Politics

• Friday, January 8th 2021 - 00:00 UTC

  Washington D.C. under public emergency for the next fifteen days

  

  Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wednesday night extended the public emergency to 15 days, until the day after President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

• Thursday, January 7th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Credit Suisse cuts relations with wealthy Venezuelan families

  

  Fearing of doing business with politically-exposed clients in a sanctions-hit country, Credit Suisse Group AG has cut relationships with a number of Venezuela’s wealthy.

• Thursday, January 7th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Uruguay extends closure of frontier until the end of January; concern with clandestine partying

  

  Uruguay announced on Wednesday a raft of new measures to help contain the growing number of Covid-19 positive cases which if sustained could strain hospital and sanitary capacities.

• Thursday, January 7th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazilian leading meatpackers linked to ranches that use slave labor

  

  An investigation published this week showed six Brazilian meatpacker firms bought cattle from ranches that used slave labor. Labor experts suggested on Wednesday that the firms must clean up their supply chains.

• Thursday, January 7th 2021 - 09:37 UTC

  Paris court of appeal rules that ETA Basque group can be handed to Spain

  

  The Paris Court of Appeal has ruled that the former long-time leader of Basque separatist group ETA, Josu Ternera, can be handed over to Spain, a judicial source said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, January 7th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro continues to back Trump and reiterates allegations of election fraud

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday continued to back President Donald Trump by reiterating baseless allegations of November U.S. election fraud.

• Thursday, January 7th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Several US state capitols had to close following a rash of “mirror” protests

  

  The chaotic protests at the US Capitol in Washington DC caused by a mob of Donald Trump supporters promoted by the president on Wednesday led several states to close their own legislative buildings, though protests outside Washington remained mostly peaceful.

• Thursday, January 7th 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  US business leaders want Vice-president Pence and the cabinet to remove Trump from office

  

  US business leaders denounced president Donald Trump for inciting supporters who mobbed the US Capitol, with the head of the National Association of Manufacturers saying Vice-President Mike Pence should “seriously consider” working with the Cabinet to remove the president from office.

• Thursday, January 7th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  Argentina confirms lacks of dollars: limits the import of luxury goods

  

  The central bank of Argentina on Wednesday imposed a new rule limiting the import of foreign luxury goods as part of its effort to stanch the leakage of its own international currency reserves.

• Wednesday, January 6th 2021 - 10:31 UTC

  Best possible result for Joe Biden: first results indicate Democrats have won the two Georgia Senate seats

  

  Primary results in the Tuesday Georgia state Senate election indicate Democrats will be taking both seats, the best possible news for president-elect Joe Biden. Meanwhile, Republican incumbent David Perdue vowed to “mobilize every available resource and exhaust every legal recourse” as he fought for his political life in a Senate runoff that was too close to call early Wednesday.