Stories for 2019

Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:47 UTC
Amazon planning a regional data center in Argentina; congress passes bill to attract digital services and nanotechnology

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud division plans to build a regional data center in a free-trade zone in Argentina, according to Buenos Aires media reports. The Seattle-based company is preparing to invest about US$ 800 million in the project over 10 years and will reap considerable tax benefits by locating the data center in the Bahia Blanca-Coronel Rosales districts of the province of Buenos Aires.
Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:42 UTC
Heavy rain helps put out the fires in Bolivia that have ravaged millions of hectares

Heavy rain that has drenched eastern Bolivia's Chiquitania tropical savanna has put out fires that have ravaged millions of hectares in recent months, authorities said on Sunday.
Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:40 UTC
Russia pledges to help Cuba have access to oil and petroleum products

Russia will find ways to help Cuba get oil and petroleum products, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview broadcast on Saturday. Medvedev pledged to help develop Cuba’s energy sector during a visit to the island this week but did not announce any short-term measures to provide relief from crippling fuel shortages in the wake of tougher U.S. sanctions.
Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:40 UTC
Portugal's incumbent Prime Minister and stability policies win election

Portugal's incumbent Prime Minister Antonio Costa's Socialists won a general election on Sunday after presiding over a period of solid economic growth following years of austerity, near total results showed. The Socialist Party (PS) took 37% of the vote, followed by the centre-right Social Democrats (PSD) with 28%, with 98% of constituencies counted, according to the interior ministry.
Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:37 UTC
Pope Francis opens Amazon synod calling to listen the “cry of Mother Land” and condemning “destructive interests”

Pope Francis opened a synod Sunday to champion the Amazon's poverty-stricken and isolated indigenous communities by condemning the destructive “interests” he blamed for the fires that devastated the region.
Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:35 UTC
Trump faces a second whistleblower, accusing him of alleged abuse of power

A second whistleblower has come forward, this one with first-hand information of the events that triggered an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump for alleged abuse of power, the informant's lawyer said on Sunday.
Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:30 UTC
US lawsuit related to glyphosate herbicide has been delayed to 20 February

A pending US lawsuit over claims related to Bayer's glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup has been delayed, the company said on Sunday with a new court date set for February 2020.
Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:28 UTC
Barça withdraws medals awarded to Franco in 1951, 1971, and 1974

Barcelona's football club members have voted overwhelmingly to withdraw medals awarded to Francisco Franco, finally ending the much-maligned distinctions the Catalan club granted to Spain's dictator.
Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:26 UTC
Cruise industry overhauling vessels to appeal to a younger crowd

Tucked away in the south-west of Singapore, at Sembcorp Marine’s Tuas shipyard, Royal Caribbean’s 15-deck Voyager of the Seas cruise ship is getting a US$97 million facelift.
Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:25 UTC
Northern hemisphere exposed to record breaking temperatures, reveals Copernicus climate service

Last month was the equal hottest September in history, the European Union's satellite monitoring service announced, the fourth month in a row with near- or record-breaking temperatures. The Copernicus Climate Service said September 2019 was 0.57 degrees Celsius hotter than the historical average - on a par with September 2016.