Politics

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentina's opposition confirms and displays a unified front in a massive rally

  

  With less than ten days for the Argentine presidential election, the catch-all Peronist movement that has dominated the country's political scene for decades managed a family picture with all groupings united in support of the presidential ticket headed by Alberto Fernandez and ex-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 10:55 UTC

  New IMF chief pledges full support for Argentina, but will wait for election results

  

  The International Monetary Fund will stand by Argentina as it works through its economic crisis, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday. She added that the Fund was waiting to see the future policy framework adopted by Argentina, which holds an election later this month in which a change of government is widely predicted.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 10:47 UTC

  Catalonia independence vote in two years, proposes head of the region

  

  Catalonia should hold a new vote on independence from Spain within two years, the head of the region's government said on Thursday in a fresh challenge to Madrid following days of unrest by pro-separatist protesters.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 10:35 UTC

  Trump's latest surprise: he will host the G7 economic summit at his Florida golf resort

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump will host next year’s Group of Seven economic summit of leaders of developed nations at his Florida golf resort, a move Democrats and others decried as more evidence of the president misusing his office for personal gain.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 10:30 UTC

  Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon after another independence referendum in 2020

  

  Scotland must hold another independence referendum in 2020 and will soon request the powers needed to hold it legally, Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon said. Scots rejected independence in a referendum in 2014 but the SNP says that Britain's vote to leave the European Union fundamentally changes its constitutional arrangements and means that the independence question should be revisited.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 10:25 UTC

  China's economy grows at its slowest rate in three decades in the third quarter

  

  China's economy expanded at its slowest rate in nearly three decades in the third quarter, hit by cooling domestic demand and a protracted US trade war, official data showed on Friday. 

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Venezuela in Human Rights Council: US and Argentina deplore UN “embarrassment”

  

  Venezuela on Thursday won a seat on the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council -- a move that the U.S. quickly branded “an embarrassment” and further proof that its decision last year to leave the body last was the right one.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 08:34 UTC

  Bolsonaro family fighting for control of the party and its war chest, US$ 94 million

  

  A push by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to make his son the leader of his party in the lower house of Congress was rejected on Thursday, deepening a rift with party leaders that could further fragment the far-right firebrand's legislative base.

• Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 15:25 UTC

  UK and US raid “dark web” of child pornography: 337 arrests in 38 countries

  

  UK and US authorities investigating a “dark web” child pornography site run from South Korea on Wednesday announced the arrest of 337 suspects in 38 countries. Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said the “Welcome to Video” site contained 250,000 videos that were downloaded a million times by users across the world.

• Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 15:23 UTC

  Thousands of protesting Dutch farmers laid siege to Parliament in The Hague

  

  Thousands of tractor-driving Dutch farmers stepped up protests on Wednesday against the government's climate policies, prompting authorities to block off parliament with army vehicles. In the second national demonstration in three weeks against government plans to curb nitrogen emissions, farmers laid siege to the country's seat of power in The Hague, causing widespread travel disruption.