30 Sep 2024

South America correspondent Daniel Schweimler

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 30 September 2024
Argentina's President Javier Milei, wearing a metal tag on his neck reading in English and Hebrew "bring them home now" (referring to hostages abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7, 2024 attacks), gives remarks to the media during a tour around Kibbutz Nir Oz, one the places targeted during attacks, in southern Israel on February 8, 2024. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Photo: AFP

In Argentina, the first official poverty figures have been published since hardline libertarian, Javier Milei, became president last December.

They show that 53% of the 46-million population are living below the poverty line.

This is a rise of more than five million people since last year.

And Archaeologists using artificial intelligence have discovered hundreds of new geoglyphs depicting parrots, cats, monkeys, killer whales and even decapitated heads near the Nazca Lines in Peru.

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