Stories for 2020

Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 08:52 UTC
Producer inflation in Brazil rose 3,4% in October and 19,1% in twelve months

Producer price inflation in Brazil jumped to its highest on record in October, figures showed on Thursday, led by another month of rising food prices, which will likely stir the debate further on the wider outlook for inflation and interest rates.
Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 08:14 UTC
Iran's top nuclear scientist ambushed and killed: Teheran points to Israel and Trump

An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb program was killed in an ambush near Teheran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 08:05 UTC
Argentine billionaire Eurnekian will erect a statue of Diego Maradona at Ezeiza airport

Argentine billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian is preparing to fulfil an old promise to the late football icon Diego Maradona by erecting a statue of the player at the country’s main airport. Eurnekian, founder of Corporacion America Airports and one of the country’s top businessmen, announced the plan in a note of condolences published in newspaper La Nacion on Friday.
Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 06:47 UTC
Maradona's inheritance anticipates a formidable legal battle

In the coming days, the time will come for Diego Armando Maradona's lawyer, Matias Morla, to begin the process of distributing the inheritance he leaves behind. While Maradona once said, half in jest, that he would donate all his earthly possessions, the details of this difficult situation and who will inherit what eventually become known is a great mystery
Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:51 UTC
Trump will leave the White House when the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for president-elect Joe Biden, the closest he has come to conceding the Nov 3 election, even as he reiterated his unfounded claims of massive voter fraud.
Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
Bolsonaro said he will refuse vaccination against Covid-19: “it's my right”

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he would refuse a coronavirus vaccine, the most recent of his vaccine-skeptic statements. “I'm telling you, I'm not going to take it. It's my right,” he said in remarks aired over several social media platforms.
Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:48 UTC
UK reduces foreign aid spending; Baroness Sugg resigns over the decision, “it's fundamentally wrong”

Britain reduced its foreign aid spending commitment on Wednesday to 0.5% of gross domestic product from 0.7%, causing junior minister Baroness Liz Sugg to resign and an immediate outcry from development organizations and the spiritual head of the Church of England.
Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:46 UTC
Maradona in life, as in death, involved in chaos and controversy: fans overwhelm and invade the presidential palace

Diego Maradona in life, as in death, was involved in chaos and controversy, and his funeral was not the exception. In effect Argentine police and fans who were lined up to see the casket of the football icon clashed on Thursday as authorities moved to shut down access to the Casa Rosada presidential palace ahead of a planned mid-afternoon shutoff for the public wake.
Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:44 UTC
AstraZeneca faces tricky questions about its success rate as “vaccine for the world”

Days after grabbing headlines with its COVID-19 “vaccine for the world”, AstraZeneca is facing tricky questions about its success rate that some experts say could hinder its chances of getting speedy U.S. and EU regulatory approval.
Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:42 UTC
Venezuela resumes direct shipments of oil to China despite US sanctions

Venezuela has resumed direct shipments of oil to China after U.S. sanctions sent the trade underground for more than a year, according to Refinitiv Eikon vessel-tracking data and internal documents from state company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).