International

• Thursday, January 2nd 2025 - 10:41 UTC

  Brazil takes over BRICS rotating presidency

  

  Brazil took over Wednesday the rotating presidency of the BRICS bloc which now features at least nine new members. It is the fourth time the South American country has held that position, Agência Brasil noted.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2025 - 07:29 UTC

  Chinese meat industry and farmers complaining about surging Mercosur imports

  

  Chinese farmers and meat industry associations are complaining about the surge in foreign beef imports and the Ministry of Commerce has promised an investigation into the situation, according to Beijing government sources.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 14:23 UTC

  Journal bought for Falklands Museum gives first-hand account of 1914 Battle

  

  A journal recently acquired at auction by the Friends of the Falklands Museum and Archives (FIMA Friends) gives a remarkable personal account of the 1914 Battle of the Falklands. The unique manuscript, illustrated with contemporary newspaper cuttings, reveals that, despite the appalling carnage, a strong sentiment of mutual respect survived.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 09:43 UTC

  Five suspects arraigned in death of former One Direction's Liam Payne

  

  Argentine prosecutors Monday arraigned 5 people in connection with the Oct.16 death of former One Direction's British singer Liam Payne in Buenos Aires, which was ruled not a suicide.

• Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:51 UTC

  Azerbaijan Airlines E-190's back boxes sent to Brazil

  

  Authorities said that the black boxes of the Brazilian-built Embraer 190 Azerbaijan Airlines jet that crashed on Wednesday in Kazakhstan will be sent to the manufacturing country's aviation watchdog to further investigate the causes of the accident near Aktau, a port on the Caspian Sea in western Kazakhstan, far from the aircraft's planned route.

• Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

  BYD EV manufacturer clashes and apologizes to one of its main markets due to slavery-like conditions

  

  The Chinese BYD electric car factory construction in northern Brazil has turned out into a dispute between Chinese investors and Brazilian authorities who accused the Chinese contractor of having Brazilian labor working in slavery-like conditions that allegedly entered the country with temporary labor visas.

• Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:22 UTC

  Cadbury dropped from royal warrants, apparently for still operating in Russia

  

  For the first time in 170 years, chocolate maker Cadbury has been dropped from the list of royal warrants. The Birmingham-based chocolatier was awarded its first royal warrant as a chocolate and cocoa manufacturer by Queen Victoria in 1854, but it lost its royal endorsement under King Charles.

• Monday, December 30th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

  Trump’s long late and lost attempt to take over Greenland

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - From his purchase of New Jersey casinos to his proposed acquisition of Greenland, Donald Trump’s real estate deals have always been plagued by bad timing. The United States could probably have bought Greenland from Denmark in 1917 (when it did buy the U.S. Virgin Islands from the Danes), but he’s a century too late now.

• Saturday, December 28th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

  Ancap and HIF Global sign agreement for green hydrogen plant in Uruguay

  

  Uruguayan state-owned oil company Ancap, through Alcoholes del Uruguay (ALUR), signed an agreement with HIF Global to implement an ambitious green hydrogen and synthetic fuels project in Paysandú. The investment, estimated at US$6 billion, aims at producing 700,000 tons per year of renewable fuels, with a significant impact on the local and regional economy.

• Saturday, December 28th 2024 - 10:13 UTC

  Azerbaijan Airlines Brazilian-built jet damaged from the outside

  

  While several theories are being thrown into the fray regarding the probable causes of Azerbaijan Airlines' Flight J2-8243 crash in Kazakhstan, one thing seems to be for sure: the Brazilian-built Embraer E-190 jet was damaged from the outside, leading to at least 38 deaths while there are 29 survivors, some of whom were also said to be in a serious condition. In the meantime, representatives of Embraer have arrived at the site where the plane crashed.