Politics

Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 08:37 UTC
European Union adds 19 senior Venezuelan officials to its list of sanctions

The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on 19 senior Venezuelan officials, lawmakers and members of the security forces in response to December's legislative election that the bloc said was rigged in favor of President Nicolas Maduro.
Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 08:11 UTC
Bolsonaro's arrogance plunges Bovespa index 4% and Petrobras shares 21%

Brazil’s benchmark Bovespa index fell more than 4% Monday following President Jair Bolsonaro's decision last week to replace the chief executive of state oil company Petrobras. The company's shares plunged more than 21% on news that the government nominated an army general with no oil and gas industry experience as its new CEO.
Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:55 UTC
“Gines was a great minister, but what he did was unforgivable”, Argentine president

Argentine president Alberto Fernandez blasted his former health minister, and close friend, Gines Gonzalez García over an “unforgivable” coronavirus vaccine scandal, in quotes published on Sunday.
Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:54 UTC
Conservative banker will dispute the presidential runoff in Ecuador; protests expected in Quito

Ecuador's electoral authority announced on Sunday that conservative candidate Guillermo Lasso will dispute the presidential runoff next April after coming in second place in the fiercely disputed February 7 election. The third-placed finisher denounced fraud.
Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:21 UTC
Russia announces approval of CoviVac, a third vaccine for domestic use

Russia approved a third coronavirus vaccine for domestic use, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on state TV, though large-scale clinical trials of the shot, labeled CoviVac and produced by the Chumakov Centre, have yet to begin.
Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC
Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party will take legal action against Brexit

Members of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) are set to take part in legal action challenging part of Brexit, the party said on Sunday. DUP opposes the Northern Ireland protocol, which covers post-Brexit trade between Britain and Northern Ireland, because it creates barriers between the British region and the rest of the UK and has caused disruptions.
Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC
US reaches 500,000 Covid-19 related deaths; vaccination rate of 1,7 million a day

The United States over the weekend reached the grim milestone of 500,000 Covid-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, as the nation's top virus expert warned a semblance of normalcy may not return until the end of the year.
Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC
UK back at Human Rights Council with a long list of targets, China, Russia, Belarus and Myanmar

Britain this Monday will call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region.
Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:10 UTC
Fuel prices dispute, Petrobras CEO removal trigger fears of economic populism

More changes are in the pipeline, announced Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, after replacing the CEO of the country's oil and gas giant Petrobras with a former general. The move had an immediate impact in markets given the confidence investors had in the removed University of Chicago educated economist, Roberto Castello Branco.
Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 07:39 UTC
Beijing and its imperial aspirations face the challenge of “Feminization of Male Adolescents”

By Gwynne Dyer – It seemed innocent enough at the start: just a surge in the number of boys coming to school with notes from doctors saying they were excused from playing contact sports. But pretty soon high schools all over China were having trouble finding enough willing young men to make up a football team.