International

• Friday, January 19th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  China poured US$ 21bn into Brazil in 2017 taking advantage of recession asset prices

  

  China invested US$20.9 billion in Brazil in 2017, the most since 2010 as a recession helped push down asset prices and attracted investors, according to Brazil’s planning ministry.The energy, logistics and agriculture sectors drew the most Chinese capital, including investments in Brazil’s rich pre-salt oil fields and China’s State Power Investment Corp US$2.25 billion deal to operate the São Simão hydropower plant.

• Friday, January 19th 2018 - 05:21 UTC

  Foreign Office director in Chile to discuss UK's exit and transition process

  

  The Foreign Office Director of the Economic Diplomacy Directorate Hugh Elliot is currently in Chile on a two day visit to discuss the UK’s transition process from the European Union with the Chilean Government. Mr. Elliot is the UK's government main interlocutor for the transition program of agreements and third countries.

• Friday, January 19th 2018 - 05:04 UTC

  Pope marries two flight attendants from Chile's flagship en route to Iquique

  

  Pope Francis celebrated the first-ever airborne papal wedding on Thursday, marrying two flight attendants from Chile’s flagship airline at 36,000 feet during a flight from Santiago.

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 20:23 UTC

  EU sanctions against Venezuelan officials

  

  Among the sanctioned are the number two of the government, Diosdado Cabello; Néstor Reverol, minister of Justice and Maikel Moreno, president of the Supreme Court of Justice. These are new individual sanctions, which include the freezing of assets and the prohibition to travel to the countries of the European bloc to at least seven senior Venezuelan officials.

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 09:48 UTC

  Juncker renews offer to UK to stay in EU; Brexit is a catastrophe and “the blame is on many”

  

  The European Union chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker renewed an offer to Britain on Wednesday to stay in the European Union and said he hoped that even if it goes through with Brexit it would apply to rejoin the bloc.

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 09:44 UTC

  China and Japan slow down purchase of US Treasury securities

  

  China cuts its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities in November 2017 after adding US$ 8.4bn in October. China's holdings of U.S. treasuries dropped by US$ 12.6bn to US$ 1.1766 trillion in November last year. China remained the largest holder of U.S. treasuries.

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 09:39 UTC

  Merkel stands firm in the terms agreed for the coalition with Social Democrats

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) on Wednesday ruled out further political concessions in the preliminary coalition agreement between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU) and German Social Democrats (SPD).

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 09:32 UTC

  Brigitte Bardot calls the MeToo movement “hypocritical and ridiculous”

  

  French film legend Brigitte Bardot attacked the #MeToo movement on Wednesday, claiming that actresses who complain of sexual harassment were just looking for publicity. “The vast majority are being hypocritical and ridiculous,” she told the French magazine Paris Match.

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 09:21 UTC

  Advanced research shows how cancer cells interfere with DNA genetic instructions

  

  “Incredible” images of DNA in action have been captured by scientists who will use them to design cancer drugs. Researcher Dr Alessandro Vannini said the pictures were “beautiful” and in artistic comparisons were “definitely a Van Gogh”, since they capture a fundamental part of all plant and animal life, called RNA polymerase III, reading the genetic instructions contained in DNA. It is a process that gets hijacked by cancer.

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 09:16 UTC

  FITUR Gay again one of the sections with the largest presence at the Trade Show

  

  The International Tourism Trade Show of Madrid, FITUR, hosting its 8th edition of FITUR GAY (LGBT), a monographic section dedicated to LGBT tourism, organized in collaboration with the consulting firm LGBT Diversity Consulting International and IFEMA, opened this Wednesday in Madrid and will last until January 21.