MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 3rd 2016
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Monday, October 3rd 2016 - 08:52 UTC
Colombians turn their back on peace deal: Santos and FARC allies in rejection
Colombian voters appeared to have shocked their government, world leaders and pollsters by blasting away its hopes for a historic peace deal with the Marxist FARC rebels on Sunday, near-complete referendum results showed. Reversing the trend of earlier opinion polls, voters appeared to have narrowly defied the government's pleas to ratify its plan to put 52 years of bloody conflict behind them within months.
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Monday, October 3rd 2016 - 08:36 UTC
Brazilians voters punish corruption-involved parties; Lula's drops to tenth place in municipal rating
Brazilians expressed their disenchantment and frustration on Sunday's municipal elections punishing parties involved in the major corruption schemes and political disputes as the country's economy has plunged into the worst economic recession almost a century including the loss of millions of jobs.
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Monday, October 3rd 2016 - 08:09 UTC
Argentina claims Falklands' sovereignty at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
Argentina again claimed Falkland Islands' sovereignty and called for bilateral negotiations, as indicated by the UN General Assembly, at the closing 33rd session of the Human Rights Council last Friday in Geneva.
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Monday, October 3rd 2016 - 07:54 UTC
Yuan becomes global reserve currency but China will have to relax capital controls and the exchange rate
The Chinese currency Yuan entered a new phase in its journey to become more important to the world economy: starting on Saturday the Yuan is officially a member of the International Monetary Fund’s basket of global reserve currencies. Together, this group of currencies, known as Special Drawing Rights (SDR), forms a kind of pseudo-currency—used only by the IMF—to supplement countries’ official reserves.
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Monday, October 3rd 2016 - 07:40 UTC
Temer visits Macri to address trade and making Mercosur more flexible and universal
Argentine president Mauricio Macri will be receiving his Brazilian peer Michel Temer in Buenos Aires on Monday morning to address bilateral relations in several fields, mainly political, trade, Mercosur, and security and development in the long shared border areas. According to official sources Temer´s delegation arrives with foreign minister Jose Serra, Industry and trade minister Marcos Pereira and head of defense Raul Jungmann.
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Monday, October 3rd 2016 - 07:03 UTC
PM May announces Brexit process should be over by 2019 with strong limits on immigration policy
Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday that Britain would begin the process of withdrawing from the European Union by the end of March and suggested that she would seek a clean break that makes limits on immigration a priority.
