Stories for 2020

Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:34 UTC
More than 470 million currently unemployed or underemployed, warns UN

More than 470 million people worldwide are currently unemployed or underemployed, the UN said on Monday, warning that a lack of access to decent jobs was contributing to social unrest. The global unemployment rate has remained relatively stable over much of the past decade, according to the UN's International Labour Organization.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:25 UTC
Panama begins exhuming a mass grave from the 1989 invasion by the US

Authorities in Panama on Monday began exhuming a mass grave containing the remains of unknown civilians killed during the 1989 US invasion of the Central American country. The move follows a decades-long effort by families of missing people to identify remains buried in a common grave in the capital's Jardin de Paz cemetery.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:18 UTC
Brazil's Embraer studying to launch a turboprop aircraft to compete with Franco-Italian ATR

Brazilian planemaker Embraer is in the advanced stages of studying the launch of a new turboprop aircraft to be developed through a venture it is planning with Boeing, subject to necessary approvals, a top executive said on Monday.
Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:11 UTC
Venetians in rowing boats protest against giant cruise ships “making waves”

Hundreds of people in small rowing boats protested in front of Venice's St Mark's Square over the weekend to denounce what they say is a proliferation of motor boats that have crowded the waters of the lagoon city.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 15:59 UTC
Interview: “Pepe” Gómez, the Uruguayan big wave surfer who rubs shoulders with surfing legends

The surfer “Pepe” Gomez slid this week what may be the biggest wave ever surfed by an Uruguayan. He did it in Nazaré, Portugal, where a submarine valley creates the necessary conditions to break a worldwide known wave that reach up to 35 meters high.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina pledges bill to attract investment for production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez will send a bill to Congress to attract investment for the production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons, a spokesman for the Production Development ministry said.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:38 UTC
OAS Electoral Observation mission making preliminary visit to the Dominican Republic

A technical team of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the municipal elections in the Dominican Republic will make a preliminary visit to the country between January 21 and 25.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:30 UTC
Justice demanded for Argentina's slain terrorism prosecutor

By Toby Dershowitz - Alberto Nisman once told me he agreed to investigate Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack on one condition: that he be able to pursue the case wherever the evidence led. This commitment to justice ultimately cost Nisman his life five years ago this week. (January 18)
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:29 UTC
Guatemala cuts diplomatic ties with Venezuela; orders the closure of the embassy in Caracas

Guatemala’s new President Alejandro Giammattei cut diplomatic ties with the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro and ordered the closure of its embassy in Caracas.
Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:20 UTC
Falkland Islands Special for the popular “Walks around Britain series”

Adventurer and mountaineer Alan Hinkes is tackling one of his most tricky challenges to date: persuading people that the South Atlantic Falkland Islands are a must-see holiday destination.