Stories for May 24th 2023

Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 10:43 UTC
UK and Chile deepen political relations, highlighting 200 years of close people-to-people links

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and the Foreign Minister of Chile Alberto van Klaveren met on 22 May in Santiago for the UK-Chile High-Level Political Dialogue to deepen the UK and Chile’s diplomatic, economic, financial, trade, business, and defense links.
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Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 10:19 UTC
Ecuador: President signs decree-law attracting investments

Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso Tuesday signed his second urgent economic decree-law after the May 17 invoking of the crossed death constitutional procedure to dissolve Congress and call for snap elections. Tuesday's “Attraction and Promotion of Investments for Productive Development” initiative, which provides for the creation of new duty-free trade zones, needs Constitutional Court's approval to become effective. The bill was submitted two years ago by the Government of Ecuador to the outgoing National Assembly, but it was shelved.
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Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 10:17 UTC
WHO forecasts new pandemic, deadlier than Covid-19, is coming up

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Tuesday warned of a new pandemic coming up in the near future, which will be deadlier than Covid-19 and would be caused by ”another emerging pathogen with even more deadly potential.” It would be a Covid-19 variant, Tedros also explained.
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Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 10:08 UTC
Brazil declares bird flu emergency

Brazilian authorities have decreed a nationwide animal health emergency, it was published Tuesday in an extra issue of the Diário Oficial da União (Official Gazette), Agencia Brasil reported. Agriculture and Livestock Minister Carlos Favaro signed the ordinance dated May 22 which will be effective for the next 180 days.
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Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 10:05 UTC
Lula says Zelensky stood him up

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva said he was supposed to have met with his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelensky last weekend in Hiroshima but that the European leader must have had more important engagements. “I'm not disappointed, I'm upset,” Lula was quoted as saying while confirming the meeting had been arranged.
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Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 09:59 UTC
Argentina and Brazil to eliminate cell phone roaming between both countries?

Argentina's Ambassador to Brazil Daniel Scioli and Communications Minister Juscelino Filho Tuesday agreed to advance towards the suppression of roaming between both countries in a new step of the Mercosur integration process heralded by Presidents Alberto Ferenández and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, it was reported in Buenos Aires.
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Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 09:59 UTC
China and Brazil reaffirm stronger partnership, Brazilian envoy in Beijing

Brazil and China are set to embrace a higher state of solid partnership, and the two sides have shown a strong commitment to bolstering bilateral trade, cooperation in aviation and high-tech sectors, and response to climate change, said the country's top envoy to Beijing.
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Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 09:55 UTC
IMF improves UK economy forecast for this year but “inflation remains stubbornly high”

Improved prospects for the UK economy according to the latest report from the IMF. The Fund said UK is expected to avoid a recession this year, with the economy growing 0,4% in 2023, compared to the a previous forecast of a 0,3% contraction last year.
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Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 08:57 UTC
Protestors storm shareholders meeting in London yelling “shut down Shell”

Protestors yelling “shut down Shell” stormed the oil corporation giant annual shareholders meeting in London with security having to step in to protect board members. Proceedings were delayed as the protesters ran to the front of the room where executives were sitting on stage, and some demonstrators had to be carried out of the building by security.
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Wednesday, May 24th 2023 - 08:30 UTC
Clashes with police and arson in Cardiff following the death of two teenagers

Vehicles were set on fire and dozens of young people clashed with police in Wales in what authorities described as “large scale disorder” following a road accident with two teenagers killed in a motorcycle crash. The unrest broke out in the district of Ely in Cardiff Monday night.
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