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International

  • Tuesday, February 27th 2018 - 09:34 UTC

    Brexit: Corbyn proposes customs union with EU, but for Brussels it is “pure illusion”

    “Labour would seek to negotiate a new comprehensive UK-EU customs union to ensure no tariffs with Europe and avoid any need for a hard border in Ireland”

    Britain should enter a new customs union with the European Union, opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Monday, setting up a possible parliamentary defeat for Prime Minister Theresa May who has vowed to leave the arrangement after Brexit.

  • Tuesday, February 27th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

    Climate change will force King Penguins to move after food or face heavy losses

    For most colonies, the length of the summer trips by parents to get food will soon become so long that their offspring could starve while waiting

    Global warming is on track to wipe out 70% of the world's King penguins by century's end, putting the regal birds on a path towards extinction, researchers warned on Monday. As climate change drives away the fish and squid upon which the flightless creatures depend, the penguins must swim further afield to find sustenance for their hungry hatchlings on land.

  • Tuesday, February 27th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

    UK counter terrorism expert warns about far-right violent extremism

    Met Police's Rowley warned that far-right extremists are working in similar ways to Islamist extremists, creating intolerance and generating distrust of state institutions.

    The retiring head of counter-terrorism policing in the UK has warned of the growing threat of far-right terrorism. Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, who will retire from the Met Police next month, said four extreme-right terror plots were disrupted last year. Ten Islamist-inspired plots have been foiled since March last year, he added.

  • Tuesday, February 27th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

    Heathrow is UK's largest port by value: £106bn worth of goods; needs urgent expansion

    Expanding Heathrow will double the airport’s cargo capacity and support up to 40 new long-haul trading links, helping British exporters reach new customers

    Britain’s exporters risk being held back by a lack of access to key trading markets, new data has revealed. As Britain prepares to leave the EU, the data shows that key routes from Heathrow to Shanghai, Delhi, Mumbai, Los Angeles, Tokyo Haneda and Dubai are virtually full and unable to accommodate further growth in trade. Combined, these six routes alone account for nearly 18% of Heathrow’s total cargo volumes.

  • Tuesday, February 27th 2018 - 06:32 UTC

    Argentina's foreign policy according to Jorge Faurie: Intelligent Insertion

    Minister Faurie with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L)

    Argentina foreign minister Jorge Faurie has written a long column, (full tabloid page) in Buenos Aires daily Clarin, under the heading of “Intelligent Insertion” describing motives and objectives of the country's foreign policy under president Mauricio Macri, driven by the principle of an intelligent insertion in the international scenario. The final commitment of Macri's administration is reducing poverty and improving Argentines' life quality.

  • Tuesday, February 27th 2018 - 06:08 UTC

    Uruguayan fraternity: nepotism, nepotism and no job to spare

    President Tabare Vazquez named his brother, a licensed nurse, as deputy of the Home Office

    It has been a long standing consensus-secret in the Uruguayan political system that when you are elected or have been nominated to a political post, you must not forget the family or friends particularly if they are in distress. This means in practical terms that the generous Uruguayan state will incorporate you to the burgeoning bureaucracy be it at national or regional level.

  • Tuesday, February 27th 2018 - 05:46 UTC

    Credit Suisse begins to move out from London, says Bloomberg report

    According to Bloomberg, the bank had considered relocating staff to Paris but backtracked after holding talks with local regulators and government officials

    Credit Suisse plans to move about 250 banker jobs out of London under its first phase of Brexit planning, according to reports. Employees in areas such as trading and mergers and acquisitions were likely to be relocated to Frankfurt or Madrid, Bloomberg reported. The Swiss bank employs about 5,500 staff in London. A spokesman said Credit Suisse “continued to investigate its options”.

  • Monday, February 26th 2018 - 09:32 UTC

    Xi pushing for constitutional reform to stay in office indefinitely

    Xi, 64, has been China’s president since 2013 and is expected to be re-elected at a meeting of the country’s largely rubber-stamp legislature early next month.

    China says it plans to scrap a two-term limit for the country’s president and vice president, a move that could allow Chinese leader Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely. Expectations that Xi, China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, was considering staying in office for more than the typical 10 years has been building for some time now. But the outline of amendment proposals announced by state media Sunday, including Article 79, confirmed those changes could soon become a reality.

  • Monday, February 26th 2018 - 09:24 UTC

    Berlusconi and his right wing coalition inching towards victory in Italy next week

    Although barred from public office owing to a tax fraud conviction, Berlusconi is hoping to position himself as a key deal-maker in the next government

    Sidestepping sex scandals, serial gaffes and legal woes, Silvio Berlusconi’s astonishing return to front-line politics rolled on Sunday at a party gathering where adoring supporters feted the billionaire mogul as Italy’s next kingmaker.

  • Monday, February 26th 2018 - 09:16 UTC

    Israel threatens to confiscate Christian land and assets following new municipal tax law

    The Holy Sepulcher church, is where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, buried and resurrected, is one of Christianity’s holiest sites.

    The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem locked its doors and closed until further notice to protest a new municipal tax policy and a bill that would allow the Israeli government to confiscate some church land in exchange for compensation.