Politics

Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 11:25 UTC
More protests and fighting in Caracas as US orders family members of embassy staff to leave Venezuela

The U.S. government ordered family members of employees at its embassy in Venezuela to leave on Thursday as a political crisis deepened ahead of a controversial vote critics contend will end democracy in the oil-rich country.
Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 11:13 UTC
Trump's “political commissar” Scaramucci makes his first “kill”, chief of staff Priebus

President Donald Trump has named General John Kelly, who currently heads the Department of Homeland Security, as his next chief of staff. The announcement, made on Twitter on Friday afternoon, removes Reince Priebus from the role.
Friday, July 28th 2017 - 12:06 UTC
Ex Petrobras and Banco do Brasil CEO, named by Rousseff, arrested on suspicion of bribes

Brazilian federal police on Thursday arrested a former head of Petrobras and the Banco do Brasil, marking a new chapter of the sweeping graft probe into the state-owned oil company. Three people were detained in the operation, the prosecutor's office said in a statement, as part of the “Car Wash” investigation that has uncovered systemic corruption and ensnared many of Brazil's political and business elites.
Friday, July 28th 2017 - 11:30 UTC
May's loses another member of her inner circle; Johnson says “people want government to get on with its job”

British Prime Minister Theresa May has lost another member of her inner circle after her strategy director and chief speechwriter Chris Wilkins quit. Wilkins follows the prime minister’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, and policy chiefs John Godfrey and Will Tanner, who also resigned after the disastrous snap general election in June, which led to the Conservatives losing their majority in the House of Commons.
Friday, July 28th 2017 - 06:17 UTC
Falklands' winds and flight delays could reduce attractiveness of additional services

Too many documented delays to flights might reduce the attractiveness of the Falklands in terms of an airline considering providing an additional service to the Islands, acknowledged Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Gavin Short this week.
Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 16:58 UTC
Argentina and Uruguay plan to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup

Argentina and Uruguay are going ahead with plans to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup despite expected competition from China and others .The South American neighbors are counting on sentimental support with Uruguay hosting the first World Cup in 1930.
Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 16:41 UTC
Trump's economic advisor Gary Cohn considered as possible next Fed chair

United States President Donald Trump named two possible candidates to run the Federal Reserve over the next few years: current Fed Chair Janet Yellen and Trump's economic adviser Gary Cohn, according to an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 16:34 UTC
Fed leaves rate unchanged but will begin selling assets “relatively soon”

Leaders of the U.S. central bank said Wednesday that they were holding their benchmark lending rate at a low level — in a range between 1 and 1.25% — for the time being. Federal Reserve officials said in a report issued after their two-day policy meeting that the world's largest economy was growing at a “moderate” pace and the job market was improving, but that inflation remained a bit low.
Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 15:53 UTC
Falklands' issues Crown coin on 35th anniversary of Liberation Day

The government and Treasury of the Falkland Islands have issued (11th July) a new crown coin which remembers the 35th anniversary of the day the Islands were officially and wholly liberated from invading Argentine military forces.
Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 14:54 UTC
Brazil central bank lowers basic rate to 9.25%; expected to reach 8% by end of 2017

Brazil's central bank cut interest rates below 10% for the first time in nearly four years on Wednesday, keeping a fast pace of monetary easing as plunging inflation gave it leeway to aid an incipient recovery.The bank's nine-member monetary policy committee, known as Copom, cut its benchmark Selic rate by 100 basis points for the third straight time to 9.25%.