International

Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 10:56 UTC
TPP without the US would be “meaningless” says Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would be “meaningless” without US participation, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said as United States President-elect Donald Trump announced he planned to quit the pact. PM Abe’s comment on Monday (Tuesday morning) came shortly before the Mr Trump released a short video about his plans for his administration, including an intention to have the US drop out of the TPP pact.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 10:11 UTC
“Many people” would like to see Nigel Farage as UN ambassador in Washington, twits Trump

President-elect Donald J. Trump has ostensibly thrown his support behind the idea of UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage becoming the British Ambassador to the United States in a tweet issued late on Monday night. Trump issued the statement, unprompted, via his Twitter feed, stating that the idea was popular amongst “many people” in a move that is sure to set the British political establishment into a further tailspin.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:48 UTC
Trump advances plans for his first day: quitting TPP, ending visa abuses and “job killing restrictions”

President-elect Donald Trump says the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in the White House. He made the announcement in a video messaged outlining what he intends to do first when he takes office in January. The TPP trade deal was signed by 12 countries which together cover 40% of the world's economy. Trump also pledged to reduce “job-killing restrictions” on coal production and stop visa abuses.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:21 UTC
Merciless Pacific “ring of fire” hits Japan with a massive quake and tsunami

Japan’s east coast, near Fukushima - the very site that witnessed the devastating 2011 earthquake, followed by a tsunami that claimed closed to 19,000 lives - was jostled by yet another massive quake on Tuesday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey has measured the earthquake at magnitude 6.9, while Japan’s Meteorological Agency placed the earthquake at magnitude 7.3 and said it occurred at 6 am local time and was measured at a depth of 6.2 miles.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 07:35 UTC
Royal Navy sunken submarine found 100 years later

A British Navy World War I submarine which disappeared in the North Atlantic on March 7, 1916, was found Monday by divers, off the island of Schiermonnikoog, revaling the mystery of how it had gone down.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 17:39 UTC
Merkel to seek fourth term as German chancellor

Angela Merkel announced on Sunday she will run for a fourth term as German chancellor in next year’s election, despite growing rejection to her open-door migrant policy
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 12:15 UTC
APEC summit criticizes protectionism and consider Asia-Pacific free trade area

Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski brought the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit to a close in Lima on Sunday with a message against protectionism and awareness that the meeting was held “at a key moment in the world's economic history.”
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:51 UTC
Sarkozy retires from politics after losing rightwing primary elections

“It is time for me to approach a life with more private passion and less public passion,” he said as he announced he would endorse his former prime minister, François Fillon, in the second round of voting next Sunday against Alain Juppé, also a former Prime Minister under Jacques Chirac.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:34 UTC
Japanese PM arrives in Argentina with pledges to increase investments

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make an official visit to Argentina this Monday hoping to boost investment in the Latin American nation, officials said. It is the first visit to Argentina by a Japanese prime minister in 57 years—the last was by Abe’s grandfather Nobusuke Kishi in 1959.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:22 UTC
Nobody is going to invest in Argentina while fearing populism could be round the corner

Even admitting that the Argentine economy will expand 3% next year, nobody wants to invest in the country because they are not sure that populism won't be back in a couple of years, according to economist and former central bank chair Javier Gonzalez Fraga.