Politics

• 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.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2017 - 08:02 UTC

  Trump expects Theresa May on Friday at the White House; first meeting with a foreign leader

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington DC on Friday, the White House has said. Mrs May will be the first foreign leader to meet the new president after his inauguration.

• Saturday, January 21st 2017 - 11:18 UTC

  British experts guest speakers in Chile’s sixth version of the Futures Congress

  

  Seven prominent British figures representing different areas of science, including economics and social communications, were present at the Futures Congress organized by the Chilean Senate in Santiago. Gathering each year experts from different areas of knowledge to discuss the challenges that human kind will be facing in the future, this event has become the most important scientific conference in Latin America.

• Saturday, January 21st 2017 - 07:57 UTC

  Mexican top officials will meet Trump administration to discuss bilateral relations next week

  

  Mexican officials will hold meetings on January 25 and 26 with U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump's top aides in Washington, to discuss bilateral relations such as security, trade and migration, the government said in Mexico City.

• Saturday, January 21st 2017 - 00:13 UTC

  Clashes, traffic blockades and smashed windows by anti Trump protestors

  

  Black-clad activists smashed store windows and blocked traffic in Washington during US President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, and fought with police in riot gear who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. About 500 people, some wearing masks, marched through the city's downtown, using hammers to claw up chunks of pavement to smash the windows of a Bank of America branch and a McDonald's outlet, all symbols of the American capitalist system.

• Saturday, January 21st 2017 - 00:00 UTC

  Trump pledges “America First” and “transferring power from Washington back to the people”

  

  Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, outlining his forceful vision of a national populism echoing the same “America first” catchphrases that swept him to victory last November. In his first address as chief executive, Trump pledged that his inauguration will mark a moment in history when “the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”