Politics

Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:54 UTC
Slowdown deepens in Latin America with regional growth forecasted at 1,8% this year, ECLAC report

The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean face a complex situation in 2022 because of the Russia/Ukraine war with its shadow of uncertainty for the world economy. This is negatively affecting global growth, and at regional level, lower expected growth will be accompanied by higher inflation and slower employment recovery.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:50 UTC
State of emergency declared in violence-torn Ecuadorian provinces

President Guillermo Lasso Friday decreed a state of emergency for two months in three of Ecuador's provinces where the crime rate has reached historic levels, it was announced.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:48 UTC
Major UK troop deployment in mainland Europe announced

UK defense authorities Friday confirmed they were deploying some 8,000 of its troops to continental Europe between April and June from Finland to North Macedonia in what is regarded as the largest movement of military resources since the Cold War.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Presidents Biden, López Obrador discuss migration over the phone

US President Joseph Biden and his Mexican colleague Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) were reported Friday to have had a “very constructive and cordial” telephone conversation, according to White House sources.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:40 UTC
Chinese citizens, economy fear measures more than they fear COVID-19 itself

The COVID-19 pandemic has almost the whole world going in one direction and China doing quite the opposite and measures of the utmost severity have led to the strict confinement of some 343 million people to enforce a “zero-tolerance” policy as cases of the Omicron variant keep being detected through mass, compulsory testing.
Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:00 UTC
BOT Virgin Islands' Premier arrested on alleged drug plot; Foreign Secretary Truss “appalled”

The Miami Herald has reported that Andrew Fahie, the premier of the British Virgin Islands, is currently being held in the US after being apprehended in Miami on 28 April over an alleged drug plot. Fahie was appointed to his role of premier by the Queen in 2019 and has been in charge of running the Caribbean island ever since.
Friday, April 29th 2022 - 23:06 UTC
Uruguayan President was invited by Boris Johnson and will travel to the UK

The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, was invited by the government of the United Kingdom to meet with the Prime Minister of that country, Boris Johnson. He will travel to that country at the end of May or the beginning of June, as reported by Montevideo Portal and later confirmed by sources from the president's office.
Friday, April 29th 2022 - 22:23 UTC
China shares all data from base in Argentine Patagonia, ambassador says

Argentina's Ambassador to Beijing Sabino Vaca Narvaja said China shared all the information on the space program with Argentina. His remarks came after US Southern Command Chief, Gen. Laura Richardson, expressed her concerns over the space station the Asian nation runs near the town of Bajada del Agrio in the province of Neuquén.
Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:56 UTC
Mercosur-Europe FTA now or never, EU diplomat in Buenos Aires says

The European Union's Ambassador to Argentina said Thursday that if the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur was to be revived it was now or never.
Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:51 UTC
Guterres tours Ukraine amid heavy Russian shelling

One day after meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Thursday traveled to Kyiv for an encounter with Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky amid heavy shelling from Russian forces.