Politics

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 11:50 UTC

  Theresa May will announce a review of devolution when she visits Scotland

  

  Prime minister Theresa May is to announce a review of UK government departments to make sure they work in the best interests of devolution. Mrs. May will make the announcement during a visit to Scotland this week in one of her final visits as prime minister.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Oslo talks scuttled: Guaidó insists that there never would be a good moment to negotiate with Maduro

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Tuesday that there would “never” be a good moment to negotiate with President Nicolas Maduro's “dictatorship”, ruling out an expected new round of talks to find an exit from the country's crisis.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazil estimates trade surplus this year to reach US$ 56.7 billion

  

  Brazil’s Economy Ministry on Monday raised its projection for the country’s trade surplus this year to US$56.7 billion from US$50 billion but warned that trade activity will decline due to slowing global economic growth.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:38 UTC

  Mexican deportation of foreigners increased 33% in June; “great job”, says Trump

  

  Mexico deported 33% more foreigners month-on-month in June, officials announced on Thursday, after the country agreed to take “unprecedented” steps to reduce migration in order to avoid US President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:38 UTC

  Lagarde's departure thrusts the IMF into an unanticipated search for a new leader

  

  The nomination of Christine Lagarde as European Central Bank president on Tuesday has thrust the International Monetary Fund into an early, unanticipated search for a new leader amid a raging trade war that has darkened the outlook for global growth.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Glyphosate case: US Judge lowers damage award against Bayer

  

  A U.S. judge on Tuesday said he would reduce a US$80 million damage award against Bayer AG to US$50 million or less in the case of a man who blamed his cancer on glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said the jury's US$75 million punitive damages award to plaintiff Edwin Hardeman in March could not stand.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  Singapore rig builder under graft investigation in Brazil's “car wash” operation

  

  Rig builder Sembcorp Marine said on Wednesday that authorities had executed a search warrant on its shipyard in Brazil as part of an ongoing graft investigation, sending its shares sharply lower.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  EU leaders reach a precarious agreement on EC's top jobs which need parliament confirmation

  

  European Union leaders have agreed on Tuesday on who should fill the top jobs for its main institutions for the next five years after a marathon summit marred by disagreement.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 08:29 UTC

  Russian submarine sinks in Arctic waters: fourteen crew members killed

  

  Fourteen submariners on board a Russian Defense Ministry research vessel were killed in a fire while carrying out a survey of the sea floor off Russia's Arctic coast, the ministry was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 08:29 UTC

  White House confirms: no citizenship question in the U.S. 2020 census

  

  In a stinging defeat for President Donald Trump, his administration has ended its effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 US census, saying that it will begin printing forms that do not include the contentious query.