International

• Thursday, September 21st 2017 - 06:36 UTC

  Argentina claims at UN its Falklands/Malvinas “legitimate and imprescriptible” sovereignty rights

  

  Argentine vice-president Gabriela Michetti ratified before the United Nations General Assembly her country's “legitimate and imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the disputed Falkland/Malvinas Islands and made a new call on the United Kingdom to resume “bilateral negotiations”

• Wednesday, September 20th 2017 - 22:01 UTC

  The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO report confirms

  

  A report – Antibacterial agents in clinical development – an analysis of the antibacterial clinical development pipeline, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis – launched on Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows a serious lack of new antibiotics under development to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2017 - 07:47 UTC

  Trump threatens “rocket man” with total destruction; warnings to Iran, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to “totally destroy” North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear challenge, mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.

• Tuesday, September 19th 2017 - 20:21 UTC

  UK interest rate increase gradual, with “appropriate withdrawal of monetary stimulus”

  

  Any increases in UK interest rates in the coming months will be “gradual” and “limited”, the Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said, but “some withdrawal of monetary stimulus is likely to be appropriate over the coming months” to help return inflation to its 2% target.

• Tuesday, September 19th 2017 - 19:57 UTC

  Irish and French farmers warn about Mercosur/EU beef negotiations

  

  News of a potential offer of a tariff rate quota for 85,000 tons of beef in the Mercosur/European Union negotiations has triggered a dismayed reaction from the ICSA’s (Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association’s) Beef Chairman Edmond Phelan.

• Tuesday, September 19th 2017 - 10:04 UTC

  Tory disunity over Brexit “could hand power to Jeremy Cobyn's Labour Party”

  

  Lord Hague has become the latest senior Conservative to intervene within the party about how the UK should manage its withdrawal from the European Union. Writing in the Daly Telegraph, the former foreign secretary warned that disunity over Brexit could hand power to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.

• Tuesday, September 19th 2017 - 09:54 UTC

  Joint AECO/IAATO conference to promote responsible polar tourism

  

  More than 90 representatives from the Arctic and Antarctic expedition cruise industry will gather in Iceland for the second AECO/IAATO conference to be held in October 1/4. The topic of the conference is evolution and new challenges in the polar tourism industry.

• Tuesday, September 19th 2017 - 09:39 UTC

  Scotland and London discussing terms of devolution under Brexit

  

  The Scottish government is to outline plans to amend the legislation taking the UK out of the European Union. The Scottish and Welsh governments call the EU withdrawal bill currently under consideration at Westminster a “power grab” of devolved responsibilities, and have worked together to draw up amendments as a direct challenge to the UK government's legislation.

• Tuesday, September 19th 2017 - 08:37 UTC

  Trump's first address to the UN Assembly: all countries will be listening

  

  United States President Donald Trump, in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, will harshly criticize North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. “He will speak in extremely tough terms about the North Korean menace and the threat it poses to our security and the security of all the nations in that room,” according to a senior White House official who gave reporters a preview of the address.

• Monday, September 18th 2017 - 10:41 UTC

  Scottish government supports Catalonia's right to decide its future

  

  The people of Catalonia should determine its future, the Scottish government has said. The region's government has insisted a referendum on independence from Spain will go ahead on 1 October. Madrid has vowed to block the vote, saying it is unconstitutional.