MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 2nd 2018
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Thursday, August 2nd 2018 - 08:21 UTC
Winner of Math's' Nobel enjoys gold medal for fifty minutes, in crime-ridden Rio
One of the winners of the award known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics had his gold medal stolen minutes after it was given to him. Caucher Birkar, a Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University math professor, was among four winners of the prestigious Fields Medal on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro.
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Thursday, August 2nd 2018 - 08:04 UTC
Power outages in Venezuela turn once rich cities into ghost towns
The state of Zulia, the historic heart of Venezuela’s energy industry that was for decades known for opulent oil wealth, has been plunged into darkness for several hours a day since March, sometimes leaving its 3.7 million residents with no electricity for up to 24 hours.
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Thursday, August 2nd 2018 - 07:35 UTC
Santos convinced that Maduro's days in Venezuela are numbered, “in the near future”
Nicolas Maduro's days as president of crisis-ravaged Venezuela are numbered, his outgoing Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos told the French government news agency.“I can see it happening in the near future,” said Santos, pointing to the International Monetary Fund's latest projection that Venezuela's inflation will hit one million percent this year.
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Thursday, August 2nd 2018 - 07:24 UTC
Macri admits annual inflation will reach 30%, “product of this storm”
Argentina's President Mauricio Macri is acknowledging for the first time that the country's annual inflation rate will be 30%. Macri said Tuesday that the high consumer prices “unfortunately are a product of this storm.” He was referring to a sharp devaluation of Argentina's currency and a recent run on the Peso.
