Britain's financial system is prepared for even a worst-case Brexit scenario with a hard exit from the European Union and a consequent trade war, the Bank of England has announced.
Venezuelan businessmen have taken advantage of his government’s quiet abandonment of price, currency and import controls to buy direct from US wholesalers including Costco and Walmart. It is a fascinating situation considering the mutual hostility between Venezuela and the US.
Cuba is bracing for the possibility of the United States breaking off diplomatic ties but will seek to maintain them nonetheless, Havana's top diplomat in charge of relations with Washington.
In Honduras, a gang of gunmen on motorcycles killed Pedro Ildefonso Armas, the director of the nation’s maximum-security prison.
A Philippine court threw out a high-profile, 32-year-old forfeiture case on Monday involving the family of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, citing insufficient evidence to order the return of $3.9 billion of allegedly ill-gotten wealth.
Canada is intrigued to hear the outcome of a double murder from two years ago.
The National Health Service moved dramatically to the centre of the UK general election on Monday after a picture of a sick child sleeping on a hospital floor prompted the prime minister’s first significant mis-step of the campaign. The UK held its general election yesterday (Thursday).
Venezuelans are still pouring out of the country to find a better life. Political instability, economic collapse and rising insecurity in Venezuela have triggered the flight of nearly 4.5 million people from their home country in recent years.
Cuba has a new five-star hotel which opened its doors this week in the northern group of keys of Villa Clara, in the island’s centre. The Grand Sirenis Cayo Santa María is the new luxury facility of Cuba’s tourist destination, one of the island’s most in demand today.
Honduras is addressing the serious issue of malnutrition in children. Tomalá is in Lempira in western Honduras, which has the highest rate of chronic child malnutrition in the country and well above average for Latin America.