Politics

• Tuesday, September 1st 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Chilean government threatens striking truckers with state security law

  

  The Chilean government on Monday threatened to invoke a state security law to penalize striking truck drivers blocking arterial routes and damaging supply chains after talks between the two sides broke down.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina preparing to draft an oil exploration round in its extended South Atlantic continental shelf

  

  Oil and fisheries will spearhead Argentina's new efforts in its sovereignty claims over the Falkland Islands, according to Martin Dinatale, an Argentine columnist with good contacts in the foreign ministry and who has followed the Islands dispute for years.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Argentina confirms that the humanitarian flights policy with Falklands, stands

  

  Despite denying a recent air trip from Montevideo to the Falkland Islands, the Argentine foreign ministry stated that the “humanitarian flights policy” for the Islanders stands, and said that last Friday a flight from the Islands to Chile, with health risk patients, crossing Argentine space had been approved.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentina determined to promote oil and gas production and exports

  

  Argentina’s new energy secretary Dario Martinez plans to promote oil and natural gas production with a view to increasing exports as part of a strategy to pull the economy out of one of its worst crises on record.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  Mexico presses ahead with a wide ideological spectrum of Covid-19 virus vaccines

  

  Mexico is pressing ahead with an effort to forge COVID-19 vaccine alliances across a wide ideological spectrum of countries from France to Cuba, as a World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine initiative will fall short of its needs.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:37 UTC

  Popular Brazilian island establishes strict protocol for tourists

  

  Ferrnando de Noronha, an archipelago 354km off Brazil's northeastern coast famous for abundant sea life, pristine beaches and dramatic mountainsides rising above the coast, is trying a novel method for fighting the coronavirus.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:34 UTC

  World Trade Organization in disarray and leaderless, as Azevedo steps down

  

  As Roberto Azevedo leaves the World Trade Organisation (WTO) this Monday, the institution faces multiple crises without a captain - a situation experts warn could drag on for months.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  UK's dining program “Eat out to Help Out” proves to be a great success

  

  British finance minister Rishi Sunak urged diners on Monday to keep going out to eat as a popular government scheme offering half-price food in restaurants this month drew to a close.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  China escalates rift: launches investigation into alleged Australian wines' subsidies

  

  China on Monday launched an investigation into alleged government subsidies of some Australian wine imports, a widely expected follow-up to an anti-dumping probe that Australian representatives said they would oppose.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Anti Covid-19 restrictions protestors tried to storm the Reichstag in Berlin

  

  The German government on Sunday slammed the “unacceptable” behaviour of protesters during a mass rally against coronavirus restrictions in which hundreds were arrested and an attempt was made to storm the Reichstag parliament building.