Stories for November 2016

Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:21 UTC
Merciless Pacific “ring of fire” hits Japan with a massive quake and tsunami

Japan’s east coast, near Fukushima - the very site that witnessed the devastating 2011 earthquake, followed by a tsunami that claimed closed to 19,000 lives - was jostled by yet another massive quake on Tuesday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey has measured the earthquake at magnitude 6.9, while Japan’s Meteorological Agency placed the earthquake at magnitude 7.3 and said it occurred at 6 am local time and was measured at a depth of 6.2 miles.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:04 UTC
“Surreal” to think Lula was not aware of the massive corruption schemes

Former Senator Delcídio do Amaral described as “surreal” the notion that former President Lula da Silva was not aware of a giant corruption scheme active during his tenure, in testimony on Monday marking the start of the trial against the man that ran Brazil from 2003 to 2010.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:00 UTC
Santander bank confident of Brazil's “rapid recovery”

President Michel Temer met on Monday with Banco Santander chairman Ana Botin, who expressed the Spanish banking giant's confidence in Brazil's economic future despite the current downturn being experienced by Latin America's largest economy.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 07:52 UTC
No end in sight for Bolivia's drinking water emergency

Due to an unprecedented drought and to other man-caused factors, the country is suffering from water scarcity in five of its nine departments. La Paz's three main dams are almost dry and the city's residents have seen their taps go dry for up to 60 consecutive hours.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 07:35 UTC
Royal Navy sunken submarine found 100 years later

A British Navy World War I submarine which disappeared in the North Atlantic on March 7, 1916, was found Monday by divers, off the island of Schiermonnikoog, revaling the mystery of how it had gone down.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 17:39 UTC
Merkel to seek fourth term as German chancellor

Angela Merkel announced on Sunday she will run for a fourth term as German chancellor in next year’s election, despite growing rejection to her open-door migrant policy
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 12:15 UTC
APEC summit criticizes protectionism and consider Asia-Pacific free trade area

Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski brought the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to a close in Lima on Sunday with a message against protectionism and awareness that the meeting was held “at a key moment in the world's economic history.”
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 12:06 UTC
Peña Nieto says Mexico willing to discuss NAFTA with Trump

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is well aware of his country's need to take a new approach at bilateral relations with the United States under the coming Republican presidency of Donald Trump. “We’re at the stage of prioritizing dialogue as the path through which we may able to establish a new agenda for bilateral relations,” Peña Nieto said in Lima at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:57 UTC
Earthquake in San Juan rattles Argentina, Chile

A strong earthquake with its epicenter located 19 km southwest of the city of San Juan reaching 6.5 degrees on the Richter scale took place Sunday afternoon. No casualties were reported but it was sensed as far s in Buenos Aires
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:51 UTC
Sarkozy retires from politics after losing rightwing primary elections

“It is time for me to approach a life with more private passion and less public passion,” he said as he announced he would endorse his former prime minister, François Fillon, in the second round of voting next Sunday against Alain Juppé, also a former Prime Minister under Jacques Chirac.