United States

Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:29 UTC
US and Brazil agree to lower barriers to agricultural trade, mainly wheat and beef

The United States and Brazil have agreed to steps aimed at lowering barriers to agricultural trade, focusing on wheat, pork and beef, the presidents of the two nations said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 20:59 UTC
Venezuelan gold crisis: US imposes sanctions on state mining company

United States Treasury Department announced new sanctions on Venezuelan state-run ferrous metals mining Company, Minerven, and its President, Adrián Antonio Perdomo on Tuesday for promoting “illicit” gold operations that have continued to prop up the regime of President Nicolas Maduro.
Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 08:36 UTC
Two of kind meet this Tuesday in the White House full of reciprocal praise

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, on his first official visit to Washington, declared himself an unabashed admirer of the United States and said he was seeking a new era of close relations after what he called decades of anti-American leaders.
Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 06:57 UTC
Ex Peruvian president spends a night in California jail for drunkenness

Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, who is facing extradition from the United States over corruption charges, was briefly jailed for public intoxication after getting drunk in a California restaurant, local police said on Monday.
Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 05:52 UTC
Guaidó's representatives move into Venezuela offices in Washington and New York

Representatives of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido have taken control of three of the country's diplomatic properties in the United States, Guaido's US envoy said on Monday, as the opposition presses its bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
Monday, March 18th 2019 - 09:51 UTC
Bolsonaro in Washington, meets Trump on Tuesday: closer political collaboration and Venezuela in the agenda

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrived in Washington on Sunday to meet with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, and cement a conservative-populist alliance that, in part, aims to ramp up pressure on Venezuela.
Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:28 UTC
“Clear similarities” between Boeing 737 crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia

Black box data recovered from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last week shows “clear similarities” with a recent crash in Indonesia of the same type of aircraft, Ethiopia's transport minister said on Sunday.
Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:24 UTC
US seizes pork shipments from China fearing contagion of African swine flu disease

U.S. border agents have seized around 1 million pounds of pork from China, a spokesman for the agency said on Friday, over suspicions that it might contain African swine flu disease which has hit Chinese pork output. Federal agents have seized the supplies over the past week in New York.
Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:18 UTC
US wheat and Brazilian fresh beef included in agriculture talks in Washington

Brazil is considering granting an import quota of 750,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat per year without tariffs in exchange for other trade concessions, according to Brazilian officials. That is about 10% of Brazilian annual wheat imports and is part of a two-decade-old commitment to import 750,000 metric tons of wheat a year free of tariffs that Brazil made — but never kept — during the World Trade Organization's Uruguay Round of talks on agriculture.
Saturday, March 16th 2019 - 09:18 UTC
Mexican border wall: Trump “proudly” signs veto to secure emergency funds

Donald Trump signed the first veto of his presidency on Friday, overriding congressional opposition to secure emergency funds to build more walls on the US-Mexico border. Trump declared in the Oval Office that he was “proud” to sign the veto.