Politics

• Thursday, May 18th 2017 - 10:56 UTC

  Brazilian ambassador will return to Venezuela next week

  

  Brazil's ambassador to Venezuela, withdrawn last year during tensions between the two neighbors, will return to Caracas next week, Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said Wednesday.“Next Monday, the ambassador of Brazil will return to his place in Venezuela as a gesture of goodwill,” Jungmann told journalists in Brasilia.

• Thursday, May 18th 2017 - 10:36 UTC

  Brazil faces humanitarian crisis in Venezuelan border as thousands spill over

  

  Brazil is concerned about growing numbers of refugees spilling over its border from Venezuela and is creating a plan to deal with a possible mass influx if the crisis in Venezuela worsens, Brazilian Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, May 18th 2017 - 09:03 UTC

  Seism in Brazil: Temer could soon be joining Rousseff at the removed ex presidents' club

  

  Brazil's President Michel Temer faced calls for his removal Wednesday after a newspaper reported that he had been recorded discussing payments of hush money to a corrupt politician. Temer immediately denied the report in O Globo newspaper.

• Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 20:06 UTC

  Stranded reefer loss in South Atlantic confirmed: “no oil pollution was observed”

  

  The managers of “Uruguay Reefer”, the vessel adrift in the South Atlantic after she suffered massive water ingress finally sunk 210 NM outside the Falkland Islands Conservation Zone at 6.000 meters of water.

• Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 17:44 UTC

  .Brazil seems to be climbing out of the worst recession in history

  

  Brazil is set to show a return to growth, the Central Bank indicated Monday, raising hopes that Latin America’s biggest economy could be inching out of a two-year recession.

• Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 16:50 UTC

  Mexico and US journalists demand justice following the killing of Valdez Cardenas

  

  Journalists in the U.S. and Mexico are reeling from the death of Mexican reporter Javier Valdez Cardenas, who was shot dead on Monday in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, where he lived and worked. Valdez Cárdenas was an internationally recognized journalist who specialized in reporting on drug-trafficking and organized crime in Mexico.

• Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 16:06 UTC

  Trump in deep water: Congress demands FBI turns over documents of Comey with the president

  

  United States House of Representatives Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz is demanding the FBI hand over all documents detailing communications between President Donald Trump and fired agency Director James Comey within the next week.

• Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 10:23 UTC

  European Court of Justice ruling could complicate post-Brexit EU/UK trade deal

  

  A new decision in the European Court of Justice could complicate Theresa May’s task of securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU. The Luxembourg-based court has ruled that a free trade deal reached with Singapore in 2013 must be ratified by member states.

• Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 09:50 UTC

  Amnesty International blasts Brazilian police systematic killings and impunity

  

  Amnesty International lambasted “impunity” for Brazilian police who kill suspects during operations after a regional rights court ruled against Brazil in a spate of slayings in the 1990s. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled last week that Brazil must reopen investigations into the killings of 26 people in a Rio de Janeiro favela two decades ago and should provide compensation.

• Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 09:36 UTC

  Lloyds Bank returns to private sector; at height of financial crisis government held 43% of shares

  

  The British government has confirmed its remaining shares in Lloyds Banking Group have been sold, eight years after pumping in £20bn to save it. Lloyds Bank said the government will see a return of £21.2bn on its investment.