International

• Thursday, January 11th 2018 - 07:02 UTC

  Timerman barred from flying to US; Argentine government will appeal decision on humanitarian reasons

  

  The United States barred former Argentine Minister of Foreign Relations Hector Timerman from entering the country because of several pending court cases. The Argentine government said it would appeal the decision, and request a new visa, since Mr. Timerman, who was under house arrest, was allowed by Federal Judge Sergio Torres to travel overseas for medical reasons.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:38 UTC

  Farage: Barnier doesn't understand why 17 million voted to leave the EU

  

  Nigel Farage, who as leader of the UK Independence Party was one of the leading campaigners for Britain to leave the European Union, crossed swords with one of his main EU adversaries. After meeting Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, for about 30 minutes in Brussels, Farage said he was convinced that the Frenchman doesn’t understand why more than 17 million people voted for the UK to leave in the 2016 referendum.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:33 UTC

  Scorched Australia: 2017 third hottest year on record

  

  Australia experienced its third-warmest year on record in 2017, according to the nation's Bureau of Meteorology. The national mean temperature of 22.75C was almost 1C higher than a 1961-1990 baseline, its annual report revealed. Only 2005 and 2013 were warmer, based on records kept for about a century.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:28 UTC

  UK Cabinet reshuffle makes government look “more like the country it serves”

  

  Theresa May has said her reshuffle makes the government look “more like the country it serves” with a “new generation” of ministers brought in. The PM has appointed several new faces to her ministerial team.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:23 UTC

  Seatrade Cruise Global returns to the renovated Miami Beach Convention Center

  

  Seatrade Cruise Global, the leading annual global business-to-business event in the cruise industry, will return to the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Center 8-11 April 2019 after a three year stint at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:18 UTC

  Workshop on Chinese outbound tourism scheduled at FITUR in Madrid

  

  The UN World Tourism Organization, WTO, Awards on Innovation and Excellence in Tourism, African and Middle East tourism development and the Chinese Market among the activities of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) during the 38th edition of the Madrid International Tourism Fair (FITUR, January 17-21), the yearly kick-off for the world’s leading tourism meeting points.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 09:57 UTC

  Great recession almost over, “but no time for complacency”, warns World Bank

  

  The World Bank forecasts global economic growth to edge up to 3.1% in 2018 after a much stronger-than-expected 2017, as the recovery in investment, manufacturing, and trade continues, and as commodity-exporting developing economies benefit from firming commodity prices.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 09:48 UTC

  Women to the rescue of men: don't fall into a “Puritanical” witch hunt

  

  Legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve is among 100 women who signed an editorial Tuesday in French daily Le Monde, criticizing the current #MeToo movement for restricting sexual freedom.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 08:09 UTC

  Eastern Falkland Plateau to be surveyed by state of the art scientific research vessel

  

  The RRS Discovery arrived on Tuesday in Chile's extreme south port of Punta Arenas in advance of her next research expedition, to undertake seismic survey and piston coring operations in the eastern Falkland Plateau region of the Sub-Antarctic Southwest Atlantic Ocean.

• Tuesday, January 9th 2018 - 10:08 UTC

  Sixth major oil find offshore Guyana at the Stabroek block

  

  For the sixth time Exxon and partners at the Stabroek block offshore Guyana are celebrating another major find in northern South American waters. In effect, Ranger-1 exploration well, the sixth find since discovering Liza in 2015, hit approximately 70m of high-quality, oil-bearing carbonate reservoirs some 60mi northwest of the Liza development.