Politics

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Guaidó and 37 parties reject Venezuela congressional election and call for increased international pressure

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Monday announced a “unitary pact” supported by a coalition of parties calling for increased international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro as the country heads toward a congressional election in December.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Ecuadorean court upholds sentence against ex president Correa and bans him from 2021 election

  

  An Ecuadorian court on Monday upheld an eight-year prison sentence against former President Rafael Correa for breaking campaign finance laws, blocking him from participating as a vice-presidential candidate in the 2021 election.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 09:13 UTC

  Falklands' public meeting to address the single constituency referendum

  

  Falkland Islanders discussed the upcoming single constituency referendum scheduled for 24th September and whether there is a need for wider engagement work on the issue, according to a column from MLA Teslyn Barkman.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  Mega project in Mexico cancelled and turned into a giant nature park next to an ancient lake

  

  Bright green stalks of weeds are sprouting from the ground where planes were supposed to take off at a new Mexico City airport as officials let nature take over in their bid to transform the marshy swath of an ancient lake into a giant park.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  Feminists and relatives of kidnapped women occupy human rights offices in Mexico

  

  Feminist activists and family members of the missing ramped up a protest at the main offices of Mexico's human rights commission on Monday, after occupying the building last week to draw attention to kidnapped persons and attacks targeting women.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Johnson calls for “more realism”, ahead of a new round of EU/UK post Brexit trade talks

  

  Britain demanded “more realism” from the European Union on Monday ahead of crucial post-Brexit trade talks, but the mood was soured by reports that London was looking to rewrite an agreement the two sides had already signed.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina/Brazil bilateral trade in eight months was 20,5% down, year on year

  

  Argentina's bilateral trade with Brazil resulted in a US$ 107 million deficit in August, which more than doubled the US$ 42 million of the same month a year ago, according to data released by the Brazilian foreign trade office.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Venezuelan government confident it will regain control of the Assembly and thus no need for a new constitution

  

  Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly will not deliver a new constitution, the legislature's chief Diosdado Cabello said on Sunday, despite repeated assurances from assembly members that the body was preparing to update the 1999 Magna Carta.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  “El Chapo” Guzmán has appealed against his life sentence incarcerated in US

  

  Mexican drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman has appealed against his life sentence handed down a year ago by a US court for trafficking hundreds of tons of narcotics into the country.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  France to UK: Brexit negotiator Barnier is not stepping down or being sidelined

  

  France denied the European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier was about to be sidelined by EU leaders in a bid to break the deadlock in trade talks, as reported by British newspaper the Daily Telegraph.