Politics

Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:37 UTC
PM Johnson hosted a roundtable of leaders in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosted on Monday a roundtable of leaders in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry today to discuss domestic energy security. This is part of a series of engagements by the Government across the UK’s energy sectors, including with renewable and nuclear companies in the coming days and weeks.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:32 UTC
Peru's Parliament to debate impeaching President Castillo, yet again

Peru's Congress Monday passed by 76 voted in favor, 41 against, and one abstention a motion to debate the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo Terrones for “permanent moral unfitness” to hold office.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:31 UTC
Argentine FM lands financing deals for transition infrastructure

Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero, who is on a Middle East official tour, Monday announced he had reached agreements worth over US$ 1 billion to finance infrastructure works regarding energy and climate change through 2023.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:29 UTC
Arrest warrant issued in Argentina against Diosdado Cabello

Argentine surrogate Judge Mariela Alejandra Giménez has issued an arrest warrant against Venezuela's Government leader Diosdado Cabello, number two of the ruling PSUV, should he try to enter the country. Authorities believe Cabello might try to travel through the northern border in the province of Jujuy.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:15 UTC
Former Peruvian President back in jail after hospital discharge

Alberto Fujimori has been discharged Monday from the private Lima clinic where he had been taken to earlier this month due to a heart failure and was subsequently taken back to jail, his daughter and opposition leader Keiko Fujimori announced.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 - 09:00 UTC
UK Supreme Court denies Assange's request, way clear now for extradition

Britain's Supreme Court Monday turned down a request from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to review his case. The decision has exhausted UK procedural alternatives and the way is now clear for the 50-year-old Australian national to be extradited to the United States.
Monday, March 14th 2022 - 20:27 UTC
Puebla Group supports Argentina's agreement with the IMF

World leaders gathered under the Puebla Group have expressed their support to Argentine President Alberto Fernández for the deal reached with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and for its “overwhelming approval in Congress.”
Monday, March 14th 2022 - 20:19 UTC
Boric would like Chile to resume full ties with Bolivia

Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Monday urged his Bolivian counterpart Luis Arce Catacora to resume diplomatic ties, which were severed in the 1970s.
Monday, March 14th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Colombia turns to the left in historic vote

Colombian voters have taken a turn for the left following Sunday's historic support for Senator Gustavo Petro, who has been singled out in recent polls as the favorite to win the May 29 presidential elections.
Monday, March 14th 2022 - 09:52 UTC
EU Parliament votes to end “golden passports”, allowing rich individuals to buy EU citizenship

The European Parliament voted last week an end to the so called “golden passports”, extended by some members of the EU to rich individuals, in this case mainly Russian oligarchs.