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Stories for May 2022

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    US has more civilian guns than people: 120,5 for every 100 Americans

    United States is one of the only three countries where its citizens have a constitutional right to carry or have a gun

    United States is the only country in the world where civilian guns outnumber people, according to the Swiss base Small Arms Survey (SAS), and is also the country where at least one mass shooting takes place every year, as has tragically happened in Texas, where 19 school children and two teachers were killed by some mentally ill teenager.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

    Bolsonaro says Brazil's role acknowledged by world leaders

    “Look at what is happening in Argentina, in Chile, in Venezuela” who are suffering the consequences of voting for the “wrong candidate,” Bolsonaro underlined

    Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro highlighted his country's importance worldwide following the announcement of a one-on-one meeting with his US colleague Joseph Biden at the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, in addition to his encounter in February with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

  • Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

    Europol addresses the growing threat of 3D printed weapons

    Chief Constable Gerda van Leeuwen at the Dutch National Police, said: “The development of 3D printing of firearms is a current and future threat ”

    Law enforcement professionals, ballistic experts, forensic scientists, policymakers and academia have gathered this week in The Hague, the Netherlands, for one of the world’s biggest platforms of exchange on the threat of 3D printed weapons.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Lula regains decisive advantage over Bolsonaro, survey shows

    Lula is once again poised for a first-round decisive victory after Bolsonaro had narrowed the gap in previous weeks

    Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva is once again on track for a landslide victory at this year's Oct. 2 elections over the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, according to Datafolha's latest survey released Thursday.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

    FBI tips Paraguay of possible school massacre copycat

    Paraguayan Police Commissioner Diosnel Alarcón said the suspect behind these threats had been identified

    The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has warned Paraguayan Police of a local possible encore of the recent massacre at a Texas primary school in which 21 people were killed.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

    Lacalle Pou said Uruguay not going back to sanitary restrictions

    Vaccines have helped very strongly,” said Lacalle

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Thursday said going back to sanitary restrictions over an increase in cases of COVID-19 was not on the table.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

    Oldest man in the world turns 113

    Juan Vicente's greatest wish is to live longer, it was reported.

    Venezuelan resident Juan Vicente Perez Mora is turning 113 years old Friday. The Spain-born man is officially the world's longest-living man, according to the Guinness organization.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

    Bolivia wants better gas deal with Brazil

    Bolivia expects to receive an additional US$ 100 million from the new deal with Argentina

    Bolivia's Minister of Hydrocarbons and Energy Franklin Molina said the agreement with Brazil for the sale of cooking gas signed during the arguably illegitimate administration of Janine Áñez was detrimental to his country and will now seek to reach a new, more favorable deal.

  • Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:04 UTC

    Biden negotiating Argentina's presence at Summit of the Americas

    Dodd has already met with several regional leaders with moderate success

    US President Joseph Biden's envoy Christopher Dodd arrived in Buenos Aires to talk Alberto Fernández into attending next month's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, a gathering many leaders intend to boycott following the host's decision not to invite the non-democratically ruled Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 22:58 UTC

    Pandemic shed light on gap between rich and poor, Alberto Fernández says

    How much longer will the South continue to endure this reality? Fernández wondered

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday said this region had tasted first-hand what it means to be less developed than other parts of the world as he opened the III Regional Meeting of Ministers of Education of Latin America and the Caribbean at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Buenos Aires.