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Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:17:00 GMT
Argentina records first “black fungus” death
A 35-year-old man who had had coronavirus and medical history of diabetes has been recorded as Argentina's first death caused by “black fungus,” it was announced Friday.

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 14:09:00 GMT
Brazil: Henrique Cardoso turns 90 and thinks tomorrow “could be better than today”
Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) defended the alliance of political forces to oppose authoritarianism in a newspaper interview marking his 90th birthday, Friday, June 18.

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 12:15:00 GMT
Brussels drops tariffs for 75,000 tonnes of Falklands squid
The European Commission has reached an agreement to allow 75,000 tonnes of Falklands loligo to be imported tariff-free into the European Union, according to reports in Galician daily Faro de Vigo.

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:53:00 GMT
Uruguay makes donation of 12,000 AstraZeneca vaccines to Paraguay
Uruguayan health authorities Friday made a donation to Paraguay of 12,000 doses of the AstraZeneca anticovid-19 vaccine, some of which are due to expire June 28 and the rest by the end of August, it was announced.

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:50:00 GMT
Mines-free Falklands will remove fences of fields that remained out of bounds for almost forty years
The Falkland Islands Executive Council (ExCo) approved a proposal to remove the fences which secured former minefield sites around the Islands over a three-year period of 2021 to 2024.

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:50:00 GMT
Retired military officers call for annulment of Peru's elections as political unrest mounts
Peru's President Francisco Sagasti has ordered the Minister of Defense to investigate the sending of a letter by retired military officers which may imply a breach “to the constitutional order.”

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:09:00 GMT
Delta variant becoming the globally dominant variant; steep rise in the UK
The World Health Organization's (WHO) chief scientist said on Friday that the Delta variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, is becoming the globally dominant variant.

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:05:00 GMT
Chilean scientists sell marketing rights of alpaca-based antibody to German company
The German company NanoTag Biotechnologies has purchased from The Austral University of Chile (AUCh) the marketing license for the W25 antibody, it was announced Friday in Santiago.

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:01:00 GMT
Little turnout leaves hardliner Raisi poised to become Iran's next president
Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi looks poised to become Iran's next president after Friday's elections amid surging coronavirus cases and voter apathy in a devastated economy.

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:00:00 GMT
New study finds links between red meat diet and colorectal cancer incidence
AFP – A new paper in the journal Cancer Discovery has identified specific patterns of DNA damage triggered by diets rich in red meat - further implicating the food as a carcinogen while heralding the possibility of detecting ...



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