MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 18th 2017
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Friday, August 18th 2017 - 21:10 UTC
Brazilian economic activity (and optimism) picking up
Economic activity in Brazil expanded at a faster pace than expected in June, the latest in a batch of reports suggesting an economic recovery may be taking hold. Economic activity rose 0.50% from May after seasonal adjustments, the central bank said on Thursday.
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Friday, August 18th 2017 - 20:54 UTC
General Lee statues controversy: Trump drops plan for an advisory group on infrastructure
United States president Trump is dropping plans to create an advisory group on infrastructure, a day after two other business panels were dissolved. The president has faced a backlash from business leaders over his remarks this week on white supremacists.
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Friday, August 18th 2017 - 09:50 UTC
Falklands' Museum incorporates naval journal with accounts of Port Egmont 250 year ago
Two hundred and fifty years on, the story of a bold Falklands naval adventure has been purchased for the local museum in Stanley. Friends of the Falkland Islands Museum and Jane Cameron National Archives (FIMA Friends) executive committee member Alexandra ‘Zaz’ Shackleton was browsing at the regular antiquarian travel book fair at the Royal Geographical Society in London, when she came across a volume that she immediately knew belonged in the Falklands.
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Friday, August 18th 2017 - 09:24 UTC
Falklands: Outwitting canny fur seals feasting on abundant Loligo
Falkland Islands Senior Fisheries Scientist Dr Alexander Arkhipkin explains the habits of fur seals and the efforts undertaken to reduce by-catch in the Loligo fishery. Stocks of Falkland calamari (Loligo) are very prolific this year.
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Friday, August 18th 2017 - 08:50 UTC
Venezuela begins systematic purge of the regime's opponents
Venezuela’s high court issued an arrest order for the ousted chief prosecutor’s husband on Thursday after authorities accused him of running a US$6 million extortion ring, a ruling promptly denounced by government critics as a move aimed at silencing opponents of President Nicolas Maduro.
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Friday, August 18th 2017 - 08:37 UTC
Catalonia foils a second terrorist attack: “five alleged perpetrators killed”
Following a deadly vehicle-ramming attack in Barcelona on Thursday afternoon -- which left at least 13 people killed -- a police operation was carried out 90 minutes south of the city in Cambrils, during which five “terrorists” were killed, officials said.
