International

• Monday, April 16th 2018 - 07:56 UTC

  Most Latin American countries cautious or critical about bombings in Syria

  

  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau backed air strikes by the United States and its allies on Syria’s chemical weapons program but Argentina, Brazil and Peru voiced caution during a regional summit about the escalating military action.

• Monday, April 16th 2018 - 07:50 UTC

  Theresa May looks to boost trade and forge new links with the Commonwealth

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May will call on the Commonwealth on Monday to boost trade and forge new links, launching a summit of the 53 nations which have become increasingly important to Britain as it leaves the European Union.

• Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 13:53 UTC

  US coalition: Strikes in Syria increases tension; reactions worldwide

  

  Bombs have fallen. Damascus has been beaten again. The United States, United Kingdom and France coalition launched airstrikes against Syrian targets as Donald Trump sought to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack last weekend near Damascus that killed more than 40 people.

• Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 10:49 UTC

  Corruption and Venezuela in the agenda of a subdued Summit of the Americas

  

  Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra opened on Friday a subdued Summit of the Americas decrying widespread corruption and urging regional leaders to join forces in increasing transparency and boosting civil society. Addressing Western Hemisphere leaders in an auditorium where a number of seats were left notably empty, Peru's new president said that rather than accept corruption as a deep-seated scourge impossible to eliminate, governments should adopt concrete measures that prevent it from ever taking place.

• Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 10:42 UTC

  South Georgia fisheries licensing controversy reaches the leading media in UK

  

  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was accused of betraying by handing lucrative licenses in the South Atlantic to foreign firms. The row erupted after it emerged that £75million worth of licenses in the South Atlantic have been handed to firms from Norway, Chile and New Zealand, according to reports in the UK media.

• Friday, April 13th 2018 - 19:02 UTC

  UK new rules for package holiday sickness cases to deter false claims

  

  United Kingdom legal costs for package holiday sickness cases will be fixed under new rules aimed at deterring false claims. Similar controls are in place for other personal injury claims, but they will now be extended to cases when holidaymakers seek compensation. The travel industry says claims have mushroomed in recent years despite illness in resorts declining.

• Friday, April 13th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

  Photo of the year: Venezuelan Ronaldo Schemidt wins the World Press Photo

  

  Venezuelan photographer Ronaldo Schemidt received on Thursday the World Press Photo of the year in Amsterdam, one of the most prestigious in photojournalism, for a photograph shot in May 2017 during the protests in Venezuela while working for Agence France-Presse (AFP) . In the photograph a protester appears in flames, in front of a graffiti in which a weapon appears shooting at the word “peace”.

• Friday, April 13th 2018 - 09:07 UTC

  Juncker insists that Brexit deal must “fully respect” Spain's veto on Gibraltar

  

  Jean Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, has again underlined the EU’s position that the Brexit deal must “fully respect” the terms of the Gibraltar veto granted to Spain in the bloc’s negotiating guidelines.

• Friday, April 13th 2018 - 09:03 UTC

  Australia calls off search for woman that fell overboard from P&O Pacific Dawn

  

  Australian authorities have called off a search for a woman who fell overboard from a cruise ship in the Coral Sea. The passenger fell from the Pacific Dawn about 16:00 local time (06:00 GMT) on Thursday, about 300km west of New Caledonia.

• Friday, April 13th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Barnier: EU “unanimous solidarity” with the Spanish position on Gibraltar

  

  The controversial ‘Clause 24’ veto granted to Spain by the European Union in its Brexit negotiating guidelines reflects the “unanimous solidarity” of the remaining EU members with the Spanish position on Gibraltar, the EU’s Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said in an interview.