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Protests at Chinese copper mine in Peru continue after local leader freed

01/04/201902/04/2019 Reuters 289 Views Chinese Government, mine

CHALLHUAHUACHO, Peru/LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian police on Friday freed the leader of an indigenous community that has blocked roads to a major copper mine, but hours later arrested his second-in-command, accusing him of running over police officers while driving drunk.
The release of Gregorio Rojas, the president of the Quechua-speaking community Fuerabamba, had been a key demand of Fuerabamba villagers who have cut off access to Chinese miner MMG Ltd’s copper mine Las Bambas, halting its exports.

Finance International

Japan’s business mood hits two-year low as trade war stings

01/04/2019 Reuters 337 Views 0 Comments Finance, Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese business confidence worsened to a two-year low in the March quarter, a central bank survey showed, underscoring concerns that Sino-U.S. trade tensions and softening global demand were taking a toll on the export-reliant economy.
The damage was most pronounced among big manufacturers, where sentiment soured at the fastest pace in more than six years, stoking fears that uncertainty over the global outlook could discourage companies from spending on wages and expenditure.

International Life

Conversion is not your mission, Pope tells Catholics in Morocco

01/04/201901/04/2019 Reuters 287 Views 0 Comments Religion

RABAT (Reuters) – Pope Francis told the tiny Catholic community in predominantly Muslim Morocco on Sunday that their mission was not to covert their neighbours but to live in brotherhood with other faiths.
Francis has used his two-day trip to stress inter-faith dialogue. He has also backed Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s efforts to spread a form of Islam that promotes inter-religious dialogue and rejects violence in God’s name.

International News

UK PM May plans watered-down Brexit vote to secure departure delay

29/03/2019 Reuters 329 Views

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May scrambled on Thursday for a way to secure a new delay to Brexit in the face of parliamentary deadlock by setting out plans for a watered-down vote on her EU divorce deal to be held on Friday.

International News

PNG to source education materials from India

27/03/201927/03/2019 EMTV Online 590 Views 0 Comments Department of National Planning and Monitoring

Minister for National Planning Richard Maru, said sourcing of quality educational materials from India would be beneficial for Papua New Guinea on many levels.

International News

India ready to assist PNG with 2022 elections

27/03/2019 EMTV Online 653 Views 0 Comments Department of National Planning and Monitoring, Election Commission of India, National elections

Minister for National Planning Richard Maru is pleased with the assurance of support from the Chief Election Commissioner of India, Sunil Arora, to assist Papua New Guinea in electoral training and technologies ahead of the 2022 National General Election.

International

European leaders press for fairer trade relationship with China

27/03/2019 Reuters 309 Views 0 Comments

PARIS (Reuters) – Europe’s top leaders told President Xi Jinping on Tuesday they wanted a fairer trading relationship with China, signalling an openness to engage with Beijing’s “Belt and Road” infrastructure project if it meant more access to the Chinese market.

International

After devastating floods, U.S. Midwest farms need more than ‘paper towels’ to recover

27/03/2019 Reuters 266 Views 0 Comments

(Reuters) – Missouri farmer Richard Oswald needs a lot of help to recover from flooding that left his home and farm looking like a manmade island in an inland sea.

International Life

Finland tops world’s happiest countries list again – U.N. report

27/03/2019 Reuters 355 Views 0 Comments

A general view of Helsinki, Finland, May 6, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland topped the ranking of

Health International Weather

Destructive Cyclone Idai rings ‘alarm bell’ on climate change – U.N. chief

27/03/2019 Reuters 438 Views 0 Comments Climate Change, cyclone idai

BEIRA, Mozambique (Reuters) – Cyclone Idai’s deadly hit has left some 1.85 million people in need of assistance in Mozambique in a catastrophe that United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday rang “yet another alarm bell” about climate change.

Health International

Night shift work linked to a higher risk of miscarriage

27/03/2019 Reuters 665 Views 0 Comments

(Reuters Health) – Pregnant women who work at least two-night shifts in one week may have a heightened risk of miscarriage the following week, a new study suggests.

International

Death toll from attack on Mali herders rises to 157

27/03/2019 Reuters 337 Views 0 Comments

DAKAR (Reuters) – The death toll from Saturday’s attack by unknown gunmen on villagers in central Mali has risen to 157, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, confirming it as one of the worst recent atrocities in a country beset by ethnic violence.

International

Southwest 737 MAX makes emergency landing, says computer system not to blame

27/03/2019 Reuters 448 Views 0 Comments Boeing 737 Max

(Reuters) – A Southwest Airlines Co Boeing 737 MAX 8 heading to the California desert for parking during a global ban of the aircraft made an emergency landing on Tuesday due to an engine-related problem shortly after take-off, the carrier said.

International News

Australian prosecutors seek jail for media over Pell trial coverage

26/03/2019 Reuters 472 Views 0 Comments

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australian prosecutors are seeking jail and fines for dozens of journalists and media outlets for alleged contempt of court over their coverage of Cardinal George Pell’s child sex abuse trial last year, a court summons showed on Tuesday.The Director of Public Prosecution in Victoria has asked the state’s Supreme Court to send journalists to jail or impose fines for breaching a suppression order on coverage of the trial, aiding and abetting overseas media’s contempt of court, and “scandalizing the court”.

International

Brexit in numbers: How did parliament vote on Monday?

26/03/2019 Reuters 311 Views 0 Comments brexit, theresa may

British lawmakers on Monday used a vote on the government’s next steps on Brexit to wrest control of the process so that they can then try to find a majority for an alternative that would break the parliamentary deadlock.

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