Politics

• Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 18:40 UTC

  Trump keeps his promise: dumps TPP and pledges to lower corporate taxes to 20% from 35%

  

  President Donald Trump has fulfilled a campaign pledge by signing an executive order to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The 12-nation trade deal was a linchpin of former President Barack Obama's Asia policy.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 12:17 UTC

  Dutch premier joins elections' anti-immigration wagon: “act normal, or go away”

  

  Weeks before Dutch voters go to the polls, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that anyone who rejects the country's values should leave. “Act normal, or go away,” he says, in a message seen as taking on the anti-immigration Freedom party currently running high in the opinion polls. Elections are taking place on 15 March.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 11:52 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas negotiations have no third leg, “they are bilateral, Argentina and UK”

  

  Argentina's Lower House Foreign Affairs committee formally constituted the All parties Parliamentary Observatory on the Malvinas Question, claiming congressional participation in all bilateral agreements with the UK referred to Falklands/Malvinas resources and underlining that there is no such thing as a third leg, Falklands residents in negotiations with the UK.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 11:16 UTC

  “Dancing for Falklands”, MLA Gavin Short takes on Argentina's most mediatic personality

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker, MLA Gavin Short has picked a dispute with possibly the most mediatic character in Argentina, a simple soccer commentator who in three decades has built a powerful entertainment corporation and is the showman of one of the evening programs which for years has had the highest ratings.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 19:53 UTC

  Trump has a new species of moth named after him: Neopalpa donaldtrumpi

  

  What has a scaly-looking head of gold? Well, Donald Trump, of course... but also a moth. The Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, a new species of tiny moth, has been named after the president-elect due to the striking physical resemblance between the moth's yellow and white scales and Trump's hair.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 19:01 UTC

  Temer has the delicate task of naming a successor of Justice Zavascki

  

  Brazil's president Michel Temer said that he would wait to name a replacement for the Supreme Court justice who died in a plane crash until after the court reassigns a major corruption case he was handling.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 18:20 UTC

  Any future relationship Gibraltar seeks with EU post-Brexit ”will have to be agreed by Spain”

  

  Spain will oppose any special treatment for Gibraltar or Scotland as part of the Brexit process, the ruling Partido Popular spokesman in the European Parliament said this week. During a speech in Strasbourg, Esteban Gonzalez Pons said only the UK could negotiate its withdrawal and that any deal would “affect the entirety” of the country.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 12:33 UTC

  Argentina issues US$ 7bn in 5 and 10-year bonds at 5.625% to 7% rate

  

  Argentina launched a US$7bn two-part bond on Thursday, covering its planned dollar issuance for the year in one fell swoop on the back of more than US$21bn of orders. The deal was the sovereign's third in US dollars since being welcomed back to the international capital markets last year after a protracted fight with creditors, and demand was strong.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 12:21 UTC

  PM May scheduled to announce an ambitious port-Brexit industrial strategy

  

  British Prime Minister is to unveil a new, more interventionist, and industrial strategy on Monday, designed to boost the post-Brexit UK economy. The government will be “stepping up to a new, active role,” Mrs. May said. She will launch the new strategy at her first regional cabinet meeting, to be held in the north-west of England.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2017 - 08:06 UTC

  For the Falklands in 1982 the only opinion that mattered was that of PM Thatcher

  

  For the Falkland Islanders the only opinion that mattered was that of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and believing that Islanders would give up their homes and way of life for money, shows how little people understood the Falklands.