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...Analysts said the violence suggested the crisis engulfing Peru would continue to dog the government of president Dina Boluarte, who took office on December 7, hours after Castillo was arrested for attempting...
...The unrest was triggered by the ousting and subsequent arrest of Castillo on December 7 after he attempted to close congress and rule by decree ahead of an impeachment vote....
...Corficolombiana, a Bogotá-based financial services company, predicts that growth would contract by 1.7 per cent and 1.6 per cent in Peru and Ecuador, respectively, and 0.6 per cent in Colombia, with economists...
...Along its 9,000km, the Carretera Austral slithers through Chilean Patagonia’s subtropical forests, grasslands, glaciers, lakes and arid landscapes, accumulating a distance of 1,240km – about as long as Italy...
...In the US, PPI cooled a little in November to 7.4 per cent from October’s 8.1 per cent, but the less than expected fall showed high inflation may be around a little longer than investors had hoped....
...Five more stories in the news 1. Peru ousts president after ‘attempted coup’ Lawmakers removed Pedro Castillo yesterday after he tried to shut down congress before an impeachment vote....
...Need to know: Global economy The World Bank warned the global economy was on the “razor’s edge” of recession as it cut growth forecasts to 1.7 per cent this year, a sharp drop from an estimated 2.9 per...
...Russia’s central bank held rates steady at 7.5 per cent after months of successive cuts from the emergency 20 per cent rate it set after the invasion of Ukraine in February....
...Mortgage rates in the 7 per cent range have priced many would-be home buyers out of the market. Building permits are expected to have fallen to 1.51mn in October from 1.56mn the previous month....
...Peru’s economy was crippled by a long lockdown in 2020 which sent GDP plunging 11.1 per cent but failed to curb coronavirus....
...Another dollar bond maturing in 2031 fell more than 1 per cent to 99 cents on the dollar....
...An exit poll published by Ipsos suggested rightwing populist Keiko Fujimori was fractionally ahead of her leftwing rival Pedro Castillo, with 50.3 per cent to his 49.7 per cent....
...The retail and PMI data led economists to forecast a more aggressive programme of interest rate rises from the Bank of England, sparking a 1 per cent drop in the pound against the US dollar to $1.289....
...And I am hopeful that’s where we will end up with Castillo as well.”...
...Five more stories in the news 1....
...The EU and US are poised to resolve a 17-year dispute over aircraft subsidies, lifting the threat of billions of dollars in punitive tariffs in a boost to transatlantic relations....
...Nurses’ mental health has also suffered, with 86 per cent of the 1,100 healthcare workers surveyed by non-profit Mental Health America reporting anxiety....
...Drawn by the landscape more than the driving, we were never going to cover the whole of Ruta 7, the road’s official name....
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...Mauricio Pacheco, 17, who has been picking coffee for about $7 a day, is also keen. “There’s less work here than before, because of climate change,” he said....
...Andalucia: an underperforming outpost Population: 8.4m Gross domestic product per capita: €18,470 (Spanish average €24,999) GDP growth rate in 2017: 2.7% (Spanish average 3.1%) Unemployment rate: 22.9%...
...Abril Castillo, 19, attends college thanks to Daca and dreams of opening a US boarding school for children from Central America....
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...recently weakened sharply, the UK minimum wage for a full-time employee was the third highest in the EU in January and is set to rise into second place for those over 25 after the higher minimum wage of £7.20...
...Hardline Republicans say the 1,954-mile border should be shut, and Texas is one of the party’s anchors....
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