Stories for May 2017

Tuesday, May 30th 2017 - 09:22 UTC
Temer urges top electoral court to decide quickly and lift political uncertainty

President Michel Temer urged Brazil's top electoral court to decide quickly on a case alleging illegal funding of his 2014 campaign in order to lift political uncertainty overshadowing a recovery in Latin America's largest economy.
Tuesday, May 30th 2017 - 09:08 UTC
Theresa May tries to re-focus the election campaign on Brexit negotiations

British Prime Minister Theresa May has sought to re-focus the Conservative general election campaign on the forthcoming Brexit negotiations after seeing Labour close the gap in the opinion polls.
Tuesday, May 30th 2017 - 08:56 UTC
EU and Argentina confident a trade deal with Mercosur can be reached by the end of the year

The High Representative and Vice President of the European Commission, Federica Mogherini who visited Argentina on Monday praised the rapid progress made in negotiations on a renewed EU/Mercosur trade agreement and was confident remaining obstacles could be overcomes and a deal can be reached by the end of the year.
Tuesday, May 30th 2017 - 08:42 UTC
German election turns into a Trump bashing exercise for “weakening the West”

Germany's top politicians have stepped up criticism of US President Donald Trump, a day after Chancellor Angela Merkel said the US and UK were no longer reliable partners. On Monday Mrs Merkel said it was right not to gloss over differences with the US, while her foreign minister said Mr. Trump's actions “weakened the West”.
Tuesday, May 30th 2017 - 05:13 UTC
Faurie new Argentine foreign minister; Malcorra resigns for family reasons but will remain as advisor

Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra resigned on Monday and will move to Madrid to be closer to her family, President Mauricio Macri announced. Argentina's ambassador to France, Jorge Faurie, will be the new foreign minister and Malcorra will continue as an adviser to the government from afar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.