Politics

• Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 - 11:17 UTC

  Latin American exports rebound in first quarter of 2017 pushed by commodity prices

  

  After four consecutive years of contraction, Latin American and Caribbean exports returned to a path of growth. In the first quarter of 2017, the value of goods exports increased 17% year-on-year, having contracted 2.9% in 2016.

• Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 - 08:48 UTC

  Protestors set on fire Chavez childhood home; Army preparing snipers to control demonstrations

  

  Protesters set fire to late President Hugo Chavez's childhood home in western Venezuela on Monday, an opposition lawmaker said, as protests against the president Nicolas Maduro grew increasingly hostile.

• Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 - 08:36 UTC

  Temer accepts Supreme Court investigation: incriminating secret recording was “edited 70 times”

  

  Brazil's President Michel Temer has asked the Supreme Court to proceed with an investigation against him for obstruction of justice and corruption. His lawyers say that a secret recording that appears to incriminate him has been edited 70 times.

• Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 - 08:17 UTC

  Suspected terror attack in Manchester pop concert kills 19 and leaves scores injured; Tuesday campaigning suspended

  

  Nineteen people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a suspected terror attack at Manchester Arena. The blast happened at 22:35 BST on Monday following a pop concert by the US singer Ariana Grande.

• Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 09:04 UTC

  French financial prosecutors investigating submarines' sale to Brazil

  

  French financial prosecutors have launched an investigation into a 6.7 billion euro (US$7.5 billion) 2008 contract between naval supplier DCNS and Brazil that included the sale of five submarines, it was reported on Sunday in Paris.

• Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 08:51 UTC

  TPP 11 committed to go ahead despite the Trump administration dropping out

  

  Asia-Pacific trade ministers agreed to try to revive a massive free trade pact, even though the United States reaffirmed its decision to pull out, as fears grow of a new global era of protectionism. The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) covered 40% of the global economy before US President Donald Trump abruptly abandoned it in January, to meet a campaign pledge to save American jobs which he says have been sucked up overseas.

• Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 08:13 UTC

  Gibraltar hosting Brexit conference for Commonwealth parliamentarians

  

  Nearly forty Parliamentarians from eleven Commonwealth countries and territories (including Falkland Islands) are meeting in Gibraltar in order to discuss the impact of the decision taken in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, among other current issues.

• Monday, May 22nd 2017 - 07:15 UTC

  Temer's time running out; economic reforms delayed; possible names to succeed the discredited president

  

  Demonstrators marched across Brazil on Sunday calling for the resignation or ouster of President Michel Temer who is implicated in a widening corruption scandal that is undermining his government's fragile efforts to end a historic recession. Protests took place in cities including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where hundreds of demonstrators marched along the shoreline, chanting and waving banners reading “Temer Out!”

• Sunday, May 21st 2017 - 12:08 UTC

  Temer on the cliff fearful of more tapes. Lula and Rousseff accused of receiving US$ 150 million for campaigns

  

  President Michel Temer faced new pressure to resign Friday, after Brazil’s supreme court said prosecutors are investigating him for obstruction of justice and corruption, and a government witness claimed his company paid US$1.5 million to Temer in bribes. A day after the release of surreptitious audio recordings in which Temer seemed to condone a criminal cover up in the “Car Wash” investigation, the court released testimony accusing him of soliciting illegal payments from meatpacking firm JBS.

• Saturday, May 20th 2017 - 09:02 UTC

  Macri returns from Beijing with US$ 17bn for infrastructure and energy projects

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have signed in Beijing 16 agreements worth at least US$17 billion in areas such as energy and transport infrastructure, confirming the close links between the two countries.