Stories for 2019

Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:55 UTC
Amazon fires a “tipping point” for the health of rainforests, warns tropical forests organization

The fires tearing through the Amazon represent a “tipping point” for the health of the rainforest, the head of a top global forestry management body said on Wednesday, urging the world to do more to save the trees.
Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:50 UTC
Peru and Colombia propose an emergency Amazon basin summit

Peru and Colombia proposed on Tuesday an emergency Amazon summit for countries in the region in order to coordinate a strategy to protect the vast rainforest currently blighted by numerous fires. The Amazon is known as the “planet's lungs” but is suffering from its worst outbreak of fires in years, which has sparked a global outcry.
Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:49 UTC
Argentina sold US$ 302 million to support the Peso, exceeding an IMF agreement

Argentina's central bank on Tuesday exceeded for the first time a guideline on reserve sales agreed as part of its US$ 57 billion standby agreement with the International Monetary Fund, selling US$ 302 million in the foreign exchange market, traders said.
Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:49 UTC
Falklands' Debbie Summers reelected as New Zealand Cruise Association chairperson

Falkland Islands born New Zealand Executive Director Debbie Summers is entering her fourth year as chairperson of the New Zealand Cruise Association following the seventh annual conference in Auckland August 22-23.
Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:34 UTC
Bolivian president Morales welcomes the G7 tiny contribution to preserve the Amazon rainforest

Bolivia's president Evo Morales gave a half-hearted welcome on Tuesday to a G7 pledge of US$20 million to fight the Amazon wildfires, describing it as “tiny.” An underwhelmed Morales said the aid from the most industrialized countries was part of the world's “obligation” to preserve the Amazon rainforest.
Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:15 UTC
Archeologists in Peru find 227 bodies of pre Columbian sacrificed children

Archeologists in Peru say the 227 bodies they have unearthed from a site used by the pre-Columbian Chimu culture is the biggest-ever discovery of sacrificed children. Archeologists have been digging since last year at the huge sacrificial site in Huanchaco, a beachside tourist town north of the capital Lima.
Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:08 UTC
First ordained bishop in China following on Beijing and Vatican deal

China has ordained its first bishop since reaching an agreement with the Catholic Church intended to encourage a rapprochement between Beijing and the Holy See. China's roughly 12 million Catholics have for decades been split between a government-run association, whose clergy were chosen by the atheist Communist Party, and an unofficial underground church loyal to the Vatican.
Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 09:03 UTC
BP divests from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay to concentrate in Texas shale

British oil giant BP on Tuesday agreed to sell all its Alaskan properties for US$5.6 billion to privately held Hilcorp Energy Co, exiting a region where it operated for 60 years.
Wednesday, August 28th 2019 - 08:09 UTC
Bolsonaro will consider G7 aid for the Amazon if Macron retracts from “insults”

Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he wants French President Emmanuel Macron to retract “insults” against him before he considers accepting aid from the Group of Seven nations who offered US$20 million to help fight forest fires in the Amazon.
Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 20:55 UTC
Fernandez tells the mining industry that exports are “the only solution” for Argentina

Argentina's opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez told mining companies and governors from key mining provinces on Monday that exports were “the only solution” for Argentina, his coalition said.