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Children peer from their home as police guard the Villa Azul neighbourhood while it is isolated by authorities for quarantine after at least 50 people tested positive for the new coronavirus, according to government health officials, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

Global pandemic

WHO warns that first wave of Covid-19 pandemic is not over

Today 11:15 Top World Health Organisation official cautions that world is "right in the middle of the first wave globally," as cases in Brazil and India surge.

LatAm airlines has filed for bankruptcy.

Bloomberg

Latam Air files Chapter 11 bankruptcy, stymied by lockdowns

Today 09:15 Latam has already eliminated more than 1,850 jobs in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in recent weeks from its global workforce of about 40,000 people, after cutting 95% of its passenger operations.

A woman takes photos of her daughters by a mural referencing the Covid-19 pandemic, painted in honour of health workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 21, 2020. The mural is by graffiti artist Angelo Campos, 39, who has lost two relatives to the new coronavirus.

Global pandemic

White House imposes coronavirus travel ban on Brazil

Yesterdat 08:39 Brazil, now Latin America's hardest-hit country, has recorded more than 347,000 cases and more than 22,000 deaths from Covid-19.

Israeli supporters hold flags and a poster depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside French officer Alfred Dreyfus, who had been unjustly convicted of treason in 1895, during a rally outside Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on May 24, 2020.

ISRAEL

Israel PM Netanyahu arrives at court for 'unprecendented' corruption trial

24-05-2020 08:52 Fresh from forming a new government after more than 500 days of electoral deadlock, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is beginning a new battle in a court Jerusalem – to stay out of prison.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN INTERVIEW

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: ‘Argentina has the cards to renegotiate its debt’

23-05-2020 09:45 French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, gives his view on Argentina’s debt restructuring talks, the Fund’s leadership and wealth taxes.

by Eugenia Iglesias

Pandemic South America.

LATIN AMERICA

South America is the ‘new epicentre’ of Covid-19 pandemic, says WHO

23-05-2020 09:08 Mexico and Brazil reported record counts of new cases and deaths almost daily this week, reigniting criticism of their presidents, who have slow-walked shutdowns in attempts to limit economic damage.

Secrets and controversy regarding the figure of Carrillo.

GUEST VOICE

The truth, until it comes out, will not sleep

23-05-2020 08:36 Ramón Carrillo was not a Nazi. But he belonged to a generation that professed certain philosophical and scientific ideas that have long fallen into disrepute. He was contaminated, like my grandfather, by a poison that spread to the remotest corners of the planet.

by Uki Goñi

The new 5,000 peso bill.

ECONOMY AND CULTURE

Choice of Ramón Carrillo for 5,000-peso bill sparks controversy

23-05-2020 08:04 Health secretary under Perón set to be featured on new banknote, but local Jewish community leaders express anger given his historic links to Nazi Danish doctor Carl Peter Vaernet.

Volunteers look for survivors of a plane that crashed in residential area of Karachi, Pakistan, May 22, 2020. An aviation official says a passenger plane belonging to state-run Pakistan International Airlines carrying more than 100 passengers and crew has crashed near the southern port city of Karachi.

PLANE CRASH

Pakistan jet with 98 aboard crashes in crowded neighbourhood

22-05-2020 13:24 A jetliner carrying 98 people crashed Friday near the airport in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi after an apparent engine failure during landing. Officials said there were at least two survivors.

Governments across the world are offering loans and other support programs to prevent performing companies from going under.

BLOOMBERG

Hedge funds build war chests to target dislocated debt in Europe

21-05-2020 01:27 About a dozen funds are in race to gather more than US$11 billion, which would more than double the unspent capital available in European distressed debt money pools, according to data compiled by Preqin.

People wear face masks as they walk along Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro on May 19, 2020.

Coronavirus pandemic

Brazil sees record virus deaths as pandemic surges in Latin America

20-05-2020 17:10 Health officials in Brazil reported 1,179 new coronavirus deaths on Tuesday – the first time the daily toll exceeded 1,000.

In this Monday, May 4, 2020, a bikes mechanic counts money on his shop, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.

Is cash still King?

Cash, long a refuge in uncertain times, now under suspicion

20-05-2020 08:23 In troubled times, people have been known to hoard currency. But in the coronavirus crisis, things are different. Cash, so often a source of reassurance, is now a source of suspicion.

Freshly dug graves are readied at the Santiago General Cemetery amid the new coronavirus pandemic, May 15, 2020. According to Raschid Saud, director of the General Cemetery, there has been an increase in demand.

