International

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  US ready for a response to attack on Saudi oil facilities; China and Russia call for restrain

  

  The United States readied its response on Monday to the “unprecedented” attack on Saudi oil facilities as President Donald Trump said Iran was likely to blame, fanning new fears of conflict in the Gulf region.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Facebook working to stop manipulation of headlines, following an incident with the UK Conservative party

  

  Facebook said on Monday it is working to stop advertisers from changing headlines in links to news stories after concerns raised by a British political party's altering of one such link.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  African swine fever in South Korea and Japan: different strains

  

  South Korea on Tuesday reported its first cases of African swine fever, becoming the latest country hit by the disease that has killed pigs from China to North Korea, pushing up pork prices worldwide.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Chinese mining group plans to build an US$ 2.2bn complex in Brazil

  

  The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has signed a protocol of intent with Sul Americana de Metais, a unit of Chinese miner Honbridge Holdings, for the construction of a 9.1 billion reais (US$ 2.2 billion) mining complex, newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo reported.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  UN apologizes to Spain: Nazis bombed Guernica, not the Republican forces

  

  The United Nations has apologized to Spain for having mistakenly attributed the devastating 1937 bombing of the town of Guernica to Spanish Republican forces, a spokesman said on Monday.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:38 UTC

  Vatican will have a Permanent Observer at OAS

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, will have a new Permanent Observer, from the Vatican, Monsignor Mark Gerald Miles, who on Monday presented his credentials to Secretary-General Luis Almagro.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:34 UTC

  Uruguay hosting a cruise industry conference at the end of September

  

  Uruguay will be hosting at the end of the month, September 26/27, the VII edition of the Regional Encounter of the Cruise industry and Fluvial nautical tourism, organized by Uruguay's ministries of Transport and Tourism the Ports Administration and county governments from Maldonado, Montevideo and Colonia.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:17 UTC

  What does “pedo guy” really mean, and what it is helping to reveal

  

  Tesla founder Elon Musk said in a court filing on Monday that he did not mean to accuse a British caver of pedophilia when he referred to him as “pedo guy” in a tweet.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  US/China trade talks resume on Thursday but at deputy-level

  

  Deputy-level US-China trade talks are scheduled to start in Washington on Thursday, the US Trade Representative's office said on Monday (Sep 16), paving the way for high-level talks in October aimed at resolving a bitter trade war.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Green activist Greta Thumberg receives Amnesty International's “Ambassadors of Conscience” award

  

  Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future youth movement received Amnesty International's “Ambassadors of Conscience” award on Monday, days before a major UN climate summit in New York.