Petroleo Brasileiro SA investors who’ve ridden a 25% rally in shares this year are now confronted with a wave of analyst downgrades on concern that below-market fuel prices and higher spending will erode what’s been a multibillion-dollar dividend bonanza.
Mexico’s poverty rate has fallen to 36.3% in 2022 from 43.9% two years earlier amid an increase in social programs directed at the pension-age elderly and young people under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and a strong economic recovery from the pandemic.
Colombia’s electoral authority requested the nation’s tax agency to turn over information on President Gustavo Petro’s former campaign manager, Ricardo Roa, according to a CNE document obtained by Bloomberg.
Ukraine’s navy designated temporary Black Sea routes for trade vessels willing to navigate waters endangered by Russia’s military.
Iran asked South Africa’s government to support its “accelerated membership” of BRICS, as the five-nation bloc prepares to hold a summit later this month.
A band of Republican lawmakers on Thursday threatened to cut off funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless President Joe Biden ousts one of his cabinet secretaries, adopts GOP border legislation that would curtail asylum claims by migrants or makes other border changes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at his political opponents in a more than two-hour long speech – accusing the opposition of historical mis-governance, corruption and nepotism — and only briefly touched on the ongoing deadly violence in the state of Manipur that led to the no confidence vote against his government.
Romania is poised to sign a $6.5 billion contract to upgrade its air force with US-made F-35 aircraft, the Black Sea nation’s biggest such deal to date as Russia’s war with Ukraine rages on the other side of the border.
Troops deployed across Ecuador on Thursday to enforce a state of emergency as six people accused of plotting the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio are due to appear before a judge.
Clarence Thomas’s travel bankrolled by wealthy friends was more extensive than previously reported and included yachting trips around the Bahamas, premium sports events and a private 737 sent to retrieve the US Supreme Court justice, according to a new ProPublica report.
