Politics

Friday, October 9th 2020 - 09:36 UTC
Chile's foreign trade improving as September exports pick up

Chile's overseas trade reached almost US$ 93,5 billion, between January and September this year, an 11% drop year on year, the president Sebastián Piñera government announced on Thursday.
Friday, October 9th 2020 - 09:32 UTC
Multiple arrest of militia extremists who planned to kidnap Michigan governor

Thirteen people, including seven men associated with the Wolverine Watchmen militia group, have been arrested in a sweeping takedown of plots to kidnap the Michigan state governor, attack the state capitol building and incite violence.
Friday, October 9th 2020 - 08:56 UTC
A woman will lead WTO for the first time: South Korean and Nigerian ministers in the final round

The World Trade Organization (WTO) announced on Thursday that South Korea’s trade minister and a Harvard-trained former Nigerian finance minister have qualified as the two finalists to become the next director-general, ensuring a woman in the top job for the first time.
Friday, October 9th 2020 - 08:51 UTC
Two women won the Chemistry Nobel Prize for genome editing technology

Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing.
Friday, October 9th 2020 - 08:20 UTC
Francis denounces global financial speculation amid spiraling corruption at the heart of the Holy See

Pope Francis told European anti-money laundering experts that the Vatican was committed to “clean finance,” as he denounced financial speculation amid a spiraling corruption investigation in the heart of the Holy See.
Friday, October 9th 2020 - 08:08 UTC
Prince William announces the Earthshot Prize to reward innovative solutions for the planet's challenges

Britain's Prince William on Thursday launched a “prestigious” environmental prize aimed at turning “pessimism into optimism” by rewarding innovative solutions to the planet's biggest problems.
Thursday, October 8th 2020 - 09:30 UTC
Falklands expects Premier Oil/Chrysaor merger will create new opportunities for Sea Lion oil/gas development

The Falkland Islands Government has taken notice of the recent press release concerning the proposed merger of Premier Oil plc and Chrysaor Holdings Ltd.
Thursday, October 8th 2020 - 09:25 UTC
Bolsonaro dumps “Operation Car Wash” because there is “no more corruption in the government”

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that he has ended the country's biggest-ever corruption probe, “Operation Car Wash,” as there is “no more corruption in the government.”
Thursday, October 8th 2020 - 09:03 UTC
Argentina: hogs from an overturned truck slaughtered in the highway by thieves

A truck carrying live pigs turned over in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, and neighbors and other cars looted the cargo and in some cases slaughtered the animals in the highway. The accident took place in the access of Coronale Vidal, some 300 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires.
Thursday, October 8th 2020 - 09:00 UTC
Leading Kirchnerite diplomat resigns and openly criticizes president Fernandez

The resignation of the Argentine ambassador to Russia, Alicia Castro, in protest over the decision of the government of President Alberto Fernandez to condemn the Venezuelan regime for repeated human rights violations, “constitutes a dramatic turn in our foreign policy and does not differ at all with what would have been voted by ex-president Macri”.