Politics

• Thursday, July 19th 2018 - 07:44 UTC

  Macri offers optimistic forecast of Argentine economy, pledging growth will return next year

  

  Argentina’s economy will return to growth in 2019, President Mauricio Macri said on Wednesday, following a year marked by higher-than-expected inflation and a run on the Peso currency that many economists anticipate will lead to a recession.

• Thursday, July 19th 2018 - 07:20 UTC

  Corbyn on Brexit: “the government has sunk in a mire of chaos and division”

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May faced claims from her backbenchers of deciding “Brexit means Remain” before Jeremy Corbyn slammed the “war” raging inside the Conservative Party. Mrs May was confronted by Leave-backing Tory Andrea Jenkyns at Prime Minister’s Questions, who questioned why the Government had backed away from its “Brexit means Brexit” approach.

• Thursday, July 19th 2018 - 07:07 UTC

  Ireland frustrated with UK's Brexit shifting position and “confusion” signals

  

  Ireland and the EU are very frustrated at the UK Government’s shifting positions on Brexit, the country’s deputy premier has said. In a special Brexit meeting taking place at Derrynane House in Co Kerry, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and his ministers will thrash out Brexit plans at the ancestral home of Irish political leader Daniel O’Connell.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  European business lobby urges Brussels to accelerate trade talks with Mercosur

  

  European companies are urging the European Union to accelerate trade negotiations with Mercosur bloc, in a sign of concern that the 20-year talks could once again fall dormant if they do not reach an accord this week.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2018 - 08:02 UTC

  Golden siblings and “Princess Charlotte effect” on the UK economy

  

  Britain's Prince George, 4, and Princess Charlotte, 3, aren’t literally in a competition, but when it comes to overall influence, Charlotte has an edge—and it has to do with her impact on the British economy. As it turns out, George and Charlotte are making huge financial waves just by being their cute little selves.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  Argentina consumer prices rose 3.7% in June and reach 29.5% in twelve months

  

  Consumer prices rose 3.7% in June in Argentina, official data showed on Tuesday. That brought 12-month inflation to 29.5%, up from 26.3% in the 12 months through May, the INDEC national statistics bureau announced, which makes it the highest monthly recorded figure of the last two years.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2018 - 07:12 UTC

  Ortega determined to quell rebellious Masaya by Thursday, Sandinista Liberation Day

  

  Nicaraguan national police and armed pro-government civilians laid siege to a symbolically important neighborhood that has recently become a center of resistance to President Daniel Ortega's government. Government forces began advancing on the Monimbo neighborhood in the city of Masaya before dawn Tuesday.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2018 - 06:50 UTC

  “Transitional justice system” to help end Mexico's drugs war, anticipates president elect Lopez Obrador

  

  Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has given his future interior minister “carte blanche” to explore the possibility of legalizing drugs in a bid to curb violent crime, she said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2018 - 06:36 UTC

  Japan-EU sign wide ranging free trade deal, representing 33% of global GDP

  

  Japan and the European Union signed a wide-ranging free trade deal on Tuesday that both sides hope will act as a counterweight to the protectionist forces unleashed by US President Donald Trump.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2018 - 06:13 UTC

  Theresa May survives Tory pro-EU coup by six votes; Ex PMs Tony Blair and John Major call for second referendum

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May has narrowly survived another crunch Brexit vote in parliament, as she struggles to unify her divided party around her strategy for leaving the European Union.