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Stories for 2023

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 09:20 UTC

    AMLO picks former ECLAC boss for FM post

    Bárcena was the first woman to head the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Tuesday announced he had picked former Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena as the country's next foreign minister following the resignation of Marcelo Ebrard to devote himself to his electoral run.

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 09:12 UTC

    Fernández, von der Leyen discuss EU-Mercosur ties

    “We have a window of opportunity to conclude the agreement,” von der Leyen said in a post-meeting joint press conference.

    Argentine President Alberto Fernández met Tuesday at Casa Rosada with European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen to discuss the South American country's trade relations with the European Union (EU), as well as the Mercosur-EU agreement ahead of next month's Summit with CELAC in Brussels.

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 06:52 UTC

    US inflation in twelve months to May slows to 4%; Fed begins two day meeting

    Measured year over year, inflation slowed to just 4% in May — the lowest 12-month figure in over two years and well below April's 4.9% annual rise

    Last month consumer prices in the United States rose 0.1% from April to May extending the past year's steady easing of inflation. The Tuesday announcement comes when the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting, still concerned that some measures of underlying price pressures remain high.

  • Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 06:37 UTC

    MSC shopping for up to 24 dual-fuelled 8,000 TEU ships

    MSC, which recently became the first liner in the world to have a 5m slot fleet, has a giant order book of new builds, with more than 1.5m slots on order

    World’s largest container line, Mediterranean Shipping C, MSC, is shopping again in Asia for more new builds. Maersk Broker is reporting MSC has approached top yards in China and South Korea for a new series of dual-fuelled 8,000 TEU ships, with MSC tipped to be enquiring for both LNG and methanol dual-fuel vessels.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 11:12 UTC

    It's official: Tierra del Fuego planning a multipurpose port in Rio Grande

    Shaanxi Chemical Industry and Tierra del Fuego Peronist governor Gustavo Melella in August last year signed an MoU which has been kept mostly secret

    Argentina's general elections next October are focusing mainly on inflation (150% this year, cost of living and food prices), plus security and street violence, but for those a bit better off and with time to think a semi-hidden issue, plus the overall influence of China in the country.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

    WaPo: US pushing for 6 new UN Security Council permanent members

    African countries insist they were under colonial domination when the UN was established

    According to The Washington Post, the United States is developing a proposal to add six permanent members to the UN Security Council who would nonetheless not have veto rights. “The evolving US proposal, which is expected to include the addition of up to six permanent seats to the Council without granting those nations veto power, ” the WaPo reported on Monday.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    Spain exhuming Civil War remains and returning them to their families towns

    The law, one of the first to be passed by Socialist PM Pedro Sánchez, aims to make reparations to the families of Franco's victims and modernize the narrative

    A team of experts in Spain has begun work to exhume the bodies of more than 100 civil war victims from a huge basilica complex near Madrid, where dictator Francisco Franco once lay.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    “Dead” woman knocks on her coffin in Ecuador

    Retired nurse Bella Montoya is under intubation and with little hope of surviving, her relatives told reporters

    An Ecuadorian woman who was not quite dead knocked on her coffin during her wake in the central city of Babahoyo, about 200 km southwest of Quito last Friday, it was reported Monday in the South American country. The 76-year-old patient's “resurrection” has prompted a government investigation.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Chile launches Feminist Foreign Policy plan

    The Feminist Foreign Policy Plan “is a paradigm under construction, which will necessarily be updated,” van Klaveren said

    Chile Monday became the first South American country to implement a “Feminist Foreign Policy,” it was reported in Santiago. The Feminist Foreign Policy Plan (PEF) seeks to establish gender equality as a guiding principle in the Foreign Ministry, it was explained.

  • Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

    Italy mourns Il Cavaliere Berlusconi, the end of an era in Italy

    Berlusconi had an outsized impact on Italian society and politics, and was the subject of highly complex civil and criminal investigations.

    The passing of Il Cavaliere, Silvio Berlusconi, is the end of an era for Italy. For the past fifty years, his shadow has loomed large over parliament, the media, football and the man on the street.