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Politics

  • Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

    PDVSA suspends oil exports to review contract terms fearing no payment defaults

    The suspension takes place just weeks after PDVSA restarted deliveries of oil to the US, and Washington gave Chevron the green light to return to its operations in the country

    Venezuela's PDVSA announced it was suspending most of its crude oil exports to review the contractual terms. The review aims to make sure there will be no payment defaults, pointing out that the imposition of U.S. sanctions on the trade in Venezuelan,

  • Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

    Falklands Customs and Immigration Service: Fee increase for new Passports from next February

    Currently adult passports cost £110.50 and child passports cost £80.50. With the increase adult passports will cost £119.50 and child passports costing £86.50

    The Falkland Islands Government Customs and Immigration Service has announced on Wednesday that the UK Passport Office, have made a fee increase to passports, which will be implemented Thursday 2 February 2023.

  • Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 09:59 UTC

    IMF and IDB willing to help Brazil manage spending cap

    Economists, scholars, and specialists will be summoned to give their opinion about this, Haddad said

    Brazil's Economy Minister Fernando Haddad said Tuesday after a meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva that the agency was willing to help South America's largest country handle its fiscal situation, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 09:38 UTC

    NZ Prime Minister Ardern stepping down shortly

    ”To Clarke, let’s finally get married,” Ardern said after announcing her decision

    Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Thursday announced that she would be leaving her post no later than February 7, while the Labor Party is to choose a new leader in three days. Ardern came to power in 2017 with a coalition government and then led her center-left party to a sweeping victory in the 2020 elections, but her popularity and that of her party have fallen in recent polls.

  • Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 07:50 UTC

    Argentine announces repurchase of debt bonds

    Massa's measure seeks to boost the price of Argentine bonds in a move to nudge investors in that direction, thus deflating the “blue” dollar

    Argentina's Superminister of Economy, Agriculture, and Production Sergio Massa Wednesday announced he had instructed his team to launch a “debt repurchase” process for over US$ 1 billion “to improve the debt profile and continue lowering the country risk,” while bringing it closer to accessing foreign credit.

  • Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 23:49 UTC

    Lula da Silva has the “impression” that Bolsonaro knew about attacks in Brazil

    Lula also insisted that all those who participated “must be condemned” because otherwise “democracy cannot be guaranteed”.

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday that after the coup attempt that took place on January 8 he had the “impression” that former president Jair Bolsonaro “knew about everything”, during an exclusive interview with Globonews news channel.

  • Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 20:25 UTC

    UN Secretary-General warns many countries are on the brink of recession

    Guterres also spoke of the “Great Divide” between the United States and China

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres denounced Wednesday during his appearance before the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, that many countries were on the brink of recession, amid growing inflation in economies still to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 20:18 UTC

    Ukraine's Interior Minister killed in helicopter crash

    Monastyrskyi, a lawyer by profession, had been appointed in July 2021

    Ukraine's Interior Minister Denis Monastyrskyi, Deputy Minister Yevgeny Yenin, and the ministry's state secretary Yurii Lubkovytch were among the 16 people killed Wednesday when a relief helicopter crashed in Brovary, a town of about 100,000 people in eastern Kyiv en route to “one of the hot spots in our country where fighting is going on,”

  • Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

    Thunberg released from German Police custody

    At no time were the activists formally detained, a German police spokesman said (Pic REUTERS)

    Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was released from a German Police precinct Tuesday after she was identified together with all the other demonstrators joining her in a protest in the town of Lützerath, which was to be demolished to expand a coal mining project in a country needing energy sources following Russia's response to western sanctions due to the war in Ukraine.

  • Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 09:48 UTC

    Ecuadorian President skipping Celac Summit

    The presence of Presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Nicolás Maduro among others is yet to be confirmed

    Less than a week before the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) Summit is to be held in Buenos Aires, the President of Ecuador announced he shall not be attending the event hosted by the country holding the pro-tempore presidency of the bloc.