Stories for January 2017

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 - 18:32 UTC
State of emergency in Chile because of wildfires; smoke cloaked Santiago

Chile declared a state of emergency on Friday as more than a dozen wildfires that have scorched nearly 50,000 hectares threatened to encroach on towns, factories and vineyards. Firefighters, forestry service personnel and members of the military are battling 18 separate blazes in the center and south of the country that have been fueled by strong winds and a heat wave.
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.