Stories for May 2018

Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 07:00 UTC
Ex-London mayor resigns from Labour party following anti-Semitism controversy

Ken Livingstone has said he is resigning from the Labour Party. The ex-London mayor has been suspended since 2016 in a row over allegations of anti-Semitism following comments he made about Hitler and Zionism.
Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 06:51 UTC
Pompeo threatens Iran with “strongest sanctions in history”; Teheran says US was regressing to “old habits”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the US is imposing the “strongest sanctions in history” on Iran. In a speech on Monday in Washington, America's top diplomat said Iran would be “battling to keep its economy alive” after the sanctions took effect.
Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 06:32 UTC
Mercosur and Japan scheduled to begin trade talks next November in Argentina

Mercosur trade bloc looks to begin economic and trade talks with Japan as soon as November, Brazil's foreign minister said, calling trade with Asia essential to regional economic health as the U.S. embraces protectionism.
Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 06:19 UTC
Lima Group does not recognize Maduro's reelection and recalls ambassadors

The fourteen members of the Lima Group will not recognize the re-election of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in a Sunday vote marred by international accusations that it was rigged.
Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 06:07 UTC
Trump increases economic isolation of the Venezuelan regime of Maduro

President Donald Trump on Monday increased pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with an executive order that restricts his regime from selling off public assets and blocks purchases of the country's debt.
Tuesday, May 22nd 2018 - 06:01 UTC
Indian Navy all-women crew return to Goa after circumnavigating the globe aboard INSV Tarini

An all-woman crew commanding the Indian Navy INSV Tarini on Monday returned to Goa after successfully circumnavigating the globe in a 55-foot sailboat in more than eight months, the first-ever Indian expedition steered by women sailors.
Monday, May 21st 2018 - 09:12 UTC
Foreign Secretary honors Argentine fallen during the Falklands conflict in Buenos Aires

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Sunday laid a wreath to honor Argentine soldiers fallen while fighting the British in the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict. Johnson, who is in Buenos Aires for a Group of 20 meeting, visited the Monument of the Fallen Soldiers on Sunday along with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie.
Monday, May 21st 2018 - 09:06 UTC
Boris Johnson, first foreign secretary to visit Peru in fifty years

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spent the first of his five-day visit to Latin America in Peru on Saturday 19 May. In the first visit of a British Foreign Secretary to Peru in over 50 years, Mr. Johnson joined Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra and other high level Peruvian officials on a visit to Iquitos, located in the Amazon.
Monday, May 21st 2018 - 09:02 UTC
Lula's political “handy man” Dirceu, starts 31-year prison sentence for corruption

Jose Dirceu, former chief of staff under ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, surrendered last Friday to start a nearly 31-year prison sentence for corruption, officials said. Dirceu lost an appeal against his conviction for money laundering, corruption and membership of a criminal group, at a court in Porto Alegre on Thursday.
Monday, May 21st 2018 - 08:52 UTC
US/China trade war “on hold”; Beijing agrees to “substantially reduce” surplus

The United States and China are pulling back from the brink of a trade war after the world's two biggest economies reported progress in talks aimed at bringing down America's massive trade deficit with Beijing. “We are putting the trade war on hold,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday.