Stories from June 22, 2021 – MercoPress

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly MP Mark Pollard and Deputy Speaker Leona Roberts have arrived in New York to attend the main session of the Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24).

Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori was allowed to stay out of prison on Monday, but the judge’s ruling bars her from meeting her closest campaign aides.

Argentina’s health and migration authorities are analyzing additional measures to curb the arrival in the country of the variant of the Delta coronavirus, which has already been detected in three cases of passengers coming from abroad.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was acquitted on Monday for lack of evidence in one of the corruption cases he was on trial for, it was announced.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday blasted national media giant Globo for his stance on covid-19, which is completely different from what the government calls “early treatment,” a cocktail of controversial drugs like chloroquine

Seabird mortality in fisheries is a global problem and a major contributor to the continued decline of many seabird populations. Unless appropriate mitigation measures are put in place, longline fishing may occur. result in high levels of seabird mortality.

The governments of Mexico and Argentina recalled their respective ambassadors to Managua on Monday, where Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is leading a dubious campaign for re-election by arresting his political challengers.

The global economy is expected to grow 5.8% in 2021, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), “Economic Outlook: An Unusual Recovery. Navigate the transition, ”it was announced.

The Argentine National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco y Comodoro Rivadavia in the province of Chubut is undertaking the development of noodles with a 30% substitution of wheat flour for seaweed that will taste like squid, it has been announced.

Republican senators are delaying an Upper House committee vote on the repeal of the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), the alleged high-profile war powers that enabled war in Iraq and other military actions.