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Canadian PM sacks ambassador to China amid Huawei row

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Saturday that he fired his country’s Beijing envoy. “Last night I asked for and accepted John McCallum’s resignation as Canada’s Ambassador to China,” Trudeau said in a statement without elaborating his reasons for the removal....

Venezuela’s oil trade with US will continue: Maduro

Venezuela will continue to sell oil to the U.S. despite cutting off diplomatic ties with Washington, President Nicolas Maduro said Friday. Speaking to reporters at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Maduro said cutting diplomatic relations would not affect oil trade with the U.S....

Embraer signs agreement to sell commercial division to Boeing

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer on Thursday signed an agreement for the sale of its commercial divison to Boeing -- and set the date for a shareholders meeting to approve the tie-up on February 26. Despite initital reservations, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro already gave the...

African franc faces unlikely foes on Europe's fringes

It has featured among complaints by French "yellow vest" protesters and in populist Italian rhetoric: Africa's CFA franc currency has become an unexpected hot topic on Europe's political fringes. When a list of unofficial "yellow vest" demands went viral in December, some observers were...