Stories for November 2016

Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 11:35 UTC
Brazil lowers fuel prices: diesel down 10.4% and gasoline, 3.1% at the refinery

In line with the pricing policy announced by Petrobras on October 14, 2016, the company’s markets and pricing executive committee has decided to reduce the prices of diesel and gasoline sold at its refineries by 10.4% and 3.1%, respectively.The combination of a 12.1% fall in the international prices of oil and oil products between October 14 and now, and the reduction in the company’s domestic market share has impacted the usage level of Petrobras’ assets, especially its refineries, its inventory levels and also its flows of imports and exports
Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 11:30 UTC
Temer defends austerity and claims the program is fostering confidence among investors

Brazilian President Michel Temer reiterated the tough-minded adjustment he has proposed to balance the government's accounts and his support for the private sector's role in the economy, adding that the program is already fostering “confidence” among investors.
Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 11:20 UTC
HMS Protector opens 2016/17 season in South Georgia surveying 160 sq miles of seabed

Having spent last Antarctic summer celebrating the deeds of one British polar hero, the crew of Royal Navy icebreaker HMS Protector have opened the 2016-17 survey season honoring his rival. A century after Sir Ernest Shackleton landed at King Haakon Bay on South Georgia in a makeshift lifeboat – the James Caird – Protector entered the same fjord and sent her hi-tech survey launch – the James Caird IV – close to the identical spot.
Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 11:04 UTC
PM May congratulates Trump and looks forward to working with him

Prime Minister Theresa May has led UK political congratulations for Donald Trump after his US election victory. The PM said Britain and the US had an “enduring and special relationship” and would remain close partners on trade, security and defense.
Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 08:11 UTC
Malvinas is no impediment for dealing with UK, but “Islands population can't be denied”

The Malvinas sovereignty dispute should not be an impediment to advance in a pro-active agenda with the United Kingdom, and to progress in agreements to attract investors to Argentina, said foreign minister Susana Malcorra, who also admitted that it's not possible to deny the existence of the Malvinas inhabitants, “of which we have been distanced for too long”.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 17:22 UTC
Macri congratulates Trump, hopes both presidents can work together for the people

The Argentine president posted his congratulations for Donald Trump as president-elect of the United States on his Twitter account. Malcorra wants quick transition. “I congratulate @realDonaldTrump on his triumph and I hope we can work together for the good of our peoples,” Macri said.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 17:02 UTC
In Rome, Pepe Mujica cries “Help!” as Trump wins election

The former Uruguayan President came up with “a word that says it all: Help!” during a radio interview. Tabaré Vázquez to wait for official results to be released.Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, in Rome to attend the third World Meeting of Popular Movements made those remarks during a radio appearance. Mujica had expressed his preference for Hillary Clinton.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 15:42 UTC
Preconceptions, misconceptions and experts that fail to see reality

Explaining the not so quite unexplainable. Donald Trump's victory by a convincing margin left all those so called analysts who had foreseen his defeat as inevitable trying to find out how they had so spectacularly misread the world. The role of mass media under fire.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 12:58 UTC
UK wins F-35s global repair and maintenance hub in North Wales

The British Ministry of Defense (MOD) has announced that the UK has been chosen by the F-35 Program Office to be a global repair hub providing maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade services for F-35 avionic and aircraft components. Over the lifetime of the program, hundreds of European-based F-35 aircraft will be serviced and maintained in North Wales.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 12:42 UTC
It's President Donald Trump, after all

Following the Republican candidate's win in Pennsylvania there was virutally no chance the Democrat nominnee Hillary Clinton could reverse the situation and her campain manager John Podesta sent everybody at her camp home to sleep, saying she would not be making any comments during the evening.