International

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 06:38 UTC

  Trump receives a hero's welcome in Gujarat, India, Prime Minister Modi's home state

  

  Emerging in a stadium to the appropriate strains of the Village People's “Macho Man” as 100,000 people cheered on, US President Donald Trump looked like he was at a campaign rally in America's Midwest.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentina will allow IMF to inspect its accounts under Article IV consultations

  

  Argentina agreed to start consultations with the International Monetary Fund that could lead to a new financing program, days after the global lender said the country’s debt situation had become “unsustainable”.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:47 UTC

  “Decolonization is a process guided by the aspirations and needs of the communities living in the territories”

  

  With 17 non-self-governing territories remaining worldwide, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said that decolonization is a process that has to be guided by the aspirations and needs of the communities living in the territories.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:13 UTC

  UK interested in partnership with Argentina to develop the railway system

  

  Ambassador Mark Kent said the United Kingdom wants to be a partner of Argentina in such areas as the development of railways, following a meeting of a British trade mission with the head of the country's Railways infrastructure Administration, ADIFSE, Ricardo Lissalde.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:10 UTC

  Warren Buffett recommends 'shareholder-loyal pit bulls and not cocker spaniels' in corporate America boards

  

  Warren Buffett called on corporate America to make their boards of directors more accountable to shareholders and less beholden to chief executive officers, perhaps by reducing their pay and requiring that they buy more stock.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:59 UTC

  British passports will return to dark blue color. although the new document will be made in the EU

  

  Britain will start re-introducing traditional blue passports next month, the interior ministry said on Saturday, replacing the burgundy European Union documents that have been in use since 1988.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:53 UTC

  Leading central bankers, UK, EU and Japan, discuss how to reach the 2% inflation elusive target

  

  Central bankers from the United States, Japan and the euro zone meeting in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia this weekend had their own shifting sands to cross – those of elusive inflation.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:30 UTC

  US Treasury Secretary welcomes Argentina's talks with IMF on Article IV

  

  U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday welcomed Argentina's talks with the International Monetary Fund after the heavily indebted country said it would launch consultations, starting Monday, that could lead to a new funding program.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:25 UTC

  Argentine beef exports to China fall almost a third in January plus price disputes

  

  Argentine beef exports to its top buyer China fell almost a third in January due to a price dispute with Chinese importers and the effects of a coronavirus outbreak, the head of the country's meat export chamber revealed.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:17 UTC

  Falkland Islands, part of the largest Catholic ecclesiastic jurisdiction

  

  The Catholic Church in the British Overseas Territories of the southern Atlantic Ocean is governed by two ecclesiastical jurisdictions: the Apostolic Prefecture of the Falkland Islands and the Ecclesial Mission sui iuris of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Both of these are directly responsible to the Holy See.