The members of a truckers' union affiliated with the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions, the more militant of the nation's two umbrella unions, also held rallies in the union's 15 regional offices. SEOUL, July 14 (Yonhap) - Thousands of unionized truck drivers across the country staged a one-day strike on Monday, demanding the parliament pass a bill that would improve their working conditions. Truckers stage one-day strike to push parliamentary passage of bill Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:43 UTC Coronavirus cases in Colombia surpass 600.000 on SundayĬoronavirus cases in Colombia surpassed 600,000 on Sunday as deaths from the virus approach 19,400, ahead of the end to more than five months of lockdown.Trucks sit idle at a pier in Gwangyang port, South Jeolla Province, on July 14, 2014, as about 13,000 truckers joined a one-day strike demanding the introduction of a standard wage system.Mexico is pressing ahead with an effort to forge COVID-19 vaccine alliances across a wide ideological spectrum of countries from France to Cuba, as a World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine initiative will fall short of its needs. Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:44 UTC Mexico presses ahead with a wide ideological spectrum of Covid-19 virus vaccines.Just over six months after registering its first case of the new coronavirus, Brazil crossed the grim threshold of 120,000 people killed by Covid-19 on Saturday, with no end in sight to the crisis. Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:45 UTC In just six months Brazil's Covid-19 death toll has overtaken 120.000.Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:48 UTC Argentina determined to promote oil and gas production and exportsĪrgentina’s new energy secretary Dario Martinez plans to promote oil and natural gas production with a view to increasing exports as part of a strategy to pull the economy out of one of its worst crises on record.Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:51 UTC Argentina confirms that the humanitarian flights policy with Falklands, standsĭespite denying a recent air trip from Montevideo to the Falkland Islands, the Argentine foreign ministry stated that the “humanitarian flights policy” for the Islanders stands, and said that last Friday a flight from the Islands to Chile, with health risk patients, crossing Argentine space had been approved.Oil and fisheries will spearhead Argentina's new efforts in its sovereignty claims over the Falkland Islands, according to Martin Dinatale, an Argentine columnist with good contacts in the foreign ministry and who has followed the Islands dispute for years. Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:55 UTC Argentina preparing to draft an oil exploration round in its extended South Atlantic continental shelf.Tuesday, September 1st 2020 - 06:24 UTC Three year old girl survives terrifying giant kyte rideĪ three-year-old girl entangled in the tail of a giant kite survived a terrifying ride after being swept more than 30 meters into the air during a kite festival in Taiwan, video footage posted on social media on Sunday showed.The lamb, named Double Diamond, had generated buzz before the Scottish National Texel sale in Lanark started, according to a news release from the Texel Sheep Society. Tuesday, September 1st 2020 - 07:41 UTC Texel “Double Diamond” sold for 350,000 guineas in LanarkĪ young ram was sold for a record 350,000 guineas - some US$ 490,000 at an auction in Scotland this week.The Barcelona forward spent several years in the academy at Newell's Old Boys in Rosario before moving to Europe as a teenager. Tuesday, September 1st 2020 - 08:00 UTC Argentine president would like Messi to finish his career in Newell's Old BoysĪrgentine president Alberto Fernandez has urged Lionel Messi to finish his career in his home country.The Chilean government on Monday threatened to invoke a state security law to penalize striking truck drivers blocking arterial routes and damaging supply chains after talks between the two sides broke down.
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