International

Monday, April 21st 2025 - 09:40 UTC
Brazil resumes export insurance scheme

Brazil's Ministry of Development, Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC) has resumed the post-shipment export credit insurance (SCE) mechanism, which had been discontinued in 2019.
Monday, April 21st 2025 - 09:26 UTC
Bolivia sends first chia shipment to China

Bolivia last week started exporting chia to China with a landmark 25-ton shipment from Agropecuaria Chía Corp Bolivia S.A. in Santa Cruz, after six years of negotiations resulted in an understanding in November 2024, which opened the vast Asian market.
Saturday, April 19th 2025 - 10:17 UTC
Guyana rejects Chinese diplomat's suggestion of friendly negotiations with Caracas

Guyana’s Foreign Ministry rejected a statement by China’s Chargé d’Affaires Huang Rui, urging Georgetown and Caracas to resolve their border dispute over the Essequibo region through friendly negotiations, despite stressing that China “never intervenes in the internal affairs of other countries.”
Friday, April 18th 2025 - 17:59 UTC
Belize to tighten airport security following hijack attempt

Following an attempted hijacking on a Tropic Air flight last Thursday, where a passenger assaulted the pilot and tried to seize control, Belize is implementing stricter aviation security measures. The flight from Corozal to San Pedro operated by a Tropic Air Cessna Grand Caravan EX, registered as V3-HIG, carrying 15 passengers and 2 crew members, made an emergency landing in Belize City after nearly two hours. The hijacker was gunned down, and the pilot and two passengers were injured but are stable.
Friday, April 18th 2025 - 11:01 UTC
Falklands/Darwin Plus: RSPB fears on Budget for UK conservation fund in Overseas Territoriesa

The Royal Society for Protection of Birds, RSPB, has strongly defended scientific research in the UK Overseas Territories, which face an uncertain future as core funding is threatened by the austerity of UK’s economic and budgetary reforms.
Friday, April 18th 2025 - 10:36 UTC
France demanded to pay slavery reparations to Haiti

A large number of Latin American social organizations and personalities, such as Argentine 1980 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, demanded Thursday that France recognize and compensate Haiti for the indemnity it imposed after the country's independence in 1804.
Wednesday, April 16th 2025 - 22:39 UTC
UK’s advert watchdog bans publicity on Brazilian style Miss Bumbum culture competition

UK’s Advertising Standards Authority, ASA, watchdog has banned adverts from six companies selling liquid Brazilian butt lifts (BBLs), for trivializing the risks and exploiting women's insecurities around body image, reports BBC.
Wednesday, April 16th 2025 - 22:27 UTC
China comparing Trump with an Empress who is 1900 succumbed to foreign powers and ended the empire

By Wang Wen for South China Morning Post (*) - A viral political cartoon circulating in China shows US President Donald Trump dressed in the imperial robes of the Qing dynasty. He is likened to Empress Dowager Cixi, who in 1900 effectively declared war on the Western powers in China, a disastrous move that helped accelerate the collapse of imperial China
Wednesday, April 16th 2025 - 09:55 UTC
Chinese Embassy in Buenos Aires rebukes Bessent's remarks

The Chinese Embassy in Argentina issued a strong rebuke against US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent for his statements during his visit to Buenos Aires on Monday, accusing him of “maliciously slandering” China by labeling its bilateral swap agreement with Argentina as “rapacious” and debt-heavy.
Tuesday, April 15th 2025 - 20:37 UTC
Brexit fishing row risks shutting UK out of EU defense plans

A post-Brexit row over fishing quotas could have serious consequences for the UK's future in European defense. In the run-up to a major UK-EU summit in London next month tensions are rising – not over weapons but fish, reports Forces.net.