International

• Friday, November 18th 2016 - 08:03 UTC

  Post-truth, has been named Oxford Dictionaries 2016 international word

  

  ”Post-truth” has been named Oxford Dictionaries’ 2016 international word of the year, vanquishing a politically charged field that included “adulting,” “alt-right,” “Brexiteer,” “glass cliff” and “woke.” The use of “post-truth”, defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, increased by 2,000 percent over last year, according to analysis of the Oxford English Corpus, which collects roughly 150 million words of spoken and written English from various sources each month.

• Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 09:59 UTC

  Trudeau due in Buenos Aires Thursday morning

  

  Straight from Havana and enroute to Lima, the Canadian Prime Minister seeks to assert regional leadership following the tied caused by Donald Trump's election for the presidency of the United States.

• Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 09:48 UTC

  Narrative Prize for Cristina Fernández namesake in Spain

  

  Catalonian writer Cristina Fernandez Cubas was awarded the National Narrative Prize for her work 'Granny's Room' (La Habitación de la Nona) by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. The author will receive 20,000 euros.

• Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 09:38 UTC

  Putin eyes Russia's withdrawal from International Criminal Court after Crimea ruling

  

  The draft for a presidential decree, available on the internet, would mean that Russia will “accept the proposal of the Russian Ministry of Justice in agreement with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other federal bodies of executive power, along with the Russian Supreme Court, the General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation and the Russian Investigative Committee, about sending the Secretary General of the United Nations notice of the intention of the Russian Federation to no longer be a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.”

• Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 16:59 UTC

  A Troubling New President for Interpol

  

  The following editorial was published by The New York Times - Interpol, the international law enforcement agency, has had a history of allowing its international database of fugitives to be used by authoritarian governments to persecute dissidents and critics. It is therefore deeply troubling that a senior Chinese security official will become the organization’s next president.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 11:31 UTC

  Small island nations fear they will cease to exist due to climate change

  

  Delegates from the Alliance of Small Island Nations (AOSIS) underscore the need to fight global warming and adapt to its effects as UN's 22nd Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change unfolds in Marrakesh.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:06 UTC

  Trump receives Japan's Abe in New York expecting to reassure Asian allies

  

  Donald Trump is expected to use his first meeting with a foreign leader as U.S. president-elect this week to try to reassure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other Asian allies rattled by his campaign rhetoric, advisers to Trump said. Abe, a political blue blood and veteran lawmaker, and Trump, a brash outsider with no diplomatic or government experience, have differences on policy issues such as free trade.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 08:47 UTC

  EU farmers on alert at the prospect of increased imports of beef from Mercosur

  

  Cheaper imports from Mercosur and the recovering dairy market will push down EU beef production and prices, states in a long-awaited impact study released by the European Union. Dairy and pigmeat exports will see steady gains, says the report, which looked at the cost of 12 pending trade deals on EU agri-food markets.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 20:09 UTC

  World cereal production remains strong; summer 2017 crops in South America expected to expand

  

  World cereal production for 2016 should amount to 2 571 million tonnes, up marginally from FAO's October forecast and 1.5% above the 2015 output. The updated figure, released Monday in the Cereal and Supply Demand Brief, reflects a substantial upgrade of the outlook for world wheat production, which is now expected to rise to 746.7 million tonnes, a 4.3 million increase from FAO's October forecast.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 09:55 UTC

  Conference in Buenos Aires: Snowden fears domestic intelligence will spread in US under Trump

  

  Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said on Monday, that Donald Trump's election may increase the intrusiveness of domestic intelligence gathering and warned that the democratic checks and balances were losing ground to authoritarianism.