Politics

• Saturday, September 12th 2020 - 09:03 UTC

  UK/Japan trade deal, first of post-Brexit, hailed as “a historic moment”

  

  The United Kingdom and Japan on Friday agreed in principle to a trade deal, in a move that sees the U.K. strike its first major agreement post-Brexit. The announcement, which the U.K. hailed as a “historic moment,” comes as Britain struggles to secure an agreement with its closest trading partners in the European Union.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazilian prosecution investigating Petrobras forex transactions between 2008 and 2011

  

  Brazil’s federal police were serving 25 search warrants as part of an investigation regarding foreign-exchange transactions done by oil company Petrobras between 2008 and 2011, according to a statement from federal prosecutors on Thursday.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands fishing industry disappointed with Islands' management of Brexit issues

  

  Falklands' fisheries company Fortuna Ltd’s Stuart Wallace said at a meeting of Fisheries Committee last week that he was “disappointed” with the level of engagement about Brexit between FIG and the fishing industry.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Falklands 14-day quarantine will remain confirms Chief Medical Officer

  

  The Falkland Islands Chief Medical Officer Beccy Edwards said this week that “we are still in the foothills of the global curve” of Covid-19, as Falkland Islands Government, FIG, confirmed that they will not yet be reducing the 14-day quarantine requirements.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 08:33 UTC

  Peruvian opposition want to sack the economy minister in the midst of the country's worst plunge

  

  Peruvian opposition lawmakers filed a censure motion to oust the government’s economy minister, underscoring political tensions as the country rides out its deepest economic plunge in decades due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Friday, September 11th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  Trump's candidate will be the next president of the Inter-American Development bank

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to run Latin America’s main financing institution appears poised to win the top job in this weekend’s election amid faltering regional opposition to having a U.S. citizen run the bank for the first time in 61 years.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Police conflict in Argentina, Thursday promises to be a day of winners and losers

  

  Police officers in Buenos Aires Province of Argentina continued their protests on Wednesday to demand higher salaries and better working conditions, but the situation seems to be coming to an end following promises of announcements this Thursday meeting the demands.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  Brazil's top prosecutor keeps active anti corruption task force that jailed ex-president Lula da Silva

  

  The office of Brazil’s top prosecutor has decided to keep the country’s famed Car Wash anti-corruption task force active through Jan. 31, it said in a statement on Wednesday, in an at least temporary victory for the embattled group of prosecutors.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Head of Brazilian Army intelligence apparently dies of coronavirus

  

  The head of Brazil's Army Intelligence Center (CIE), Gen. Carlos Sydriao, has apparently died from the coronavirus after 10 days of hospitalization.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  France accuses the US of undermining talks to update digital age taxation

  

  France accused the United States on Wednesday of seeking to undermine international talks to update cross-border taxation for the digital age and urged Europe to prepare an EU tax if the negotiations fail.