Section: Latin America
Brazil’s Lack of Property Rights Stoking Conflict, Deterring Investment
In Brazil’s Amazon where no-one knows who exactly owns a swathe of territory the size of Ukraine, a lack of formal property deeds is causing conflict, greater deforestation and environmental damage, researchers said on Tuesday. An area of 60 million hectares in Brazil’s Amazonas state, 40 percent of the state’s total area, is...
Venus, Serena Williams featured on Ashe in Day 2 of US Open
Venus and Serena Williams are among the featured matches on Arthur Ashe Stadium at the U.S. Open. Venus will take on Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine in the afternoon Tuesday before her top-ranked sister plays Ekaterina Makarova of Russia in the night match at the stadium with the new retractable roof. Serena has been bothered by a shoulder injury,...
Arsenal signs Lucas Perez, Hart set for Man City exit
Arsenal bolstered its striker options by signing Lucas Perez from Deportivo La Coruna on the next-to-last day of Europe’s transfer window, and England goalkeeper Joe Hart’s departure from Manchester City grew closer on Tuesday. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been trying to buy a striker since the end of last season, only to see...
Three Killed in Car Bomb Explosion in Western Ukraine
Three people died on Monday when a car was blown up in the western Ukrainian region of Lviv, authorities said. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
New tans, same old ‘polycrisis’ as Europe’s summer ends
The European Union grinds back into action this week after its August break, still dazed by Britain’s midsummer vote to quit the EU and facing much the same “polycrisis” as a year ago: a mass of refugees, a fragile economy, hostile Russians and, yes, those Brits, now more awkward than ever. When President Jean-Claude Juncker makes his...
Guardiola returns to Barcelona with City in Champions League
Manchester City’s new coach Pep Guardiola will be heading back to Barcelona after the Premier League club was pitted against his former team in the Champions League draw on Thursday. Guardiola, who also spent most of his playing career at the Catalan club, steered Barcelona to two Champions League titles as well as a number of other...
Biden warns Europe against Russian energy reliance
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has cautioned Europe against a new natural gas pipeline planned to stretch from Russia to Germany, saying it “looks like a fairly bad deal” for Europe because it further increases its energy dependency on Moscow. Biden said Thursday that to lock Europe “into greater reliance on Russia at this moment...
Eleven Beijing 2008 weightlifting medallists fail doping retests
Eleven weightlifting medallists at Beijing 2008 have failed doping tests following reanalysis of samples provided from the Games. A range of banned substances were found across a group of 15 athletes who competed in China, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) revealed. Among those who returned adverse findings are Chinese gold...
Afghans Push India for More Arms, Despite Pakistan’s Wary Eye
India is set to deliver more arms to Afghanistan to help it fight Islamist militants, Kabul’s envoy to New Delhi said, even if Pakistan is wary of closer military cooperation between countries lying to its east and west. India has provided a little over $2 billion in economic assistance to Afghanistan in the last 15 years, but has been more...
Trump, Clinton Campaign Heads Linked to Ukraine Corruption
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and Hillary Clinton’s current campaign chairman are implicated in allegations of ties to corruption by the former president of Ukraine. …read more Source:...
