Politics

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 19:18 UTC

  Argentina and UK explore economic ties and Falklands resolution in Davos meeting

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron met at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, signalling a commitment to enhance bilateral trade relations and address the dispute over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. Both nations engaged in a conflict over this territory in 1982, when Argentina invaded the South Atlantic islands. Since then, the South American country has maintained its claim to sovereignty.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

  Paraguay with positive trade balance and good news from Israel

  

  Land locked and Mercosur member Paraguay exports reached US$ 17,3 billion in 2023, according to the country's Central Bank International Trade Report. This represents a 24,8% increase in US dollars over a similar period a year before. The success is attributed to larger shipments of soybeans, rice and soy flour.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

  UK: Crucial vote on Rwanda bill this Wednesday; blow to PM Sunak's authority

  

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing a crucial vote on his Rwanda bill this Wednesday, after two Conservative deputy chairmen and a ministerial aide resigned to rebel over the issue. BBC has reported that on Tuesday Lee Anderson, Brendan Clarke-Smith and Jane Stevenson stepped down to vote for changes they said would toughen up the legislation.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

  “Remigration,” an EU and German 'non word' applied to promote extreme right wing policies against migration

  

  Germany has increased its vocabulary of “non words”, with the term “remigration”, quite extensive to the rest of the European Union combating illegal migration. However a jury of linguists in Marburg in Hessen, argue the term is being used as a “euphemistic cover vocabulary” by extreme right wing parties.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Taiwan's unknowable future and president for life Xi Jinping rage

  

  By Gwynne Dyer
  
  Taiwan’s fate is as unknowable as usual, even though we know who the next president is, William Lai, vice-president under outgoing President Tsai Ing-Wen, mainly because the two opposition parties failed to agree on a joint candidate and ultimately split the slightly-less-anti-China vote between them.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:16 UTC

  Uruguay's ROU 4 General Artigas sets sail on Antarctic campaign

  

  The Uruguayan Navy's logistic ship ROU 4 General Artigas set sail this week from Montevideo to bring supplies to the South American country's Antarctica deployments as per this summer's campaign.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

  Essequibo about to become military conflict, Colombia's Petro tells WEF

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro Tuesday said during his appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, that oil- extracting in the Essequibo area held by Guyana but claimed by Venezuela should not go on. He also reckoned the dispute was on the verge of becoming a military conflict.

• Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 12:24 UTC

  Itaipú: No progress after Presidents of Brazil and Paraguay meet

  

  Talks between Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Santiago Peña of Paraguay reached nowhere Monday in Brasilia as both leaders failed to reach an agreement over the Itaipú dam electricity fares. However, dialogue will continue.

• Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:20 UTC

  Boric keen on not mirroring Ecuador's crisis

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday said during an engagement in the Coquimbo Region that his administration needed to do things to not have to go through the crisis Ecuador is experiencing. “We have to ask ourselves how we do things so that we don't get to that place,” Boric underlined.

• Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:17 UTC

  Ecuador: 48 prison inmates escape, only 5 recaptured

  

  Only five of the 48 prison inmates that escaped Monday from the Esmeraldas jailhouse were recaptured later in the day according to sources from Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa's administration quoted by local media.