Politics

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Italy confirms its high spending budget to “end poverty” and defies EU rules

  

  Italy's government says it will stick to its high-spending budget plans, setting up a potential stand-off with the European Union over its deficit. PM Giuseppe Conte, who held talks with deputies Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio on Monday, said the objectives for 2019 had already been fixed.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  Lula accused of money laundering in dealings with Equatorial Guinea

  

  Brazil's jailed ex-president Lula da Silva's legal troubles mounted on Monday as he was accused by the Sao Paulo public prosecutor's office of money laundering in his dealings with Equatorial Guinea.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 16:38 UTC

  Hard times ahead for Argentina's Banco Nación president

  

  Argentina's state-run Banco Nación President Javier González Fraga admitted borrowing from abroad is a possibility to face the current liquidity shortage, it was reported.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 10:39 UTC

  Argentina targets a strong global stability message at the G20 leaders' summit

  

  With international tensions on trade set to come to a head at the Group of 20 Leaders Summit next weekend, Argentina is hoping to find agreement on improving global stability, even if deep disagreements remain. Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie said the November 30-December 1 meeting in Buenos Aires should stress the importance of trade itself, at a time that the former consensus against protectionism breaks down.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  UK writes to EU: no Gibraltar sovereignty process against the wishes of its people

  

  After the end of the European Council meeting, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union, Ambassador Sir Tim Barrow, has written to the Secretaries General of the Council and Commission of the European Union.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas air link and Cordoba stop over underlines “the historic reconciliation of UK and Argentina”

  

  Argentina's foreign minister Jorge Faurie said that this week's G20 leaders' summit in Buenos Aires not only will it be historic since for the first time a meeting of such significance is taking place in South America, but also because of the symbolic reconciliation and constructive attitude between Argentina and the United Kingdom referred to the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 07:32 UTC

  Venezuela complies with court order and pays for Canadian company nationalized assets

  

  Cash-strapped Venezuela settled a US$1.2 billion arbitration claim that will prevent a creditor from stripping away its crown jewel foreign asset, the U.S.-based Citgo Petroleum Corp refining business, according to Canadian court documents.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 07:27 UTC

  Bolsonaro will not return Venezuelans: “they are fleeing a dictatorship supported by Lula and Dilma”

  

  President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said his government would not send back the tens of thousands of Venezuelans who have sought refuge in Brazil from the economic breakdown in their populist ruled homeland.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 07:22 UTC

  Central American migrants storm US border; Mexico will deport those violently trying to cross

  

  The U.S.-Mexico border at the San Isidro Port of Entry was closed in both directions for more than five hours on Sunday after hundreds of migrants rushed the area, prompting federal authorities to launch tear gas in an apparent attempt to get the group to disperse.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 07:15 UTC

  EU approves UK's withdrawal as “the best and only possible deal”; Parliament is to vote early December

  

  EU leaders have approved an agreement on the UK's withdrawal and future relations - insisting it is the “best and only deal possible”. After 20 months of negotiations, the 27 leaders gave the deal their blessing after less than an hour's discussion.