International

Friday, October 26th 2018 - 19:25 UTC
Search for ARA San Juan deemed “useless” will go on after pressure from Argentine Navy

Ocean Infinity, the US company searching the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, revised its decision to halt operations deemed “useless” until February and resumed work to comply with the minimum 60-day task agreed upon, it was reported.
Friday, October 26th 2018 - 09:52 UTC
Juncker wants Venezuelan “dictator” Maduro brought to justice as international pressure mounts

European Union (EU) Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker Wednesday Wednesday said Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro has become “a matter for the international justice system” and needs to “be brought before the courts.”
Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:53 UTC
Controversy in Westminster over “legal witch hunt” of British troops that served in Ulster

More than one third of Tory Members of Parliament, including a former Defense secretary - have written to the prime minister to demand an end to “legal witch hunts” of military veterans. Signatories to a letter delivered to Theresa May on Tuesday also include more than 50 members of the House of Lords, including four former chiefs of defense staff.
Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:48 UTC
Falklands: Brexit and Argentina's plan for closer links with the Islands

Brexit brings a chance to strengthen ties between Argentina and the Falkland Islands, the country's foreign minister Jorge Faurie said in London. Faurie met with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the pair discussed increasing trade and travel links between the Falkland Islands and South America.
Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:19 UTC
Scotland's Sturgeon convinced a no deal Brexit, the most likely outcome

A no-deal Brexit may be the “most likely outcome” of the UK’s negotiations with the EU, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told MSPs. The First Minister said that while the terms of Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc are 95% agreed, there remains an “impasse” over the issue of the Irish border.
Friday, October 26th 2018 - 08:19 UTC
Lords furious with Brexit Secretary who refuses to attend and inform EU Select Committee

The House of Lords EU Select Committee has written to Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab urging him not to stand in the way of Parliamentary scrutiny, and to honor his previous commitment to give evidence to Committees “on a regular basis”.
Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 21:31 UTC
Faurie in London: “Argentina is building institutions”

Argentina’s Foreign Minister spoke at a conference in Chatham House about the political and economic changes happening in Latin America.
Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 08:25 UTC
PM Theresa May wins the day and defuses Tory revolt on Brexit

Prime Minister Theresa May has been applauded by Tory MPs at a meeting in which she sought to persuade her critics to get behind her in Brexit talks. The prime minister has been addressing all her MPs in Parliament, many of whom are seeking a change of approach. Asked by one MP what concessions she had made to the EU, she set out areas where the EU had itself given ground.
Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 08:25 UTC
Gibraltar prepared and confident on a Withdrawal Agreement from EU

Gibraltar will step up its contingency planning as from January 1, 2019, if there is no certainty of a Withdrawal Agreement and implementation period by that date, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told an influential House of Lords select committee. Addressing the EU Select Committee, he also signaled his hope that Gibraltar, the UK and Spain could salvage elements of the Gibraltar negotiations even in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit between the UK and the EU.
Thursday, October 25th 2018 - 07:17 UTC
Argentine government disappointed with Pope Francis involvement in local politics

Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich has criticized Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, saying he has not “taken the necessary distance from Argentine politics.”