Global pandemic

'This is war' – Virus charges beyond Latin American hot spots

19-05-2020 16:07 Coronavirus crisis threatens to overwhelm Latin American cities stretching from Chile to the Colombian Amazon, in an alarming sign that the pandemic may be only at the start of its destructive march through the region.

Handout picture released by Chile's Air Force press office showing the Eduardo Frei Antarctic base, at the Fildes Peninsula, west of King George island, on May 10, 2020. While the new coronavirus spreads all over the world, there is only one continent that still breathes relieved: Antarctica.

Global pandemic

Antarctica's splendid isolation keeps coronavirus at bay

19-05-2020 15:23 Antarctica remains the only Covid-19-free continent – thanks in the main to strict security and not a little luck.

US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable in the State Dining Room of the White House May 18, 2020 in Washington DC.

Coronavirus pandemic

Trump reveals he is taking anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine

19-05-2020 00:39 Trump's latest remarks came out of the blue, immediately grabbing headlines on a day when US deaths from Covid-19 topped 90,000 people – almost a third of the total world toll.

The Reverend Fabian Arias leads a prayer as he performs an in-home service beside the remains of Raúl Luis López, who died from Covid-19 the previous month, Saturday, May 9, 2020, in the Corona neighbourhood of the Queens borough of New York.

Global pandemic

The Argentine priest on the Covid-19 front line in New York

18-05-2020 23:20 Reverend Fabian Arias, from Buenos Aires, is a Lutheran pastor at Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan. He has has performed funeral services 14 times in the last two months.

Children attend a class held in the high class tribune at the Telia Parken stadium in order to keep the social distances amid the new coronavirus pandemic on May 15, 2020 in Copenhagen. Denmark was the first country in Europe to reopen its schools for the youngest pupils on April 15. In addition to practising social distancing and regular handwashing, classes must be held outdoors as much as possible to limit the spread of the virus.

Global pandemic

Lockdown easing in Europe, but virus hits hard in South America, Africa

18-05-2020 12:29 Rising death tolls in Brazil, South Africa and other parts of the world show the worst is still to come for many countries.

Pakistani Ambassador Dr Muhammad Khalid Ejaz.

WORLD THE PANDEMIC: GLOBAL VIEWS

New Pakistani ambassador waits to get to know his new home

16-05-2020 08:36 Buenos Aires has a new diplomat in town – but he’s stuck in the hotel. Pakistani Ambassador Dr Muhammad Khalid Ejaz arrived just days before Argentina entered its mandatory lockdown and, as he tells the Times, he’s eager to get to work and improve bilateral ties.

by James Grainger

Bryan Inho Kim interviewed by Jorge Fontevecchia.

THE PANDEMIC: A GLOBAL VIEW

Bryan In-ho Kim: ‘People need to get used to social distancing in daily life’

16-05-2020 07:49 Dr Bryan In-ho Kim, senior researcher at Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), discusses the methods that helped South Korea achieve remarkable results in the fight against Covid-19.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Paul Krugman.

Bloomberg

Paul Krugman: Liquidity trap has spread to emerging markets

12-05-2020 16:35 The so-called liquidity trap, when monetary policy loses its traction as interest rates get close to zero, has plagued rich countries for years – now, Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman says it has now spread to some emerging markets as well.

In this photo issued by 10 Downing Street on Sunday, May 10, 2020, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers an address on lifting the country's lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Global pandemic

UK PM Johnson's 'go to work' advice sparks wide confusion

11-05-2020 13:09 In a televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said people in Britain who can’t work from home, such as those in construction or manufacturing jobs, “should be actively encouraged to go to work” this week.

A waiter serves coffee to a guest at the restaurant Portico on the Piazza Grande in Locarno, Switzerland.

Global pandemic

Restart or re-stop? Across world, economies reopen but chaos abounds

11-05-2020 08:47 Worldwide, four million people have been reported infected and more than 280,000 have died, over 150,000 of them in Europe. Health experts believe all those numbers understate the true toll of the pandemic for different reasons.

Felipe Solá met with 30 entities from the country to discuss foreign trade and Mercosur.

Mercosur negotiations

Argentina on board for Mercosur trade talks after 'gradual change in discourse'

10-05-2020 10:00 A teleconference this Thursday assessed the courses of action on the Mercosur negotiations already concluded with the European Union, the ongoing negotiations with Canada, Korea, Singapore and Lebanon, and the deepening of agreements already signed with Israel and India.

