International

• Monday, August 12th 2019 - 07:29 UTC

  Germany will partially suspend funds to protect the Amazon forest

  

  Germany will partially suspend funds sent to Brazil to finance projects aimed at preserving the Amazon forest due to increasing deforestation, Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported.

• Monday, August 12th 2019 - 07:19 UTC

  Fears that Salvini might pull Italy out of the European Union

  

  Matteo Salvini, who has plunged Italy into turmoil by pulling out of a coalition government, could eventually take the country out of the EU, a former prime minister warned on Sunday.

• Monday, August 12th 2019 - 07:07 UTC

  US identifies 17 Latin American countries as major drug transit and producing areas

  

  President Donald Trump has warned he may take action against Mexico if it doesn't do more against drug trafficking. México is among the 22 major drug transit and drug-producing countries identified in a presidential memorandum released Thursday night by the White House.

• Monday, August 12th 2019 - 06:38 UTC

  Oil prices down dragged by the China/US trade conflict

  

  Oil prices fell on Monday, dragged down by an economic slowdown and worries about the Sino-U.S. trade war, which have led to a cut in the growth outlook for oil demand.

• Monday, August 12th 2019 - 05:43 UTC

  Joint Falklands/UK/Argentina scientific fisheries cruise in September

  

  Argentina and the Falkland Islands will be involved in a scientific assessment cruise of Southern Bluewitting stocks beginning next 9 September. The cruise, the second this year, will take place in the Argentine state of the art scientific vessel “Victor Angelescu”, belonging to the Mar del Plata based Fisheries Investigation and Development Institute, INIDEP.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 07:42 UTC

  UN climate change report: farming and eating habits must change to save on land and water

  

  The way the world manages land produces and eats food has to change to curb global warming or food security, health and biodiversity will be at risk, a UN report on the effects of climate change on land said.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 07:32 UTC

  China's growth vulnerability to US tariffs exposed by the IMF

  

  China's economy already is slowing amid the trade conflict with the United States, but if Washington were to ramp up tariffs even further it could cut Chinese growth sharply, the IMF warned on Friday.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 07:25 UTC

  Markets sharply lower as Trump says he's “not ready for a trade deal with China”

  

  President Donald Trump cast more doubt on chances for a trade deal with Beijing on Friday, signalling he might cancel talks set for September amid an intensifying US-China trade war.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 06:48 UTC

  US eliminates cancer warning labels from the controversial glyphosate weed killer

  

  US Environmental Protection Agency has said it will no longer approve warning labels that claim the controversial herbicide glyphosate causes cancer, calling the statement “false and misleading.”

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 10:58 UTC

  Argentina must not be deaf to Falkland Islanders' voice, says ex deputy foreign minister

  

  When dealing with the Malvinas issue, and its people, Argentina must stick to its diplomatic milestones and not feel attracted to push or take advantage of the UK which seems bogged in Brexit, or further isolated by the recent trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union, argues Fernando Petrella, a deputy foreign minister with Guido Di Tella, ex-ambassador before the United Nations and currently head of the Argentine Foreign Service Institute.