Politics

• Saturday, March 17th 2018 - 06:58 UTC

  Boris Johnson points directly to Putin, the dictator. Furious reaction from the Kremlin

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin is “overwhelmingly likely” to have ordered the nerve agent attack on an ex-spy and his daughter, Boris Johnson has said. The foreign secretary underlined that “our quarrel is with Putin's Kremlin, and with his decision” over the Salisbury incident.

• Saturday, March 17th 2018 - 06:51 UTC

  British police launch murder investigation into the death of another Russian exile

  

  British police launched a murder investigation Friday after an autopsy revealed that a Russian exile who was critical of Vladimir Putin was strangled in his home. Nikolay Glushkov, whose body was found on Monday, died as a result of “compression to the neck,” London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 10:28 UTC

  Western leaders abhor nerve-agent attack and point to Russia: “no plausible alternative explanation”

  

  The leaders of France, Germany, the US and UK say there is “no plausible alternative explanation” to Russia having been behind the nerve agent attack in the UK. They condemned the “first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War”, calling it an assault on UK sovereignty.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 10:18 UTC

  Macri announces debt relief for farmers struggling with drought

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri said the government would provide some debt relief to farmers struggling through what he described as the country’s worst drought in 40 years, which has resulted in dramatic cuts to soybean and corn crop outlooks.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 10:06 UTC

  Hammond and Johnson will be visiting Argentina

  

  British Chancellor Philip Hammond and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson are scheduled to visit Argentina as part of the G20 ministerial round of meetings in coming weeks, announced UK ambassador Mark Kent following talks on Thursday with foreign minister Jorge Faurie.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 09:41 UTC

  Argentina preparing its first offshore licensing round in the South Atlantic

  

  Argentina plans to launch its first offshore licensing round in almost three decades this year, as it seeks to widen exploration for longer-term production growth, Energy Minister Juan Jose Aranguren said on Thursday.Round One will be launched in June or July for 240,000 sq km in three zones of the continental shelf, Aranguren said on the sidelines of The Economist's Argentina Summit in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 09:36 UTC

  Rio's military intervention questioned following the killing of a popular councilor and activist

  

  Crying, chanting and screaming in anger, thousands gathered in front of the Rio de Janeiro state legislature on Thursday to say goodbye to a black city councilwoman shot in the head four times, a brazen murder that shocked Brazil and raised questions about the effectiveness of a military intervention in the country's second biggest city.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 03:11 UTC

  Falklands plans fishing talks with Argentina after more than a decade

  

  Exchanges of information between the Falkland Islands and Argentina about fish and squid stocks could begin again before the middle of this year, if all parties are in agreement. Director of Natural Resources John Barton said: “Dialogue with Argentina on the conservation of shared marine resources has the potential to allow for better management of shared fish stocks and improve sustainability of such stocks.”

• Thursday, March 15th 2018 - 09:29 UTC

  Falkland Islands updating the Electoral Register

  

  The Falkland Islands Registration Officer is carrying out a yearly canvass with the purpose of updating the Electoral Register. Accordingly this Thursday, 15 March, all households in the Islands should receive a form V “request for information from householders” in the post.

• Thursday, March 15th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

  Key aide of Temer indicted on corruption charges for illegal funding from Odebrecht

  

  A key aide of Brazil’s President Michel Temer has been indicted on charges of corruption and money-laundering. Senator Romero Juca, one of the major architects of the Temer administration’s reform agenda and an advocate for central bank independence, is being charged with soliciting illegal campaign funding of construction company Odebrecht in return for political favors.