Stories for 2016

Friday, November 18th 2016 - 08:58 UTC
Because of “pre-existing commitments”, Dylan will not pick up the Nobel Prize in Stockholm

Bob Dylan says he will not travel to Stockholm to pick up the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature. The Swedish Academy, which gives out the Nobel prizes, says it received a personal letter from Dylan saying he had “pre-existing commitments”. From the very beginning there was a lot of speculation whether Bob Dylan even wanted his Nobel Prize in Literature since it took him more than two weeks to acknowledge that he'd won.
Friday, November 18th 2016 - 08:53 UTC
Former governor of Rio do Janeiro arrested for allegedly embezzling public works funds

The former governor of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro was arrested Thursday for allegedly embezzling funds intended for public works projects, authorities said. Sergio Cabral was apprehended at his home in Rio de Janeiro city's Leblon neighborhood just one day after another former governor of that same state, Anthony Garotinho, was detained on suspicion of attempted vote-rigging.
Friday, November 18th 2016 - 08:41 UTC
2016 is set to be the world’s hottest year on record and an anticipation of current trend

According to the World Meteorological Organization preliminary statement on the global climate for 2016, global temperatures for January to September were 0.88°C above the long-term (1961-90) average, 0.11°C above the record set last year, and about 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels. While the year is not yet over, the final weeks of 2016 would need to be the coldest of the 21st century for 2016’s final number to drop below last year’s.
Friday, November 18th 2016 - 08:27 UTC
Trump-nomics: Speculation iPhones could soon be manufactured in the US

iPhones might soon be made in the U.S., a result of Donald Trump’s win on Election Day, according to Nikkei Asian Review report. Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, a main Apple assembler, has allegedly been looking into the possibility of making iPhones in the United States, sources revealed to Nikkei.
Friday, November 18th 2016 - 08:03 UTC
Post-truth, has been named Oxford Dictionaries 2016 international word

”Post-truth” has been named Oxford Dictionaries’ 2016 international word of the year, vanquishing a politically charged field that included “adulting,” “alt-right,” “Brexiteer,” “glass cliff” and “woke.” The use of “post-truth”, defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, increased by 2,000 percent over last year, according to analysis of the Oxford English Corpus, which collects roughly 150 million words of spoken and written English from various sources each month.
Friday, November 18th 2016 - 07:58 UTC
Rosmit Mantilla released from prison late Thursday evening

Venezuelan opposition leader Rosmit Mantilla was released from jail late Thursday evening by the government of Nicolás Maduro. Mantilla was finally allowed to undergo surgery on November 13 and is believed to be one of the first political prisoners to be set free in the coming days.
Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 12:12 UTC
Argentine Congress approves special pensions scheme for Malvinas veterans

The Argentine Senate unanimously (58/58) passed a bill with a special pensions' scheme, described as exceptional and optional for those citizens who were involved in the Malvinas war. The vote was cheered by the veterans present at the session's discussion.
Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 10:07 UTC
Santos in US for medical exams; the president underwent prostate surgery in 2012

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has travelled to the United States for medical exams after follow-up tests for a 2012 case of prostate cancer came back abnormal, he said. Santos, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner for his efforts to reach a peace deal with Marxist rebels, announced the trip in a brief statement as he left a clinic in Bogota where he has undergone regular check-ups since having surgery to remove a small prostate tumor four years ago.
Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 09:59 UTC
Trudeau due in Buenos Aires Thursday morning

Straight from Havana and enroute to Lima, the Canadian Prime Minister seeks to assert regional leadership following the tied caused by Donald Trump's election for the presidency of the United States.
Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 09:54 UTC
Soros believed to be behind counter-revolutions where the other party wins elections

Anti-Trump protests so strong and well coordinated make spontaneity unlikely to the reasoning observer who makes out that ”someone is stirring the pot because America has never traditionally had a problem with accepting the outcome of an election,” as one analyst put it.