Politics

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 07:31 UTC

  Colombian mother and her three children survived 34 days in the Peruvian jungle

  

  Colombian mother and her three children aged 14, 12 and 10 have been found by indigenous Peruvians 34 days after they were reported missing, authorities say. They said they had managed to survive by eating seeds, plants and berries.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 07:22 UTC

  Fugitive Colombian senator who escaped on a motorcycle captured in Venezuela

  

  Special Forces in Venezuela have captured the fugitive Colombian former senator, Aída Merlano. Ms Merlano, who was serving a 15-year sentence for vote-buying, gave prison guards the slip in October.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 07:14 UTC

  Beer, wine and spirits companies agree to put clear age restriction labels on drinks

  

  Twelve leading beer, wine and spirits companies have pledged to put clear age-restriction labels on their drinks and set tighter controls on access to their online content in a bid to reduce underage drinking.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 07:06 UTC

  Drastic changes to the poultry industry production in France

  

  France is to ban from the end of 2021 the hugely controversial but widespread poultry industry practice of systematically slaughtering male chicks, Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Maduro prepared to hand over the oil industry to foreign private companies

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is considering selling shares of the country's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, in an attempt to recover the country's petroleum industry and its dwindling production.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Prince Andrew wanted for questioning by US prosecutor and the FBI

  

  The scandal surrounding Prince Andrew's friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has deepened after a leading US prosecutor said requests to interview the senior royal - including from the FBI - had been ignored.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 08:16 UTC

  Argentina's economy minister scheduled to meet IMF officials

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Martin Guzman will meet with International Monetary Fund officials in New York on Tuesday, an IMF spokesman said on Monday, as the government continues talks with its biggest creditor ahead of a massive debt restructuring.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Reformist Brazil: government procurement contracts will be open to foreign companies

  

  Brazil’s government is changing the rules to give foreign companies an equal shot at winning government contracts, the Economy Ministry said on Monday. Economy Minister Paulo Guedes has pledged to fight corruption and open up one of the world’s most protected countries to foreign business and the overseas investment necessary to modernize Brazil’s crumbling infrastructure.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 08:09 UTC

  Brazil willing to discuss with OPEC, but not prepared to join the cartel

  

  Brazil has decided to stay out of OPEC for the time being as it seeks to expand its oil production, according to media reports quoting energy minister Bento Albuquerque. “The idea is just to increase our production and to participate more in the international oil and gas market,” Albuquerque said in an interview.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Peruvian elections return an atomized Congress to the advantage of president Vizcarra

  

  The opposition’s crushing defeat in Peru’s legislative elections has left a fragmented Congress without a dominant party, which should help President Martin Vizcarra pass his reforms with the support of centrist parties.