Politics

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 10:11 UTC

  Brazil and US in talks for a Temer visit to the White House

  

  Brazilian and U.S. officials are in talks about a White House visit by President Michel Temer to discuss bilateral trade and investment issues, according to Planalto sources. U.S. President Donald Trump invited Temer for a visit during a March 18 phone call, when the two leaders discussed deepening commercial and business ties between the Western Hemisphere's largest economies, the sources said.

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 10:04 UTC

  Trump reading the US$ 1 trillion ten-year infrastructure plan, but he's no longer undefeatable

  

  United States Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said the Trump administration would unveil a US$1 trillion infrastructure plan later this year, but she did not offer details of funding for projects.

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 09:56 UTC

  Brazilian tainted meat: minister believes “the worst of the process is over”

  

  Worldwide markets have been slamming their doors on Brazilian meat since revelations that rotten product was being sold with faked certificates, but the agriculture minister said Thursday “the worst of the process is over.”

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentina purchasing 12 T-6C Texan training aircraft; budget too 'small' for more shopping

  

  Argentina has few funds available to replace an outdated military fleet beyond buying 12 Beechraft Texan aircraft to train pilots, Defense Minister Julio Martinez admitted. He said actual plans were more modest than those reported by media in Argentina and Brazil in recent months, which said the government was interested in buying war planes from abroad, including from Brazil's Embraer or Mig fighters from Russia.

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 06:47 UTC

  Brexit: London's financial sector calls for a transitional deal for the industry

  

  London’s powerhouse financial sector finds itself at a critical juncture with Article 50 about to be triggered, as the Square Mile braces itself for a jobs exodus and the potential loss of European trading rights following Brexit. City bosses and politicians have called on the UK Government to secure a transitional deal for the industry to prevent companies pre-empting uncertainty by upping sticks to rival financial centres across the globe.

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 06:25 UTC

  Brazil's Temer job on the line: Electoral Court could force him out of office on campaign financing

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer since taking office, in May 2016, has faced one crisis after the other, and now the man who rose to power thanks to an impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff, faces himself the threat of removal from office.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 17:45 UTC

  Brexit: Full text of Theresa May's letter to European Council president Donald Tusk

  

  Dear President Tusk
  On 23 June last year, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As I have said before, that decision was no rejection of the values we share as fellow Europeans. Nor was it an attempt to do harm to the European Union or any of the remaining member states.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 17:37 UTC

  The direction the Prime Minister is taking is “both reckless and damaging”

  

  The head of UK opposition and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans for Brexit were potentially “reckless and damaging”.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 17:33 UTC

  “We already miss you. Thank you and good bye”

  

  In a press conference in Brussels, following the hand-delivered letter, EC president Donald Tusk sent a message to the UK: “We already miss you. Thank you and goodbye.”

• Wednesday, March 29th 2017 - 17:21 UTC

  “An historic moment from which there can be no turning back”, May tells Parliament

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May has kicked off the two-year process of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in what she said was “an historic moment from which there can be no turning back”. Minutes after a letter informing the European Council of the UK’s intention to leave, Mrs May told the House of Commons that the Government was acting on “the democratic will of the British people” expressed in last year’s referendum vote for Brexit.