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Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:59:00 GMT
Brazil: Supreme Court upholds ruling allowing Lula to run for president in 2022
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's convictions were annulled Thursday by the country's Supreme Court (STF) in an 8-3 ruling which clears the Workers Party (PT) iconic figure to seek a new term in 2022.

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:45:00 GMT
Argentina reinstates beef exports registry
Argentina's government Thursday created a registry of beef exporters among other measures to curb under-invoicing, which authorities fear has been going on for a while now.

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:39:00 GMT
Cost of living in Argentina rises 4.8% in March alone
Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI-Cost of living) rose 4.8% during March, 1.2 percentage points above February's 3.6%, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) announced Thursday.

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:09:00 GMT
Raúl Castro to step down as leader of Cuba's Communist Party
Iconic leader Raúl Castro is expected to step down as First Secretary of Cuba's Communist Party (PCC) as the VIII Congress of the PCC is set to start this Friday at the Havana Convention Center, under the title “The Congress...

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:55:00 GMT
Argentina: curfew extended, on-site schooling banned in Buenos Aires amid coronavirus second wave
Argentine President Alberto Fernández Wednesday announced further restrictions for the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) in a manoeuvre to curb the so-called second wave of the covid-19 disease.

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:26:00 GMT
Argentine laboratory seeks to manufacture Sputnik V vaccine locally
The Argentine firm Laboratorios Richmond Wednesday launched the Financial Trust “Project V.I.D.A. (Project and Immunization for Argentine Development),” to seek financing for the development of the plant where the Russian-d...

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:06:00 GMT
Argentina to receive over 800,000 doses of AstraZeneca; Denmark stop giving that vaccine
The Argentine government has announced a shipment of 864,000 doses of the AstraZeneca anti-covid-19 vaccine is due at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport onboard a KLM flight this coming Sunday morning.

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:47:00 GMT
Swindler Bernie Madoff dies in US prison aged 82
Convicted Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff, a former chairman of the Nasdaq stock market who lured many millionaires to invest in his amazing deals which turned out to be losses, has died in a US federal prison at the age of 82, it...

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:41:00 GMT
US to withdraw from Afghanistan by September, says Joe Biden
US President Joseph Biden announced late Tuesday his country would withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11, thus putting an end to one of the longest armed conflicts in which the country has been involved.

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:53:00 GMT
Uruguayan Presidential Secretary recovering "well" following emergency surgery
Uruguayan Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado was recovering "well" and hoped to be discharged from the hospital Thursday, following an emergency appendix surgery on Wednesday, it was reported.



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