International

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Amazon native peoples call on EU parliament to protect their communities in Brazil

  

  The European Union should consider sanctions for companies that source materials from protected Brazilian forest reservations and native lands, an indigenous community representative said.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Spanish coalition government in the making between Socialists and Podemos

  

  Spain's Socialists and far-left Unidas Podemos party agreed on the basis of a coalition government on Tuesday, just two days after a parliamentary election delivered a highly fragmented parliament.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  UK election: Labour pledges extra funding of 26bn pounds for health service

  

  Britain's opposition Labour Party will pledge on Wednesday to spend an extra 26 billion pounds on healthcare if it wins the Dec. 12 election, including recruiting thousands more staff, rebuilding facilities and providing new equipment.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Curable Pneumonia kills one child every 39 seconds, UNICEF report

  

  Pneumonia killed more than 800,000 babies and young children last year: or one child every 39 seconds: despite being curable and mostly preventable, global health agencies said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Fires in Australia reach outskirts of Sydney: 50 homes destroyed

  

  A cool change on Wednesday brought relief for firefighters battling massive bushfires in eastern Australia which destroyed 50 homes and saw flames come within meters of homes on the outskirts of Sydney.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  UK unemployment at a 45-year low, but jobs' market softening

  

  British unemployment has hit a fresh 45-year low, official data showed on Tuesday in a mixed labor market snapshot before a UK general election and Brexit.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Some 1.5 million jobs threatened by US/China trade war, warns port of Los Angeles

  

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday took credit for an American economic renaissance but was greeted by another salvo from US industries that blame his trade wars for jeopardizing employment, wounding business and burdening consumers with higher costs.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 01:31 UTC

  Football friendly between Uruguay, Argentina still on for Tel Aviv despite shelling

  

  The football match between the national teams of Argentina and Uruguay scheduled for next Monday in Tel Aviv is still on as planned, Argentine Football Association (AFA) sources consulted by the press Tuesday.

• Tuesday, November 12th 2019 - 05:38 UTC

  Bolivia's Morales flying to political asylum in Mexico, promises to return

  

  Bolivia’s ousted president Evo Morales was flying to political asylum in Mexico on Monday night, the latest step the once-beloved leader’s rapid fall, while military and police deployed in the streets of La Paz to quell violence.

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 18:01 UTC

  Macron invited Alberto Fernandez to Paris, sometime before 10 December

  

  Sometime before 10 December, when Argentine elected president Alberto Fernandez takes office, and agendas permitting, he will be travelling to France to meet with Emmanuel Macron, with whom he had an hour long conversation, according to Argentine sources.