Stories for May 2017

Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 - 14:55 UTC
Global food prices down with expectations of robust supplies in key staples

Global food commodity prices fell in April amid expectations of ongoing robust supplies of many key staples. The FAO Food Prices Index averaged 168 points in April, down 1.8% from March although remaining 10% higher than a year earlier.
Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 - 13:58 UTC
WMA leader wars about growing violence against physicians and healthcare

A warning about an increase in violence against physicians and a general disrespect for medical and health institutions in both civil and conflict situations has come from the Chair of the World Medical Association Dr. Ardis Hoven.
Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 - 11:17 UTC
Latin American exports rebound in first quarter of 2017 pushed by commodity prices

After four consecutive years of contraction, Latin American and Caribbean exports returned to a path of growth. In the first quarter of 2017, the value of goods exports increased 17% year-on-year, having contracted 2.9% in 2016.
Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 - 08:48 UTC
Protestors set on fire Chavez childhood home; Army preparing snipers to control demonstrations

Protesters set fire to late President Hugo Chavez's childhood home in western Venezuela on Monday, an opposition lawmaker said, as protests against the president Nicolas Maduro grew increasingly hostile.
Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 - 08:36 UTC
Temer accepts Supreme Court investigation: incriminating secret recording was “edited 70 times”

Brazil's President Michel Temer has asked the Supreme Court to proceed with an investigation against him for obstruction of justice and corruption. His lawyers say that a secret recording that appears to incriminate him has been edited 70 times.
Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 - 08:17 UTC
Suspected terror attack in Manchester pop concert kills 19 and leaves scores injured; Tuesday campaigning suspended

Nineteen people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a suspected terror attack at Manchester Arena. The blast happened at 22:35 BST on Monday following a pop concert by the US singer Ariana Grande.
Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 09:04 UTC
French financial prosecutors investigating submarines' sale to Brazil

French financial prosecutors have launched an investigation into a 6.7 billion euro (US$7.5 billion) 2008 contract between naval supplier DCNS and Brazil that included the sale of five submarines, it was reported on Sunday in Paris.
Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 08:51 UTC
TPP 11 committed to go ahead despite the Trump administration dropping out

Asia-Pacific trade ministers agreed to try to revive a massive free trade pact, even though the United States reaffirmed its decision to pull out, as fears grow of a new global era of protectionism. The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) covered 40% of the global economy before US President Donald Trump abruptly abandoned it in January, to meet a campaign pledge to save American jobs which he says have been sucked up overseas.
Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 08:13 UTC
Gibraltar hosting Brexit conference for Commonwealth parliamentarians

Nearly forty Parliamentarians from eleven Commonwealth countries and territories (including Falkland Islands) are meeting in Gibraltar in order to discuss the impact of the decision taken in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, among other current issues.
Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 07:15 UTC
Temer's time running out; economic reforms delayed; possible names to succeed the discredited president

Demonstrators marched across Brazil on Sunday calling for the resignation or ouster of President Michel Temer who is implicated in a widening corruption scandal that is undermining his government's fragile efforts to end a historic recession. Protests took place in cities including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where hundreds of demonstrators marched along the shoreline, chanting and waving banners reading “Temer Out!”