Stories for November 2015

Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 12:02 UTC
World Diabetes Day, 14 November; 350 million people suffer the chronic disease

The World Health Organization is marking World Diabetes Day on 14th November calling for greater action to turn the growing tide of the global diabetes epidemic and has announced that World Health Day, on 7 April will focus on the issue of diabetes.
Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 11:52 UTC
Argentina needs confidence and positive expectations to attract investment and develop

Any country, any economy needs confidence and positive expectations, and that is what is lacking, and has been lacking in Argentina for many years, said Jorge Brito, head of the Association of Argentine banks, who nevertheless warned about the impacts of a 'rough' adjustment on the economy.
Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 11:37 UTC
A Dominican connection in Venezuela's First Lady relatives drugs' case

A drugs raid and bust in a yacht moored at a marina in the Dominican Republic is helping to understand the extent of the trafficking network business surrounding Venezuela's First Lady family connections, whose nephew and godson are under arrest in New York, according to media reports in Caracas.
Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 11:07 UTC
Venezuela's First Lady nephews unveil drug trafficking before New York court

Two nephews of Venezuela's powerful first lady were ordered held without bail in New York on Thursday after being arrested in Haiti on charges of conspiring to smuggle 800 kilograms of cocaine into the U.S.
Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 09:28 UTC
Night of gun and bombs attacks in Paris: at least 150 people killed

France has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after at least 150 people were killed in a night of gun and bomb attacks in Paris. Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall and took dozens hostage. The siege ended when security forces stormed the building.
Friday, November 13th 2015 - 14:04 UTC
Premier Oil defers project development and exploration spending into 2016

The successful Falkland Islands' exploration company Premier Oil has cut full-year capital expenditure as the oil producer deferred some project development and exploration spending into 2016, it said on Thursday. Like its peers, Premier Oil has to reduce spending to cope with a halving in oil prices since a peak in June last year that has eaten into revenues.
Friday, November 13th 2015 - 10:56 UTC
WTI oil falls below US$ 42; millions of barrels held in ships at sea

Oil prices were testing fresh lows on Thursday, with a report that 100 million barrels of crude and heavy oil products are being held in ships at sea. West Texas Intermediate oil, the main North American contract, fell below $42 US a barrel, amid predictions that it would fall to the $20-30 level next year.
Friday, November 13th 2015 - 09:23 UTC
Mine disaster: Brazil fines BHP Billiton and Vale; expects companies to pay cleanup costs

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has slapped preliminary fines worth 250 million Reais ($94 million) against a BHP Billiton-Value owned mine in Minas Gerais state where two dams burst, killing at least seven people.
Friday, November 13th 2015 - 09:10 UTC
Petrobras reports huge 3Q losses: sharp devaluation of the currency blamed

Brazil's scandal-plagued state oil giant Petrobras on Thursday announced third-quarter losses of about US$ 1 billion, mainly due to the sharp devaluation of the Brazilian currency.Petrobras, mired in a hugely damaging scandal involving bribes and high-level political payoffs, posted losses of 3.76 billion Reais in the quarter, compared with a loss of 5.3 billion Reais a year earlier.
Friday, November 13th 2015 - 08:54 UTC
Brazil's main opposition party insists in removing speaker of the Lower House

The Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), the largest opposition force in the country, demanded that the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha, be removed from office for alleged involvement in corruption detected in state oil company Petrobras.