International

Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 08:08 UTC
Spanish and Swiss companies win rights to operate key Brazilian airport groups

Spain’s Aena SME SA and Switzerland’s Flughafen Zuerich AG last Friday won the right to operate two key Brazilian airport groups, in one of the first tests of President Jair Bolsonaro’s ability to draw foreign investment.
Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 06:36 UTC
Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris, world's most expensive cities according to EIU

Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris have been named the world’s most expensive cities for expatriates to live in, according to a survey of 133 cities released on Tuesday by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 06:16 UTC
IMF commends Argentina's stabilization efforts, releases next US$ 10.8bn, but also demands more austerity

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Roberto Cardarelli visited Argentina during February 11–22, 2019 to conduct discussions on the Third Review of Argentina’s IMF-supported program under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). Talks continued in Washington DC after the end of the mission.
Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 05:44 UTC
Brexit turmoil: Speaker rules out third vote unless Mrs. May's deal is re-submitted in fundamentally different form

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans were thrown into further turmoil on Monday when the speaker of parliament ruled that she could not put her divorce deal to a new vote unless it was re-submitted in a fundamentally different form.
Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:39 UTC
Germany's two leading banks considering a merger: government supports

Germany's two biggest lenders, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, will hold formal talks about a merger. The announcement caps months of speculation that the two struggling banks would attempt to combine.
Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:36 UTC
Chinese president Xi on state visits to Italy , Monaco and France

Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Italy, Monaco and France this week, the foreign ministry said on Monday, with Rome expected to join his global trade infrastructure program despite reservations in other European countries.
Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:28 UTC
“Clear similarities” between Boeing 737 crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia

Black box data recovered from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last week shows “clear similarities” with a recent crash in Indonesia of the same type of aircraft, Ethiopia's transport minister said on Sunday.
Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:24 UTC
US seizes pork shipments from China fearing contagion of African swine flu disease

U.S. border agents have seized around 1 million pounds of pork from China, a spokesman for the agency said on Friday, over suspicions that it might contain African swine flu disease which has hit Chinese pork output. Federal agents have seized the supplies over the past week in New York.
Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:20 UTC
Foot and mouth disease spreads to the whole of the Korean peninsula

In the wake of the South Korean government’s battle to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease following an outbreak in three farmhouses in the cities of Anseong and Chungju earlier this year, North Korean livestock industry insiders have reported that Pyongyang is also struggling with a nationwide spread of the disease outbreak that began in the middle of January.
Monday, March 18th 2019 - 06:42 UTC
Mrs. May Brexit deal will be put to a vote this week only if it has DUP and Tory MPs support

Theresa May's Brexit deal will not return to the Commons this week unless it has support from the DUP and Tory MPs, the chancellor says. The PM's plan is expected to be voted on for a third time in the coming days. But Philip Hammond told the BBC's Andrew Marr that it would only be put to MPs if “enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it”.