Politics

Friday, April 20th 2018 - 08:53 UTC
Queen hopes Prince Charles will lead Commonwealth; 53-nation summit decides

Queen Elizabeth II opened a summit of the 53-nation Commonwealth on Thursday, and backed her son Prince Charles to be the next leader of the association of Britain and its former colonies. In a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, the queen said she hoped Charles would “carry on the important work” of leading the Commonwealth, a loose alliance of countries large and small that has struggled to carve out a firm place on the world stage.
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Friday, April 20th 2018 - 08:41 UTC
Falklands oil industry: final investment decision on Sea Lion project by end of the year

Rockhopper Exploration and operator Premier Oil have submitted a revised draft field development plan for the Sea Lion Phase 1 project to the Falkland Islands government. According to Rockhopper, a final submission should follow in the lead-up to sanction of the project, in the offshore North Falkland basin.
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Friday, April 20th 2018 - 08:26 UTC
South Georgia fishing licenses dispute will be appealed before the High Court in London

A British fishing firm has won the right to appeal against a controversial decision to hand lucrative fishing licenses to foreign rivals in the South Atlantic, according to a report from Daniel Martin in the Daily Mail.
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Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 22:24 UTC
Miguel Díaz-Canel becomes the new president of Cuba: there is no chance of a Trojan horse

Miguel Díaz-Canel has been ratified on Thursday by the National Assembly of Cuba as the new president of the Council of State, the country's first leader in practice. The parliament ratified the former vice president with 99.83% of the votes of the deputies present. Diaz-Canel replaces the General Raúl Castro, who retires from power after 12 years at the head of the country. However, the new president clarified that Raúl Castro “will lead the most important decisions” for the country.
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Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 18:17 UTC
UK unions up in arms over MOD plan to invite foreign companies to build RFA ships

Overseas shipyards including some in Spain are “eyeing up” a £1 billion order for three new Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships, a UK union claims. The GMB said the UK Government should reverse a decision to put the contract out to international tender later this month.
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Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 11:43 UTC
Facebook asking UK users to allow facial recognition technology

Facebook has begun asking users in the UK to allow the platform to use facial recognition technology to identify them in photos and videos. The technology has been used in most parts of the world for six years, but was initially removed in the EU in 2012 following protests from regulators and privacy advocates.
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Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 10:32 UTC
G7 foreign ministers' statement on the Salisbury attack

We, the G7 foreign ministers, of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, the attack that took place against Sergei and Yulia Skripal, using a nerve agent in Salisbury, United Kingdom, on March 4, 2018. A British police officer and numerous civilians were exposed in the attack and required hospital treatment, and the lives of many more innocent British civilians have been threatened. We express our deepest sympathies to them all and our admiration and support for the UK emergency services for their courageous response.
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Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 10:12 UTC
G7 leaders: statement on chemical weapons use in Syria and Salisbury attack

The G7 leaders have united in condemning the use of chemical weapons in Syria and support recent actions by the US, UK and France to degrade and deter further use. Likewise G7 foreign ministers condemned the nerve agent attack and share the UK's assessment that it is highly likely that the Russian Federation was responsible.
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Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 10:06 UTC
Starbucks “embarrassed” by accusations of racial profiling in US cafes

Starbucks' executive chairman has said he is “embarrassed” by the recent accusations of racial profiling in the company's US cafes. Howard Schultz's comments came after Starbucks announced it will close US stores on 29 May for company-wide “racial bias training”.
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Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 08:52 UTC
Lula's party preparing Plan B: a united left front for October elections

The most likely political heir to jailed former President Lula da Silva insists the leftist leader is still the Workers Party’s candidate for the October elections, but he is preparing to step into the role. Fernando Haddad told the Brazilian media that he was talking with other left-wing parties about forging a united leftist front for the elections if Lula is barred from running by a corruption conviction.
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