed by Argentine president Alberto Fernandez and Russia's Vladimir Putin during a Tuesday phone confere...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:07:00 GMT
COVAX publishes first interim vaccine distribution forecast
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization, as co-leads of the COVAX initiative for equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, alongside key delivery partner ...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:01:00 GMT
Falkland Islands approves changes to quarantine and visitor policies
The Falkland Islands Government Executive Council, ExCo, has done a review of policies, protocols and legislation referred to Covid-19, and announced decisions on quarantine regulations and visitor policies with a change of cat...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:54:00 GMT
Johnny rooks threatened in Argentine islands by deer and goats
Argentine scientists from the Austral Scientific Research Center (CADIC) in Ushuaia announced they have revealed the subsistence mystery of the striated Caracara prey bird, "carancho austral", in the Isla de los Estados (*), du...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 06:45:00 GMT
St Helena prepares to commemorate the bicentennial of Napoleon's death
By Nick Sundin – The United Kingdom commemorated in June 2015 the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, marking the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte and the end of the Napoleonic Wars. In the months surrounding the bicentenary o...

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:30:00 GMT
Falklands strict conditions to ensure “clean” vessels operate in the 2021 fishing season
The Falkland Islands government issued a release on Tuesday announcing the “clean” conditions vessels entering territorial waters for the 2021 fishing season must meet, basically a minimum of two weeks quarantining at sea, ...

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:25:00 GMT
Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is 91,6% effective, The Lancet
The Russian Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6% effective against Covid 19 in its symptomatic manifestations, according to the medical journal The Lancet . “The trial results show a strong protective effect consistent across all age g...

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:20:00 GMT
Cristina Kirchner political ally accused of human rights abuses in the province of Formosa
Members of the opposition, international NGO’s and several Catholic and Anglican clerics, have criticized Gildo Insfran, the governor of Formosa, and a close political ally of Cristina Kirchner, for treating those who test po...



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