International

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 11:02 UTC

  Brazil wants detailed investigation into Canada's aerospace industry “subsidies”

  

  Canada has urged the World Trade Organization to block attempts by Brazil to trigger a detailed investigation of its aerospace industry to buttress its case that subsidies to Bombardier caused “serious prejudice” to Brazil’s Embraer. The procedural move by Canada comes a month after the WTO agreed to set up a panel to investigate Brazil’s claim that Canada provided harmful aid to the CSeries jet.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

  UK’s work on protecting the oceans has won deserved praise – now we must go further

  

  By Matthew Offord MP for Hendon - UK leadership on ocean conservation has won international acclaim. The landmark “Blue Belt” policy to work with the UK Overseas Territories to “create the largest marine sanctuaries anywhere in the world” has only furthered this standing, with commitments to create large protected areas around Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in 2019 and 2020 respectively already widely welcomed.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 10:34 UTC

  UK latest polls indicate 47% regret the Leave vote while 42% support Brexit

  

  Sixteen months after a majority of voters decided the only way for the United Kingdom is to leave the European Union, a new poll says the number of those who regret the vote has risen to its highest level.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 07:00 UTC

  Venezuela makes last minute major bond payment, but 2018 service will demand US$ 10bn

  

  Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA began making a major bond payment, easing short-term worries about default but leaving the populist government with less cash to attend to food shortages and economic depression.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 06:52 UTC

  Falklands and Bermuda governments fund their governors' uniforms

  

  Who pays for the uniforms worn by the Governors of British Overseas Territories was discussed in UK Parliament last week, with Minister of State stating that since 2001, the policy “has been that those Territories wishing to keep their ceremonial uniforms pay for them themselves,” and currently the “Governors of Bermuda and Falkland Islands retain the uniform, both funded by their respective Territory governments.”

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 06:29 UTC

  Hundreds of thousands march in Barcelona in support of a united Spain

  

  Hundreds of thousands who want Catalonia to remain part of Spain have rallied in Barcelona, two days after separatists voted for the wealthy region to secede. Organizers said the goal of Sunday’s march’s was to defend Spain’s unity and reject “an unprecedented attack in the history of democracy”.

• Sunday, October 29th 2017 - 11:51 UTC

  Xi supreme for the next five years, but his clout planning looks far beyond

  

  President Xi Jinping has unveiled a new slate of top leaders that shows he reigns supreme in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He not only placed people loyal to him in key positions, but also defied convention in not naming potential successors to the party's top decision-making body, the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC).

• Saturday, October 28th 2017 - 08:35 UTC

  Falklands launches 2017 Poppy Appeal: 100th anniversary of Passchendaele and 35th of South Atlantic conflict

  

  This week the Falkland Islands Branch of the Royal British Legion officially launched the Island’s 2017 Poppy Appeal. Since 1921 members of the public have worn the red poppy on their chest as a symbol of Remembrance to remember the fallen Service men and women killed in conflict.

• Saturday, October 28th 2017 - 08:11 UTC

  Western world leaders rally behind Rajoy and support Spain's territorial integrity

  

  Leaders from the world have largely rallied behind Spain's central government after the Catalan parliament voted in favor of splitting from Madrid and establishing an independent republic. Spanish president Mariano Rajoy on Friday announced the dissolution of the Catalan parliament and called for snap regional elections in a swift response to the Catalan MPs' declaration for independence.

• Saturday, October 28th 2017 - 07:58 UTC

  Argentina formally protests Rapier missile exercise in the Falklands

  

  Argentina presented on Thursday a formal protest to the United Kingdom embassy in Buenos Aires rejecting the military exercises with Rapier missiles in the Falkland Islands, scheduled to take place next week.