Politics

Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 11:11 UTC
Argentina and Japan, strategic partners, agree on a investment accord to prop economic ties

Argentina and Japan agreed on Monday to speed up negotiations for a bilateral investment accord as part of efforts to strengthen economic ties between “strategic partners”. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Argentina President Mauricio Macri also agreed to launch talks for a tax pact for increased economic exchanges between the two countries, according to a joint statement issued after their meeting in Buenos Aires.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 10:56 UTC
TPP without the US would be “meaningless” says Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would be “meaningless” without US participation, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said as United States President-elect Donald Trump announced he planned to quit the pact. PM Abe’s comment on Monday (Tuesday morning) came shortly before the Mr Trump released a short video about his plans for his administration, including an intention to have the US drop out of the TPP pact.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 10:50 UTC
Santos: “I have no metastases, no tumor”

The President of Colombia made the announcement Monday following an urgent trip to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, US, on his doctors' advice last week due to disturbing test results that would indicate a relapse of his prostate cancer which was removed surgically in 2011.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 10:11 UTC
“Many people” would like to see Nigel Farage as UN ambassador in Washington, twits Trump

President-elect Donald J. Trump has ostensibly thrown his support behind the idea of UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage becoming the British Ambassador to the United States in a tweet issued late on Monday night. Trump issued the statement, unprompted, via his Twitter feed, stating that the idea was popular amongst “many people” in a move that is sure to set the British political establishment into a further tailspin.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:48 UTC
Trump advances plans for his first day: quitting TPP, ending visa abuses and “job killing restrictions”

President-elect Donald Trump says the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in the White House. He made the announcement in a video messaged outlining what he intends to do first when he takes office in January. The TPP trade deal was signed by 12 countries which together cover 40% of the world's economy. Trump also pledged to reduce “job-killing restrictions” on coal production and stop visa abuses.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:36 UTC
Uruguay prepared to receive Lula da Silva if he requests political asylum

President Tabare Vazquez said on Monday that Uruguay recognizes the government of president Michel Temer, respects the decisions of Brazil emerging from its political situation and admitted considering giving asylum to Brazilian politicians, if contemplated under International Law.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:04 UTC
“Surreal” to think Lula was not aware of the massive corruption schemes

Former Senator Delcídio do Amaral described as “surreal” the notion that former President Lula da Silva was not aware of a giant corruption scheme active during his tenure, in testimony on Monday marking the start of the trial against the man that ran Brazil from 2003 to 2010.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:00 UTC
Santander bank confident of Brazil's “rapid recovery”

President Michel Temer met on Monday with Banco Santander chairman Ana Botin, who expressed the Spanish banking giant's confidence in Brazil's economic future despite the current downturn being experienced by Latin America's largest economy.
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 07:35 UTC
Royal Navy sunken submarine found 100 years later

A British Navy World War I submarine which disappeared in the North Atlantic on March 7, 1916, was found Monday by divers, off the island of Schiermonnikoog, revaling the mystery of how it had gone down.
Monday, November 21st 2016 - 17:39 UTC
Merkel to seek fourth term as German chancellor

Angela Merkel announced on Sunday she will run for a fourth term as German chancellor in next year’s election, despite growing rejection to her open-door migrant policy