Stories for 2017

Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 15:02 UTC
Italy and France clash on control of Europe's cruise shipbuilding industry

France said it was ready to seek other buyers for its biggest shipyard should Italy refuse a 50-50 ownership split, before both countries pledged to find a solution next month. French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, told the Corriere della Sera daily that a deal with Fincantieri might not be thrashed out.
Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 08:54 UTC
Royal Mint will supply Argentina with 150 million Peso coin blanks

UK’s Royal Mint will supply Argentina with 150 million peso coins, after the institution won a contract to assist with the minting of a new coin series. Announced on social media by UK chancellor Philip Hammond, the mint will work closely with its Argentine counterpart – Sociedad del Estado Casa de Moneda – to produce blanks for the new coin series.
Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 08:14 UTC
Corbyn condemns “violence by all sides”, but avoids criticizing Maduro

Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the “violence done by all sides” in the Venezuela conflict but stopped short of criticising president, Nicolas Maduro.
Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 07:49 UTC
Latin American foreign ministers will address Venezuelan situation in Peru

Latin American foreign ministers are scheduled to hold an extraordinary meeting this Tuesday in Lima to address the current state of affairs in Venezuela, Peruvian foreign minister Ricardo Luna announced.
Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 01:29 UTC
Israel follows hard line Sunni Arab states and plans to ban Al Jazeera

Israel is seeking to close Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera's offices in the country and revoke its journalists' media credentials. Communications Minister Ayoub Kara alleged that the channel supported terrorism, and said both its Arabic and English-language channels would be taken off air. Al Jazeera has condemned the decision.
Tuesday, August 8th 2017 - 01:14 UTC
Spain will not condition a Brexit deal to Gibraltar, but remains firm in its sovereignty claim of the Rock

Spain will not risk a Brexit deal by making Gibraltar’s sovereignty a condition in the talks, the country’s Foreign Minister said in an interview on Sunday. Speaking to the conservative newspaper ABC, Alfonso Dastis said Spain would not accept any agreement that undermined its position on Gibraltar, but would not use the Brexit talks to push its sovereignty aspirations over the Rock.
Monday, August 7th 2017 - 22:17 UTC
Cable lashes out at Brexit “martyrs” and accuses them of “masochism” and nostalgic of an imperial past

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has lashed out at hard line Brexit “martyrs” who view economic pain as a price worth paying to break away from Brussels. Cable accused them of “masochism” and claimed older Brexit voters with views “colored by nostalgia from an imperial past” had imposed their will on a younger generation more comfortable with the European Union.
Monday, August 7th 2017 - 21:14 UTC
Brazilian army troops storm Rio favelas to crack crime gangs

Thousands of Brazilian army troops raided Rio de Janeiro slums in a pre-dawn crackdown on crime gangs over the weekend, leaving parts of the city looking like a war zone on the first anniversary of the opening of the Olympic Games. Five favelas were targeted by around 1,300 police and 3,600 troops in a sweep starting at 4 a.m., the Rio state security service said in a statement.
Monday, August 7th 2017 - 16:03 UTC
Falkland/Malvinas Islands: Forensic field work to identify remains of Argentine soldiers comes to an end

During seven weeks of intense work, which began on 20 June, a team of 14 specialists – from Argentina, Australia, Chile, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – exhumed, analysed, sampled and documented the remains of each of the unidentified soldiers. The work was carried out in a high-tech temporary mortuary built on-site for the purposes of the operation.
Monday, August 7th 2017 - 07:47 UTC
Maduro controls attempt to trigger a military uprising

President Nicolas Maduro vowed that a band of anti-government fighters who attacked a Venezuelan army base will get the “maximum penalty” as his administration roots out his enemies. Troops killed two of the 20 intruders who slipped into the Paramacay base in the central city of Valencia early Sunday, apparently intent on fomenting a military uprising, Maduro said in his weekly broadcast on state television.