International

• Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:38 UTC

  Brazil ratifies in Germany its commitment to sustainable agriculture and respect for the environment

  

  The Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, arrived iis in Berlin to participate in the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA). In his first official trip abroad as the head of the ministry, he intends to launch a concerted effort to change the image of Brazilian agribusiness and restore ties with important importers, mainly from Europe.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:30 UTC

  EU and Brazil address the 2007 strategic partnership and bilateral relations

  

  Brazilian Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin currently acting as President while Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in Argentina for the CELAC meeting, met in Brasilia with the Executive Vice-president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans to address deepening of bilateral relations, in the framework of the 2007 strategic partnership existent between the European Union and Latin America's largest economy .

• Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:22 UTC

  Buckingham Palace announces further details of Charles III Coronation Weekend, May 6 to Monday May 8

  

  Buckingham Palace has announced further details on the ceremonial, celebratory and community events that will take place over the Coronation Weekend between Saturday 6th and Monday 8th May 2023. The Coronation of His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen Consort will take place at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6th May, 2023.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:08 UTC

  Colombian national believed to have ordered murders of journalists Dom and Bruno

  

  Brazilian authorities Monday said during a press conference in Manaus that they had nearly solved the murders of British reporter Dom Phillips and indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araújo Pereira, which were perpetrated on June 5, last year, in the middle of the Amazon jungle.

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 15:58 UTC

  A news site set AI to write text and had to cancel the whole thing: it turns out bad

  

  The U.S. technology website CNET has stopped publishing articles written by Artificial Intelligence (AI), at least for the time being, as reported by The Verge.

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  Hopefully, CELAC will “help us deepen links with China”, Argentine president

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez is confident that “Celac can help deepen links with China”, and strongly criticized the United States for “demonizing” the Asian giant. On Monday/Tuesday Argentina and president Fernandez will be hosting the Community of Latin American and Caribbean, CELAC, seventh summit of heads of state when all the leaders of the region are expected to attend, including the 'bad boys' of the club such as Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, Cuban president Miguel Días Canel and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega.

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 09:44 UTC

  Pope welcomes Ecuadorian President, calls for no more deaths in Peru

  

  The Argentine-born Pope Francis welcomed Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso at the Vatican during the weekend to discuss indigenous issues and other matters concerning South America. Last week, the Catholic leader also held a meeting with Paraguay's Mario Abdo Benítez.

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 09:06 UTC

  Canada agrees to compensation for abuses of Indigenous peoples at the hands of the Catholic Church

  

  Canada has reached a settlement agreement worth US$2.09 billion, (€1.93 billion) with representatives of Indigenous peoples, abused for nearly a century by Church residential institutions. The sum will be placed in a not-for-profit trust aimed at financing Indigenous education, culture, and language, the Canadian government announced.

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 06:55 UTC

  Lawmakers from Uruguay's ruling coalition to visit the Falklands; opposition rejects embassy invitation

  

  Uruguayan opposition rejected an annual invitation from the UK embassy in Montevideo for lawmakers from all political parties represented in Parliament, to visit the Falklands/Malvinas Islands. The ruling coalition in Uruguay, made up of five parties accepted the invitation.

• Saturday, January 21st 2023 - 13:04 UTC

  Argentine President tells Chinese TV claims over Malvinas will go on

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday told a Chinese TV station that his country will keep up its sovereignty claims over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands.