Politics

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  US/China Phase One trade deal to be signed 15 January at the White House

  

  A partial new US-China trade agreement will be signed in the middle of next month, US President Donald Trump said, announcing that he will also then travel to China for continued talks.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Australia on fire: thousands evacuate coastal communities; political storm brewing

  

  Thousands of tourists have been given less than 48 hours to evacuate fire-ravaged coastal communities as Australia braces for a heatwave on Saturday expected to fan deadly bushfires.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Mexican president openly admits the power of drug lords

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador declared an end to the days of collusion between crime and government, saying in a holiday address there was a time when drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was as powerful as the country's president.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Colombia's capital first woman mayor promises to fight “racism, class distinctions and xenophobia”

  

  Bogota's first woman mayor Claudia Lopez took office on Wednesday, promising leadership in the troubled Colombian capital and pledging to fight “racism, class distinctions and xenophobia.”

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Pope apologizes for slapping a woman who had grabbed him, “we lose patience many times”

  

  Pope Francis apologized on Wednesday for slapping a woman who had grabbed him as he greeted a crowd of devotees, shortly before he delivered a speech denouncing ”every form of violence against women.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 13:15 UTC

  On request from Alberto Fernandez, YPF rolls back a 5% increase in fuel prices

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez asked the state-managed oil company YPF to roll back a 5% increase on fuels scheduled to become effective, January first, and which would have a major impact on inflation and food prices.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 13:10 UTC

  Argentina will honor payments this week of bonds totaling some US$ 850 million

  

  The Argentine government announced that this week it will honor payments of some US$ 850 million, which correspond to two different sovereign bonds, one of them a century maturing bond issued in 2017 during the administration of ex-president Mauricio Macri.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:30 UTC

  Bolivia/Spain/Mexico spat escalates with the expulsion of diplomats

  

  Bolivia's interim president Jeanine Añez announced on Monday that the country will expel Mexico's ambassador and two Spanish diplomats, drawing a tit-for-tat response from Madrid as a dispute over an alleged attempt to extract an ex-government aide escalated.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:30 UTC

  An intriguing Netflix's production, “The prosecutor, the president and the spy”

  

  Netflix will be launching on January first a six-chapter film on one of the most intriguing criminal cases in recent Argentina history, still unsolved, which refers to the killing of former special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, and which was first categorized as suicide.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:25 UTC

  Swiss tourist in critical condition after mistakenly entering a favela

  

  A septuagenarian tourist to Rio de Janeiro is in critical condition from a gunshot wound after mistakenly entering one of the city's favelas. Police said in a statement that they rescued two Swiss tourists injured in a mugging on Sunday night.