International

• Wednesday, November 7th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Pro-Brexit campaign and insurance company face fines of £135,000 over breaches of data laws

  

  Pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.EU and an insurance company owned by its founder Aaron Banks face total fines of £135,000 over breaches of data laws. It follows an Information Commissioner investigation into the misuse of personal data by political campaigns.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  UK ministers want a Brexit deal by end of November and plan campaign to sell the deal to MPs and public

  

  Senior British ministers have agreed they want to reach a Brexit deal with the EU by the end of November, sources say. “Everyone saw the difficulties of leaving it longer,” a senior cabinet source told the BBC. Meanwhile, the BBC has seen a detailed suggested timetable of how the government could try to sell a deal to MPs and the public.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2018 - 06:48 UTC

  Democrats take control of Representatives, but Republicans will strengthen grip on the Senate

  

  The US Democrats have taken control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections. Taking control of the lower chamber of Congress for the first time in eight years will enable Democrats to thwart the president's agenda. But Mr Trump's Republicans are set to strengthen their grip on the Senate.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2018 - 06:29 UTC

  Spanish concern with Brexit's consequences for the fishing fleet in UK and Falklands' waters

  

  Growing concern in Spain about the consequences of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, with or without a deal, and its impact on the country's strong fishing industry. The issue has been debated in Spain's congress.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2018 - 20:21 UTC

  World Medical Association supports physicians involvement in combing air pollution

  

  The World Medical Association has echoed a high-powered call for health professionals to be more involved in the management of childhood exposure to air pollution. The call has come at the first World Health Organization conference on air pollution being held in Geneva.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2018 - 10:22 UTC

  Chilean operators to seek Supreme Court ruling on Latam / American Airlines “cartel” agreement

  

  The Chilean Association of Tourism Companies (ACHET) Monday announced it will take the question of the agreement of Latam Airlines with American Airlines and International Airlines Groups (IAG), which was approved last Wednesday by the Court of Defense of Free Competition (TDLC), to the Supreme Court, the Diario Financiero newspaper reported.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Oil market cautious as US punitive sanctions on Iran become effective

  

  Oil prices were mixed on Monday after a steep five-day fall, as the United States formally imposed punitive sanctions on Iran but granted eight countries temporary waivers allowing them to keep buying oil from the Islamic Republic. The sanctions are part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to curb Iran’s missile and nuclear programs and diminish its influence in the Middle East.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Mercosur members adhere to WTO Precision Biotechnology applied to agriculture

  

  U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced that the United States has joined with 12 other nations, (including Mercosur founding members) to support policies that enable agricultural innovation, including genome editing. The International Statement on Agricultural Applications of Precision Biotechnology was released in Geneva at the World Trade Organization Committee on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2018 - 08:36 UTC

  Brexit deal on the Irish border must be agreed and shared, Dublin tells London

  

  Irish premier Leo Varadkar has told Theresa May that he will not accept a Brexit deal which gives the UK the unilateral power to halt “backstop” arrangements for the border with Northern Ireland. In a phone conversation with the Taoiseach, Mrs. May said that any agreement would have to include a mechanism to bring an end to the backstop – designed to ensure there is no hard border in Ireland if the UK and EU fail to reach a broader trade deal.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Foreign nationals eligible to join UK armed forces; Military shortfall of 5.7%

  

  Foreign nationals will be eligible to join the UK armed forces in greater numbers, ministers will announce, as British residency requirements for service are set to be scrapped. The Ministry of Defense will remove the need for Commonwealth citizens to have lived in the UK for five years before applying for service.