Terminations up to the 14th week of pregnancy have now been legalised in Argentina. In an area which holds the world’s most restrictive abortion laws, this is a huge step forward for the sexual and reproductive rights of women. The new law replaces the 1921 ruling stating abortion is illegal, with exceptions given for cases…
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Diego Maradona (1960-2020)
Argentine footballing legend Diego Maradona has died from a heart attack at the age of 60. Regarded by many as the greatest footballer of all time, Maradona captained his country to World Cup glory in 1986. As is often the case when the footballing world mourns the loss of one of its all-time greats, condolences…
Global
South America Year in Review
In this last issue before Christmas, Global is looking back at the news from South America in 2018. Across the region, several general elections took place. A new President of Paraguay was elected, Mario Abdo Benítez, a former president of the Senate as the incumbent President was not eligible for re-election. Colombia also greeted a…
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Global Roundup 360 – 26th April
Argentine music festival cancelled after multiple deaths on site Five people have died and five more remain in critical conditions in hospital after suspected drug overdoses at an Argentine festival. The Time Warp electronic music festival was being held for two days in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. Two people died at the event while…
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Global Roundup 360 – February 23rd
Canadian man solves his own disappearance case A Canadian man has apparently solved his own disappearance in what is surely one of the most unique investigation stories of recent years. In September 1986, 21-year-old Edgar Latulip, a developmentally disabled man with a mental age of 12, disappeared from a home in Ontario, Canada, where he…
Sport
Scotland and Wales fall to devastating defeats
Scotland and Wales both crashed out of the Rugby World cup quarter-finals despite valiant efforts to create upsets. Scotland lost 35-34 to Australia, in a game decided by a controversial last-minute penalty decision that swung the match in the Wallabies’ favour. Video replays showed that the deliberate offside decision was incorrect as the ball had…
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Curtains for Clarkson: is this the final straw for Top Gear?
Once again the Top Gear team have found themselves at the centre of an international controversy after having been forced to return home from filming in Argentina amid a row over the number plates on one of their cars. They were chased to the Argentine- Chilean border and forced to halt the filming of their…
Sport, World Cup 2014
Diary of a football phobic: part 5
Apparently shit went down in the semi-finals? Alas, your correspondent was otherwise engaged while Germany not only annihilated Brazil but minced up them and turned them into a bratwurst; but I saw enough on Twitter to be able to piece together the general thrust of proceedings in Belo Horizonte. Who knew that Neymar is literally…
Sport, World Cup 2014
Messi denied a place among the greats as Germans snatch victory
Mario Götze’s extra-time winner on Sunday night proved enough for Germany to win the World Cup for the first time since the nation’s reunification. The match that was supposed to see Messi seal his place in history among the greats such as Pele, Maradonna and Zidane, did not follow the script as the Argentinians were…
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