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Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, poses for a photograph at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, January 23, 2020.

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.

Handout picture released by the Presidency shows President Alberto Fernández (right) participating in a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden during the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate to galvanise efforts to confront the global climate crisis, in Buenos Aires, on September 17, 2021.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Biden urges 'highest' ambition at UN climate summit

17-09-2021 13:39 President Alberto Fernández joins US President Joe Biden for virtual meeting designed to galvanise efforts to confront the global climate crisis.

HUMANITARIAN PROJECT

Malvinas: Forensic experts identify remains of six Argentine soldiers

15-09-2021 12:53 The remains of six Argentine soldiers killed in the 1982 South Atlantic conflict with Britain have been identified, the International Committee of the Red Cross confirms.

BLOOMBERG

Priciest food since 1970s is a big challenge for governments

15-09-2021 10:41 Governments across the world know that rising food costs can come with a political price. The dilemma is whether they can do enough to prevent having to pay it.

FOOTBALL

This is it: Messi gets set for PSG Champions League bow

14-09-2021 13:27 Lionel Messi went to Paris to win the Champions League again – on Wednesday he's set to finally make his first start for his new club when they kick off their European campaign in Bruges.

The World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC, USA, May 20, 2021.

BLOOMBERG

Debt load threatens Latin America jobs recovery, World Bank says

14-09-2021 12:06 Latin America’s heavily-indebted corporations are likely to delay rehiring workers during the recovery from last year’s slump, according to the World Bank.

ENVIRONMENT

Another deadly year for Latin America's environment defenders

13-09-2021 14:01 A record 227 people were killed worldwide in 2020 for their defence of nature – more than four a week on average, and almost three-quarters of them in Latin America, said environmental rights organisation Global Witness.

ENVIRONMENT

Death stalks Colombian defenders of nature

13-09-2021 13:52 Global Witness NGO says Colombia was the most dangerous country for land and environment defenders for the second year in a row in 2020, accounting for 65 of the 227 killings reported worldwide.

RUGBY

Dominant New Zealand overwhelm Argentina in Rugby Championship

12-09-2021 09:29 Pumas produce a heroic defensive effort that included more than 200 tackles but rampant New Zealand stroll to easy win.

As I see it

Closing time in the gardens of the West

11-09-2021 09:48 Perhaps it is premature to talk, as the British essayist Cyril Connolly did soon after World War II, of “closing time in the gardens of the West,” but for many it does feel that something like that is taking place.

by James Neilson

And that reminds me…

Twenty years can be something

11-09-2021 09:35 Just as in the preceding generation everybody seemed to remember exactly what they were doing on the day of John Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, so 9/11 has remained the object of universal recall in the last 20 years.

by Michael Soltys

When al-Qaeda hijackers killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, the United States instantly took on a new mission as a furious and fearful nation coalesced around president George W. Bush's "war on terrorism." Twenty years later, the world is transformed.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 ATTACKS

The day that changed the United States: Remembering 9/11, 20 years on

11-09-2021 08:54 On September 11, 2001, the world watched in horror as commercial jetliners commandeered by al-Qaeda hijackers slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people died that day.

Remembering 9/11, 20 years on

Two decades on, United States comes full circle

11-09-2021 08:45 When al-Qaeda hijackers killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, the United States instantly took on a new mission as a furious and fearful nation coalesced around president George W. Bush's "war on terrorism." Twenty years later, the world is transformed.

A conspiracy theorist puts stickers on a donation box at the September 11 Memorial and Museum on September 06, 2021 in New York City.

9/11: 20 YEARS ON

Pandemic gives 9/11 conspiracists fresh impetus

11-09-2021 00:01 Twenty years after al-Qaeda terrorists flew two hijacked aircraft into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center, conspiracy theorists are more emboldened than ever.

A woman mourns a relative at the September 11 Memorial at Ground Zero on August 31, 2021 in New York City.

