International

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Bull shark attacks in French Pacific Overseas Territory

  

  A fisherman has been killed by a bull shark in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, police said, days after a boy had his leg bitten off in another shark attack.

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Brexit disruption slashed UK April car production by 45%

  

  Factory shutdowns designed to cope with disruption from a 29 March Brexit, slashed UK car production in April by almost a half. Even though Brexit is delayed the factories still closed and production fell 44.5% according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Jersey and Guernsey, among the “worst tax havens”, Tax Justice Network says

  

  A new list of corporate tax havens has named Jersey as the seventh most “aggressive” in the world. The Tax Justice Network created the ranking by assigning a “haven score” based on 20 different criteria. Both Jersey and Guernsey scored 98 out of a possible 100, putting them “up there with the worst.”

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  European football market valued at €28.4bn; English Premier League leads, £4.8bn

  

  The big five European leagues generated a record €15.6bn (£13.8bn) in revenue in 2017-18, a 6% annual increase, according to new figures from Deloitte. It says the European football market is now worth some €28.4bn (£25.1bn). The English Premier League was the market leader, with record revenues of £4.8bn, as five teams competed in the Champions League for the first time.

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Real Madrid, the most valuable European football club, worth €3.22bn

  

  Real Madrid has overtaken Manchester United and been named most valuable European football club, being worth about €3.22bn (£2.91bn), says KPMG. The Spanish club tops KPMG's study of top sides' “enterprise value”.

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Australia's drought conditions to persist for at least three months, forcing wheat import

  

  Hot, dry weather will persist across Australia's east coast for at least another three months, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday, in a forecast that threatens to severely crimp agricultural production.

• Wednesday, May 29th 2019 - 10:07 UTC

  Corbyn ready to back a second referendum on Brexit

  

  Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is set to back a second referendum on Brexit and it could be within days, the Mirror newspaper reported late on Tuesday citing senior figures of the party.

• Wednesday, May 29th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Uruguay's diplomat and banker named EU's representative to help with the Venezuelan situation

  

  The European Union on Tuesday named Uruguayan former banker and diplomat Enrique Iglesias as its point man to help end the crisis in Venezuela, part of an intensification of diplomatic efforts to seek new elections.

• Wednesday, May 29th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Mrs. May urges her successor to reach a Brexit deal, but Brussels insists there won't be any renegotiation

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday urged whoever succeeds her to get Britain out of the EU quickly but with a deal, as she met the bloc's leaders just days after announcing her resignation. May looked relaxed and smiled for the cameras as she arrived at a Brussels summit, the first one in many months that did not require her to wrangle with European colleagues over Brexit.

• Wednesday, May 29th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  Purge at Amnesty International as abusive practices and toxic workplace conditions are exposed

  

  Amnesty International is to lose most of its senior leadership team after a report said it had a “toxic” workplace. The human rights organization's secretary-general, Kumi Naidoo, ordered an independent review after two employees killed themselves last year. In the review, one staff member described Amnesty as having “a toxic culture of secrecy and mistrust”.