MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 8th 2018
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Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:17 UTC
Scottish fishermen want full control of fishing grounds after Brexit
Scottish fishermen have hit out at the EU after the body's guidelines for the next phase of Brexit talks called for continued access to fishing grounds. The EU's draft guidelines for the forthcoming talks aim for “existing” access to waters to be maintained. But Scottish fishing groups call this “arrogant, absurd and nonsensical”.
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Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:10 UTC
Major UK/Moscow diplomatic row in the making: nerve gas was used in murder attempt in Salisbury
British Home Secretary is to make a Commons statement on the Salisbury poisoning mystery amid calls for a police investigation into 14 suspicious spying-related deaths in recent years. Amber Rudd will report to MPs on the dramatic disclosure by Scotland Yard that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a deadly nerve agent and targeted in an attempt to murder them.
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Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:04 UTC
Coca Cola plans to launch a canned alcoholic drink in the Japanese market
Coca-Cola announced plans to launch a canned, alcoholic drink in Japan later this year which is an innovative approach in a market that it regularly launches new products in. In its news release announcing the planned product, Coca-Cola touts Japan as a market that has “stood out as an almost truly unique market.”
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Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 08:59 UTC
Oscar winning Fantastic Woman Chilean actress speaks of transgender inequalities
Chilean actress Daniela Vega made history by becoming the first transgender presenter at the Oscars ceremony. But, at a news conference after meeting Chile's President Michelle Bachelet this week, she spoke of the inequalities transgender people face in her home country.