9/11: 20 YEARS ON

9/11: Victims' families find solace, help in support groups

10-09-2021 21:50 Twenty years later and they still talk regularly: 9/11 survivors and relatives of victims have formed strong friendships through support groups that have proved effective antidotes to their trauma.

Travellers will certify their vaccination record when overseas using ‘Mi Argentina’ app, the government has announced.

TRAVEL & TOURISM

Vaccination will be certified via 'Mi Argentina' app while overseas

10-09-2021 02:19 Travellers will certify their vaccination record when overseas using ‘Mi Argentina’ app, says government.

Health Minister Carla Vizzotti (left), Legal and Technical Secretary Vilma Ibarra (centre), Charge d'affaires at the US Embassy in Argentina, MaryKay Carlson (second right) and Pfizer Argentina CEO Nicolás Vaquer receive the first shipment of 100,620 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine upon their arrival at Ezeiza International airport in Buenos Aires Province on September 8, 2021.

Coronavirus vaccines

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.

CULTURE

Funding gap forces British Council to scale back

09-09-2021 14:12 The British Council, which promotes UK cultural and language relations overseas, will scale back its work in 20 countries due to a pandemic funding shortfall. Offices in a number of nations to be shuttered, including Chile and Uruguay, according to reports.

This picture taken on August 2, 2021 shows a humpback whale diving in Hestfjorour (Westfjords), Iceland. Just off the northern coast of Iceland, scientists are collecting data from whales' breath to find out if they get stressed by whale-watching boats, an industry that has boomed in recent years.

NATURE & WILDLIFE

Do tourist boats stress out whales? Researchers find out...

08-09-2021 18:16 Researchers from Whale Wise, a marine conservation charity, are studying the stress level of cetaceans, in order to establish if they get stressed during encounters with tourists.

MERCOSUR TENSIONS

Lacalle Pou: Uruguay and China in talks over bilateral free-trade deal

08-09-2021 16:28 Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou says his government is “in a hurry” to close a FTA with China – a development that’s sure to increase tensions with other Mercosur member states.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid addresses a press conference in Kabul on September 7, 2021. The Taliban on September 7 announced UN-sanctioned Taliban veteran Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund as the leader of their new government, while giving key positions to some of the movement's top officials.

world

Taliban announce hardline government as protests grow

07-09-2021 14:16 The Taliban announced the top members of their government on Tuesday, a move that cements the group's power over Afghanistan, just days after a chaotic US troop pullout.

A Taliban fighter walks in front of people sitting along a road outside a bank waiting to withdraw money at Shar-e-Naw neighborhood in Kabul on September 4, 2021.

Afghanistan

Taliban battle for Panjshir as US warns of Afghanistan civil war

05-09-2021 08:53 Taliban fighters advance deep into last holdout province, as top US general warns Afghanistan faces a wider civil war that would offer fertile ground for a resurgence of terrorism.

A shipment of Sinopharm Covid-19 jabs arrived at Ezeiza international airport on Friday morning.

Coronavirus vaccines

Sinopharm delivery takes Argentina to 55 million vaccines against Covid-19

04-09-2021 10:12 According to government data, 46.3% of citizens aged over 18 have now completed their immunisation programme against Covid-19.

by James Grainger

President Alberto Fernández (right) and French President Emmanuel Macron, pictured during their last meeting in May 2021.

EU-MERCOSUR DEAL

Macron says France 'will continue' to oppose EU-Mercosur trade deal

03-09-2021 21:31 French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that Paris maintains its opposition to the trade agreement agreed between the European Union and Mercosur.

Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (front right) and (from left, behind) Italian actor Toni Servillo, Italian actor Marlon Joubert, Italian actress Teresa Saponangelo, Italian actor Filippo Scotti and Italian actress Luisa Ranieri attend a photocall for the film "E stata La Mano di Dio" (THe Hand of God) presented in competition during the 78th Venice Film Festival, on September 2, 2021 at Venice Lido.