Gabriel Bach, 93, a former judge of the Supreme Court of Israel and a former deputy prosecutor in during the trial of top Nazi German official Adolf Eichmann, poses for a picture, at the yard of his home in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020.

Eichmann capture, 60 years on

60 years on, Israel prosecutor recalls Eichmann trial

10-05-2020 09:30 Sixty years ago, Adolfo Eichmann was snatched on May 11 by a Mossad team in Argentina, where he had been living under an assumed name. Gabriel Bach's life was forever changed.

A visitor walks past a portrait of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann (C) during his trial in Jerusalem at an exhibition on German-American philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt in Berlin on May 6, 2020.

Eichmann capture, 60 years on

Inside the Mossad mission to capture the architect of Holocaust

10-05-2020 09:30 The architect of the Nazis' "Final Solution", under which six million European Jews were exterminated during World War II, Eichmann was tried and hanged in 1962, aged 56. Here is an account, of the top secret operation, details of which filtered out over the years.

Naval Commander Ricardo Cavallo.

HUMAN RIGHTS

France strips jailed human rights violator of decoration

09-05-2020 10:51 Naval officer Ricardo Cavallo, alias "Sérpico" or "Marcelo,” was part of Task Force 332, which was responsible for thousands of kidnaps, tortures, rapes and murders at ESMA.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Coronavirus pandemic

Covid-19: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

08-05-2020 16:06 In the depths of quarantine tedium, this writer unearthed two movies whose titles have an uncanny pertinence in these surreal times.

by Thomas Manning

A man wears a piece of cloth as a face mask amid the spread of the new coronavirus at a street market in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 10, 2020.

Coronavirus pandemic

Latin America reaches 300,000 coronavirus cases

08-05-2020 00:16 Pan-American Health Organisation warns transmission rates in Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Mexico are "still very high."

The MSC Fantasia.

Coronavirus pandemic: Varados

Cabin fever: Argentine waitress 'distressed' by cruise ship confinement

07-05-2020 15:25 Argentine waitress Analia Navarrete has been shut up for almost a month inside a cabin on a luxury liner trapped at Lisbon port, thanks to the coronavirus epidemic.

The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Coronavirus conspiracy?

Trump backs theory Wuhan lab, US intelligence services less convinced

07-05-2020 13:08 Donald Trump says the evidence is clear, but intelligence agencies around the world – and even his own – are casting doubt on his theory.

Andrea Silva, 44, waits for the results of her father's COVID-19 disease test at the Marechal Hermes Urgent Care Unit, amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, May 6, 2020.

coronavirus pandemic

`If this thing boomerangs...' – Countries fear second wave of infections

07-05-2020 12:59 As Europe and the US loosen their lockdowns against the coronavirus, health experts are expressing growing dread over what they say is an all-but-certain second wave of deaths and infections that could force governments to clamp back down.

A woman wearing a face mask decorated with an animal face waits in line for a rapid coronavirus test at a train station in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, April 24, 2020.

Life during quarantine

In Latin America, face masks become a form of expression

07-05-2020 12:51 Rarely used in Latin America outside hospitals before the coronavirus pandemic hit hard, face masks are now compulsory in many countries — and they're becoming a colourful part of daily life and cultural expression.

The Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, at the Seminar "New Forms of Solidarity of February 5 2020 with the Nobel Prize winner in economy, Joseph Stiglitz.

DEBT SWAP PROPOSAL

High-profile economists back Argentina's debt restructuring bid

06-05-2020 19:38 Group of 138 economists from 20 countries, including Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Edmund S. Phelps, call on bondholders to accept a "responsible resolution," saying it would set a positive precedent for the world.

In the Padre Mujica neighbourhood of Retiro (formerly Villa 31), in Buenos Aires, operations are carried out to detect people with symptoms of coronavirus for their diagnosis, and subsequent isolation and care on May 5, 2020.

Coronavirus pandemic

Emerging-market survey sees Latin America as biggest virus loser

06-05-2020 11:13 Emerging markets are likely to see another sell-off later this year, puncturing their recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and adding to losses that have already totaled US$3 trillion, a survey has found.

In this April 5, 2020, file photo, a man checks his mobile phone along the Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province.

Coronavirus pandemic

Here come Covid-19 tracing apps – and some privacy trade-offs

05-05-2020 13:39 As governments around the world consider how to monitor new coronavirus outbreaks while reopening their societies, many are starting to bet on smartphone apps to help stanch the pandemic.

