International

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 07:41 UTC

  Gibraltar prepares for European elections because of Brexit delays

  

  The Gibraltar Parliament unanimously passed legislation to enable Gibraltar to vote in the European election in May should this become necessary because of delays to Brexit. The parliament approved an amendment to primary legislation to ensure the electoral register for the European Union election is ready despite the short window of time available.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 07:30 UTC

  PM May off to meet Merkel and Macron before EU summit

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday started a last-minute flurry of European diplomacy that includes visits to Paris and Berlin as she prepares for a make-or-break Brexit summit. Still struggling to get her EU divorce deal through parliament, May is hoping European Union leaders will agree on Wednesday to delay Brexit for a second time to stop Britain crashing out of the bloc two days later.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 07:10 UTC

  Record money transfers to developing countries in 2018, but transfer costs too high claims World Bank

  

  Money transfers to poor and developing countries hit a fresh record in 2018 and should become their largest source of external financing this year, the World Bank said on Monday. But many banks and money transfer operators charged too much, cutting into the gains of migration, the bank said in a statement.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 06:54 UTC

  Standard Chartered could pay some US$ 1 billion to resolve an investigation into Iran US sanctions violations

  

  London based Standard Chartered is expected to pay slightly more than US$1 billion to resolve a nearly five-year-old investigation of potential U.S. sanctions violations tied to its banking for Iran-controlled entities in Dubai, as well as a related U.K. probe, according to a report from Reuters.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 06:30 UTC

  France approves tax on digital giants: defends fiscal sovereignty and honored to break ground

  

  French lawmakers on Monday approved a new tax on digital giants such as Facebook and Apple that has angered the United States, with Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire boasting that France was proud to be in the vanguard of such a move.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 06:02 UTC

  Baroness Fairhead visits Argentina and Brazil to bolster trade and investment relations

  

  Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion Baroness Fairhead, is travelling to Brazil after visiting Argentina this week to meet with key Brazilian and Argentine businesses and government ministers to discuss the UK’s commitment to trade and investment in both countries and the wider Latin American and Caribbean (LATAC) region.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 05:36 UTC

  Russia agrees to free orca and belugas held in “whale jails”

  

  Russian officials said on Monday they will work towards freeing all orca and beluga whales from a notorious facility in the east of the country, after a visit by US-based marine mammal advocates.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 05:06 UTC

  Trump designates Iran's Guards a terrorist organization; Teheran does the same with US troops in Middle East

  

  United States President Donald Trump has designated Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization. It is the first time the US has labelled another nation's military as a terrorist organization. Iran retaliated by declaring US forces in the Middle East as a terrorist organization, Iran state news reported.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 05:03 UTC

  Argentine businessman accused of tax evasion and fleeing from Justice caught in Belize

  

  Argentina's “King of Meat”, the businessman Alberto Samid, was arrested Friday in the tiny Caribbean nation of Belize after fleeing Argentina in late March.

• Monday, April 8th 2019 - 12:24 UTC

  Brexit tariffs' scare: 21.000 tons of Falklands Loligo en route to Galicia

  

  Reefers loaded with Falklands' Loligo are rushing to Vigo most concerned about what will happen on April 12, when Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union, either with a hard Brexit or agree to further negotiations with EU and an extension period. In the first case Spanish companies in Galicia fear they might have to pay millions in EU tariffs