International

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 15:59 UTC

  Interview: “Pepe” Gómez, the Uruguayan big wave surfer who rubs shoulders with surfing legends

  

  The surfer “Pepe” Gomez slid this week what may be the biggest wave ever surfed by an Uruguayan. He did it in Nazaré, Portugal, where a submarine valley creates the necessary conditions to break a worldwide known wave that reach up to 35 meters high.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Fernandez off to Israel for a Holocaust Remembrance summit ceremony; Macron, Putin, Pence among attendants

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernández will visit Jerusalem this week to participate in the International Leaders Forum in Commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, which will constitute his first official trip overseas after taking office on December 10.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Guaidó will meet with Pompeo at counterterrorism conference in Colombia

  

  Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaidó has travelled to Colombia to participate on Monday alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a regional counterterrorism meeting — a new show of support by the Trump administration for the man it says is the country’s legitimate leader.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  World billionaires are richer than 60% of the global population, Oxfam charity

  

  The world's richest 2,153 people controlled more money than the poorest 4.6 billion combined in 2019, the charity Oxfam said on Monday. It said poor women and girls were at the bottom of the scale, putting in “12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day”, estimated to be worth at least US$10.8 trillion a year.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  Africa's richest woman accused of siphoning millions from Angola's oil company

  

  An award-winning investigative team published a trove of files on Sunday allegedly showing how the daughter of Angola's former president - dubbed Africa's richest woman - siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of public money into offshore accounts.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Prince Harry sad to leave his royal duties; final outcome was not what he wanted

  

  Britain's Prince Harry said on Sunday it brought him great sadness that he had to leave his royal duties after agreeing with Queen Elizabeth that he and his wife Meghan would step down from official roles to seek an independent future.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 23:13 UTC

  Details of status change for Harry and Meghan disclosed by Buckingham Palace

  

  Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are relinquishing their “royal highness” titles as the Duke and Duchess of, Buckingham Palace announced Saturday. The new arrangements will take effect in the “spring of 2020,” it was reported.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  UK government preparing great Brexit night celebration, including special coins for January 31st

  

  Britain will issue special coins, fly the Union Jack and project a countdown clock on the walls of Downing Street - but not bong Big Ben - on Brexit night, the government said on Friday.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Support words from IMF chief for Argentina's efforts to recover the economy

  

  International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday the lender has had “very constructive” exchanges with Argentina's new Peronist government and would do whatever possible to assist the indebted country.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  “Overwhelming similarity” in Hong Kong and Venezuelan protests

  

  Protests in Hong Kong bear an “overwhelming” similarity to political unrest that has wracked Venezuela in recent years, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said on Friday.