WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden has quicklylaunched a campaign to support LGBTIQ people abroad, putting their rightshigher on the US foreign policy agenda than ever before. Elevating a 2011 initiative launched by his former boss Barack Obama —and reversing a turnaround under Donald Trump — Biden is…

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (NNN-AGENCIES — US Democratic Senator and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden has introduced a bill to end Cuba’s blockade, his office announced on Friday. “The U.S.-Cuba Trade Act of 2021 would repeal the major statutes that codify sanctions against Cuba, including the Helms-Burton Act…

BUENOS AIRES, Feb 6 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Fracking activity in Vaca Muerta, Argentina shot up in January to its highest level in 17 months, according to the Argentine unit of Houston-based services company NCS Multistage. Demand for oil in Argentina is recovering from an eight-month lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic, plus…

QUITO, Feb 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ecuador is ready to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a successor to President Lenin Moreno and legislative members of the National Assembly (Congress) amid the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced. “We are ready to go to the polls…

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva endorsed US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic stimulus plan to deal with the pain caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. “The US does have fiscal space to take additional relief and support measures,” she told reporters. And it is “appropriate”…