MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for January 23rd 2017
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Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 19:53 UTC
Trump has a new species of moth named after him: Neopalpa donaldtrumpi
What has a scaly-looking head of gold? Well, Donald Trump, of course... but also a moth. The Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, a new species of tiny moth, has been named after the president-elect due to the striking physical resemblance between the moth's yellow and white scales and Trump's hair.
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Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 19:01 UTC
Temer has the delicate task of naming a successor of Justice Zavascki
Brazil's president Michel Temer said that he would wait to name a replacement for the Supreme Court justice who died in a plane crash until after the court reassigns a major corruption case he was handling.
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Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 18:32 UTC
State of emergency in Chile because of wildfires; smoke cloaked Santiago
Chile declared a state of emergency on Friday as more than a dozen wildfires that have scorched nearly 50,000 hectares threatened to encroach on towns, factories and vineyards. Firefighters, forestry service personnel and members of the military are battling 18 separate blazes in the center and south of the country that have been fueled by strong winds and a heat wave.
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Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 18:20 UTC
Any future relationship Gibraltar seeks with EU post-Brexit ”will have to be agreed by Spain”
Spain will oppose any special treatment for Gibraltar or Scotland as part of the Brexit process, the ruling Partido Popular spokesman in the European Parliament said this week. During a speech in Strasbourg, Esteban Gonzalez Pons said only the UK could negotiate its withdrawal and that any deal would “affect the entirety” of the country.
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Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 12:33 UTC
Argentina issues US$ 7bn in 5 and 10-year bonds at 5.625% to 7% rate
Argentina launched a US$7bn two-part bond on Thursday, covering its planned dollar issuance for the year in one fell swoop on the back of more than US$21bn of orders. The deal was the sovereign's third in US dollars since being welcomed back to the international capital markets last year after a protracted fight with creditors, and demand was strong.
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Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 12:21 UTC
PM May scheduled to announce an ambitious port-Brexit industrial strategy
British Prime Minister is to unveil a new, more interventionist, and industrial strategy on Monday, designed to boost the post-Brexit UK economy. The government will be “stepping up to a new, active role,” Mrs. May said. She will launch the new strategy at her first regional cabinet meeting, to be held in the north-west of England.
