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  • Friday, March 9th 2018 - 04:49 UTC

    Falklands' fishing victims of UK Brexit deal, claims Fortuna

    Longliner Rambla, which flies the Uruguayan flag, is owned by a Uruguayan-based company Riljer in which Fortuna Ltd has a major interest.

    “The UK has sold out Falklands fishing for a Brexit era deal,” fishing company Fortuna Ltd Director James Wallace told Penguin News this week. He was replying to much general speculation as to why a Falkland Islands company with a long history of participation in the South Georgia toothfish fishery was refused licenses this season.

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:43 UTC

    Tusk insists EU does not want to build a wall, but Brexit means “drifting apart”

    an Parliament's Donald Tusk said the EU wanted an “ambitious and advanced” free trade deal - and continued access to UK waters for EU fishing vessels.

    Donald Tusk has insisted the EU “does not want to build a wall”, but Brexit means “we will be drifting apart”. The EU Council president said Theresa May wanted to “demonstrate at any price that Brexit could be a success”, but that was not the EU's objective. He was unveiling draft guidelines for the EU side of Brexit trade talks.

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:34 UTC

    Scottish Brexit bill is being sped through Holyrood, ahead of row with London

    Brexit minister Michael Russell said he plans to publish the 25 areas in the UK Government’s EU Withdrawal Bill where the two sides cannot agree

    The Scottish Government’s Brexit bill passed on Wednesday its first parliamentary hurdle after its general principles were approved by MSPs. The UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill is being sped through the Scottish Parliament as emergency legislation amid a row between UK and Scottish ministers over devolved powers returning from Brussels.

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:28 UTC

    Chinese carmaker acquires US$ 9bn stake in Mercedes Benz, expecting to share auto technology

    Li Shufu has snapped a US$ 3.3 billion stake in truck maker AB Volvo, a majority stake in Lotus, a 49.9% stake in Malaysian automaker Proton

    Li Shufu, chairman of Chinese carmaker Geely, is making waves in the global auto market after buying a US$ 9 billion stake in Germany’s Daimler. Li, 54, the son of a farmer from China’s Zhejiang province, has led a major acquisition push globally since 2010, when he took over Swedish car brand Volvo from Ford Motor, US$ 1.8 billion deal.

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

    Argentine presentation on the Falklands and the Chagos archipelago

    The International Court of Justice in The Hague

    A brief release from the Argentine foreign ministry indicates that on March first, on petition from the International Court of Justice, Argentina presented its Consultive Opinion on the juridical consequences of splitting the Chagos archipelago from the Mauritius Islands which took place in 1965.

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

    Leaders of far-right group Britain First found guilty of religious aggravated harassment

    Paul Golding, 36, and Jayda Fransen, 32, were arrested over the distribution of leaflets and posting of online videos during a gang-rape trial.

    The leader and deputy leader of far-right group Britain First have been found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment. Paul Golding, 36, and Jayda Fransen, 32, were arrested over the distribution of leaflets and posting of online videos during a gang-rape trial.

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

    Scottish fishermen want full control of fishing grounds after Brexit

    Simon Collins from the Shetland Fishermen's Association called the EU proposal “completely unacceptable” and the EU stance arrogant, absurd and nonsensical

    Scottish fishermen have hit out at the EU after the body's guidelines for the next phase of Brexit talks called for continued access to fishing grounds. The EU's draft guidelines for the forthcoming talks aim for “existing” access to waters to be maintained. But Scottish fishing groups call this “arrogant, absurd and nonsensical”.

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:10 UTC

    Major UK/Moscow diplomatic row in the making: nerve gas was used in murder attempt in Salisbury

    Amber Rudd will report to MPs on the dramatic disclosure by Scotland Yard that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a deadly nerve agent

    British Home Secretary is to make a Commons statement on the Salisbury poisoning mystery amid calls for a police investigation into 14 suspicious spying-related deaths in recent years. Amber Rudd will report to MPs on the dramatic disclosure by Scotland Yard that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a deadly nerve agent and targeted in an attempt to murder them.

  • Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

    Coca Cola plans to launch a canned alcoholic drink in the Japanese market

    “We're also going to experiment with a product in a category known in Japan as Chu-Hi,” Jorge Garduno, president of Coca-Cola Japan said

    Coca-Cola announced plans to launch a canned, alcoholic drink in Japan later this year which is an innovative approach in a market that it regularly launches new products in. In its news release announcing the planned product, Coca-Cola touts Japan as a market that has “stood out as an almost truly unique market.”

  • Wednesday, March 7th 2018 - 11:21 UTC

    The UN Secretary-General’s Message on International Women’s Day

    More than a billion women around the world lack legal protection against domestic sexual violence said UN Secretary-General’

    We are at a pivotal moment for women’s rights. The historical and structural inequalities that have allowed oppression and discrimination to flourish are being exposed like never before. From Latin America to Europe to Asia, on social media, on film sets, on the factory floor and in the streets, women are calling for lasting change and zero tolerance for sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination of all kinds.