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  • Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 11:46 UTC

    Post-Brexit trade deals and serious obstacles when it comes to food

    In the US, it is legal to wash chicken carcasses in chlorinated water to kill germs - but this has been banned in the EU since 1997

    As the United Kingdom begins contacts to negotiate new trade deals as it leaves the EU in 2019, food will be one of many areas that will need to be addressed. The ongoing spat over chlorine chicken highlights how tastes and safety practices around the world can differ hugely, since what might seem normal practice in one country can seem problematic elsewhere.

  • Friday, July 28th 2017 - 12:19 UTC

    Air France-KLM buys 31% of Virgin Airlines; Delta retains 49%

    Virgin Group's share will fall from 51% to 20%, while Delta will retain 49%. Sir Richard said he would remain “very much involved” after the deal.

    Air France-KLM is buying almost a third of Virgin Atlantic, leaving Sir Richard Branson's parent company, Virgin Group, with a minority stake in the airline he founded. Air France-KLM is taking a 31% stake, worth £220m, in Virgin Atlantic as part of a four-way joint-venture with US partner Delta.

  • Friday, July 28th 2017 - 11:30 UTC

    May's loses another member of her inner circle; Johnson says “people want government to get on with its job”

    Theresa May government is going to work because it is overwhelmingly the desire of the Conservative Party that it should work, indicated Boris Johnson.

    British Prime Minister Theresa May has lost another member of her inner circle after her strategy director and chief speechwriter Chris Wilkins quit. Wilkins follows the prime minister’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, and policy chiefs John Godfrey and Will Tanner, who also resigned after the disastrous snap general election in June, which led to the Conservatives losing their majority in the House of Commons.

  • Friday, July 28th 2017 - 06:04 UTC

    World Hepatitis Day: 325 million affected; annual deaths exceed those linked to HIV

    “At best one in ten people who are living with hepatitis know they are infected and can access treatment. This is unacceptable,” said Dr Gottfried Hirnschall

    New World Health Organization, WHO, data from 28 countries - representing approximately 70% of the global hepatitis burden - indicate that efforts to eliminate hepatitis are gaining momentum. Published to coincide with World Hepatitis Day, the data reveal that nearly all 28 countries have established high-level national hepatitis elimination committees and more than half have allocated dedicated funding for hepatitis responses.

  • Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 16:58 UTC

    Argentina and Uruguay plan to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup

    Carlos Mac Allister said the presidents of both countries and leaders of the two national football federations had agreed to move ahead.

    Argentina and Uruguay are going ahead with plans to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup despite expected competition from China and others .The South American neighbors are counting on sentimental support with Uruguay hosting the first World Cup in 1930.

  • Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 16:34 UTC

    Fed leaves rate unchanged but will begin selling assets “relatively soon”

    Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve

    Leaders of the U.S. central bank said Wednesday that they were holding their benchmark lending rate at a low level — in a range between 1 and 1.25% — for the time being. Federal Reserve officials said in a report issued after their two-day policy meeting that the world's largest economy was growing at a “moderate” pace and the job market was improving, but that inflation remained a bit low.

  • Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 11:40 UTC

    British forces commanders oppose any ban on transgender serving in the military

    In response, Rear Admiral Burton of the Royal Navy tweeted: “As a Royal Navy LGBT champion and senior war-fighter I am so glad we are not going this way.”

    Commanders from British armed forces have opposed any ban on transgender people serving in the military. It comes after Donald Trump said that transgender people would not be allowed in the US military due to “tremendous” medical costs and disruption.

  • Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 10:29 UTC

    UK expands 0.3% in second quarter, but it is a “notable slowdown” from last year

    Chancellor Philip Hammond said the UK economy had now grown consistently for four-and-a-half years. “We can be proud of that, but we are not complacent”

    United Kingdom economic growth edged slightly higher in the three months to June, as a stronger service sector offset weaker manufacturing and construction. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy expanded by 0.3% in the quarter, up from 0.2% in the previous three months, but added there had been a “notable slowdown” from last year.

  • Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 10:13 UTC

    ARA Libertad docks in Southampton: Open Day on Friday and Saturday

    The flagship of the Argentine navy with 61 midshipmen on board arrived in Southampton as part of a world tour

    Argentina´s navy frigate and tall ship ARA Libertad dropped anchor in Southampton on Wednesday as part of 46th midshipman promotion world tour which left Buenos Aires last March. Ambassador Carlos Sersale di Cerisano received the flagship of the Argentine Navy, while the whole operation was transmitted live from the embassy in London.

  • Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 10:06 UTC

    Rajoy questioned on corruption: first time a Spanish serving prime minister appears in court

    “I never took care of the economic issues in the party. I was devoted to political activity,” Rajoy told the three magistrates during the proceeding.

    Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has told the country’s National Court he did not know anything about the ruling Partido Popular’s accounting practices when a corrupt scheme allegedly helped fund it. Wednesday’s highly-anticipated hearing was the first time that a prime minister has appeared in court while holding office since Spain transitioned to democracy four decades ago.