Stories for March 2nd 2019

Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 08:35 UTC
UK will not lower its food standards to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with US

The UK will not lower food standards to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the US, the government says. It comes after Washington published its objectives for a US-UK trade pact. The US wants “comprehensive market access” for its farmers' products that would see more US-made food on British supermarket shelves.
Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 07:24 UTC
Madrid unilaterally extends protection for (400.000) Britons living in Spain

Spain's cabinet has approved measures for Britons in Spain to continue living there as now if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said the main purpose was that no-one, British or Spanish, would be left unprotected. Spain estimates that the measures, which would become law under a no-deal Brexit, would grant residency rights to about 400,000 UK citizens.
Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 07:06 UTC
Reception for Falklands Representative in London, Sukey Cameron MBE

Describing it as the start of a long slow goodbye, at a reception at Government House, last week Governor Nigel Phillips paid tribute to the Falkland Islands Representative in London Sukey Cameron MBE, who will retire later in the year.
Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 06:51 UTC
Mars rover work-out controlled in Chile from more 11.000km away in UK

A space control center in the UK has been used to test-drive a prototype Mars rover thousands of miles away in Chile’s Atacama desert. Experts at the European Space Agency’s centre in Oxfordshire completed a series of tests across nearly 11,000 km in order to see how the Mars rover reacts to commands across large distances.
Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 05:31 UTC
Macri defended his austerity policies before Congress in the midst of applause, and heckling from the opposition

President Mauricio Macri delivered a robust defense of his austerity policy on Friday in a State of the Union address to Argentina's Congress ahead of a reelection bid in October. Macri went on the offensive in a turbulent session that featured shouts and heckling from opposition lawmakers, declaring there was no turning back on his policies.
Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 05:05 UTC
Falklands' most productive half acre and vegans' organic dream

Tucked way under the hill and half hidden by 10,000 young trees it’s easy to forget how vast the area is covered by Stanley Growers Ltd. in the Falkland Islands, to the east of the capital Stanley.
Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 04:52 UTC
UNICEF warns of global spike of measles; includes Brazil and Venezuela

Ninety-eight countries reported more cases of measles in 2018 compared with 2017, and the world body warned that conflict, complacency and the growing anti-vaccine movement threatened to undo decades of work to tame the disease.
Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 04:40 UTC
EU money laundering black list blocked following US and Saudi complaints

The United States on Friday welcomed the blocking of a proposal to add a group of countries, including four American territories, to the EU money-laundering blacklist after almost all member states opposed it. The US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, hit out at the “dogmatic posturing” of the European Commission, the bloc's executive arm.
Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 04:24 UTC
US and Russia clash over Venezuela; Moscow pledges wheat and medicines

The United States and Russia clashed on Friday over how to assist ailing Venezuela, with Moscow pledging new relief channelled through President Nicolas Maduro and Washington slapping sanctions over the blocking of US aid it tried to force through the border.
Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 01:14 UTC
Uruguay’s Chancellor on Venezuela: “We have a problem and it is the attitude of Luis Almagro”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, ratified his position on Friday on a peaceful solution to the political and institutional crisis suffered by Venezuela along with his Italian counterpart, Enzo Moavero Milanesi in Montevideo. The Uruguayan chancellor questioned the attitude of the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, considering that he took sides on the Venezuelan conflict.