MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for May 29th 2017
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Monday, May 29th 2017 - 19:08 UTC
Further Manchester arrests, “the operation is still at full tilt” says Home Secretary Rudd
British police made two more arrests and stormed three more locations Sunday as they hunted for suspects in the Manchester bombing, while a government minister said members of attacker Salman Abedi's network may still be at large.
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Monday, May 29th 2017 - 09:42 UTC
Malvinas Veterans acclaimed as they parade in Buenos Aires
Hundreds of Malvinas veterans were applauded and acclaimed as they marched through Buenos Aires on Friday May 27th as part of the May Revolution 207 anniversary commemorations. Veterans closed the traditional military parade along two kilometers, which this year assembled 6.000 troops from all branches plus an air pass of aircraft and helicopters.
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Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:56 UTC
Falklands Darwin cemetery: Red Cross identification mission begins round of talks in Argentina
A delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross is scheduled to begin this Monday a round of contacts in Buenos Aires related to the Humanitarian Project Plan for the identification of unknown Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands.
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Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:35 UTC
British Airways disruption as it tries to overcome impact of worldwide computer system crash
British Airways passengers were facing on Sunday a third day of disruption at Heathrow as the airline deals with the impact of a worldwide computer system crash. BA says it aims to operate a full long-haul schedule and a “high proportion” of short-haul services after the outage caused by a power failure.
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Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:28 UTC
Merkel calls on Europe “to fight for its own destiny”, forget US and UK
Europe can no longer “completely depend” on the US and UK following the election of President Trump and Brexit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. Mrs. Merkel said she wanted friendly relations with both countries as well as Russia but Europe now had to “fight for its own destiny”.
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Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:21 UTC
Manchester, security and patriotism take center stage of UK election
British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn attempted to head off potential Conservative attacks on his patriotism as he promised to be “strong against terrorism and strong against the causes of terrorism” after the Manchester attack. Corbyn said Monday’s suicide bombing cannot be ignored as General Election campaigning resumes but called for “quality” debate “without impugning anyone’s patriotism”.
