Stories for July 2017

Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 14:16 UTC
Uruguay reports two outbreaks of PRRS at two pig farms

Uruguay's veterinary authorities have reported two outbreaks of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) at two pig farms, one based in Salto and the other in Canelones. An immediate notification was sent to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on 20 July.
Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 13:58 UTC
Brexit controversy: Ireland against any “economic border” with North Ireland

Ireland is against the imposition of an “economic border” with Northern Ireland and the Irish government is not going to help Britain design one, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Friday.
Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 12:55 UTC
Century anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres, remembered for the scale of casualties

Next 31 July 2017 will mark a century since the beginning of the Third Battle of Ypres – widely known as Passchendaele. The UK Government, in collaboration with the Belgian Government, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the Royal British Legion is hosting a series of events to mark one of the defining battles of the First World War.
Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 12:23 UTC
Gibraltar reminds Madrid of close cross-border cooperation and the 7.800 Spaniards working in the Rock

Gibraltar will continue to grow in a post-Brexit world and Spain should not create obstacles to cross-border cooperation that will generate jobs and wealth for the region, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told a seminar in the neighboring town of San Roque in Andalucía.
Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 11:46 UTC
Post-Brexit trade deals and serious obstacles when it comes to food

As the United Kingdom begins contacts to negotiate new trade deals as it leaves the EU in 2019, food will be one of many areas that will need to be addressed. The ongoing spat over chlorine chicken highlights how tastes and safety practices around the world can differ hugely, since what might seem normal practice in one country can seem problematic elsewhere.
Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 11:25 UTC
More protests and fighting in Caracas as US orders family members of embassy staff to leave Venezuela

The U.S. government ordered family members of employees at its embassy in Venezuela to leave on Thursday as a political crisis deepened ahead of a controversial vote critics contend will end democracy in the oil-rich country.
Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 11:13 UTC
Trump's “political commissar” Scaramucci makes his first “kill”, chief of staff Priebus

President Donald Trump has named General John Kelly, who currently heads the Department of Homeland Security, as his next chief of staff. The announcement, made on Twitter on Friday afternoon, removes Reince Priebus from the role.
Friday, July 28th 2017 - 12:19 UTC
Air France-KLM buys 31% of Virgin Airlines; Delta retains 49%

Air France-KLM is buying almost a third of Virgin Atlantic, leaving Sir Richard Branson's parent company, Virgin Group, with a minority stake in the airline he founded. Air France-KLM is taking a 31% stake, worth £220m, in Virgin Atlantic as part of a four-way joint-venture with US partner Delta.
Friday, July 28th 2017 - 12:06 UTC
Ex Petrobras and Banco do Brasil CEO, named by Rousseff, arrested on suspicion of bribes

Brazilian federal police on Thursday arrested a former head of Petrobras and the Banco do Brasil, marking a new chapter of the sweeping graft probe into the state-owned oil company. Three people were detained in the operation, the prosecutor's office said in a statement, as part of the “Car Wash” investigation that has uncovered systemic corruption and ensnared many of Brazil's political and business elites.
Friday, July 28th 2017 - 11:30 UTC
May's loses another member of her inner circle; Johnson says “people want government to get on with its job”

British Prime Minister Theresa May has lost another member of her inner circle after her strategy director and chief speechwriter Chris Wilkins quit. Wilkins follows the prime minister’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, and policy chiefs John Godfrey and Will Tanner, who also resigned after the disastrous snap general election in June, which led to the Conservatives losing their majority in the House of Commons.