South America
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:59:00 GMTChile is to become a “regional, multinational and intercultural State”, according to the new constitution
Chile is to be defined in the future as a “Regional State, multinational and intercultural” according to the draft approved on Friday afternoon by the constitutional convention that is discussing the new constitution for th...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:59:00 GMTInterior Minister wants Chile's northern borders fully closed
Chile's Interior Minister Rodrigo Delgado wants to close the country's northern border as a new stage of the “state of exception” already in force in four provinces where the migration crisis is escalating.
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:38:00 GMTCanadian police launches foreceful removal of Freedom Convoy protesters
Canadian law enforcement officers have arrested over 100 people in Ottawa who had gathered at the capital city amid the so-called "Freedom Convoy" to protest against Prime Minister Trudeau's COVID-19 vaccination policies.
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:33:00 GMTNumber of fatalities in Petropolis keeps rising as rescue work affected by rain
Rains have kept falling in the Brazilian city of Petropolis in the Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro, which has affected relief work and taken the death toll up to 136, it was reported Friday, as the number of missing people ro...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:22:00 GMTWTO Fisheries to end subsidies committee: Agreement to finalize negotiations as soon as possible
The World Trade Organization committee to eliminate subsidies for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and banning certain forms of fisheries subsidies to impede overcapacity and overfishing, have agreed to continue work...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:19:00 GMTAhead of another major blunder, an Argentine haircut for the IMF
By Willem H. Buitter – By approving an unprecedentedly large loan to Argentina in mid-2018, despite the country's failure to meet basic borrowing conditions, the International Monetary Fund committed a major blunder. Rather t...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:16:00 GMTStrong jump in global 2021 trade of goods and services ,to pre-Covid-19 level, UNCTAD report
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD has published the Global Trade Update report, which shows that in 2021, world trade in goods remained strong and trade in services finally returned to its pre-COVID-...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 08:14:00 GMTUS top leader in revenue from beef exports; Brazil leads in volume
United States keeps breaking records and slowly taking the global beef exports leadership, at least in terms of revenue according to the latest figures from the US Department of Agriculture, USDA. A situation which is having it...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 08:03:00 GMTAudis, Porches and Lamborghinis adrift in the north Atlantic
Some four thousand brand new models of Audis, Porches, and Lamborghinis are adrift in the North Atlantic, close to the Azores islands when the freighter carrying them caught fire and the crew had to be rescued.
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 07:50:00 GMTHistoric shift for US: from net crude exporter in 2020, to net importer in 2021 and 2022
By Michael Kern for Oilprice.com - Higher net crude oil imports are set to make the United States a net petroleum importer this year again, as in 2021, after a historic shift of being a net petroleum exporter in 2020, the U.S. ...