Politics

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 06:10 UTC

  Gibraltar ready to release Iranian oil tanker seized in July

  

  The British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar will on Thursday release an Iranian oil tanker seized by Royal Marines in the Mediterranean in July, the Sun newspaper reported, citing sources close to Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 05:53 UTC

  Macri finally called Fernandez and had a “long and good” phone call, hopefully to help stabilize the economy

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri finally, on Wednesday, reached out to the winner of Sunday’s primary vote -- initially through a Whatsapp message. The message led to a “long and good” phone call between the two, the first since Alberto Fernandez’s resounding victory turned him into the clear favorite to win the Oct. 27 election.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 05:30 UTC

  Macri announces measures to cut taxes and prop consumption hopefully to brighten Argentine pockets

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri on Wednesday unveiled a package of welfare subsidies and tax cuts for lower-income workers to lessen the impact of an economic crisis just months before a re-election bid, but his announcement did not halt the peso currency's collapse.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 05:20 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists Argentina is heading for “Venezuelan chaos” with the “leftist bandits”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that Argentina was heading for chaos as “leftist bandits” who performed well in the primary election will follow the path of Venezuela, which is mired in a deep economic crisis. Argentina's Merval stock index was down 34.47% since the start of the week.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 05:16 UTC

  Massive women's protests in Brasilia against Bolsonaro's policies

  

  Tens of thousands of women took to the streets of Brazil's capital on Wednesday to denounce President Jair Bolsonaro, in the third anti-government protest in the city in two days.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 05:14 UTC

  Falklands/UK airbridge will continue via Cape Verde; Ascension runway may not be repaired until 2022

  

  The contract to repair the 3,000-meter runway at RAF Ascension Island has yet to be awarded, and work may not be complete until 2022. It has been partially closed since April 2017. This means the Falkland Islands/Brize Norton airbridge will continue to operate through Cape Verde.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 18:33 UTC

  Brazil: court injunction to prevent Bolsonaro's son appointment as ambassador in US

  

  Brazilian federal prosecutors filed a court injunction on Tuesday seeking to bar the appointment of conservative president Jair Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo as ambassador to the United States due to his lack of experience as a diplomat.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 18:17 UTC

  Brazil's mining industry given more time to close dangerous tailings dams

  

  Brazil’s mining regulator on Monday extended the deadlines by up to four years for the closing of many dangerous mine tailings dams like the one that collapsed in January at a Vale SA facility, killing more than 240 people.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  French farmers protest trade deals with Canada and Mercosur

  

  French anti-government protesters put up a large poster of Jean-Baptiste Moreau, one of President Emmanuel Macron's farming experts, with the word “Wanted” on it outside a local government building on Tuesday, as anger over recent trade deals escalates.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Trump threatens to pull the US out of WTO: “they have been screwing us for years”

  

  President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to pull the United States out of the World Trade Organization (WTO) if conditions are not improved. “We will leave if we have to,” Trump told a cheering audience of workers at a Shell chemical plant in Pennsylvania.