International

Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:20 UTC
 Canadian mining firm apologizes and compensates demonstrators shot at Guatemala mine

Canadian mining firm has apologized after reaching an agreement with demonstrators shot and wounded while protesting the company's Guatemalan gold and silver mine, according to statements on Tuesday from both sides.
Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 10:13 UTC
Brazil's efforts to improve ties with the US, “need not worry China, we never had a problem with China”

Brazil’s efforts to build better ties with the United States need not worry China, the South American economy top trade partner, because it had never had a problem with China, the Brazilian foreign minister stated. At issue in the past has been how previous Brazilian administrations handled relations with China, Ernesto Araujo said.
Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:56 UTC
Killing of Brazilian indigenous leader under federal investigation

Brazilian federal authorities are investigating the alleged murder of a leader from the aboriginal Waiãpi tribe at Mariry, a village in the Amapá region as conflicts between explorers and indigenous communities are on the rise.
Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:56 UTC
Royal Navy submariners honored for mission to help locate missing Argentine sub ARA San Juan

British submariners have been recognized for their efforts to help Argentina find missing sub San Juan. An eight-strong military team and one civilian were flown to the South Atlantic as part of the massive search effort sparked when the submarine vanished in November 2017. They have earned a commendation from the UK’s second most senior sailor, Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Jerry Kyd.
Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:53 UTC
Uruguay's Mujica blasts Malaysia as “a dictatorship where they kill 25 people every day”

Malaysia is a bloodthirsty dictatorship where they kill 25 people every day, according to Uruguay's ex president Jose Mujica. The Uruguayan leader speaking at a political rally put in the same bag, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, China as part of a poor defense of the regime of his good friend, the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:45 UTC
Major security breach of financial corp allows hacker access to personal info on 106 million individuals

Capital One Financial Corp said on Monday that personal information including names and addresses of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by a hacker who has been arrested.
Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:44 UTC
Uruguayan actor George Hilton dies in Rome, aged 85

George Hilton, the Uruguayan stage actor who starred in Argentine movies in the 1950s and 1960s and in European productions later on in his career, passed away in Rome on Sunday, his family posted on Facebook. No cause of death was given. He was 85.
Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:35 UTC
France leading the search for the next head of the IMF

France is seen supporting Kristalina Georgieva to be the next head of the International Monetary Fund as the EU seeks to agree on a single candidate ahead of the lender's Sept 6 deadline, according to several European officials familiar with the deliberations.
Monday, July 29th 2019 - 13:22 UTC
Bernal, 22, becomes the first Colombian to win the Tour de France

Egan Bernal clinched victory in the Tour de France on Sunday, parading into Paris safely in the overall leader's yellow jersey, becoming the first Colombian winner of cycling's greatest prize and its youngest in more than a century.
Monday, July 29th 2019 - 09:57 UTC
EU warns Argentina and Brazil on credit agencies ratings regulations

The European Commission will deem that Canada, Brazil, Singapore, Argentina and Australia don't regulate credit ratings agencies with the same rigor as the EU, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing a document. The decision would withdraw some market access rights of the country, removing a status that makes it possible for European banks to rely on the ratings.