Politics

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Strong support message from US Congress for Guaidó, present at Trump's State of the Union speech

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó's appearance in the US Congress at the State of the Union — as well as the bipartisan ovation he received — was intended to send a strong message of U.S. support for his efforts to unseat Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Guaidó attended the address as a guest of the White House.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Fernandez in Paris, the last leg of the European tour after support for its debt restructuring strategy

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez and his delegation are in Paris preparing for a full agenda on Wednesday which includes a working breakfast with French business leaders, a private meeting with his peer Emmanuel Macron and lunch at the Elysee Palace, and finally a conference at the prestigious French Political Science School.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Buenos Aires province narrowly averts default: governor Kicillof promises to pay

  

  Argentina's Buenos Aires province narrowly averted falling into default on Tuesday, saying it would make a US$ 277 million payment on a 2021 bond after creditors would not grant a last-minute approval to delay it.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentina's Economy minister holds “very constructive” talks with IMF chief

  

  Argentina’s Economy Minister Martin Guzman met the head of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva for two-and-a-half hours on Tuesday to discuss the country’s economic emergency, the ministry said.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  Falklands' civilian Sea King crash lands in Hampshire; corrosion to blame

  

  Mechanical failures after a helicopter was transported from the Falkland Islands caused it to crash land, investigators have found.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Falklands' patrol HMS Forth displays its capabilities in a combined exercise

  

  The Royal Navy has shown off the capabilities of its Falkland Islands' guardian to the other Armed Forces tasked with protecting the South Atlantic islands.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Conservationists protecting monarch butterflies killed in Mexico

  

  A second Mexican conservationist active in protecting monarch butterflies has been found dead within days of each other, authorities said. The body of Raul Hernandez Romero was found on Saturday in the central-western state of Michoacan, where Homero Gomez Gonzalez was found at the bottom of a well last Wednesday, two weeks after going missing.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  EU blasts US decision to relax restrictions on anti personnel mines as “completely unacceptable”

  

  United States president Donald Trump’s decision to relax restrictions on the U.S. military’s use of anti-personnel land mines was “completely unacceptable”, the European Union said on Tuesday in a rare formal criticism of Washington.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Nigeria recovers US$ 308 million under a deal between the US and the island of Jersey

  

  Nigeria is set to receive around US$308 million seized from former military dictator Sani Abacha under a deal backed by the United States and the island of Jersey, US prosecutors said.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Peruvian jailed ex president Fujimori hospitalized with lung problems

  

  Peru's jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori was hospitalized on Monday in Lima after suffering neurological and lung problems, his family doctor revealed. Fujimori, 81, is serving a 25-year jail sentence for ordering two massacres by death squads in 1991 and 1992.