A woman wearing a mask and gloves against the spread of the new coronavirus, waits outside a soup kitchen run by nuns, waiting for it to open and get some food, in Caracas’ Petare slum in Venezuela, Thursday, April 30, 2020.

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Democrats in US warn Trump's WHO freeze will hurt Venezuelans

05-05-2020 13:35 President Trump's decision to halt funding to the World Health Organisation will hit Venezuelans substantially, according to Democrats.

Daniel Hsu, a Chinese American, poses for a portrait near the apartment he has been renting in Shanghai, China on Monday, April 13, 2020. He has been kept from leaving China by an exit ban issued by the Chinese authorities in hopes of pressuring his father to return to China to face criminal charges.

Long read

'No remedy, no rights' – China blocks foreigners from leaving

05-05-2020 13:20 As citizens are trying to desperately regain their home, they didn't realise they couldn't leave China until they were blocked at the airport. As a attempt to exert influence, not just over Chinese citizens in China, but also against permanent residents and citizens of other countries.

This handout picture taken on April 22, 2020 by Yevgen Prokopchuk, a member of the 25th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition, shows penguins at the Akademik Vernadsky research base on Galindez Island in the Antarctic.

Research during pandemic

Ukraine scientists navigate lockdown to reach Antarctica

04-05-2020 13:45 Yuriy Otruba was preparing for his sixth scientific expedition to Antarctica when the coronavirus pandemic hit, shutting borders, grounding flights and locking down countries he needed to travel through, urging his team to do the ‘impossible’ while not getting infected.

Hairdresser Dieter Fiedler wears a face mask as he cuts the hair of a client at his hairdressing salon 'Fiedler' in Dortmund, western Germany, on May 4, 2020, amid the new coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic.

Pandemic update

One in five coronavirus infected asymptomatic, says German study

04-05-2020 13:41 One in five people infected with the novel coronavirus show no symptoms, according to results published Monday of a German study into infections.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pauses while speaking at a news conference at the State Department on April 29, 2020, in Washington, DC.

Sino-American row

China says Pompeo 'insane' over virus lab origin theory

04-05-2020 13:39 China's state broadcaster CCTV on Monday attacked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's "insane and evasive remarks" over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, further fuelling Sino-US tensions.

Foreign Minister Felipe Solá, pictured onscreen during a videoconference session this week.

LATIN AMERICA MERCOSUR BLOC

Government says it’s not abandoning Mercosur, despite position on talks

02-05-2020 10:09 Foreign Minister Felipe Solá says Argentina is not “giving up its seat at the table.”

The unknown future of global economy.

Crisis and opportunity

A quick global rebound after the global pandemic?

02-05-2020 09:29 Whether we figure it out or not, the global society has the tools to quickly reverse the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Online interview between Fontevecchia and Wolf

WORLD

Martin Wolf: ‘This is potentially a hinge moment in history’

02-05-2020 08:25 Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, discusses the economic fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic, in an exclusive interview with Perfil’s Jorge Fontevecchia.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

An activist holds up the sign "Stop the layoffs" during a protest marking May Day, or International Workers' Day, amid a government-ordered lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus in Buenos Aires, Friday, May 1, 2020.

Coronavirus Pandemic

Celebrating May Day in the midst of a pandemic

01-05-2020 19:13 Across the globe workers celebrate, strike and demonstrate for International Workers' Day. In Argentina, essential employees are praised by the government while demonstrations take place during a lockdown.

President Alberto Fernández (L), Echeverria Mayor Fernando Gray (2-L), Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof (2-R) and PAMI director Luana Volnovich posing at the Hospital de alta complejidad del Bicentenario on April 30, 2020 amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Coronavirus pandemic

After lockdown, a world of masks

01-05-2020 13:03 Dismissed as useless, now apparently indispensable, wearing a face mask as protection from the new coronavirus is now commonplace around the world as countries begin to emerge from lockdowns.

A King County Metro bus for essential trips only passes by The Spheres at the Amazon campus on April 30, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.

TEch giant

US trade office adds Amazon, Argentina, Chile to 'notorious markets' list

01-05-2020 12:50 US adds five of Amazon’s overseas operations, Chile and Argentina to its list of “notorious markets’’ where pirated goods are sold. E-commerce giant dismissed the move as part of the Trump administration's “personal vendetta'' against it.

