Politics

• Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 08:15 UTC

  Italy joins China's Silk Road project: Europe Union, Nato and G7 rattled

  

  Italy has become the first developed economy to sign up to China's global investment program which has raised concerns among Italy's Western allies. A total of 29 deals amounting to €2.5bn were signed during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Rome.

• Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 06:11 UTC

  Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon joins the march and tells PM May “put it back to the people”

  

  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has joined hundreds of thousands of people on a march in London to demand a second Brexit referendum. She spoke to crowds gathered at the end of a rally organizer of the “Put It To The People” campaign say more than a million people attended.

• Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 05:50 UTC

  London flooded by anti-Brexit protestors demanding a new referendum

  

  Anti-Brexit protesters flooded into central London by the hundreds of thousands on Saturday, demanding that Britain's Conservative-led government hold a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union. The “People's Vote March” snaked from Park Lane and other locations to converge on the U.K. Parliament, where the fate of Brexit will be decided in the coming weeks.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  IADB annual meeting cancelled after China refused to allow a Venezuelan opposition representative attend

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank on Friday called off next week’s meeting of its 48 member countries in China after Beijing refused to allow a representative of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to attend.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Africa's cyclone Idai batters 1.7 million people: now outbreaks of cholera and malaria

  

  A week after the flooded Mozambican port of Beira was hit by Cyclone Idai, cases of cholera have been recorded, a humanitarian aid group said on Friday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned of the risk of other outbreaks, already noting an increase in malaria.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Theresa May not sure of a third vote on her Brexit deal next week: “there is not sufficient support”

  

  Theresa May has told MPs that a third vote on her Brexit deal may not take place next week “if it appears there is not sufficient support”. It comes after European Council President Donald Tusk said Brexit's fate was “in Britain's hands.”

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 09:06 UTC

  Temer's arrest and military pensions' reform brings down Brazilian stock market and weakens currency

  

  Brazilian stocks fell sharply on Friday as the arrest of the country’s former president, Michel Temer, sparked worries that government debate over key fiscal reforms may be delayed.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Brazil's Vale allegedly quashed efforts to audit the dam that killed 300 people

  

  Executives at Vale SA, the world's largest iron ore miner, quashed efforts by Brazilian authorities to audit one of the company's mining dams months before it collapsed and killed over 300 people, a state prosecutor was quoted as saying by news website G1 on Wednesday.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Brazilian agri-business group files for bankruptcy protection: US$ 127m debt

  

  Privately owned Brazilian agribusiness group Itaquere has filed for bankruptcy protection to restructure 482 million reais (US$ 127 million) of debt, according to a letter from management reported in the media.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Philip Morris Canadian branch on creditor protection following a Quebec class action ruling

  

  Philip Morris International Inc on Friday said its Canadian unit, Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc (RBH), was granted creditor protection, following a tobacco class action ruling in Quebec earlier this month.