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Colombia marks five years since signing of peace accords

24-11-2021 17:40 Colombia on Wednesday marked five years since the signing of historic peace accords that ended a near six-decade conflict.

UN concern over 'enemies of peace' in Colombia

24-11-2021 17:35 Some 13,000 guerrillas have surrendered their arms since 2016, but violence persists in many regions of Colombia where FARC dissidents continue to fight paramilitary and rebel groups and drug-traffickers.

COP26 climate deal clinched as nations rally to compromise

13-11-2021 17:13 Nearly 200 nations came together Saturday on a global deal to combat climate change after two weeks of painful negotiation, but fell short of what science says is needed to contain dangerous temperature rises.

Damaged Amazon rainforest teetering on the brink

11-11-2021 13:40 The Amazon, the world's biggest rainforest is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs. Its destruction has accelerated, especially in Brazil, where far-right President Jair Bolsonaro pushes to open protected lands and indigenous reservations to agribusiness and mining.

Alberto Fernández arrives in Rome searching for key to unlock IMF deal

29-10-2021 21:55 President gets off plane at Fiumicino airport convinced that the G20 Leaders Summit may help unblock talks with the International Monetary Fund.

by Rosario Ayerdi

Biden sidesteps abortion issue in meeting with Pope Francis

29-10-2021 12:46 President Joe Biden said Pope Francis called him a "good Catholic" as they met Friday at the Vatican at the start of a European trip aimed at reasserting the United States' international credentials.

AmCham warns government that price controls are 'time bomb'

26-10-2021 14:08 US companies warn in an emailed statement issued via American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina that “price freezes do not solve the problem" of runaway inflation, rather "they transform it into a time bomb that will explode sooner or later.”

Greenhouse gas levels reach record high amid COP26 worries

25-10-2021 15:00 Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached record levels last year, the United Nations said on Monday in a stark warning ahead of the COP26 summit.

Blinken vows to ‘correct imbalance’ in Washington’s approach to Latin America

22-10-2021 10:53 US secretary of state discusses Washington’s new approach to the region during a short trip to Quito and Bogotá.

Blinken promises US shift from military focus in Latin America

20-10-2021 10:59 The United States has focused too much on security over other assistance in Latin America, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared Wednesday.

UK stunned as Conservative MP David Amess stabbed to death

15-10-2021 12:18 British MP David Amess dies after being stabbed "multiple times" by an attacker during an event in his local constituency in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, southeast England.

La Niña arrives, threatening to stoke droughts and roil markets

14-10-2021 16:12 A weather-roiling La Niña appears to have emerged across the equatorial Pacific, setting the stage for worsening droughts in California and South America and greater risks for the world’s already strained energy and food supplies.

UK cuts 47 countries from Covid travel 'red list,' including Argentina

09-10-2021 12:52 Removal from the "red list" means passengers will no longer be required to enter hotel quarantine. Instead, those required to enter lockdown can spend their 10-day period at a home or private residences.

Government watches Georgieva's IMF troubles with concern

04-10-2021 16:11 US lawmakers and officials are seeking to speed up an investigation into the director of the International Monetary Fund, for allegedly favouring China when she worked at the World Bank.

by Fernando Nolé

'Swift chariots of democracy' – all aboard Washington's secret subway

27-09-2021 09:03 The Capitol Subway System, a network of trolleys in the fluorescent-lit bowels of the labyrinthine, 600-room US Congress in Washington, has been ferrying politicians back and forth for more than a century.

Biden scrambles between multiple political fires

23-09-2021 13:34 US President Joe Biden races to extinguish political fires on the left and right, at home and abroad, in an attempt to save his hopes of transforming the United States.

Pfizer says its Covid jab safe for children aged 5 to 11

20-09-2021 14:32 Pfizer and BioNTech says trial results showed their coronavirus vaccine is safe and produces a robust immune response in children aged five to 11.

IMF chief risks weakened authority after China-linked probe

17-09-2021 15:03 Kristalina Georgieva risks seeing her authority as head of the International Monetary Fund undermined, after being accused of influencing a report in China’s favour when she worked at the World Bank.

More than five million now recovered from Covid in Argentina

11-09-2021 10:08 Cases continue to decline; Government receives first shipment of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.

Argentina receives first shipment of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine

09-09-2021 15:28 Argentina welcomed its first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday evening, with 100,620 shots arriving at Ezeiza International Airport.