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  • Friday, January 5th 2018 - 08:08 UTC

    Falklands congratulate Gibraltar political leader on his knighthood

    MLA Teslyn Barkman, said: “We were delighted to learn of Sir Joe receiving this well-deserved honour and offer him our warmest congratulations.”

    The Falkland Islands Government, FIG, has congratulated Gibraltar minister Joe Bossano on being awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List for 2018. In a statement in which it described Sir Joe as a “long-standing friend of the Falkland Islands”, FIG said he has spoken vociferously in support of Falkland Islander’s right to self-determination at various international forums.

  • Thursday, January 4th 2018 - 10:03 UTC

    Liberal leader pledges Lords should check an abuse of power by government with Brexit

    The Lib Dem leader said the party’s 100-strong Lords bloc would work with Labour and pro-EU Tory peers, when Brexit legislative battle reaches the upper chamber.

    Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has defended plans to use his party’s strength in the House of Lords to fight Brexit, even though he views the unelected chamber as a “bad system” that he did not want to be a member of. Sir Vince said the Lords had limited political impact, but the upper house should be used to check an “abuse of powers” by the Government.

  • Thursday, January 4th 2018 - 09:18 UTC

    Petrobras agrees to pay US$ 2.95bn to settle class action suit in New York

    The oil company, which admits no guilt under the settlement, proposes making the payment in two US$983 million installments, and a third of US$984 million.

    Petrobras has agreed to pay US$2.95 billion to settle a class action suit in New York brought on behalf of investors harmed by a huge corruption scandal at the Brazilian state oil giant, the company said on Wednesday.

  • Thursday, January 4th 2018 - 08:05 UTC

    UK farmers growing concern about a post Brexit scenario

    Concerns have been raised that a deal with the US could include chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-fed beef.

    Post-Brexit trade deals could pose the biggest peacetime threat to the UK's food security if welfare standards and farmers are not protected, MPs say. Imports of food produced with lower welfare standards should not be allowed, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agro-ecology warns.

  • Thursday, January 4th 2018 - 05:38 UTC

    China announces it will begin “a greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere

    “China will adopt the participation and active promotion of economic globalization, and the perseverance in openness,” Yang wrote in a guest column in Clarín

    In a Spanish-language opinion piece in one of the nation’s largest newspapers, Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Yang Wanming urged Latin American nations to increase trade ties to China, promoting Beijing’s “One Belt One Road” project and warning Beijing will begin a “greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere.

  • Wednesday, January 3rd 2018 - 18:17 UTC

    Russian navy's “Yantar”, oceanographic or state of the art “spy vessel”?

    “The Yantar has equipment designed for deep-sea tracking, and devices that can connect to top-secret communications cables”, said Parlamentskaya Gazeta

    The Russian navy is very proud of its new spy ship, the Yantar, which is now doing Argentina a favor by helping to search for a missing submarine, ARA San Juan, which disappeared on 15 November in the South Atlantic.

  • Wednesday, January 3rd 2018 - 10:37 UTC

    Heathrow aggressive program to make the airport cleaner and quieter

    The introduction of the higher environmental charge forms part of Heathrow’s ambitious sustainability strategy

    Environmental charges at Heathrow are set to increase by 7% as the airport seeks to minimize its impact on local communities. From 1st January 2018, airlines are being incentivized to deploy their newest aircraft at Heathrow – making the airport cleaner and quieter for local communities.

  • Wednesday, January 3rd 2018 - 10:29 UTC

    EU and Chile discussions to renew association agreement

    Chile produces 5 million tons of fruit, 2.6 million of which are exported. It is also a leading fruit exporter and world's leading exporter of table grapes and blueberries

    The European Union and Chile have started negotiations in Brussels for the renewal of the Association Agreement. The first round was held in November and the Commission subsequently launched a consultation aimed at the sectors affected in order to find out their opinions on the issue. This process is planned to conclude on 19 February.

  • Wednesday, January 3rd 2018 - 10:05 UTC

    “2017 was the safest year for aviation ever”

    To70 estimated that the fatal accident rate for large commercial passenger flights is 0.06 per million flights, or one fatal accident for every 16 million flights.

    Airlines recorded zero accident deaths in commercial passenger jets last year, according to a Dutch consulting firm and an aviation safety group that tracks crashes, making 2017 the safest year on record for commercial air travel. Dutch aviation consulting firm To70 and the Aviation Safety Network both reported there were no commercial passenger jet fatalities in 2017.

  • Wednesday, January 3rd 2018 - 09:52 UTC

    AI system beats cardiologists and oncologists in detecting heart diseases and lung cancer

    Another AI system is looking for signs of lung cancer. It searches for large clumps of cells called nodules.

    Researchers at an Oxford hospital have developed artificial intelligence (AI) that can diagnose scans for heart disease and lung cancer. The systems will save billions of pounds by enabling the diseases to be picked up much earlier. The heart disease technology will start to be available to NHS hospitals for free this summer.