International

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Argentine soybean farmers sign delayed-price contracts hoping for a US/China trade deal and higher prices

  

  Soybean growers in Argentina are playing a waiting game, wagering on better prices ahead as the U.S. and China inch toward a trade deal and as nation’s currency keeps depreciating. Farmers on the Pampas arable belt have signed delayed-price contracts for almost three quarters of the 12.2 million metric tons they’ve sold to crushers and exporters so far, according to government data. That compares with 60% at the same stage last year.

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentina requests waiver ahead of IMF's third review to further release funds

  

  Argentina has requested a waiver from the International Monetary Fund as some data would not be available in time for the fund's third review this week of US$ 56.3 billion in standby financing agreed last year, a Treasury spokesman said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Outbreak of African swine fever in China, a great opportunity for pork producers

  

  Brazil is in a position to step up pork exports to China where an African swine fever outbreak has become a “transformational event” for the global meat industry, Pedro Parente, chief executive of Brazilian food processor BRF SA, said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:13 UTC

  Two billion people “over-nourished”: too much sugar, sodium and short on fruit, nuts and whole grains

  

  One in five deaths globally are linked to poor diet, experts said on Thursday, warning that overconsumption of sugar, salt and meat was killing millions of people every year. The United Nations estimates that nearly a billion people worldwide are malnourished, while nearly two billion are “over-nourished”.

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  Commons with one vote difference passes a bill asking to delay Brexit

  

  The lower house of the British parliament on Wednesday approved legislation which would force Prime Minister Theresa May to seek a Brexit delay to prevent a potentially disorderly departure on Apr 12 without a deal.

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  Mrs. May and Corbyn further constructive talks scheduled for Thursday

  

  The British government and the main opposition were to hold further crisis talks on Thursday after MPs voted in favour of a Brexit delay that would avoid Britain crashing out of the EU on Apr 12.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2019 - 18:19 UTC

  Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man clash with Commons over financial transparency

  

  Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not represented in the House of Commons, yet MPs are being asked to change laws in the islands. Some have warned the move could spark a constitutional crisis, and even calls for independence. So can MPs actually force the laws - making company ownership information public - on the Crown dependencies?

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2019 - 09:34 UTC

  “Malvinas Islands will finally be Argentine, through diplomacy”

  

  “The Malvinas Islands will finally, through diplomacy, be Argentine”, said Argentina's Defense minister Oscar Aguad on Tuesday at the main ceremony on the start of the 37th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict with the United Kingdom.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2019 - 08:55 UTC

  Eight-meter sperm whale found dead in Sardinia with 22kgs of plastic in its belly

  

  An eight-meter sperm whale was found dead off the Italian island of Sardinia with 22kg of plastic in its belly, AP reported on Tuesday. The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) sounded the alarm over plastics in the Mediterranean Sea following the finding.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Macri: Argentina's claim on the Falklands/Malvinas is “legitimate and irrevocable”

  

  Argentina's historic claim on the Falkland Islands is “legitimate and irrevocable,” President Mauricio Macri said on Tuesday, April 2nd. at a ceremony marking the 37th anniversary of the 1982 South Atlantic conflict with Britain.