International

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:05 UTC

  Costa Cruises will incorporate four new ships, including the first powered by LNG

  

  Costa Crociere to welcome four new cruise ships by 2021. Between 2019 and 2021 four new ships will enter service with the Italian cruise line, based in Genoa, Italy, for an overall increase in passenger capacity of 43%. In February 2019, the company will welcome the new Costa Venezia, currently under construction at the Fincantieri plant in Monfalcone.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  Honoring Falklands' fallen begins full agenda for Macri's cabinet chief in London

  

  Argentine cabinet chief Marcos Peña arrived on Sunday in London for a two-day full agenda beginning Monday, with a round of ministerial meetings, media interviews, a visit to Parliament, a conference, even a visit to 10 Downing Street, but it will all take off at St. Paul's cathedral to honor the fallen in the Falkland Islands war.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 07:45 UTC

  Mercosur/EU begin new fresh round of trade talks: Geographical Indications high in the list

  

  Mercosur and the European Union begin a fresh round of trade talks this week with renewed optimism that negotiators may be nearing an accord after almost 20 years of talks. Since trade negotiations with the United States were frozen after Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election victory, the European Union has turned its focus to other large economies and has already struck agreements with Japan and Mexico.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 07:24 UTC

  UK Armed Forces minister visits Chile and Uruguay

  

  The United Kingdom Minister for the Armed Forces was in Chile and Uruguay as part of a visit to South America in the framework of increasing closer bilateral relations. The Rt Hon Mark Lancaster TD MP, made an official visit to Chile in order to further strengthen the strong defense relation between the two countries.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 20:01 UTC

  London tube operator interested in operating Buenos Aires underground system

  

  British underground operator Transport for London (TfL) is keen on securing a multi-million dollar contract with Buenos Aires City to operate the city’s underground network, one of the first to be inaugurated in the world. According to a February report in The Times, TfL is one of a number of international underground transport operators to have expressed interest in the contract.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:45 UTC

  Global expansion in 2018/19 expected to hover near 4%, forecasts OECD

  

  The global economy is experiencing stronger growth, driven by a rebound in trade, higher investment and buoyant job creation, and supported by very accommodative monetary policy and fiscal easing, according to the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:22 UTC

  Russian billionaire Abramovich's UK visa delay, freezes Chelsea's stadium plans

  

  Chelsea's Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovich has put the club's stadium plans on hold after delays to the renewal of his UK visa. The estimated cost for a new 60,000 seat Stamford Bridge has increased to £1bn after delays, which included a dispute with a local family.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 07:09 UTC

  Different flavors, but Italian pizza: coalition government takes office this Friday

  

  A coalition government has been agreed in Italy, ending months of uncertainty in the EU's fourth-biggest economy. Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte presented his list of ministers to President Sergio Mattarella for the second time in a week and the new government will be sworn in this Friday, June first.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 06:48 UTC

  “Mr. Rajoy your time is up”, Socialist Sanchez calls for the resignation of the conservative leader

  

  Spain’s Partido Popular government appeared doomed last night to lose a no-confidence vote in parliament, with the centre-left PSOE poised to take power. A Basque nationalist party’s decisive announcement that it would vote in favor of the motion spelled the almost certain end of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s mandate and foretold the stunning collapse of his minority government in a parliamentary vote today Friday, when it will be short of support to survive.

• Friday, June 1st 2018 - 06:26 UTC

  Applicants for BOT citizenship face “unacceptable” discrimination, claims parliament committee

  

  People applying for British Overseas Territory citizenship still face “unacceptable” discrimination, a committee of MPs and peers has said. Citizenship rights still depend on whether a person's parents were married or whether it was their mother or father who had citizenship.