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  • Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 07:24 UTC

    Madrid unilaterally extends protection for (400.000) Britons living in Spain

    Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said the main purpose was that no-one, British or Spanish, would be left unprotected.

    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

    ”I think it is true to say that Sukey knows an incredible range of people” and her filofax is as the “Who’s who of the UK Parliament and far beyond” said Gov. Phillips (Pic GHF)

    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

    When on the surface of Mars, the rover will need to be controlled when it is up to 250 million miles from Earth.

    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 - 04:52 UTC

    UNICEF warns of global spike of measles; includes Brazil and Venezuela

    Measles is more contagious than tuberculosis or Ebola, yet it is eminently preventable with a vaccine that costs pennies

    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

    “It's heartening to see common sense from the member states prevail over the commission's dogmatic posturing on this issue,” Gordon Sondland said

    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

    Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced in a statement a list of Venezuelan security forces officers involved in reprehensible violence and torching of food.

    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”

    Nin Novoa blamed Almagro for having taken sides with one of the parties instead of fulfilling its role of tempering the differences

    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.

  • Friday, March 1st 2019 - 13:05 UTC

    Maduro moves PDVSA office to Moscow to avoid sanctions

    Maduro regime desperately seeks to protect assets abroad that are still under its control

    Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced at a press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the central office of state oil company PDVSA in Europe, located in Lisbon, will move to Moscow to guarantee the security of the country's assets abroad, which were delivered to the Venezuelan Parliament in other countries.

  • Thursday, February 28th 2019 - 09:34 UTC

    Trump and Kim cut short summit with no agreement reached on denuclearization

    Sitting beside Kim on Thursday morning, Trump said the pair had enjoyed very good discussions and “importantly, I think the relationship is, just very strong.”

    President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un abruptly cut short their two-day summit on Thursday after the two leaders failed to reach an agreement to dismantle that country’s nuclear weapons. Although Kim said he was ready in principle to denuclearize, he and Trump ended their meetings without sitting for a planned lunch and without participating in a joint signing ceremony.

  • Thursday, February 28th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

    Airlines forced to reroute flights in East Asia because of Pakistan/India conflict

    The airspace is closed because of escalating tension between the two countries, following the shooting down of two Indian military jets

    Airlines operating flights from East Asia to destinations in Europe are having to reroute their planes away from Pakistan and northern India. The airspace is closed because of escalating tension between the two countries, following the shooting down of two Indian military jets. Flights via Pakistan have been canceled and other flights rerouted.