Stories for 2019

Wednesday, March 27th 2019 - 07:17 UTC
Road map for Brexit “indicative” votes this Wednesday

MPs in the House of Commons have voted for an amendment enabling them to take control of Commons business and stage a series of “indicative” votes on the way forward for Brexit.
Wednesday, March 27th 2019 - 07:01 UTC
Venezuelan workers sent home and schools closed because of the blackout

Venezuela's government told workers and school children to stay home on Tuesday as the second major blackout this month left the streets of Caracas mostly empty and residents wondering how long power would be out amid a deepening economic crisis.
Wednesday, March 27th 2019 - 06:42 UTC
Bolsonaro's decision to commemorate military coup opposed by federal prosecutors office

Brazil's federal prosecutor's office on Tuesday said it was opposed to far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's plan to allow the armed forces to officially commemorate the 55th anniversary of Brazil's military coup this weekend.
Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 09:15 UTC
Lopez Obrador urges Spain and the Vatican to apologize for abuses during the conquest; Madrid strongly rejects

The Mexican president has sent a letter to Spain's King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologize for human rights abuses committed during the conquest of the region. Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the indigenous peoples of Mexico had been the victims of massacres.
Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 09:00 UTC
A third of Argentines living below the poverty line; in Greater Buenos Aires, 41.1%

Almost a third of Argentines were living below the poverty line at the end of 2018, according to a new report from the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA).
Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:55 UTC
Brexit reaches Falklands: EU Galileo sensor station to be removed from the Islands

As it is increasingly likely that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union without a deal on 12 April, the European Commission is completing its “no-deal” preparations, says the EC' daily news report.
Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:48 UTC
Another blackout in Venezuela: government blames “attack” on the power system

 Venezuela blamed an “attack” on its electric system for a blackout on Monday, the second to hit the OPEC nation this month, that shuttered businesses, plunged the main airport into darkness and left commuters stranded in the capital. Power went out in much of Caracas and nearly a dozen states in the early afternoon, stirring memories of a week-long outage earlier in the month that was the most severe in the country's history.
Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:44 UTC
Ex Italian communist terrorist, protected in Brazil by Lula da Silva, admits four murders

A former communist militant Cesare Battisti has admitted to four murders in Italy during the 1970s, according to local press. Battisti, 64, spent decades on the run and previously denied any involvement. He was arrested in Bolivia in January after living in Brazil, and later extradited to Italy.
Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:40 UTC
Land Rover beats Chinese auto industry copies in Beijing court

Jaguar Land Rover has won a legal case to prevent a Chinese car brand from selling a copycat vehicle, ending a three-year court battle. In 2016 the UK-based carmaker sued Jiangling Motor Corporation over its Landwind X7 sport utility vehicle, which the company claimed bore an extremely similar resemblance to the Range Rover Evoque.
Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:26 UTC
Germany's second wealthiest family admits Hitler links and exploiting slave labor under Nazi rule

A German industrial dynasty with big stakes in various international brands has admitted brutality towards slave laborers during Nazi rule. A partner in JAB Holding, Peter Harf, said the Reimann family was shocked by links to Nazi abuses, discovered by the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in archives.