FILM

Sorrentino taps Naples boyhood, Maradona in latest film at Venice

02-09-2021 15:44 Italian director Paolo Sorrentino presents new semi-autobiographical film at Venice, recalling Diego Maradona and a heartbreaking story about growing up in 1980s Naples.

Cheryl Soley Dunpace sorts through her destroyed home in the wake of Hurricane Ida September 1, 2021 in Golden Meadow, Louisiana. Ida made landfall August 29 as a Category 4 storm southwest of New Orleans, causing widespread power outages, flooding and massive damage.

Climate change

UN: Weather, climate disasters surge fivefold in 50 years

01-09-2021 15:33 On average, a disaster linked to weather, climate and water extremes has thus occurred every single day over the past 50 years, killing 115 people and causing US$202 million in daily losses, according to new report.

Women walk at a market area in Kabul on September 1, 2021.

Taliban takes Afghanistan

Distrust remains as some women return to work under Taliban

01-09-2021 13:43 Some women, particularly those in the health and education sectors, say they have continued to go to work in the weeks since the Islamist militants took over Kabul on August 15.

Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican on September 1, 2021.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Pope Francis scotches resignation talk, plans more foreign trips

01-09-2021 11:16 Argentine pontiff dismisses media reports that he might resign following surgery earlier this year, saying it "didn't even cross my mind."

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro leaves Alvorada Palace in Brasilia on April 27, 2021.

BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO

Bolsonaro takes dig at Biden's 'obsession' with Amazon

30-08-2021 22:03 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accuses Joe Biden's administration of having "almost an obsession" with environmental issues.

In this file photo taken on August 25, 2021, this handout photo cshows US Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, load passengers aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Afghanistan.

Taliban in command

US military completes withdrawal from Afghanistan

30-08-2021 17:59 US military completes withdrawal from Afghanistan after a brutal 20-year war – one that started and ended with the hardline Islamist Taliban in power, despite billions of dollars spent trying to rebuild the conflict-wracked country.

A woman and two children wait to take a bus at a bus station in Beijing on August 24, 2021.

TECHNOLOGY

China limits children's online gaming to three hours a week

30-08-2021 13:20 China on Monday announced a drastic cut to children's online gaming time to just three hours a week during term time, the latest move in a broad crackdown on tech giants in the world's biggest gaming market.

In this file photo taken on December 30, 2016, a man looks at the burned-out rental car of missing Greek ambassador to Brazil Kyriakos Amiridis, at a parking lot outside the police station in Belford Roxo, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, a day after it was found with a body inside. A Brazilian court sentenced Françoise de Souza Oliveira to 31 years in prison for murdering her husband, Greek ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, along with her lover, a military policeman who confessed to the crime and was also convicted.

CRIME

Wife of Greek ambassador to Brazil convicted of his murder

30-08-2021 11:11 Brazilian court sentences Francoise de Souza Oliveira to 31 years in prison for murdering her husband, Greek ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis.

As I see it

When weakness is strength

27-08-2021 23:23 In politics, having an unprepossessing alternative at hand can be a big advantage.

by James Neilson

Members of Spanish National Police forces and military personnel who were stationed in Afghanistan disembark from one of the last two Spanish evacuation flights, at the Torrejon de Ardoz air base, 30 km from Madrid, on August 27, 2021. Spain announced the end of its Kabul evacuations today after a nine-day operation that saw more than 2,200 people flown out of the strife-torn country following the Taliban takeover.

AFGHANISTAN CRISIS

US warns of 'credible threats' to Kabul airlift in wake of suicide bombing

27-08-2021 15:19 At least 72 civilians and 13 US troops killed in Thursday’s attack near Kabul airport, which has been claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

PORTUGUESE ICON

Manchester United confirm signing of Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus

27-08-2021 13:04 Manchester United have reached an agreement to resign Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus, the club has announced.

