Stories for April 18th 2016

Monday, April 18th 2016 - 17:34 UTC
Rousseff loses crucial impeachment vote; Senate decides as economic uncertainty worsens

President Dilma Rousseff lost a crucial impeachment vote in Brazil’s lower house on Sunday evening, making her removal ever more likely and deepening the country’s political crisis. Rousseff’s opponents easily obtained the two-thirds majority of votes in the 513-member Chamber of Deputies needed to pass the impeachment measure.
Monday, April 18th 2016 - 12:28 UTC
Colombia's FARC guerrillas appeal to Pope Francis to help ensure the peace deal

Colombia's FARC guerrilla organization called on Sunday for Pope Francis's support to prevent other armed groups from disrupting its efforts to seal a peace deal with the government. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the country's government say they are close to a deal to end a half-century conflict.
Monday, April 18th 2016 - 10:28 UTC
Argentine travel agencies promote Falklands' weeklong tour package

The network of Argentine travel agencies under the umbrella organization Lufthansa CityCenter, has come up with a package for Argentines wishing to travel to the Falkland Islands, in search of a cultural approach with an emotive tour of the historic sites of the Islands.
Monday, April 18th 2016 - 10:12 UTC
Brexit referendum campaign took off on Friday, ten weeks ahead of June 23

Campaigning in Britain's Brexit referendum officially started on Friday, ten weeks ahead of a vote that will hand Britons their first chance to have their say on Europe since 1975. With opinion polls suggesting the British public are deeply divided on whether to stay in the EU, the Leave campaign's biggest name -- charismatic London mayor Boris Johnson -- will lead its “Brexit blitz” with rallies on the weekend in northern cities.
Monday, April 18th 2016 - 10:00 UTC
Labour leader Corbyn will vote for Remain and Reform in the Brexit referendum

British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn this week made his most impassioned plea for Britain to stay in Europe, saying the socialist case for the EU had dispelled his long-held suspicion of the bloc. Labour leader Corbyn, who voted against EU membership in a 1975 referendum, said he was now a supporter of the protections it offered workers, consumers and the environment.
Monday, April 18th 2016 - 09:46 UTC
Mercosur/EU trade deal is “no bed of roses” and “we're just beginning”

Despite growing optimism among Mercosur member countries of reaching a trade agreement with the European Union, Argentine minister of foreign affairs Susana Malcorra has cautioned that the road ahead is not “a bed of roses”, and the coming exchange of goods and tariff reduction proposals “will not satisfy any of the two sides”, but that is where “serious discussions begin”.
Monday, April 18th 2016 - 09:20 UTC
Argentine runner plans to honor Argentine and British servicemen buried in Falklands

An Argentine amateur marathon runner plans next December to join 'Falklands emblematic sites', covering a distance of 280 kilometers in six days which will conclude the last leg linking the two cemeteries, Argentine and British “as a message of peace and dialogue”.
Monday, April 18th 2016 - 08:49 UTC
Argentina returns to money market for US$ 15bn to pay bondholders

Once Argentina pays the holdout funds, US District Judge Thomas Griesa will lift the injunctions against the country, court-appointed mediator Daniel Pollack said, following the appeals court ruling that cleared the way for Argentina to pay its debts.
Monday, April 18th 2016 - 08:40 UTC
Leading oil exporters can't agree to cap production; Iran did not attend

The meeting of the world's leading oil exporters to discuss capping production has ended without agreement. After hours of talks in Qatar, the country's energy minister Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada said that the oil producers needed “more time”.
Monday, April 18th 2016 - 08:21 UTC
Ecuador quake primary toll: 262 killed and over 2.500 injured, but climbing

Aid began to flow in Sunday to areas devastated by Ecuador's strongest earthquake in decades and the death toll continued to rise as people left homeless hunkered down for another night outside in the dark.