Section: South America
Trump Pressed for Ukraine Envoy’s Removal, She Tells Lawmakers
United States President Donald Trump for more than a year had pressured the State Department to remove former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, the envoy told lawmakers in more than nine hours of closed-door testimony that Democrats demanded as part of their rapidly expanding impeachment inquiry. …read more Source:: Latin American...
Trump dismisses the impeachment inquiry on Biden-Ukrainian contacts, as “a joke”
A downbeat Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed as a “joke” the grounds laid out for the impeachment inquiry into him, as Democrats stood firm in accusing the US president of a “mafia-style shakedown” of his Ukrainian counterpart. …read more Source::...
US share of global sales of soybean and grains to shrink as South American competition grows
The U.S. Department of Agriculture sees U.S. corn and soybean exports generally increasing over the coming decade but the U.S. share of global sales will shrink as competition from South American producers heats up, the government said in its annual report. …read more Source::...
Return Malvinas and Gibraltar before talking about Crimea, Russia tells UK
Russia’s ambassador to the UN has suggested that Britain should “clean its conscience” by “giving back” the Falklands/Malvinas and Gibraltar before it passes judgment on the Kremlin’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. …read more Source::...
Argentina and China among the most vulnerable markets, says IIF
The markets of China, Ukraine, Argentina, South Africa and Turkey are the most vulnerable among all developing countries in terms of financing needs, reserve adequacy, asset valuation, institutional quality and trade resilience, according to a review by the analysts of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). …read more Source::...
Zelenski’s Party Triumphs in Ukraine Elections, Exit Polls Say
The party headed by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, the Servant of the People party – named after the sitcom in which he starred before running for, and winning, the presidency last April – took between 42.7 percent and 44.7 percent of the vote in Sunday’s legislative elections, according to exit polls. …read more Source: Latin...
Ukraine President Would Exchange Prisoners with Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that as a gesture of good will he would free Russian-Ukrainian journalist Kirill Vyshinskiy in exchange for the simultaneous release by Russia of imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
EU extends economic sanctions against Russia over Ukraine until February 2020
European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to prolong economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine until the end of January 2020, a spokesman for the bloc said. The EU first slapped sanctions on Russia after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 and supported rebels fighting Kiev troops in the east of the country. That...
US Urges Russia to Ensure MH17 Accused Face Justice
The United States urged Russia on Wednesday to ensure that the people accused of being involved in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in 2014 face justice and said it believed that they will tried by the Dutch authorities in a “just” manner. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
Russians, Ukrainian to face murder charges over downing of Flight MH17
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands, (Reuters) – Three Russians and a Ukrainian will face murder charges for the deaths of 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014, the international investigative team said yesterday. The post Russians, Ukrainian to face murder charges over downing of Flight MH17...