Argentine economy will fall 6 percent this year due to the direct impact of the coronavirus pandemic, says rating agency Moody.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina's economy to contract by 6% this year, says Moody's

01-05-2020 12:46 International rating agency forecasts 6% contraction in GDP due to impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Previously, it had projected a 2.4% drop in activity.

The team at Her Name Was Carmen has prepared over 1,000 meals for healthcare workers fighting Covid-19, thanks to donations from customers and supporters.

UNITED STATES

I'm a small business owner in the US – will I get a coronavirus bailout too?

01-05-2020 12:16 The US government’s US$350-billion loan fund has run dry – yet many big businesses have been awarded millions.

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A view of the empty Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade following Italy's lockdown due to the Covid-19 emergency, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, April 30, 2020. Italy is in its eighth week of national lockdown, with some partial easing of restrictions on everyday life slated to take effect on Monday, with lifting of yet more limits set for later in coming weeks, on condition the rate of contagion doesn’t sharply start rising again.

Coronavirus pandemic

As economies stagger, pressures grow to ease virus lockdowns

30-04-2020 08:33 The European economy shrank a record 3.8 percent in the first quarter as hotels, restaurants, construction sites and manufacturing were frozen by coronavirus shutdowns. It was the biggest drop in the eurozone since statistics began in 1995 and compares to a 4.8 percent contraction in the United States.

In this file photo taken November 2, 2019, Gimnasia y Esgrima coach Diego Armando Maradona gestures to supporters.

Coronavirus pandemic

Maradona pleads for 'Hand of God' to end pandemic

29-04-2020 19:24 Diego asks for "Hand of God" to deliver the world from the coronavirus pandemic and allow normal life to resume.

Coronavirus pandemic

UK government confirms 2 charter flights for Brits stranded in Argentina

29-04-2020 01:19 Around 320 British travellers currently stranded in Argentina will be able to return home on two flights, scheduled for May 7 and 12, departing Buenos Aires Ezeiza International Airport.

European High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, wearing a face mask, attends a video conference with Europeans Foreign Ministers in Brussels, Belgium, on April 22, 2020.

FUTURE OF MERCOSUR?

EU 'welcomes' Argentina's commitment to Mercosur free-trade deal

28-04-2020 23:58 European Union pleased that Argentina remains engaged in talks over long-awaited free-trade deal, despite decision to withdraw from all future Mercosur trade talks.

In this file photograph taken on May 10, 2017, World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont (left) and deputy chairman Agustín Pichot pose during a press conference following the Rugby World Cup Japan 2019 pool draw at Kyoto state guesthouse in Kyoto.

RUGBY

Beaumont v Pichot as World Rugby chairman election kicks off

28-04-2020 18:13 Voting for World Rugby's next chairman opened Monday, with incumbent 68-year-old former England captain Bill Beaumont facing competition from ex-Pumas skipper Agustín Pichot.

A poster pays tribute to staff in the front line in the fight against the COVID-19 illness as an ambulance passes by in Leeds, northern England, on April 23, 2020 as life continues under lockdown in Britain in an effort to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Post-quarantine pickle

Lockdowns, immunity, tests... searching for the right virus strategy

27-04-2020 14:56 Governments are facing the urgency of reviving the economy and avoiding an aggravation of the social crisis, but they are also aware that allowing the virus to circulate with a view to achieving collective immunity implies taking on new deaths.

A man poses for a photo holding food he received from a group of neighbours who have formed to help people in need facing hardship amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in the financial district of Montevideo, Uruguay, Saturday, April 25, 2020.

Coronavirus pandemic

WHO warns over virus immunity as global death toll tops 200,000

26-04-2020 09:19 As the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, countries took cautious steps toward easing lockdowns imposed amid the pandemic, but fears of a surge in infections made even some outbreak-wounded businesses reluctant to reopen.

A cross with the date 22-4-20 marks the burial site of Edenir Rezende Bessa, who is suspected to have died of Covid-19, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. After visiting 3 primary care health units she was accepted in a hospital that treats new coronavirus cases, where she died on Tuesday.

Coronavirus pandemic

Brazil becomes a coronavirus hot spot as testing falters

26-04-2020 09:06 Medical officials in Rio de Janeiro and at least four other major cities warn their hospital systems are on the verge of collapse, or already too overwhelmed to take any more patients.

Jorge Fontevecchia interviews British journalist and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, Martin Wolf.

Periodismo Puro / Interview

Listen: Interview with Financial Times' chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf

25-04-2020 20:47 Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, discusses the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fall-out in an exclusive interview with Perfil co-founder Jorge Fontevecchia.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Sun Tzu as the coronavirus? Or the coronavirus as Sun Tzu?

