Stories for 2016

Friday, June 24th 2016 - 09:03 UTC
Brazil Lower House passes bill allowing foreigners 100% stake of national carriers

Brazil's Chamber of Deputies approved this week an executive order allowing foreign investors 100% ownership of Brazilian airlines, compared to the current 20% limit, although the implementation depends on approval from the Senate.
Friday, June 24th 2016 - 08:58 UTC
Two presidents at opening of Rio Olympics in August

Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's suspended president, will be invited to the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics on August 5, the organizing committee said Thursday. Rousseff has been replaced by vice-president Michel Temer pending her impeachment trial over allegations of fiddling government accounts.
Friday, June 24th 2016 - 08:38 UTC
Brazilian leading contractor, in plea bargain, expected to involve Rousseff directly in campaign illegal funding

Marcelo Odebrecht, the former chief executive of Latin America’s largest construction company, will admit in a plea bargain testimony that he personally oversaw illegal campaign donations for suspended Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in the 2010 and 2014 elections, Folha de São Paulo reported.
Friday, June 24th 2016 - 08:28 UTC
Colombia-FARC, “a historic event and exemplary implementation of peace”

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attended in Cuba the signing of a bilateral ceasefire agreement and laying down of weapons between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) and described the historic event as an exemplary implementation of peace.
Friday, June 24th 2016 - 08:07 UTC
Vote Leave Chief and ex London mayor expected to go for PM Cameron post

When Boris Johnson announced in February that he would back the UK campaign to Leave the European Union, it transformed the debate. Johnson is popular with the public and within his party. By becoming the official head of Vote Leave, he gave the weight of the establishment to a campaign previously spear-headed by fringe political figures such as Nigel Farage and George Galloway.
Friday, June 24th 2016 - 07:43 UTC
“Leave” win tremors: sterling falls; Bank of England on full alert; “EUexit” domino calls

The UK has voted on Thursday, 23 June, to leave the European Union after 43 years in a historic referendum. Leave won by 51,9% to 48,1% with England and Wales voting strongly for Brexit, while London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backed staying in the EU.
Friday, June 24th 2016 - 04:12 UTC
Colombia signs historic cease fire to end half a century armed conflict

An agreement aimed at ending more than five decades of conflict between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla group was signed in Havana on Thursday at a ceremony presided over by Cuban head of state Raul Castro.
Friday, June 24th 2016 - 04:00 UTC
Falklands are not recognized as a “people” and the principle of self determination does not apply, argues Malcorra

With a less aggressive tone but with the same determination, Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra (and hopeful UN Secretary General), argued that the principle of self-determination is not absolute and does not apply to the disputed Falkland/Malvinas Islands, since the principle of territorial integrity of States prevails, and the inhabitants of the Malvinas are not recognized as a “people”.
Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 22:16 UTC
“We are Falkland Islanders”, it has taken 160 years to decolonize from UK, “we have no intention of becoming a colony of any other claimant”

“We are a people in our own right, who care deeply for our country and our home. We are Falkland Islanders. It has taken us around 160 years to de-colonise from the United Kingdom, and we have no intention of becoming a colony of any other claimant”, emphasized MLA Mike Summers before the UN Special Committee on Decolonization.
Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 22:06 UTC
“We, Falklands are the only people who can say what we want for our future”, MLA Short tells the C24 committee

A Falkland Islands lawmaker addressing the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, C24, in New York said that the political future of the Islands is not about the UK or Argentina, but rather the people of the Falklands, and “We are the only people who can say what we want for our future”.