International

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Mercosur and EFTA countries reach a free trade agreement

  

  South American trade block Mercosur reached a free trade agreement with four European countries, Argentine officials and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said after talks in Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:16 UTC

  US/China trade war further escalates: where does it end before reaching a point of no return?

  

  President Donald Trump declared on Friday he would further raise American tariffs on all Chinese imports hours after China announced tariffs on American goods, the second escalation within the day of a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies that has shown no sign of ending soon.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  Climate activists protest outside Brazil embassy in London; PM Johnson described fires as “an international crisis”

  

  Climate change activists chanting slogans and waving banners demonstrated outside Brazil's embassy in London on Friday, urging President Jair Bolsonaro to do more to halt the fires in the Amazon rainforest.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  France and UN lead battle for the protection of fire plagued Amazon rainforest

  

  France and the United Nations called on Thursday for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil's right-wing president blamed NGOs for promoting an “environmental psychosis” to damage the country's interests.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Premier Oil trying to sell part of its Falklands' Sea Lion project

  

  Premier Oil is selling its stake in a “world-class” project off the coast of Mexico and wants to reduce its holding in a long-awaited scheme north of the Falkland Islands as it tries to lighten its US$ 2bn debt burden, reports the Financial Times.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Norway's Equinor and YPF team up to explore Argentina offshore block

  

  Norway Equinor’s executive vice president for Exploration, Tim Dodson, and YPF's CEO Daniel Gonzalez have signed an agreement to jointly explore the CAN 100 offshore block, located in the North Argentine Basin.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  “Macron is an idiot”, is the title of a video posted by Eduardo Bolsonaro

  

  “Macron is an idiot” is the title of a video posted in social networks by a Brazilian member of congress who happens to be the son of president Bolsonaro, Eduardo Bolsonaro

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  Ex minister calls Bolsonaro “corrupt and liar”, and warns of EU boycotts to Brazilian exports

  

  A Brazilian former minister and presidential candidate in the last election, called president Jair Bolsonaro, “corrupt, despicable, dishonest and irresponsible” during a conference on Thursday at the Minas Gerais Federal University.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Chile's Week in China starts on 29 August in Beijing and Shanghai

  

  From August 29 to September 3, Chile will celebrate nearly 49 years of diplomatic and economic cooperation with China by staging the 5th annual Chile Week in China celebration in Beijing and Shanghai, which will feature senior Chilean government delegates led by former President Eduardo Frei, leaders of Chilean industry and dozens of economic, cultural and consumer-focused events.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 20:36 UTC

  Mercedes Benz plans to build heavy trucks in China in alliance with JV partner

  

  German automaker Daimler AG plans to build Mercedes Benz-branded heavy trucks in China by revamping truck plants owned by its local joint venture. The plan will deepen the alliance between Daimler and its Chinese truck JV partner, Beiqi Foton, and comes after the purchase of a 5 percent stake in Daimler last month by its Mercedes Benz passenger car partner, Beijing Automotive (BAIC), Foton's parent group.