MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for September 20th 2024
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Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:24 UTC
Lacalle Pou has 45% approval, study shows
Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou was found to have a 45% approval rating according to a study by pollsters Cifra conducted during the month of August and released Thursday in Montevideo. The head of state who is nearing the end of his five-year term also had a 40% negative image, the survey showed.
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Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:00 UTC
Haitian gov't announces security measures for merchant ships sailing to and from Port-au-Prince
Haitian authorities have announced that merchant ships will be escorted then entering a leaving Port-au-Prince given the mounting insecurity in the Caribbean country. Interim Prime Minister Garry Conille made this decision after four ships left to avoid gang violence.
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Friday, September 20th 2024 - 10:27 UTC
Brazil evaluating return to summer daylight saving time
Brazil's National Electric System Operator (ONS) suggested the federal government implement a summer daylight saving time scheme as part of its contingency plan, Agencia Brasil reported Thursday. The measure is now under evaluation with a decision due in the coming days, according to Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira, who also explained that even if adopted, it may not necessarily last the whole summer.
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Friday, September 20th 2024 - 10:06 UTC
Water deficit places Ecuador under “red alert”
A red alert has been declared in several parts of Ecuador hit by an unprecedented drought that resulted among other things in mass power cuts in a country already hit by spreading forest fires.
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Friday, September 20th 2024 - 09:34 UTC
Unemployment keeps growing in Argentina
According to a report from Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec), unemployment in the South American country reached 7.6 % in the second quarter of 2024. The figures were consistent with the 7.7% recorded in the previous trimester but represented a sharp interannual deterioration from the 6.2% during the same period of 2023.
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Friday, September 20th 2024 - 09:04 UTC
Argentine woman in England killed by her son
A 48-year-old Mar del Plata-born woman living in England was shot dead at her Luton home. The perpetrator appears to have been her 18-year-old son who would have also killed his two siblings. The suspect, named Nicholas Prosper, has been placed in custody. At the time of his detention some 600 meters from the crime scene he was still in possession of the gun used to assassinate Juliana Falcón, her son Kyle (16), and her daughter Giselle (13).
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Friday, September 20th 2024 - 08:02 UTC
Falklands, confirmed case of avian influenza in Surf Bay, close to Stanley
The Falkland Islands Director of Natural Resources has released the following, “On Monday 16 September 2024 swabs that were taken from a dead Gentoo penguin on Surf Bay were tested and returned positive for HPAI. Given that this is an isolated case of one single bird, that is more than 1km from poultry or a colony, a level 1 response will be followed and a full protection zone will not be declared.”
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