Stories for January 2018

Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:28 UTC
UK Cabinet reshuffle makes government look “more like the country it serves”

Theresa May has said her reshuffle makes the government look “more like the country it serves” with a “new generation” of ministers brought in. The PM has appointed several new faces to her ministerial team.
Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:23 UTC
Seatrade Cruise Global returns to the renovated Miami Beach Convention Center

Seatrade Cruise Global, the leading annual global business-to-business event in the cruise industry, will return to the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Center 8-11 April 2019 after a three year stint at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center.
Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:18 UTC
Workshop on Chinese outbound tourism scheduled at FITUR in Madrid

The UN World Tourism Organization, WTO, Awards on Innovation and Excellence in Tourism, African and Middle East tourism development and the Chinese Market among the activities of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) during the 38th edition of the Madrid International Tourism Fair (FITUR, January 17-21), the yearly kick-off for the world’s leading tourism meeting points.
Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:14 UTC
Blue tongue outbreak among sheep in Brazil

Uruguayan animal health authorities are on the alert following the outbreak of a blue tongue focus among sheep in south Brazil. The outbreak has been located in Santa Maria, in central Rio Grande do Sul, and Uruguay's Agriculture and Livestock ministry has strengthened controls along the border which divides the rich farmland region.
Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:03 UTC
Brazilian politics at its best: nepotism and a sentenced rapist to Congress

Brazilian president Michel Temer's latest cabinet reshuffle has not been very encouraging or in accordance with his survival abilities so far. In effect the candidate named as future minister of Labor had to reach a debt payment deal with a driver that provided services to the family, and the politician who will be replacing her in Congress was sentenced for raping minors.
Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 09:57 UTC
Great recession almost over, “but no time for complacency”, warns World Bank

The World Bank forecasts global economic growth to edge up to 3.1% in 2018 after a much stronger-than-expected 2017, as the recovery in investment, manufacturing, and trade continues, and as commodity-exporting developing economies benefit from firming commodity prices.
Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 09:52 UTC
Argentine central bank cuts basic rate to 28%; annual inflation target 15%

Argentina’s central bank cut its policy rate to 28% from 28.75%, two weeks after relaxing its 2018 inflation target, the bank said on Tuesday. The bank’s first rate cut in 14 months came after a December 28 news conference announcing an official inflation target for this year of 15%, up from the bank’s previous target range of 8% to 12%.
Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 09:48 UTC
Women to the rescue of men: don't fall into a “Puritanical” witch hunt

Legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve is among 100 women who signed an editorial Tuesday in French daily Le Monde, criticizing the current #MeToo movement for restricting sexual freedom.
Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 09:25 UTC
Petro: The cryptocurrency that is not cryptocurrency

According to the journalist specialized in technology Edgar Rincon, the solution devised by the Venezuelan government to evade the “strong and cruel sanctions of the international community to Venezuela”, the Petro, is not a cryptocurrency because “within the guidelines of the cryptocurrency guide does not fit. ”
Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 08:09 UTC
Eastern Falkland Plateau to be surveyed by state of the art scientific research vessel

The RRS Discovery arrived on Tuesday in Chile's extreme south port of Punta Arenas in advance of her next research expedition, to undertake seismic survey and piston coring operations in the eastern Falkland Plateau region of the Sub-Antarctic Southwest Atlantic Ocean.