In Haiti, the mandate of Jovenel Moïse, the former president assassinated seven months ago, officially ended, and, with him, that of his replacement, the interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
Faced with the legal vacuum, the latter clings to power while the Haitians are still demanding justice for the late president.
In Argentina, thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate against the government's agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
Last week, the government announced that it had found common ground with the IMF to restructure the $44 billion debt.
The United States has announced that it has recovered more than 94,000 stolen bitcoins, the equivalent of $3.6 billion.
They had been stolen in 2016 from the Bitfinex virtual trading platform.
The suspects are a couple in their thirties from New York, Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan.
Finally, the nominations for the Oscars were unveiled on Tuesday, February 8, with their traditional batch of surprises, records and left-outs.
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