• USA Svizzera

    Triple whammy

    IF YOU think America’s banks are having a rough year, take a look at Europe (see chart). American lenders’ share prices, having rallied from their trough in mid-February, are 6% lower than at the start of 2016; European ones are over 20% down. So miserable has the first quarter been ...

  • Nigeria

    Praga triunfa en casa

    San Marcos de Tambogrande venció 2-0 a San José de Tarbes y sumó su segundo triunfo al hilo para liderar el campeonato de voleibol, categoría Mayores, de los Juegos Adecore, que organiza el Consorcio de Centros Educativos Católicos de Piura. Las sanmarquinas, que en el debut superaron a San Gabriel,...

  • Ecuador

    Perú se convertirá en uno de los diez principales proveedores de alimentos en el mundo

    Nuestro país se perfila, gracias a la culminación de sus proyectos de irrigación, como una próxima potencia mundial en la producción de frutas y hortalizas, así lo confirmó el ministro de Agricultura y Riego (Minagri), Juan Manuel Benites. PUEDES VER: Amarakaeri: cabecera de cuenca del río Colorado está libre de minerales pesados Ante ...

  • Paraguay

    BCP suspende operaciones de aseguradora Imperio S.A.

    La Superintendencia de Seguros del Banco Central del Paraguay (BCP) acaba de emitir la Resolución N.° 137/2016 por la cual se "retira la autorización para operar en el mercado asegurador paraguayo" a Imperio S.A. de seguros y reaseguros.

  • Nicaragua

    La UE busca promover con feria el intercambio comercial con Nicaragua

    La Unión Europea (UE) inauguró hoy una feria en Nicaragua, con el fin de impulsar el Acuerdo de Asociación suscrito con Centroamérica y en vigor desde hace tres años y como parte del Día de Europa.

  • USA

    Snuffed out

    Thank you for vaping THE interests of cigarette-makers and regulators rarely align. To date, most rules have been bad news for Big Tobacco. Change came on May 5th, when America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced new requirements for electronic cigarettes. The vapour industry is small—less than 0.1% of the tobacco market—but ...

  • Sudafrica USA

    Snappy dressers

    SOME 30,000 crocodiles bask at Izintaba, a farm sprawled across 100 acres near the South African city of Pretoria. Sold to tanners for bags, belts and watch straps, the best croc skins can fetch more than $600. The job requires long hours but is not particularly dangerous, says Pit Süssmann, ...

  • USA

    The eye of the storm

    BOEING’S factory at Everett, near Seattle, is the largest building in the world, as befits the world’s biggest planemaker. From within its cavernous halls a new passenger jet emerges every working day. After an empty fuselage enters at one end of the factory, it can take as little as a ...

  • Qatar Egitto India

    Going great guns

    BIG European defence firms had cause for gloom not long ago. Austerity limited military spending on the continent, and no obvious external threat justified raising it. Terrorism deserved most attention. Officials in NATO countries promised to devote 2% of GDP to defence, but Europeans generally fell well short, with Germany ...

  • Egitto

    Mamluks and maliks

    Best of friends IN HIS CAIRO office overlooking the Nile, a businessman keeps his mobile phone in a glass jar on his desk. Elsewhere in the city a writer keeps hers in the fridge. If smartphones were once the tools of young revolutionaries across the Arab world, the fear is that ...