US President Joe Biden gives a press conference on the situation in Afghanistan.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Deadly Kabul attack shakes Biden’s Afghan exit strategy

27-08-2021 02:21 In a sombre address on Thursday evening, Biden said he took responsibility for “all that’s happened of late” in Afghanistan but stood firm on his plans to withdraw American forces by August 31.

Former Afghanistan women's football captain Khalida Popal poses for a photographer at Farum Park stadion on December 21, 2020.

Taliban takes Afghanistan

Khalida Popal, saving Afghanistan's women footballers one player at a time

27-08-2021 01:59 Since the first women's teams started emerging about 15 years ago, football has grown rapidly in Afghanistan. But it all disappeared overnight when Kabul fell to the Taliban.

DIPLOMATIC OUTRAGE

Iran leader names another AMIA bombing suspect as official, angering Argentina

26-08-2021 23:37 Argentina expresses “strongest condemnation” of Iran President Ebrahim Raisi’s decision to appoint Mohsen Rezaei, wanted by Interpol for 1994 AMIA terror attack, to his government. News comes just two weeks after Ahmad Vahidi was named interior minister.

Covid-19 vaccines

Pfizer-BioNTech ink vaccine deal with Brazil manufacturer

26-08-2021 14:42 Production will start next year and at full capacity will produce 100 million finished doses.

Medical and hospital staff bring an injured man on a stretcher for treatment after two blasts, which killed at least five and wounded a dozen, outside the airport in Kabul on August 26, 2021.

AFHGNISTAN EVACUATION

At least 20 dead in Kabul airport blasts as airlift deadline looms

26-08-2021 14:21 Two powerful explosions outside Kabul airport leave at least 20 people dead, just hours after after Western nations warned of an imminent terror threat.

In this file photo smoke and flames erupt from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after commercial aircraft were deliberately crashed into the buildings in lower Manhattan, New York on September 11, 2001.

9/11: 20 YEARS ON

'Total failure': The war on terror 20 years on

26-08-2021 13:57 The Al-Qaeda plane hijackings of September 11, 2001 were the first foreign attack on the US mainland in nearly two centuries. It ruptured America's sense of safety and plunged the West into war in Afghanistan – a military operation that is only now just concluding.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 27 percent of the population live in coastal areas.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Parts of provinces of Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos underwater by century’s end

25-08-2021 15:10 Sea levels are rising and Argentina will not be the only Latin American country to suffer the consequences.

by Darío Silva D'Andrea

A medic from the Houston Fire Department EMS takes the blood pressure of a Mexican immigrant with possible Covid-19 symptoms before transporting her to a hospital on August 15, 2021 in Houston, Texas.

HEALTH

High blood pressure doubled globally in 30 years, study shows

25-08-2021 13:36 The number of people living with high blood pressure more than doubled since 1990, according to a major study. In Argentina, more than half of men had hypertension.

Manchester City's Portuguese defender Ruben Dias (left) vies with Tottenham Hotspur's Argentine midfielder Giovani Lo Celso during the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, on August 15, 2021. Tottenham won the match 1-0.

INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL

Premier League clubs won't release players for red-list internationals

24-08-2021 16:09 Argentine stars including Giovani Lo Celso, Cristian Romero, Emiliano Martínez and Emiliano Buendía could miss out on upcoming Albiceleste internationals.

In this file photo taken on February 15, 2016, The Rolling Stones (left to right) – Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Ron Wood – are pictured upon landing in Montevideo. Charlie Watts, drummer with legendary British rock'n'roll band the Rolling Stones, died on August 24, 2021 aged 80, according to a statement from his publicist.

OBITUARY

Charlie Watts: the heartbeat of the Rolling Stones

24-08-2021 14:08 Charlie Watts was known as the quiet man of the scandal-soaked Rolling Stones, keeping the beat for the legendary rock group in his own steady style.

Charlie Watts, drummer with legendary British rock'n'roll band The Rolling Stones, died on August 24, 2021 aged 80, according to a statement from his publicist.

