Stories for 2019

Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:21 UTC
Falklands' genetically improved wool clip reflects a significant increase in value

The value of the Falkland Islands wool clip has increased by around 11% over the past six years, or £1 million at today’s wool prices announced MLA Teslyn Barkman at the most recent meeting of Legislative Assembly.
Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:15 UTC
Paraguayan VP claims only half truths became known about obscure Itaipu deal

Paraguay's Vicepresident Hugo Velázquez said that so far only half truths regarding the somber deal with Brazil about the sale of electricity are known to the public. The affair has left the government of President Mario Abdo on the brink of collapse despite having dodged impeachment before the Senate this past week.
Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:07 UTC
Telefonica Brazil and three sub contractors responsible of engaging slave labor

Leading mobile company Telefonica Brasil and three firms in its supply chain have been found guilty of engaging in slave labor, authorities said this week. A panel of labor judges in Espirito Santo state ruled that Telefonica, publicly traded as Vivo in Brazil, was guilty after workers toiled in slavery-like conditions during the building of a cellphone tower in 2014.
Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:01 UTC
Trump warns UK: drop tax proposal on US tech companies or forget a free trade deal

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has told Britain it will not get a free trade deal unless it drops a new tax proposal for major U.S. tech companies, the Telegraph newspaper reported late on Friday.
Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:00 UTC
Arctic buoy with yearlong Beluga recordings salvaged by Swedish icebreaker

A year-long recording of the high-pitched clicks made by Beluga whales has been salvaged from the Arctic after the crew of a Swedish icebreaker chanced upon a research buoy adrift in hazardous pack ice.
Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:00 UTC
HSBC CEO steps down, “by mutual agreement”; search for a replacement has started

The chief executive of HSBC has stepped down after the bank said it needed a change in leadership to address a “challenging global environment”. John Flint is giving up the role he has held for a year and a half “by mutual agreement with the board”.
Monday, August 5th 2019 - 07:20 UTC
French inventor crosses the English Channel of a hover board in 20 minutes

French inventor Franky Zapata on Sunday succeeded in crossing the English Channel on a jet-powered hover board he designed, zooming over the Strait of Dover in just over 20 minutes.
Sunday, August 4th 2019 - 17:40 UTC
Bolivian exporters face new conditions to ship through the Chilean port of Arica

The Arica Port Company (EPA) will start applying new tariffs as of Monday to Bolivian commerce, in accordance to the Service Manual in force since 2013, it was announced.
Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:47 UTC
Amazon deforestation: Bolsonaro ready to sack official who exposed him

The head of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research said on Friday he was going to be sacked following a row with President Jair Bolsonaro over deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:31 UTC
Fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid painkiller poisoning US/China relations

President Donald Trump has repeatedly hit out at China for failing to curb the export of illegal fentanyl to the United States. The powerful painkiller is the primary synthetic opioid available in the US, a class of drug that was responsible for almost 32,000 overdose deaths last year.