AS I SEE IT

The virus is winning on all fronts

25-04-2020 12:02 What might be just about tolerable for a couple of months most definitely would not be if, as seems more than probable, the “emergency” that allegedly justifies such stringent measures drags on for many years to come.

by James Neilson

Pakintan looks forward for a global debt release.

WORLD ECONOMY

Pakistan’s PM Khan, United Nations call for global debt relief initiative

25-04-2020 11:09 United Nations calls for creation of a global authority to help implement the temporary suspension of debt obligations from developing countries during coronavirus pandemic.

Villa Devoto prisoners riot for release amidst fears of coronavirus spreading.

Coronavirus Pandemic

'We refuse to die in prison': Villa Devoto prison inmates riot amid pandemic

24-04-2020 16:34 Prisoners set fire to mattresses and riot arguing for house arrest due to coronavirus. Eleven prison officials have been hospitalized for minor burns.

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Washington.

Coronavirus pandemic

Don't inject disinfectants, warns company as Trump raises idea

24-04-2020 13:43 The parent company of Lysol disinfectant warned Friday that its products should not be used internally to treat Covid-19 after President Donald Trump wondered about the prospect during a White House briefing.

A man wears a mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as he walks along the Trocadero square close to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Friday, April 24, 2020.

Post-quarantine plan

Lifting lockdown? Against coronavirus, no one size fits all

24-04-2020 13:37 Without a tried-and-tested action plan for how to pull countries out of coronavirus lockdown, the world is seeing a patchwork of approaches.

Mauricio Macri and Mario Vargas Llosa.

Coronavirus pandemic

Macri signs manifesto accusing government of creeping 'authoritarianism'

23-04-2020 23:44 Document issued by Madrid-based Fundación Internacional para la Libertad, signed by former president and a host of PRO officials, accuses Fernández administration of using pandemic as an excuse to introduce authoritarian measures.

75 Argentines who were stranded in Peru arrived on March 27, 2020 at El Palomar in a Hercules Air Force vehicle.

Coronavirus pandemic

89% of stranded Argentines have been repatriated, says Foreign Ministry

23-04-2020 14:51 Between March 17 and April 16, 168,140 Argentines or Argentine residents returned home from overseas, according to Foreign Ministry.

President Donald Trump arrives to speak about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 22, 2020, in Washington.

US-Venezuela conflict

Trump tells Chevron to ‘wind down’ oil fields in Venezuela

23-04-2020 12:48 The Trump administration on Tuesday ordered Chevron Corp. to "wind down" operations in Venezuela by December 1, barring the California-based oil giant in the meantime from drilling or exporting, as the US increases pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to give up power.

In this photo taken Monday, December 9, 2019, plastic containers belonging to displaced people sit queued up in lines, waiting their turn to be filled with water from a well, at a makeshift camp for the internally displaced in Barsalogho, in northern Burkina Faso.

Coronavirus pandemic

Lack of virus testing stokes fears in world's refugee camps

23-04-2020 12:40 The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak.

Paul Singer, founder and president of Elliott Management Corp., listens during the Bloomberg Invest Summit in New York, US, on Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

AMF's sanction

France fines US hedge fund Elliott over takeover fight

23-04-2020 12:32 French markets regulator imposes 20-million euro fine on US hedge fund Elliott Management, accusing it of "inaccuracies" during its bid to block a takeover deal five years ago.

In this Saturday, April 11, 2020 file photo, a pack of jackals eats dog food that was left for them by a woman at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Virus impact on nature

As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner

22-04-2020 14:12 When people stay home, Earth becomes cleaner and wilder.

In this Thursday, January 30, 2020 a general view of the Camp Nou stadium prior of a Spanish Copa del Rey soccer match between Barcelona and Leganes at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain.

Fight against virus

Barcelona to sell Camp Nou naming rights to raise money to fight virus

21-04-2020 14:23 Barcelona will sell the naming rights to its Camp Nou, Europe’s biggest stadium – which has never had a sponsor since it opened in 1957 – for one year in an effort to raise money for the fight against the coronavirus.

In this file photo US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 20, 2020.

Trump's immigration plan

Trump promises US immigration ban as virus roils world economy

21-04-2020 14:13 Donald Trump has vowed to temporarily ban immigration to the United States to combat the "invisible enemy" of coronavirus, claiming it would save US jobs as the world economy plunges into meltdown.