AN INVESTIGATION will be launched into the role played by the Organisation of American States (OAS) in last year’s Washington-backed coup in Bolivia, which ousted leftist president Evo Morales.
The president of the South American parliament Parlasur, Oscar Laborde, announced on Sunday that OAS general secretary Luis Almagro’s efforts will be scrutinised after the group published a damning report citing electoral irregularities in the November 2019 poll.
The report has since been dismissed by subsequent reports and investigations that found no evidence of fraud in the vote, which was won by Mr Morales and the Movement Towards Socialism (Mas).
IRAQ: Eight rockets were fired at the US embassy in Baghdad on Sunday night.
One Iraqi security guard was injured and there was damage to a building and some cars, Iraqi authorities said.
The US embassy said it had deployed its C-Ram defence system to take out the rockets.
It has reduced personnel ahead of the first anniversary of the illegal US killing of Iranian General Qassim Soleimani, as it fears Shi’ite organisations may seek vengeance.
EUROPEAN UNION: The European Medicines Agency recommended conditional approval for a coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer today, following its earlier authorisation in Britain and the US.