Politics

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine central bank has lost some US$ 19.500 million in reserves since 11 August 

  

  Argentine central bank international reserves stand at US$ 46.885 million following on Monday's rescue of different maturing bonds and support in the local market to help stabilize the price of the US dollar. This demanded some US$ 600 million.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Riots and arson in Bolivia to protest election results giving president Morales a fourth consecutive term

  

  Bolivia’s electoral authority announced on Monday night that President Evo Morales was close to avoiding a runoff in his re-election bid, touching off protests by the leader’s opponents already upset by a sudden halt in the release of the vote count.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition leader holding “exploratory” talks with Russia and China 

  

  Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido has asked China and Russia to help end a political crisis crippling the Latin American country during “exploratory” talks, his diplomatic representative in Brazil said on Monday.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Another Brexit vote this Tuesday; Speaker Bercow shot down Johnson's Monday attempt

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson brushed aside yet another Brexit setback on Monday and sought again to ram through his EU divorce deal in time for next week's deadline. House of Commons speaker John Bercow shot down Johnson's second attempt on Monday to get MPs to sign off on his revised EU withdrawal terms.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Brazilian oil spill: Bolsonaro does not discard a “criminal act” designed to harm a major auction next month

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro questioned whether a far-reaching oil spill on the nation’s northeastern shore may have been a criminal act designed to harm a major oil auction scheduled for November.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Trump optimistic a partial trade deal with China will be signed next month

  

  US President Donald Trump on Monday said progress in developing the text of a partial trade pact with China means he will likely be able to sign it next month. Trump remains upbeat on the chances Beijing and Washington will seal the mini-deal he announced earlier this month - marking a cooling-off period in the two nations' damaging trade war.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Climate change, greater threat than nuclear war, says ex Colombian president and Nobel peace laureate

  

  The threat of climate change has overtaken the prospect of nuclear war as the most pressing concern facing humanity, a former Colombian president and Nobel peace laureate warned on Monday.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  PM Sanchez in Barcelona visits police injured battling Catalan separatist violence

  

  Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the opposition leader Pablo Casado visited Barcelona on Monday to meet police struggling with Catalan separatist violence in a crisis that could be a game-changer in next month's general election.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Trump claims being president has cost him several billions if he had kept to his businesses

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Monday that being president has cost him between US$2 billion and US$5 billion that he would have made if he had continued running his business instead of getting into politics, a claim unsupported by evidence.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  OAS Observation Mission calls for respect of the Bolivian people's vote

  

  The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Bolivia calls for respect for the will of the citizenry: