Governatives

Hillary Clinton is officially the candidate of the Democrats in the upcoming US presidential election, as well as the first woman to run for the White House. She was nominated as a result of a vote of the delegates of the party, gathered at the convention in Philadelphia.

Finished counting, she has passed the threshold of 2,383 preferences, needed to be chosen. For the final go-ahead, however, it was not until his Thursday night speech in which she will communicate to accept the nomination.

The U.K. government approved the expansion of London City Airport, a project held up by former Mayor Boris Johnson, as new Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said on Wednesday.

The 344-million pound ($450 million) plan include an extended terminal, a new aircraft taxiway and upgraded public transport links, creating more than 2,000 jobs. It’s estimated this will almost double the number of passengers to six million a year by 2023.

While the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are about to start, Brazil is experiencing the deepest recession in its economy for over a century, with GDP already set back by 3.8% last year and presumably down 3.3% this year.

Unemployment in the quarter ended in May rose to record 11.2%, while inflation in June stood at 8.84%, despite the Selic rate of the central bank have long been at 14.25%.

Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with turkish President Erdogan in St. Petersburg on August 9, as the Russian news agency Tass reported.

This is the first meeting between the two after that relations between Moscow and Ankara have been improving following the sending to Putin by Erdogan a letter of apology for the killing in November of a Russian military jet on the border between Syria and Turkey by Turkish fighter.

According to Alfred de Zayas, TTIP, Tisa and Ceta, trade agreements under negotiation or coming to ratification are tainted by "without democratic legitimacy" negotiations and contain aspects that deny "the raison d’être" of the nation and the enterprise.

The Cuban author, currently professor of international law at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations in Geneva (Switzerland), also holds the positions of the Independent Expert for the promotion of fair and democratic international order of the United Nations.

The Democrats’ convention, who will appoint Hillary Clinton as a candidate to the White House, opens today in Philadelphia. The former first lady has got a surprise Michael Bloomberg support: three times mayor of New York, popular figure and supporter of important battles such as those against the spread of firearms and defense of the environment, will endors her.

According to the New York Times, citing one of the former commissioners of the council, Howard Wolfson, Bloomberg also had intention to run as an independent but on 7 March had finally announced the willingness to give up for fear that his descent into the field could favor Trump.

Donald Trump has accepted yesterday the nomination of the Republican Party to run for the White House. The tycoon will therefore be the official candidate for the US presidential elections in November, waiting for the Democrats convention to indicate Hillary Clinton.

During the convention, several Republican supporters have heavily attacked the former First Lady, so much so that in Cleveland several signs among the delegates with slogans calling for "Lock her up," referring to the email-gate, the scandal of private email, who as Secretary of State has used between 2009 and 2013 for official purposes, endangering national security and on which the Justice Department declined to open an investigation against him.

Failure coup in Turkey was added to the other problems of an already hot situation. And the economy can only suffer; Salman Ahmed, Chief Investment Strategist of Lombard Odier Investment Managers has declared in a statement that: "Given the strong intensification of political instability in Turkey and the external profile of the country’s extremely fragile and deteriorating, we believe likely that Turkish assets remain under pressure also in the future, while the underlying structural stability is re-evaluated. " He added that the resolution rather rapidly, in terms of re-establishment of public order, and the consequent strengthening of Erdogan in the context that followed the failed coup "could help reduce the extreme tail risk scenario of a civil war."