MUSIC

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies aged 80

24-08-2021 13:44 Charlie Watts, drummer with legendary British rock'n'roll band The Rolling Stones, has at the age of 80, according to a statement from his publicist.

Italian Justice Minister Marta Cartabia.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Italy asks Chile to extradite 'Operation Condor' criminals

23-08-2021 16:19 Italy seeking extradition of three former members of Chile's military sentenced to life by European nation's courts for murdering two Italians in 1973.

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.

IMF CASH BOOST

IMF urges US$650-billion SDR injection be directed to Covid’s hardest hit

23-08-2021 15:42 IMF's record US$650-billion resource injection comes into effect; Kristalina Georgieva urging wealthy states to direct some of allocation to countries lacking means to cope with Covid crisis.

An Afghan refugee, Maryam, and her children sit in an hotel room in Paris on August 22, 2021, after being evacuated from Kabul with the help of the French authorities. The military operation dubbed

Afghanistan conflict

Leaving Kabul: from fear to a new life of uncertainty

23-08-2021 15:06 Afghans who escaped from Taliban-controlled Kabul and reached safety in Paris tell of their extraordinary last hours in their homeland, marked by fear for their lives and perilous journeys.

Taliban fighters in a vehicle patrol the streets of Kabul on August 23, 2021, as in the capital, the Taliban have enforced some sense of calm in a city long marred by violent crime, with their armed forces patrolling the streets and manning checkpoints.

Taliban takes Afghanistan

Taliban warn of 'consequences' if US extends evacuation

23-08-2021 14:44 Chaos continues to overwhelm Kabul airport, with tens of thousands of people still desperate to flee country as Taliban takes power.

As I see it

A most humiliating retreat

21-08-2021 21:36 The United States handed Afghanistan back to the Taliban because years ago most of her political leaders, including Donald Trump and Joe Biden, had come to the conclusion that “nation-building” was utter folly.

by James Neilson

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

Kabul capitulates

21-08-2021 21:34 All too much past and present for Afghanistan but what about the future? The fast forward to the past indicates that nothing is irreversible.

by Michael Soltys

Atucha Nuclear Complex in Lima, Zárate, Buenos Aires Province.

NUCLEAR ENERGY

Government advances plans to build two new nuclear power plants

21-08-2021 21:30 Argentina is advancing towards the construction of two new nuclear power plants – one with Chinese Hualong technology and another Candu reactor combining national knowhow and Canadian support.

by Ariel Stemphelet

A nurse prepares to administer a dose of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Argentina set to receive 400,000 AstraZeneca shots from Spain

21-08-2021 19:34 Argentina will take delivery of around 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines on Sunday, thanks to a donation from the Spanish government.

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the US military’s ongoing evacuation efforts in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House on August 20, 2021 in Washington, DC.

Taliban takes Afghanistan

Under-pressure Biden tries to reassure US on Afghanistan

20-08-2021 17:14 US president says airlift from Kabul is “one of the largest and most difficult in history,” while warning he “cannot promise what the final outcome will be."

Guests attend the Iowa State Fair on August 19, 2021 in Des Moines, Iowa. The fair, which runs from August 12-22, typically draws between 80,000 to 100,000 people each day. The fair was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global pandemic

North America surges as pandemic eases elsewhere

20-08-2021 13:03 Pandemic has been gaining ground since mid-June largely due to the highly contagious Delta variant. Cases continued to surge by 11% in the United States and Canada this week. Mozambique saw the biggest drop with 36% less new cases, followed by Argentina with 34% less.

Darwin cemetery

Malvinas humanitarian mission: Red Cross discovers five bodies

20-08-2021 03:11 Red Cross experts working to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers on the disputed Malvinas (Falkland) Islands said Thursday they discovered an additional body buried in a common grave.

Covid-19 vaccines

Covid vaccines are less effective against Delta, large study finds

19-08-2021 09:35 Large study finds Pfizer-BioNTech efficacy ebbed over time; Data shows vaccines didn’t diminish viral load of delta cases.

Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid (L) gestures as he arrives to hold the first press conference in Kabul on August 17, 2021 following the Taliban stunning takeover of Afghanistan.

Taliban takes Afghanistan

Taliban say won't seek 'revenge,' co-founder back in Afghanistan

17-08-2021 21:39 Taliban says it will not to seek "revenge" against their opponents in Afghanistan, in their first press conference since taking power.

Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid looks on as he addresses the first press conference in Kabul on August 17, 2021 following the Taliban stunning takeover of Afghanistan.

Taliban takes Afghanistan

UN Human Rights Council to discuss Afghanistan on August 24

17-08-2021 21:33 UN Human Rights Council convenes special session on Afghanistan for later this month. Submission supported by at least a third of council's 47 members, including Argentina.

Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, prepares to give testimony.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rohingya to give testimony to Argentine court in push for Myanmar Army probe

17-08-2021 14:17 Rohingya refugees expelled from Myanmar in a bloody crackdown are to testify before Argentine court. They will use the principle of "universal jurisdiction" to urge a full judicial investigation into allegations of war crimes committed against them.

HUMANITARIAN PROJECT

Red Cross sends second mission team to identify fallen Argentine soldiers

16-08-2021 14:20 The Red Cross said Monday it had begun a second phase in its forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers buried on the disputed Malvinas (Falkland) Islands.

Taliban takes Afghanistan

Taliban retake Afghan capital after 20 years fighting United States

16-08-2021 10:29 Taliban takes over the presidential palace and announces plan to declare a new “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.” Hours earlier, US-backed President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country.

This file picture taken in Kabul on June 24, 2021, shows Afghanistan visual artist and photographer Rada Akbar pictured at the Darul Aman palace in Kabul.

Taliban takes Afghanistan

Afghan women's rights in firing line as Taliban return to power

16-08-2021 10:22 Under the hardline version of sharia law that the Taliban imposed the last time they controlled the capital, women and girls were mostly denied education or employment.

TALIBAN TAKES AFGHANISTAN

Kabul planes mobbed as Afghans make a desperate dash to exit

16-08-2021 10:12 Bedlam at Kabul Airport, just hours after Taliban leaders ordered their fighters into Kabul to maintain order as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.

Taliban fighters sit on a vehicle along the street in Jalalabad province on August 15, 2021.

TALIBAN RAMPAGE

Taliban on outskirts of Afghan capital, poised to take power

15-08-2021 08:41 The Taliban was on the brink of total victory in Afghanistan on Sunday, with its fighters ordered to wait on the outskirts of the capital and the government conceding it was preparing for a "transfer of power."

Lionel Messi pays tribute to Diego Maradona.

MARVELLOUS MESSI

Lionel Messi's record-breaking club career to date – in numbers

13-08-2021 23:02 Argentine superstar shattered records during his spell in Catalonia...

Lionel Messi and his family get settled at a hotel in Paris, France.

MESSI MOVES TO PARIS

Argentines observe Messi's French revolution from afar

13-08-2021 22:58 Despite the epicentre of Messi-mania being some 11,000 kilometres away, locals were glued to their screens this week as Argentina’s superstar footballer completed his move to Paris.

River and sheep below the Andes mountain range in El Calafate, Argentina. Glacier loss is expected to continue in the Andes because of climate change.

ENVIRONMENT

What does the new IPCC report mean for Latin America?

13-08-2021 22:49 Regional temperatures will continue to increase at rates greater than global average and extreme weather events will further accelerate, new climate change report warns

by Fermin Koop

Just this past weekend brought disturbing footage of people fleeing sprawling wildfires in Greece.

ENVIRONMENT

UN report: Human role in global warming overwhelming and ‘unequivocal’

13-08-2021 22:46 Climate scientists reach ‘unequivocal’ consensus on human-made warming in landmark IPCC report.